Anthony Watts @ Watts Up With That:
All one need to do to explode the memes that paid political activists Bill McKibben and Brad Johnson are pushing is to look at a history book. In this case, WeatherBELL’s Joe Bastardi points us to NOAA’s National Hurricane Center history book:
Source: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/images/tracks/majors_1951_1960.jpg
Joe says via Twitter:
Track of major hurricanes, 1951-1960..for the record:http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/images/tracks/majors_1951_1960.jpg …How would you like that period (54-60) pic.twitter.com/mIfH8CGt
So what were those 6 IN TWO YEARS ( 5 majors)??? CAROL, EDNA, HAZEL, CONNIE,DIANE IONE, Nothing even CLOSE on east coast since then
Donna, the storm that never quit.
I remember the ancient news coverage in black and white.
The horror stories.
NanG I grew up in N.Y in 50’s and 60’s. We never experienced anything close to the devastation Sandy has wrought. From the map you can see that none of those canes hit NYC HEAD ON like Sandy.
@Nan G:
That’s about $6.8 billion in today’s dollars
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So rich, just because they never hit “head on” means they couldn’t possibly be in a cycle where they spared such places while in the past they were more common?
Jeez, for people who think they are imaginative, you sure are boxed in. Typical leftist bending reality to fit your fantasy world.
@Curt:
You reminded me that it used to be more rare that anyone would build ON the beach.
Our 1957-built condo (that we are selling pretty soon) is next to the beach, but that means there’s the 70 foot wide beach, a bike path, a 40 foot cliff, about forty more feet of parkway and walking paths THEN our property.
When you look at back East’s damage today, you see houses right ON the beach.
Back in Donna’s time there were not so many people living right at waters’ edge.
The Noreater of March 1962 did more damage to NJ than Sandy and the current damage is “overwhelming”.
I would think that, even after years in between,
the foundations of houses very close to the shoe specialy salted sea, would be shaken from way down underneat, and who can check that, no one of course, you would have to dig way under,
that I think is a cannot do,when each storm hurled in and disturb the land by whipping it on and on,
so it after so x years become a disaster to happen if one like SANDY LAND WITH FUROR
AS IT DID,
so the best thing is to built way back more a new footing according to new research on solidity
of the base and the debt should be deeper ,and wider than the house, I WOULD THINK FOR THE OWNER TO FEEL SECURE ON OTHER WIND STORMS COMING SEEMINGLY MORE OFTEN FOR REASON
NOT SURE AT THIS POINT.
IMAGINE THE FROST IS COMING AND SOME ARE STILL PARTLY UNDER WATER. IT WILL BE ANOTHER DISASTER BY ITSELF