How would things change?

[4StanleyCups]

Originally Posted by Glad2bhere

Has it been that bad on the South Shore during the hurricane season? I have family that live there (south of Merrick) and never heard much of anything from them about the "weather".

The usual/normal weather here is no problem. It's the prospect of what would/will happen to the South Shore due to a future BIG storm that makes me nervous.

After being through Gloria and the resultant damage, anything worse is something I really don't want to have to deal with. Damage then was less than it could have been, because the floodwaters stopped literally 20 feet from my house and luckily that house was on a slab - no basement to fill up. Another lucky break was although the 2 very big trees on our 1/3 acre backyard both came down in the first 1/2 hour, they both fell AWAY from the house instead of toward it! Destroyed the back fence and the neighbor's backyard shed on the way down, as well as crushing all the smaller shrubs and trees underneath.

Trust me, when you're looking out one of your few unboarded-up windows and you see a 40-ft tall weeping willow starting to tip over FROM THE ROOTS in slow motion and you're not sure exactly whether it's going to end up crashing into your roof or not, and there's nothing you can do about it.... lots of choice words start going through your mind and out your mouth!

We do usually have stronger winds (off the bay) here in summer but that's all to the good usually. It took me a little while to get used to it when I first moved here from East Meadow, back in the early 70s. After a little while you don't even notice it, though sometimes people who visit say "It's so windy here most of the time!"

The weather 'plus' for the South Shore is that we're always cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter (because the bay hasn't frozen over in who knows how many years). I love it here except for those 2 months when I start having to keep an eye on those tropical storms on the NOAA site, hoping one doesn't start moving north of the Carolinas and taking aim at my backyard!

[NSHL10]

Originally Posted by 4StanleyCups

Certain parkways have had signage as "Coastal Evacuation Route" for years, but as you said the whole thing is pointless because no matter what parkway or exp'wy it is, all those thousands of cars would have to funnel into one of only 3 exit points:

South: Belt Parkway to cross the Verrazano Bridge to Staten Island and then to NJ

North: Cross Island Parkway to the Throgs Neck Bridge to Westchester

Central: LIE to the Midtown Tunnel to Manhattan (not likely anyone would want to do that, what if the hurricane changes course and wallops NYC instead?)

I live on the south shore, south of 27A, so in the event of a major hurricane my house is gone which is why I've been looking for another house in the Smithtown area. So far anything I've seen that matches what I want (there hasn't been much even close for the past 6 months) has been in St James and the taxes there are as much as I'm paying now but for a house 1/2 the size of what I've got. I have a few different neighborhoods in mind but nothing's come on the market yet.

I'm not under any pressure to move, except this time of year (hurricane season) when I do get kind of nervous. From early August to early October, the NOAA hurricane site becomes my homepage!

Could you imagine the carnage as cars which are stuck bumper to bumper on the Belt Pkwy as it runs along the coast to The Verrazano get hit by the tidal suge coming in? I don't think evacuating is possible with the millions of people that live in the metro area.