[arel]

What about inland flooding as a result of a hurricane? Hurricane Floyd, I believe, caused some serious inland flooding in inland New Jersey.

Vermont may be a landlocked state, unlike New Jersey, but there isn't much land mass separating if from the ocean. Physically, it is much like the interior of a costal area.

[MRVphotog]

Originally Posted by arel

What about inland flooding as a result of a hurricane? Hurricane Floyd, I believe, caused some serious inland flooding in inland New Jersey.

Vermont may be a landlocked state, unlike New Jersey, but there isn't much land mass separating if from the ocean. Physically, it is much like the interior of a costal area.

There is alittle thing called elevation which would prevent anything from the ocean reaching Vermont. Topagraphywise it's nothing like a coastal area.

[arel]

Gotcha about the topography. But inland flooding from a hurricane is due to rain, not storm surge. I doubt, also, that storm surge would reach anywhere near central New Hampshire, let along Vermont, even if the topography were flatter. You've got to be very close to the shoreline or waterfront to be affected by storm surge.

But if that volcano collapsed in the Canary Islands, it's good to know that Vermont wouldn't be inundated by the predicted tsunami.

Almost ditto if an asteroid hit the Atlantic ocean, but I'm not quite as confident about that.

But back to hurricanes. Would Vermont's terrain affect the airflow in the storm, so that the inland rainfall rainfall is less? Just a question. I'm no expert on this.

One factor for me in moving to Vermont is getting away from the coast and the hurricane danger.

[KoZmiC NinJa]

Suzette, about a month ago they debated whether what hit
Rutland was a hurricane or not. I was in it and it sure looked
like one to me. If you do a search on Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information
you should be able to see pictures of it. It was devistating. But, this
was an anomoly. From what the locals told me, somethng like that
never happened before.

[MRVphotog]

Originally Posted by arel

Gotcha about the topography.

So all the flooding in Vermont, especially along the Connecticut River has been due to rain and melting snow? Never inland flooding from a hurricane?

A hurricane along the coast can produce alot of rain inland which can flood some rivers as mentioned in other threads here. The Connecticut is very wide and pretty straight so I have never heard of serious flooding there. It's the smaller more winding rivers of the interior that can be a big problem once awhile in the interior for homes and a few villages right on the river. Montpelier had a big flood back in 1927 as it's right on the Winooski.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/vermo...in-affect.html

[arel]

I edited my last post before I read the newer posts, so I edited without the new information. FWIW.

[arel]

Haven't there been some major floods along the Connecticut River. I saw a documentary about a huge flood on the Connecticut River, I think during the 1920's or 1930's that did huge damage in Massachusetts. There has also been damage in the Brattleboro area, but I am not sure if it was from the same flood. May have been, though.

[MRVphotog]

Originally Posted by arel

Haven't there been some major floods along the Connecticut River. I saw a documentary about a huge flood on the Connecticut River, I think during the 1920's or 1930's that did huge damage in Massachusetts. There has also been damage in the Brattleboro area, but I am not sure if it was from the same flood. May have been, though.

Very possible but that was way before my time. I know about the 1927 flood in Montpelier cause I lived there and it is still talked about.

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[cottonwood2420]

Originally Posted by skytrekker

Technically NO- the remains of one can penetrate into central northern New England with winds and torrential rains.

The worst such case was in 1938- 'The Great New England Hurricane'
which crossed Long Island and pummeled the Connecticut and Rhode Island coast with over 120 mile an hour winds and a storm surge made worse by the storm coming in at high tide/new moon and the September Equinox. The storm flooded downtown Providence RI with 13 feet of water from Narragansett bay;- The CT shoreline suffered severe damage- the family home of actress Katherine Hepburn was totally swept away (she barely escaped with her life) in the Fenwick part of Old Saybrook. The steeple of the old north church in Boston was toppled.

The storm claimed over 600 deaths in New England- thousands of trees where downed or uprooted. Southern New England , south coastal and eastern New England where very hard hit.

The storm formed as a Cape Verde-type hurricane in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It reached Category 5 status east of the Bahamas around 1938 September 20 before turning northward. This storm was extremely unusual in that its forward speed approached 70 mph (110 km/h); this speed has an additive effect on the wind speeds in the right hand quadrant of the storm and allowed the hurricane to travel far to the north before it had a chance to weaken (much like Hurricane Wilma of 2005).

The hurricane was forecast by the U.S. National Weather Service to curve out into the Atlantic Ocean, but instead continued almost due north. It made landfall in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York on 21 September 1938 as a strong Category 3 hurricane on the present-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with a central pressure of 946 mbar. It then traveled across Long Island Sound into Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and finally into Canada while still moving at an unusually high speed.

The hurricane hit Long Island around 15:30, which was just a few hours before astronomical high tide. At this time the eye was about 50 miles (80 km) across and the hurricane was about 500 miles (800 km) wide.

I didn't think so.