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lol uhh katrina. Sandy would just be a run of the mill hurricane in the gulf coast. Katrina was the 6th strongest hurricane of all time.
come on now...
this is from biloxi 5 months after katrina...
Katrina was actually a category 5 w/ 175 mph winds, it went down two notches right before landfall and hit as a very strong cat 3 but still had low milibars and similar devastation to a cat 5, like Hurricane Andrew.
There are neighborhoods along the gulf coast that still are abandonned and look terrible.
Restaurants and businesses were closed down for years. New Orleans went from 455k people to 210k after katrina b/c nobody could get into the cities, and in many cases there was no rebuilding.
Sandy had a record-breaking storm surge which I believe was much higher than the storm surge in Katrina. But I am glad to hear everyone's opinion that Katrina was much worst. I actually know someone who experienced both storms and now is homeless again due to Sandy.
Sandy had a record-breaking storm surge which I believe was much higher than the storm surge in Katrina. But I am glad to hear everyone's opinion that Katrina was much worst. I actually know someone who experienced both storms and now is homeless again due to Sandy.
Yikes. The highest storm surge from Sandy was around 14 feet, record breaking for New York City and maybe some other spots but not elsewhere. Katrina's highest was nearly double that. Sandy's records include lowest air pressure ever record north of Cape Hatteras and greatest extent in width of tropical storm force winds of any Atlantic storm.
Yikes. The highest storm surge from Sandy was around 14 feet, record breaking for New York City and maybe some other spots but not elsewhere. Katrina's highest was nearly double that. Sandy's records include lowest air pressure ever record north of Cape Hatteras and greatest extent in width of tropical storm force winds of any Atlantic storm.
Yep.
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Hurricane Katrina of 2005 produced the highest storm surge ever recorded on the U.S. coast--an astonishing 27.8 feet at Pass Christian, Mississippi.
Sandy had a record-breaking storm surge which I believe was much higher than the storm surge in Katrina. But I am glad to hear everyone's opinion that Katrina was much worst. I actually know someone who experienced both storms and now is homeless again due to Sandy.
Hah, no... you should really do some fact checking.
It was definitely a record-breaker in the Greater NYC area.
And if 6.5 earthquake stuck the city of Chicago it would be a record breaker too, but that doesn't mean it would have been worse than the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
And if 6.5 earthquake stuck the city of Chicago it would be a record breaker too, but that doesn't mean it would have been worse than the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
Are you playing ignorant or are you really?
Actually, I think the New Madrid Earthquake measured almost a 7 in Chicago, it was an 8.7 in MO.
Why would you battle on something like this? They are both horrible events.
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