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Been following twitter all evening long and posts on area weather boards...and just insane around NYC down to Atlantic City areas. Storm surge into battery park and the surge of the hudson into jersey city are unprecedented in modern times. Battery Park in south Manhattan water level well over the 1821 and 1960 records....closing in on 14 ft total (or about 10 ft above normal high tide).
Newark & Teterboro airports in New Jersey have also been closed due to water on the runways. Some of this is sea water which is bad for the electronic and electric systems.
I think some of y'all are over-reacting. I live in FL and have been through many hurricanes much stronger than this one. This storm is nothing.
You can't compare a hurricane in an area prepared for those kind of storms, to a hurricane in the most densely populated and important part of the country.
New York City and Washington, D.C. are not Key West.
No, I'm all saying is that the news and some people on here are acting like this is the most horrid event to ever occur in this region of the country. I am saying as a person who has ridden through many storms that isn't a big deal. I don't know where you live but I guess you have to deal with hurricanes on a more regular basis to be "used to" things like this.
If you really followed hurricanes like you say you do, you would realize by the PRESSURE of this storm that it was not a catagory 1 storm surge wise. More like a 3 or 4. And the evidence is proving it...
You can't compare a hurricane in an area prepared for those kind of storms, to a hurricane in the most densely populated and important part of the country.
New York City and Washington, D.C. are not Key West.
I agree completely.... you cannot compare the same storm in one region of the country to the same storm in another. Up here in North Dakota a 10 inch snowstorm with 50 mph winds and an air temperature of zero (F) is manageable as we are prepared for such events, whereas take that same storm to Atlanta and they are crippled for a week.
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