Hybridstorm_November2001 wrote:In summation I'd have to say that Noel wasn't really all that bad. Sure parts of Massachusetts and Nova Scotia had fair amounts of isolated damage; still it could have been much worse. It was certainly no Long Island Express of 1938, Carol 1954, Edna 1954, Saxby Gale of 1869, or even a Ginny 1963, Bob 1991, Halloween storm 1991, Hybridstorm 2001 or to a much more isolated degree in terms of area affected Juan 2003, thank God.
This time around at least people were taking the threat more seriously than in past years, that much is a blessing.
BTW Here is the link to my blog, it has lots of images an more info to come about the storm:
http://hybridstorm-weatherblog.blogspot.com/
Juan really is the outlier in that list. Had it made landfall 30 miles to the east or 60 miles to the west, the damage would have been far less and it would have been seen as just another storm, since it was a pretty small storm with its intensity focused on the most populated swath of Atlantic Canada. Most of the other storms had large areas of less severe damage that added up to a significant total.
