Hurricaneman wrote:Does anyone think this horrible senario will play out
It will one day. You see, the most dangerous aspect of a hurricane hitting NYC is the surge and not the wind. An Ivan-isque storm will wipe out NYC. I saw on the Discovery Channel where a hurricane was heading toward NYC that a 15 ft surge would be funnelled in through a "right angle" that Long Island and the coast of New Jersey form. This right angle would also enhance the surge (it acts like a funnel), so a 15 ft surge regularly would become a 25 ft surge as it crashes into Manhattan. The right front quadrant of a storm would funnel the surge through and into the Narrows, Staten Island, the Hudson and East Rivers, and Newark Bay. The surge would unfortuantely inundate Manhattan. Wall Street would come tumbling down. Newark and much of Long Island would too be hit by the surge.
And Cat 4 hurricanes have hit New Jersey in the past 100 years. I forgot which year, but a Cat 4 hit in what was then sparsley-populated Atlantic City.
