Re: I beg to differ with Jim
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Chris in Tampa on 11/3/2012, 9:57 am
The main thing... Sandy was not so much a wind event as it was a surge event.
(Of course there were wind impacts, especially on the power grid, and the wind was what piled the water.)
On the IKE scale:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/sandy2012/wind.html
Sandy appears to be the worst in recorded history in this basin at its peak (5.8 of 6) and a 5.3/5.4 out of 6 at landfall. That means the entire storm was moving more water than most any other at the time of its landfall.
This storm's size was extremely large, perhaps the largest TS wind field. Never did verify for sure if it was. Not sure how it ranks at landfall.
I think everybody is on the same page.
This was a terrible storm that had a massive surge but the wind impacts, in terms of direct destruction by wind, were extremely minimal in comparison to the surge. If a hurricane with very high winds came through, NYC would then also be devastated in new ways, with windows blown out all over the place and probably a lot of old buildings coming down. That was not this storm.
The 1938 hurricane did impact other areas harder it would seem, both the wind and even the surge being much worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane
But as for the areas hit by Sandy, the two storms are more comparable in NYC, with much worse effects in NJ with Sandy. If the 1938 hurricane had hit NYC the hardest, the damage would have been much, much worse than Sandy.
But it's hard to compare what ifs with these storms though. Sandy will still be remembered decades from now just like the 1938 hurricane has been. |
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