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CAT 3 to hit NY this weekend !
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Lost in the Wasteland
2011-08-24 20:58:03 UTC
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If things play out .. this H may hit Manhattan as a CAT 3 (same as
Katrina ).

20 foot waves filling up WTC hole and busting down WALL STREET
through to Central Park ...

No shitte.

Got flippers ?
Bruce Morgen
2011-08-24 21:22:41 UTC
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Post by Lost in the Wasteland
If things play out .. this H may hit Manhattan as a CAT 3 (same as
Katrina ).
20 foot waves filling up WTC hole and busting down WALL STREET
through to Central Park ...
No shitte.
Got flippers ?
Fortunately, unlike NOLA,
NYC is built above sea
level and can easily
survive a typical Cat 3's
storm surge with damage
in the nuisance (rather
than catastrophe) range.
Bruce Morgen
2011-08-24 21:26:58 UTC
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Post by Bruce Morgen
Post by Lost in the Wasteland
If things play out .. this H may hit Manhattan as a CAT 3 (same as
Katrina ).
20 foot waves filling up WTC hole and busting down WALL STREET
through to Central Park ...
No shitte.
Got flippers ?
Fortunately, unlike NOLA,
NYC is built above sea
level and can easily
survive a typical Cat 3's
storm surge with damage
in the nuisance (rather
than catastrophe) range.
weather.com currently
saying it'll peter out
to a Cat 2 before it
reaches NYC -- so stand
down from read alert,
at least for now....
Lost in the Wasteland
2011-08-24 22:25:44 UTC
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Post by Bruce Morgen
Post by Lost in the Wasteland
No shitte.
Got flippers ?
Fortunately, unlike NOLA,
NYC is built above sea
level and can easily
survive a typical Cat 3's
NOPE .

There is a show running on History channel *NOW* that
says a CAT 2 or 3 hitting NYC can funnel 30' sustained
waves all the all up to NY State through Hudson River .... Similar
event happened 60+ years ago .. Slammed Long Island

The sea level has risen over the past decades too ... so NYC proper
sits lower ( don't axe those anti global warmers ... they will
rely on a creative scientist kook for a bible reference ).

Fat lady ain't sang yet Bruce.
Bruce Morgen
2011-08-24 23:59:26 UTC
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Post by Lost in the Wasteland
Post by Bruce Morgen
Post by Lost in the Wasteland
No shitte.
Got flippers ?
Fortunately, unlike NOLA,
NYC is built above sea
level and can easily
survive a typical Cat 3's
NOPE .
There is a show running on History channel *NOW* that
says a CAT 2 or 3 hitting NYC can funnel 30' sustained
waves all the all up to NY State through Hudson River .... Similar
event happened 60+ years ago .. Slammed Long Island
I was there -- I was a
little kid, and what I
remember most is the
power being out for a
long time (no glorious
12" b&w TV), but no
flooding to speak of.
The big blizzards of
the 1950s were another
matter entirely --
those were really
rough out on "Lun
Guylint."

NNB
Post by Lost in the Wasteland
The sea level has risen over the past decades too ... so NYC proper
sits lower ( don't axe those anti global warmers ... they will
rely on a creative scientist kook for a bible reference ).
Fat lady ain't sang yet Bruce.
RichL
2011-08-24 23:48:14 UTC
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Post by Lost in the Wasteland
If things play out .. this H may hit Manhattan as a CAT 3 (same as
Katrina ).
20 foot waves filling up WTC hole and busting down WALL STREET
through to Central Park ...
No shitte.
Got flippers ?
Latest projection has it going well to the east of NYC. 'Course you can't
count on that kind of projection. Still it would be a pretty rare event to
have a storm like that remain Cat3 up that far north. Heck, they're even
telling us in the DC area not to panic, it's extremely likely to miss us by
a couple hundred miles.
Lost in the Wasteland
2011-08-25 01:03:32 UTC
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Latest projection has it going well to the east of NYC. 'Course you
can't count on that kind of projection.
They said something like that about Katrina too . It hit E.
Coast of Florida as a Cat 3 , exited into the gulf as a
wimpy ass storm ... then grew into a Cat 5 in 2 days.
$82B in damage .. exp 800,000 homes lost. 16m people displaced.

We're see how it fares come Friday when it crosses the
outer islands of SC.
Incubus
2022-01-10 09:53:41 UTC
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Post by RichL
Post by Lost in the Wasteland
If things play out .. this H may hit Manhattan as a CAT 3 (same as
Katrina ).
20 foot waves filling up WTC hole and busting down WALL STREET
through to Central Park ...
No shitte.
Got flippers ?
Latest projection has it going well to the east of NYC. 'Course you can't
count on that kind of projection. Still it would be a pretty rare event to
have a storm like that remain Cat3 up that far north. Heck, they're even
telling us in the DC area not to panic, it's extremely likely to miss us by
a couple hundred miles.
Why the apostrophe on "course" above? You're missing a preposition, not
a series of letters.

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