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The Self Referential Thread

kurchatovium said:
You are most welcome

Sorry my friend. 🙁 It rained here yesterday and was 93. Today no rain but its a 101 🙁
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Sorry to hear that you have such heat there still in September. 😱
Here it is supposed to keep raining for days. 🙁 🙁

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Good for us here in NYC, not so good for some people in Alabama and Mississippi. 😱

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Yes, Hurricane Katya is already in the open Atlantic Ocean and might cause us more trouble.

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milagros317 said:
As bad as Hurricane Irene was, the media made it seem like the end of the world.

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Yea I thought the same thing. It quickly lost Hurricane Status. Not to say it did not do a lot of damage but it could have been much much worse.
 
kurchatovium said:
Yea I thought the same thing. It quickly lost Hurricane Status. Not to say it did not do a lot of damage but it could have been much much worse.
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Quite a few people drowned upstate and in New England, but there were very few deaths from the winds. In hindsight, it was really a bad storm with severe flooding, not much of a hurricane.

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milagros317 said:
Quite a few people drowned upstate and in New England, but there were very few deaths from the winds. In hindsight, it was really a bad storm with severe flooding, not much of a hurricane.

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True. :iagree: If it had been a Cat 3 by the time it hit NY the death toll would have been horrendous. A special on History channel had said at that strength the glass in most of the high rises would shatter and be swept all around the city. 😱
 
I don't know when the last time a severe hurricane hit NYC directly, but I think it was 1944. No glass skyscrapers then. 😀 😛
 
Here is a short list between 1900-1949 from wiki. 🙂

You might be right the 1944 one made it as a Cat 1. The first big hurricane was the one I mentioned in 1938 which was a Cat 3

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1900–49

Storm surge from the 1938 New England hurricane
September 17, 1903 — The 1903 Vagabond Hurricane produces wind gusts in excess of 65 mph (105 km/h) and 3 inches (75 mm) of rain in Central Park.[13]
August 15, 1904 — A Category 2 hurricane skirts the East Coast of the United States producing gale-force winds and heavy rain in Eastern New York and Long Island.[14]
August 2, 1908 — A hurricane develops near North Carolina and moves northward along the coast, brushing Long Island.[15]
July 21, 1916 — Strong winds are reported on Long Island as a category 3 hurricane passes to the east.[3]
August 25, 1933 — The 1933 Chesapeake Potomac Hurricane produces up to 6 inches (150 mm) of rain in Southeast New York State; other damage is unknown.[16]
September 8, 1934 — A strong tropical storm makes landfall on Long Island.[17]
September 20, 1936 — Strong waves and storm surge associated with a powerful hurricane floods much of Long Beach Island and causes severe beach erosion along the coast.[18]
September 21, 1938 — The New England Hurricane of 1938 (Also Called "The Long Island Express") makes landfall on Suffolk County (Long Island) as a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.[19] Wind gusts of 125 mph (200 km/h) and storm surge of 18 feet (5 m) washes across part of the island.[20] In New York 60 deaths and hundreds of injuries were attributed to the storm.[21] In addition, 2,600 boats and 8,900 houses are destroyed.[22] Throughout New England the hurricane killed over 682 people,[23] damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at $4.7 billion (2005 US dollars).[24]
September 14, 1944 — The 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane makes landfall on Long Island as a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale at a high forward speed of 40 mph (64 km/h). Wind gusts of well over 100 mph (160 km/h) breaks previous wind records in New York City, while a minimum pressure reading of 28.47 inches is recorded on Long Island. 117 homes are completely destroyed, while 2,427 are severely damaged and almost 1000 businesses are destroyed or damaged. In all, six people are killed, and one person is injured.[25]
September 18, 1945 — A weak tropical depression crosses into Southeastern New York.[11]
August 29, 1949 — A tropical storm tracks into Central New York causing no known damage.[11]
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