If you’re making a case against global warning causing this thing, fine, but to claim this wasn’t a big storm will lose your credibility.
Joe Bastardi has an interesting and credible take on it.
However:
Sandy was the size of Europe.
Everyone from the Jersey Shore, to Manhattan and to the South Shore of LI - highly populated- got the heck out of there way early.
Excerpts from CNN, (which cannot bias numbers such as these):
“Sandy had already claimed at least 67 lives in the Caribbean, including 51 in Haiti”, which speaks to the respect for weather that the locals in the Northeast have for weather. Look at the stats on evacuations – 400,000 out of Manhattan ordered out days prior. Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t need the credit, these people know to get off low lying beach/river front and way before the traffic jams. They have bug out places- family and friends in and up state.
In 1938, “The Long Island Express” Hurricaine, contained a low pressure reading of 946 millibars; Sandy had a minimum pressure of 943 millibars. Generally speaking, the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm.”
The 1938 storm was not on satellite photo, so there were no true evacuations. Have you seen the photo for this one?
Also, people in their 70s and 80s remember “Donna” (which accouts partly for the high incidence of women named Donna in the area who are in their 50s.
“New York, lower Manhattan’s Battery Park recorded nearly 14-foot tide, smashing a record set by 1960’s Hurricane Donna by more than 3 feet. The city had already halted service on its bus and train lines, closing schools and ordering about 400,000 people out of their homes in low-lying areas of Manhattan and elsewhere.
“Flooding forced the closure of all three of the major airports in the area, LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty. Water seeped into subway stations in Lower Manhattan and into the tunnel connecting Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn”
It was less damaging to life and limb because people got out of there. It hurts to know this, as just before Katrina hit, I watched mayor nagin staring at the camera looking for help instead of driving buses into the low lying areas to evacuate, and then, not closing off the inbound THREE empty EMPTY lands of highway as the outbound hwy was jammed. The stupidity was discouraging.
But this was a big storm, so. . .
I never said it wasn’t a big storm. What I said was that is was no super-storm.
It was a hurricane and hurricanes are big storms. Circumstances made this storm very damaging, but Global Warming did not create it and it wasn’t so strong as to be out of the ordinary.