Some crazy pics that show the power of a cat1 storm, bad luck resulted actually from a full moon high tide and it combining with an upper low moving down from "us truly" (perfect storm)
Brigantine, New Jersey
Tuckerton, New Jersey
A Virgin Mary statue stands in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York, on Tuesday after a fire fed by high winds destroyed at least 80 homes.
A resident walks down a street covered in beach sand due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy in Long Beach, New York on Tuesday.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
yes, because hurricanes are rare along the east coast of NA....granted that this one was a large one, but you know what? there have been really really big ones before, and lots of them happened long before the combustion engine. This season was one of the weakest for hurricanes ever recorded (as far as landfall)...which simply doesnt jive with the man made theory. Its all very cyclical.
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I agree this one shouldn't be blamed just on global warming but I thought I should respond to your post that lacks much if any facts.
1) Because a large storm didn't make landfall in the USA doesn't mean it didn't happen.
2) Since the recording of "named storms" began in 1851 the average has been 11.7 per year, Sandy was the 19th named storm this year in the Atlantic and 6 hit land somewhere that caused deaths.
3) Since 1995 the average is roughly 35% higher than the previous 140+ years. And this average is about the same for Pacific named storms which kill far more
At this point does it matter if humans are contributing to the oceans/planet warming up? we couldn't cool it in 300 years even if we turned everything off. Question should be... can we slow it down a little or at least adapt to it with education and save peoples lives?