Originally Posted by acrispy1
Much stronger than this one? They're calling it the biggest hurricane to hit us in decades. I've lived in NY city and Long Island my whole life this is the first time that we have had mandatory evacuation in the city and parts of Long Island that never had to be evacuated before. We have high tide to begin with and add the hurricane on to that and we are talking about serious flooding and beach erosion. By the way they are calling for winds over 100mph east of the eye which means Long Island is going to have a lot of trees down along with power lines. We have already had record amount of rain so the ground is soft making it easier for trees to come down.
I would say Hurricane Gloria was the worst that I could remember. Winds over 115 MPH. They did evacuate parts of Long Island and obviously Fire Island. I think this hurricane is no different than the many others that came through Long Island... the reason for the evacuations is a result of Katrina. Years ago nobody evacuated... they do now because of the hype around Katrina. I just think the media blows everything up saying this is the worst in 70 years and they are expecting the subway tunnels to flood. This is certainly not the worst hurricane to hit us in 70 years. I don't know.... but we will see.