http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2012/10/meet-the-evacuated-from-hurricane-zone-a/ News, culture and life in and around New York Mon, 06 May 2013 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2012/10/meet-the-evacuated-from-hurricane-zone-a/#comment-55701 kathy Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:14:00 +0000 http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/?p=64596#comment-55701 Alright oscar perez. Good thing you took your papers. So did I. I have 3 kids , live in the lower east side. We lost power for 6 days on the 7ths ... god blessed us with ...light. Alright oscar perez. Good thing you took your papers. So did I. I have 3 kids , live in the lower east side. We lost power for 6 days on the 7ths … god blessed us with …light.

]]> http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2012/10/meet-the-evacuated-from-hurricane-zone-a/#comment-55690 stan chaz Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:08:00 +0000 http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/?p=64596#comment-55690 I have read news articles claiming that “nobody predicted” this historic tidal storm surge. Perhaps they should check into the episode of the Weather Channel’s TV program “It Can Happen Here”, entitled “What if a hurricane struck NYC?”. In that program, produced several years ago (which admittedly describes the effects of a much stronger hurricane in a somewhat sensationalistic fashion), geology Professor David Coch (of New York City’s Queens College) very accurately and precisely predicted the devastating consequences to NYC that would be produced by a hurricane taking the track that Sandy took,.... especially with regard to potential tidal flooding. In that program, Professor Koch outlines the fact that we have an “L” shaped coastline, with the corner of the “L” being NY Harbor. Therefore, any hurricane coming inland into the New Jersey coast to our south, as Sandy did, would cause strong winds and waves to come in from the southeast off the ocean. This would push enormous amounts of water into the corner of the “L” (that is, into New York harbor), as well as -at the same time- pushing sea water surges down Long Island Sound into the East River. All of which would mean that the sea water would have no place to go except the streets, the subways, and the tunnels of low lying areas of NYC, causing devastating tidal flooding. Which is exactly what happened. IF Mayor Bloomberg had understood and heeded the realities of this kind of storm track and scenario (which was very accurately predicted by many forecasters days in advance) ---instead of relying on the erroneous and reckless decision of the Weather Bureau NOT to issue any hurricane warnings for this so-called “hybrid: storm (with 94 mile winds!) ....THEN.... we would have had a much earlier and a much more orderly evacuation - instead of a last minute rush to action by the Mayor and the City on Sunday (the day before the storm). We of course need to harden our infrastructure. But ...both the Weather Bureau and the Mayor’s advisors absolutely also need to get their act together for future situations like this, as they begin to occur more and more frequently.... I have read news articles claiming that “nobody predicted” this historic tidal storm surge.
Perhaps they should check into the episode of the Weather Channel’s TV program
“It Can Happen Here”, entitled “What if a hurricane struck NYC?”.
In that program, produced several years ago (which admittedly describes the effects of a much stronger hurricane in a somewhat sensationalistic fashion), geology Professor David Coch (of New York City’s Queens College) very accurately and precisely predicted the devastating consequences to NYC that would be produced by a hurricane taking the track that Sandy took,…. especially with regard to potential tidal flooding.
In that program, Professor Koch outlines the fact that we have an “L” shaped coastline, with the corner of the “L” being NY Harbor. Therefore, any hurricane coming inland into the New Jersey coast to our south, as Sandy did, would cause strong winds and waves to come in from the southeast off the ocean. This would push enormous amounts of water into the corner of the “L” (that is, into New York harbor), as well as -at the same time- pushing sea water surges down Long Island Sound into the East River. All of which would mean that the sea water would have no place to go except the streets, the subways, and the tunnels of low lying areas of NYC, causing devastating tidal flooding.
Which is exactly what happened.
IF Mayor Bloomberg had understood and heeded the realities of this kind of storm track and scenario (which was very accurately predicted by many forecasters days in advance) —instead of relying on the erroneous and reckless decision of the Weather Bureau NOT to issue any hurricane warnings for this so-called “hybrid: storm (with 94 mile winds!)
….THEN….
we would have had a much earlier and a much more orderly evacuation – instead of a last minute rush to action by the Mayor and the City on Sunday (the day before the storm).
We of course need to harden our infrastructure. But …both the Weather Bureau and the Mayor’s advisors absolutely also need to get their act together for future situations like this, as they begin to occur more and more frequently….

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