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How prepared would NYC be if a category 5 hurricane hit?
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:35 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:35 am
What would happen if that made landfall?
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Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:36 am to wazoo11
No better or worse than any other major city on the coast dealing with a hurricane that large. It would be bad.
Shitty thread.
Shitty thread.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:36 am to wazoo11
It would look like the Cloverfield monster hit it.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:36 am to wazoo11
I bet they don’t even have black iron pots and propane burners.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:36 am to wazoo11
quote:
What would happen if that made landfall?
bro, do you even Hurricane Irene?
ETA: meant Sandy, but Irene will do
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 9:39 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:37 am to wazoo11
a lot more than when Sandy came through. They had no preparations prior
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:37 am to wazoo11
It turns Cat 2 hurricanes into "Superstorms"
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:37 am to ell_13
quote:It's his thing, ell.
Shitty thread.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:38 am to fr33manator
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I bet they don’t even have black iron pots and propane burners
Yeah man they wouldn’t be able to put out 5 star meals like any average baw on the bayou, cher.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:38 am to wazoo11
Half the population is below sea level. They'd be fricked.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:39 am to wazoo11
foreigners would make a killing ubering people out of the city.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:39 am to wazoo11
I would be about the same if an inch and a half of snow hits Birmingham. Total disaster. Thousands dead. Work stopped for the rest of the year. Anarchy in the schools.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:40 am to wazoo11
Lower manhattan would be inundated and the subways would be flooded for weeks or months.
Source: Some disaster show on the History Channel. Aliens were not involved, surprisingly.
Source: Some disaster show on the History Channel. Aliens were not involved, surprisingly.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:43 am to 777Tiger
quote:
bro, do you even Hurricane Irene?
ETA: meant Sandy, but Irene will do
I think that's the point of the OP. Sandy was a Cat 1. Irene hit New York as a tropical storm. And they complain about them today as if they were major storms. These were tiny, nothing storms by Gulf Coast/Lower East Coast standards.
If a Cat 3 or larger hit them, it would be really bad.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:43 am to wazoo11
quote:
What would happen if that made landfall?
I bet lots of flooding and damage. Disruption to everyday life.
Probably about like anywhere else a cat 5 would hit
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:44 am to rowbear1922
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It turns Cat 2 hurricanes into "Superstorms"
A Cat2 can still be a major disaster especially given the size of the storm. Sandy was HUGE. TS force winds extended 485 miles from the center. Normal storms of that category reach out to 300 miles.
The storm also hit with a full moon and at high tide
If a CAT5 ever hit NYC, I would expect to see some building collapses.
Sandy was named a "Superstorm" because it merged with another storm front that crossed its path just prior to landfall.
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 9:46 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:44 am to wazoo11
Sandy destroyed them and it wasn't even a hurricane...
It was downgraded to a tropical storm when it hit huh..?
quote:
It turns Cat 2 hurricanes into "Superstorms"
It was downgraded to a tropical storm when it hit huh..?
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 9:46 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:45 am to wazoo11
As long as Seemless works, everything will be fine.
Slightly on topic, there are bug-out boats on the water that people charter to just sit and wait until something bad happens. Supposedly a lot of weathly foreign families use the service for their kids who live in Manhattan.
Slightly on topic, there are bug-out boats on the water that people charter to just sit and wait until something bad happens. Supposedly a lot of weathly foreign families use the service for their kids who live in Manhattan.
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:47 am to wazoo11
I read an article not long ago about what would happen if a storm made landfall directly with Manhattan. It would basically wipe it off the map.
ETA: here it is
ETA: here it is
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 9:49 am
Posted on 9/10/18 at 9:47 am to wazoo11
If a storm came in right up New York Bay between Staten and Long Islands, the place would be trashed if a Cat 2 came in that way. You're talking flooded subway tubes starting near the Battery and the Battery Park area flooded as well as low lying areas all over Staten Island and Brooklyn
This post was edited on 9/10/18 at 9:48 am
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