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Official Hurricane Irene Live OBS/Discussion Part III


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Currently low tide in NYC (2am) and around 4 foot of surge.

You can glance at the radar and see how bad of a situation this can really become.

Maybe this is a really dumb question....but will the fact that the hudson is most likely swollen have any sort of effect on the surge, or, by the time the Hudson gets to Manhattan, does the level of the river normalize to the level of whatever the bay and ocean is?

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I'm not sure what its like around there, but there's lots of trees nearby or higher structures, then it could easily come in low.

Yeah, it's most likely the 13/14 story building across the street. I didn't even think about that.

It looks like it stopped raining or at least lightened up.

SE Queens.

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I saw a graphic online this week that showed a different viewed track of that system, more classic of what many east coast hurricanes which came up this way did. Its hard to say in 1903 how accurate they could pin down what the track was.

But didn't that make landfall, in ACY? The eye was reported passing over there.

We also have 1821 and 1893, both of which produced huge surges into NYC and tracked right into the city.

Pretty much EVERY storm that made it to our latitude was transitioning to ET except perhaps Carol. And yes, that includes storms bending to the east also.

I believe hurricanes just follow whatever the pattern is, and if the pattern dictates they go N or NW, then they will do that, because they're following the path of least resistance.

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i was driving around queens for the past couple of hors and the rain and wind combined i encountered at 1am was the worst I have ever driven in.winds of over 50mpH with just blinding rainfall.Flooding was bad.a lot of big branches down and leaves stripped off as well.march 2010 had stronger winds but the rainfall was not as intense.so far,a decent storm.

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i was driving around queens for the past couple of hors and the rain and wind combined i encountered at 1am was the worst I have ever driven in.winds of over 50mpH with just blinding rainfall.Flooding was bad.a lot of big branches down and leaves stripped off as well.march 2010 had stronger winds but the rainfall was not as intense.so far,a decent storm.

We have some time to match or exceed March 2010 winds lol.

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