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morningfog

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1. That is for a Category 4 with 30 foot seawalls. Thankfully, Sandy is a CAT 1, with seawalls of

Reply to snooper2 (Original post)

Sun Oct 28, 2012, 11:35 AM

Oct 2012

around 4 feet. Still very serious, but not as terrifying as that video.

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Hurricane hits New York- Animation [View all] snooper2 Oct 2012 OP

That is for a Category 4 with 30 foot seawalls. Thankfully, Sandy is a CAT 1, with seawalls of morningfog Oct 2012 #1

I hope a hurricane that strong never hits New York Nika Oct 2012 #2

With runaway anthropogenic global warming locked in by the current political climate Strelnikov_ Oct 2012 #9

Or anthropogenic n/t IDemo Oct 2012 #12

I really doubt that in this day and age, un-suspecting people are going to be walking LisaL Oct 2012 #3

lol- you would be surprised Marrah_G Oct 2012 #4

They already had to fish a HappyMe Oct 2012 #6

" dude, righteous waaaaaves!" Marrah_G Oct 2012 #10

They have to do that for every freaking hurricane. SMDH. Idiots. Butterbean Oct 2012 #11

Hm Panasonic Oct 2012 #14

Really. My thought exactly. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #7

Yea. The animation showed a bunch of people walking around, completely un-aware a hurricane LisaL Oct 2012 #8

Actually, there is an explanation for that. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2012 #13

How climate change makes hurricane Sandy worse limpyhobbler Oct 2012 #5

Current trends are not this bad nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #15

I figure if everybody is going to get their freakout on.. snooper2 Oct 2012 #16

I tend to look at these things nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #17