Looks like a great read.I will be getting this book.The book has Hurricane Nicole hitting NYC.

Wouldn't it be something if this year NYC gets hit by Hurricane Nicole..

The writter says when he started writing, in 2005, the year 2010 seemed far away, so he used the official hurricane names for this hurricane season, as well as tides, moon phases and other data. If

If we get to Nicole in Sept,i will be watching her closely,lol

Landstrike: New York's horrible hurricane scenario

I think the possibility of NYC getting severely impacted by a hurricane is possible but unlikely. It would have to go into the Jersey shore so NYC would be on the NE quadrant of the storm and that simply is unlikely. However, I have been in Westhampton Beach this week on Dune rd. which is the small slice of land between the ocean and the bay. It is one house after another, all look to be less than 20 years old. Their backyard is the dunes and the beach. Even though they are well built and the first floors are about 10 feet off the ground, one strong hurricane hitting Long Island to their west is going to cause major destruction to those houses. All you need is a tide about 6-10 feet above normal and then add 15 foot waves on top of that and you have water over the dunes and waves crashing through the house windows. The reason all the houses on Dune rd are so new, is because the ocean took just about all the older ones in the 1980s and early 90s. If they can get insurance it must be some premium.

I always watch " It can happen tomorrow" Cat 3 striking NYC. The result would be devestating.

It would have to take Isabel's track a lot further north. I've never heard of anything that came close to that. Of course a track like that would put it over a lot of cold water for a long time also, minimizing the strength of the hurricane, assuming it could even survive that long. It would have to be moving at a fever pitch and this type of track doesn't support fast movement.

Bill Evans on the possibility of a hurricane hitting NYC.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/3641

NYC gets hit with a hurricane every 70-90 years.

Compared to 27.8 years on average for long island

NYC will get hit again,it has in the past and will in the future.When one does hit NYC,I hope im still alive for it to see what the people who say it will never happen have to say about it.

This is probably the most likely track that one will take.WHEN this does happen it will be devastating!!!

In that article it mention the 70th aniversary of the last hurricane to NYC was coming(article was from 2007).that is incorrect.The 1938 hurricane did not hit NYC.The last one to hit NYC was 117 years ago

That wouldn't be much of a hit fior NYC. It would be a rapidly weakening storm with NYC on the weak side of it. That would be a much bigger hit for the south shore of LI and let's face it very few storms take that track. Most canes in our area are headed NNE or NE as they get get caugt up in a SW steering flow ahead of a stalled or slow moving front. I would bet every hurricane that effected NYC was a lot worse for the Jersey shore or LI. Remember hurricanes as a whole, and especially this far north have a small localized area of severity from wind, and it's near or in the eyewall even in fierce cat 5's. Again just 25-30 miles west of Gloria's eyewall most of eastern NJ had a hard time getting wind gusts as strong as 30 mph. Forget sustained, those winds were 10-20mph at best until we got under the storm in sunshine. Then they hit 40-45 with gutss to 60 for about 2 hours.

Here's a nice piece on the 1893 event

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/18/nyregion...cp=1&sq=hog island hurricane&st=cse?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=1

MEGA DISASTER..HURRICANE HITS NYC