Y2Kyoto: "Unprecedented"

What ever happened to Katrina?

Note to self

All women.

It's all about "Global warming Climate Change"
Getting old....
Leftist drivel.
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Just read about "unprecedented" at WUWT...
1831 was apparently a banner hurricane too!

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/02/a-reply-to-hurricane-sandy-alarmists/

Just in New England . . .

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_21881164

New England Hurricanes

Posted on November 1, 2012
Aug. 25,1635: The Great Colonial Hurricane was the first historical record of an intense hurricane in the region. Some refer to it as America’s first recorded natural disaster. The storm’s eye is believed to have passed between Boston and Plymouth causing at least 46 casualties.

Sept. 23, 1815: The Great September Gale was the first major hurricane to impact New England in 180 years. After crossing Long Island, N.Y., the storm came ashore at Saybrook, Conn., funneling an 11-foot storm surge up Narragansett Bay. There, it destroyed 500 houses, 35 ships and flooded Providence, R.I.

Sept. 21, 1938: The Great Hurricane. This Category 5 was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The Blue Hill Observatory, outside of Boston, measured sustained winds of 121 mph, with gusts of 183 mph. Providence, R.I., reported sustained winds of 100 mph, gusting to 125 mph. Rainfall of 10 to 17 inches caused severe flooding in Western Massachusetts. In all, 600 deaths were attributed to the storm.

Sept. 14-15, 1944: The Great Atlantic Hurricane produced 140-mph winds and caused over $100 million in damage, as well as 390 deaths, mostly at sea.

Aug. 21, 1954: Hurricane Carol, a compact, but powerful, borderline Category 3 battered New England, killing 68. With 100 mph winds, gusting up to 135 mph, Carol caused over $460 million in damage, destroying 4,000 homes, 3,500 cars, and over 3,000 boats. This was arguably the most destructive storm to hit Southern New England since 1938.

Aug. 17-19, 1955: Hurricane Diane dropped up to 20 inches of rain, setting flood records throughout the region. Diane was recognized as the wettest tropical cyclone to impact New England and was blamed for nearly 200 deaths.

Sept. 12, 1960: Hurricane Donna recorded 160 mph winds with gusts up to 200 mph. Donna hit New England in Southeast Connecticut with sustained winds of 100 mph, gusting to 125-130 mph, cutting diagonally through the region to Maine. The storm killed 364, and caused more than $500 million in damage.

Sept. 27, 1985: Hurricane Gloria hugged the coastline; as it made its way north, Gloria crossed Long Island, making landfall at Milford, Conn. The storm left more than 2 million people without power.

Aug. 19, 1991: Hurricane Bob made landfall in New England near New Bedford with 115 mph winds. The damage total for Southern New England was set at $1 billion, with $2.5 billion overall damage.

Sept. 16-17, 1999: Hurricane Floyd’s worst impact was flooding, with mudslides in the Berkshires and road closures.

Aug. 28, 2011: Tropical Storm Irene slammed into the Northeast leaving badly damaged homes and roads in its wake. Federal aid in Berkshire County topped $30 million.

heh.

Meanwhile in Powell River, BC It's November.
Cold, rainy, blustery, winds gusting to 40 MPH (est)
Completely normal Fall, and no President running like a coward.....
Sorry for the snipe, just had to.
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Every Lefties favorite hurricane - Katrina - was almost two orders of magnitude worse than this in both property and lives lost. And recriminations. Let's see, what was different ...?

how many of those HERicanes were on Bush's watch

What ever happened to Katrina?

The picture doesn't show hurricanes dating later than 1960 hurricane season, apparently.

Agreed that it was more of a tropical storm than a hurricane. But because it mixed in with a storm coming from the north and that it was a very large storm area-wise it probably was unprecedented in living memory in terms of the number of people in its path and the cost of the damage. That it hit the largest media market in North America probably had a lot to do with the hype as well.

Sandy is Obama's Katrina. Karma's a bitch.

The point is the frequency of major storms that hit the northeast seaboard within a short period of time (5 years)m during the 50s.

Before there was any nonsense of "global warming/climate change/chicken littleism"

Now we have a storm that has struck the center of the known world, and the usual suspects are crawling out to proclaim it is proof of gw/cc/etc.........

Um, wasn't Sandy a storm, and not a hurricane?

Angela Hill (Newstalk 650) has never seen the like in all her born days:

http://www.newstalk650.com/sites/default/files/RBSHOW%20SEG4%20NOV1.mp3

Good when fools openly show their ignorance on public radio where we can laugh and point.

It's the same radio station where John Himpe hangs. He of "the world would be a better place if Kate had never learned to use a computer".

Sandy was just a big tropical storm, it barely reached hurricane catagory 1 status.
A REAL superstorm would be of the catagory 5 variety.
This unprecedent meme the leftards are preaching really shows their desperation.

To the twitter generation this is unprecidented, their memory ony lasts 140 characters and then it erases and starts over. I explains how people like Obahma, Mulcair, Redford and Nenshi get elected.

The hurricanes of the '50s and '60s don't count because they all have female names. Blatant sexism.

Like I've said before, climate change opportunists are no different in practice than Young Earth Creationists. The big difference is that Young Earth Creationists allow for 6000 years while the Young Earth Warmers have shorter and more flexible time frames.

Sometimes earth's climate change started in the 1850's during the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes climate change started in the 1950's-70s coinciding with their childhood memories. Occasionally, like in the case of storms, earth's climate history jumps around wildly - forgetting some events or non-events and exaggerating others. Whatever the start of C-AGW, before that time the climate was stable and perfect...Climate Eden, I suppose.

They are maling a big deal about this so called hurricane as a way to make Obama look more Presidential and to keep the public focused on Obama,not Mitt Romney.The drivel that was produced by CNN and the alphabet networks during and after the storm was enough to make a real journalist[if any actually still exist] hang their head in shame.

Sandy was not a big storm. It happened to hit New York head on. As for the rest, the US is so far gone that any disruption will have serious consequences.
I do expect to see people die from this, probably from starvation or exposure, or waterborne disease, before it is all over;
but that is because of a breakdown in their governments at all levels, and a more general breakdown in their society.

I remember Hazel in 1954. I was in Junior High School and the eye of the storm came over our house in North Carolina. More recently I spent 9 hours in a small interior hall in my Houston, TX home during Ike in 2008 with the wind outside at 115 mph. People on our street were without power for eight days. Some people in the area were without power for three weeks. One end of Bolivar Pennisular was wiped clean. There were no damaged buildings standing. There was nothing left but sand. Wiped clean. I feel for the people recovering from Sandy. They may have a long wait for help. Some people in the Houston/Galveston area are still waiting- four years later. Don't count on Obama fixing it all very fast. Unfortunately the election will be over before people find out that Obama was not all that helpful.

If your power is out and there's a century oak on your roof, then it's a disaster, full-stop. But no way is this "unprecedented".

You just know you are right about all the AGW crap when the opposition are all formed in the Stupid line. The three amigos total IQ almost equals a whole number

Gore
Bloomberg
Michael Moore

It is sad that these are the only twits left standing, and they each have a "Self" economic motivation...

The great weatherman Joe Bastardi was on Fox News the other night. He talked about the string of storms that hit the East coast back in the 1950's and said we are probably in a cycle like that again. Bastardi laughs at "global warming".

"The hurricanes of the '50s and '60s don't count because they all have female names. Blatant sexism."

Posted by: Mike McCormick at November 2, 2012 10:42 AM

And racism. Not only is there no Hurricane Tyquasia, there's not even a Hurricane Lupe. Or a Hildegard. It's all just WASPy carnage. Typical.

And don't forget the 1998 Ice Storm in Quebec and Ontario and New England.

Homes, about 4 million, were without power, not for days, but for weeks. In the middle of winter. Whole sections of forests decimated. 35 deaths. Farms unable to feed and look after animals, barns collapsing from the weight of the ice. Thousands of trees, not just a few, but thousands, in city parks, were lost. And, because of the ice on the roads, travel, emergency help etc, was impossible.

aww c'mon ET, that's just, well, ol man winter...

60% of Cdns want O as prez.

O as PM, THAT would be a disaster

just say'in

black mamba at 2:10 - OMG, you're right! Disgraceful. Scratch those storms from the record.

Nor'easter could hit U.S. East Coast early next week.

...POTENTIAL FOR SLOW-MOVING NOR'EASTER ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST NEXT WEEK...

THE EAST COAST WILL STILL BE THE BREEDING GROUND FOR LARGE STORMS, WITH ENERGY SWIRLING TOGETHER BY LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY TO CREATE ANOTHER COASTAL CYCLONE, ALBEIT A TAMER VERSION THAN THIS WEEK'S.STILL, MORE HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY PRECIPITATION ANYWHERE ALONG THE RECENT TRACK OF SANDY AND ITS POST-TROPICAL CIRCULATION WOULD
IMPACT RECOVERY EFFORTS AND EXACERBATE THE ALREADY STRESSED COASTLINE, RIVERS, TREES, AND POWER GRIDS.

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=preepd&version=0&fmt=reg

New York City hurricanes before Sandy...

"The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane [estimated at Category 3 or Category 4 upon striking New Jersey] was one of four known tropical cyclones that have made landfall in New York City. Another, even more intense hurricane struck the region in pre-Columbian times (sometime between 1278 and 1438) and was detected by paleotempestological research. The third was the 1893 New York hurricane, and the fourth was Hurricane Irene in 2011"

Galveston... 1900. A lot of SUV's back then.