Hello New York City!
It's early Saturday but as of now the Hurricane Center has the storm cone looking at roughly Toms River to Long Branch, NJ. If it slide just a little north it skirt Sandy Hook and head into Lower New York Bay.
About a half dozen years ago the Weather Channel did a series of weather hazards and one of them was a Class 3 Hurricane coming into New York Bay. It would be worse than Katrina in New Orleans dollarwise. Much of Mahattan would go under water. The subways would be under water as would all the Con Ed utility tunnels, the entrances to the Holland, Lincoln, Midtown, and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels, PATH Tubes, and thousands of basements and subbasements and their electrical rooms and boilers (it's Heating Season in NYC throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and NJ.
Where do you evacuate a couple of million people to? How do you feed and house those that stayed behing on the 87th floor with no power and no emergency power because the standby generators are under water? Where do you put all the patients from the US's largest medical facilities? The metro area doesn't match the City's number of beds. If you send the patients to NJ how do the doctors that live in Connecticut get back and forth from home to where the patients would be relocated. There are enough doctors and medical support staff outside the city to handle the additional workload.
Unlike New Orleans Mayor Bloomberg and the NYOEM will work with state and federal authorities. They have a plan in place and got a dry run of shorts with Hurricane Irene a few years ago.
But they aren't going to set up a couple million FEMA trailers in Central Park. The Fulton Fish Market is under water, the fleet severly damaged. Food in low lying warehouses contaminated.
In the worse case scenario Weather Channels New York Hurricane Express was looking at years to get everything back in working condition. Electrical system damage was catastrophic with inadequate supplies of backup equipment in inventory around the country to get it shipped to NY on a timely basis. Foreign equipment is an option because of different types of electrical system. Equipment would have to manufactured. It would be a shot in the arm for the construction industry. Wall Street years ago shipped a lot of record keeping to NJ. But how soon could you get the NYSE back in operation? NJ would also be in the storms path. The Newark container facilty, Bayway Refinery, Newark, JFK, LaGuardia Airports would all be affected
In 1821 a hurricane hit Manhattan and there was 13 foot tide surge. A storm coming up New York Bay backs up Hudson River, the East River, and the Passaic River in NJ at the same time that torrential rains from advance bands is causing the water level to rise without the hinderance of a storm surge blocking the flow. Now add in high tide and a full moon.
Oh, and Election Day would be a week later.
The Weather Channel will probably run that show over the weekend to stress the message of emergency preparedness. Bloomberg will listen but will jaded New Yorkers.
It's early Saturday but as of now the Hurricane Center has the storm cone looking at roughly Toms River to Long Branch, NJ. If it slide just a little north it skirt Sandy Hook and head into Lower New York Bay.
About a half dozen years ago the Weather Channel did a series of weather hazards and one of them was a Class 3 Hurricane coming into New York Bay. It would be worse than Katrina in New Orleans dollarwise. Much of Mahattan would go under water. The subways would be under water as would all the Con Ed utility tunnels, the entrances to the Holland, Lincoln, Midtown, and Brooklyn Battery Tunnels, PATH Tubes, and thousands of basements and subbasements and their electrical rooms and boilers (it's Heating Season in NYC throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and NJ.
Where do you evacuate a couple of million people to? How do you feed and house those that stayed behing on the 87th floor with no power and no emergency power because the standby generators are under water? Where do you put all the patients from the US's largest medical facilities? The metro area doesn't match the City's number of beds. If you send the patients to NJ how do the doctors that live in Connecticut get back and forth from home to where the patients would be relocated. There are enough doctors and medical support staff outside the city to handle the additional workload.
Unlike New Orleans Mayor Bloomberg and the NYOEM will work with state and federal authorities. They have a plan in place and got a dry run of shorts with Hurricane Irene a few years ago.
But they aren't going to set up a couple million FEMA trailers in Central Park. The Fulton Fish Market is under water, the fleet severly damaged. Food in low lying warehouses contaminated.
In the worse case scenario Weather Channels New York Hurricane Express was looking at years to get everything back in working condition. Electrical system damage was catastrophic with inadequate supplies of backup equipment in inventory around the country to get it shipped to NY on a timely basis. Foreign equipment is an option because of different types of electrical system. Equipment would have to manufactured. It would be a shot in the arm for the construction industry. Wall Street years ago shipped a lot of record keeping to NJ. But how soon could you get the NYSE back in operation? NJ would also be in the storms path. The Newark container facilty, Bayway Refinery, Newark, JFK, LaGuardia Airports would all be affected
In 1821 a hurricane hit Manhattan and there was 13 foot tide surge. A storm coming up New York Bay backs up Hudson River, the East River, and the Passaic River in NJ at the same time that torrential rains from advance bands is causing the water level to rise without the hinderance of a storm surge blocking the flow. Now add in high tide and a full moon.
Oh, and Election Day would be a week later.
The Weather Channel will probably run that show over the weekend to stress the message of emergency preparedness. Bloomberg will listen but will jaded New Yorkers.
