Sandy’s storm surge was 13 feet, due largely to a full moon high tide. Leading climate experts blamed this on global warming.
At the other end of the hockey stick, a 1900 hurricane killed 10,000 people and produced a 20 foot storm surge.
The water rose at a steady rate from 3 p.m. until about 7:30 p.m., when there was a sudden rise of about four feet in as many seconds. I was standing at my front door, which was partly open, watching the water, which was flowing with great rapidity from east to west. The water at this time was about eight inches deep in my residence, and the sudden rise of 4 feet brought it above my waist before I could change my position. The water had now reached a stage 10 feet above the ground at Rosenberg Avenue (Twenty-fifth street) and Q street, where my residence stood. The ground was 5.2 feet elevation, which made the tide 15.2 feet. The tide rose the next hour, between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., nearly five feet additional, making a total tide in that locality of about twenty feet.
Anecdotal Evidence! What do the Satellite records show about that storm? What confirmation do we have from the ARGO buoys that were deployed off the coast? What did the Hurricane Hunter Aircraft report during that storm? What Doppler Radar records do we have?
I forgot 😉
That hurricane hunted us, not the other way around!
People use to not get around much. Until the 1780s it was an unknown fact that
Hurricane winds blew in a circular counter-clock wise direction. Shortly after a Hurricane had passed through Southern Connecticut, a Continual Army currier discovered this fact while on a mission for General Washington. The thing that gave the game away was the different directions in which the Hurricane winds had uprooted the trees. This BTW was NOT discovered by a “Climate Scientist!”