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Hurricane Sandy
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Maybe Yanks will build their houses from bricks now, those cardboard houses are probably in another State by now.
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This is something I've never understood, do they not have the Three Little Pigs story over there or something? If the big bad wolf could blow your house down I'm pretty sure a hurricane could.
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Some are built with bricks, it's just different ways to build houses.
Using wood is cheaper and far easier to rebuild and considering every year they're battered by storms building with bricks isn't cost effective, foundations would be ruined and I would imagine not nearly as safe during an event.
Not sure if being sarcastic but it was the same building in the pic as the video.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...8th-avenue-collapses-hurricane_n_2044364.html
The communications infrastructure has been hit very hard:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...ce-likely-to-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...ce-likely-to-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in New York, there are trees in all the shops.
Stolen from CNN:
Costliest storms to hit U.S. East Coast
A list of the 10 costliest Atlantic cyclones to hit the U.S. mainland since 1900. Figures not adjusted for inflation.
Rank Name Year Damage
1 Katrina CATEGORY 3 2005 $108 billion
2 Ike CATEGORY 2 2008 $29.5 billion
3 Andrew CATEGORY 5 1992 $26.5 billion
4 Wilma CATEGORY 3 2005 $21 billion
5 Ivan CATEGORY 3 2004 $18.8 billion
6 Charley CATEGORY 4 2004 $15.1 billion
7 Rita CATEGORY 3 2005 $12 billion
8 Frances CATEGORY 2 2004 $9.5 billion
9 Allison TROPICAL STORM 2001 $9 billion
10 Jeanne CATEGORY 3 2004 $7.7 billion
Sandy will probably be number 2 - they're estimating up to $40b so far. I thought it would be a lot higher seeing as it covered such a huge area....although it's still early days I guess.
Also underlines the point that Cat rating doesn't mean all that much on its own.
Costliest storms to hit U.S. East Coast
A list of the 10 costliest Atlantic cyclones to hit the U.S. mainland since 1900. Figures not adjusted for inflation.
Rank Name Year Damage
1 Katrina CATEGORY 3 2005 $108 billion
2 Ike CATEGORY 2 2008 $29.5 billion
3 Andrew CATEGORY 5 1992 $26.5 billion
4 Wilma CATEGORY 3 2005 $21 billion
5 Ivan CATEGORY 3 2004 $18.8 billion
6 Charley CATEGORY 4 2004 $15.1 billion
7 Rita CATEGORY 3 2005 $12 billion
8 Frances CATEGORY 2 2004 $9.5 billion
9 Allison TROPICAL STORM 2001 $9 billion
10 Jeanne CATEGORY 3 2004 $7.7 billion
Sandy will probably be number 2 - they're estimating up to $40b so far. I thought it would be a lot higher seeing as it covered such a huge area....although it's still early days I guess.
Also underlines the point that Cat rating doesn't mean all that much on its own.
The Cat rating is really used for meterologists and is based on pressure readisng, temperature, core wind speed. It has nothing to do with the destructive capability of a hurricane which depends on size, trajectory and localised events 9e.g.a hgih spring tide couple with the storm surge, ala Sandy.
Looking at hurricane extent nd total energy can be more indicative.
Looking at hurricane extent nd total energy can be more indicative.
