Hurricane Irene looking like 1944’s Great Atlantic Hurricane

Friday, 26 August 2011 10:07

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BY ALICIA CRUZ

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

As New Jerseyans await the arrival of Hurricane Irene, a significant cold front moved through the region bringing heavy showers and thunderstorms that could make for catastrophic conditions to the region once Irene makes landfall. Rutgers University climatologist David A. Robinson says rain and wind from Irene could have a devastating impact on southern New Jersey, an area among the hardest hit by August rains, which more than doubled rainfall amounts for the state and caused several dams to fail during a storm two weeks ago, NJ.com reported.

That, coupled with significant flooding the eastern portion of the state may see from Irene, makes the system an even more serious threat to already saturated areas with above average river levels. These factors prompted Governor Chris Christie to declare a state of emergency Thursday. During the afternoon press conference at the State Police Regional Operations Center in Ewing, Christie said officials had to be prepared and that residents should not take the situation lightly. The Governor ordered mandatory evacuations. Christie's declaration activated 6,000 members of the National Guard, MyFoxNY reported.

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Hurricane Irene's track indicated an even greater threat to our coastline because models show she is following a similar path to that of the most notable hurricane of the 1944 Hurricane season, The Great Atlantic Hurricane. Named for its size and intensity, the Great Atlantic smacked the Jersey coastline as a powerful Category 2 and devastated the shore towns of Long Beach Island, Barnegat, Atlantic City, Ocean City, and Cape May. The storm claimed 390 lives in all and damages totaled $100 million.

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It was a joke. And everyone was screaming at me "you gotta get out" "you gotta get out"...lol I evactuated like the town said to and went to Cherry Hill. What a pain in the ass. And some of the stupid neighbors had their windows boarded up like a tidal wave was coming??? lol The storm came, the storm went. Max winds in my coastal town of Keansburg about 50mph if that???? It was no major storm. Another cry wolf scenario. They made it seem like it was the end of the world and it wasn't anything worse in intensity than a moderate thunderstorm. Dec 92 a nor'easter hit the entire state came up from out of no where so fast they didn't even have time to warn people but the winds got up to 105mph at seabright and probably at least 90 or better where I live, my street didn't flood and my roof stayed on the house. So now, why all the hype about hurricane Irene, in this day and age 2011 - 2012 they still can't predict a hurricane correctly. They told us it was going to be very bad storm? cat 2 possible in strength that's close to 100mph? it wound up not even being 1/2 of that strength 50 maybe 60mph at max "a strong tropical storm". So, next time a big big hurricane is coming and the big bad wolf is coming to huff and puff, don't worry, just stay in your house, everything will be fine, take the weather forecaster's forecast with a small grain of salt and just keep your phone turned off so your relatives can't scream and yell at you to get out. Weather people don't know what they're talking about.

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