I wonder if the natives of the Northeast have even started thinking about their risk, and how seriously they would take a storm moving up the coast? There have been two major hurricanes that almost took out parts of the east coast, one in 1938, the other in 1893....

The one in 1938 was called the "Express" and I found it's development and speed alarming:
>"Survivors called the 1938 storm “The Long Island Express,” because it flooded coastal communities so suddenly and furiously. On the morning of Sept. 21, the storm was stalled off the coast of North Carolina and appeared to be breaking up. But suddenly the hurricane defied expectations, tripling its rate of forward motion from 20 mph to 60 mph and speeding across 425 miles of open ocean in seven hours. It made landfall at about 3 p.m. on Long Island, after brushing by the Jersey Shore and splintering the boardwalks of Atlantic City and other beach resorts."

Seven hours. Four hundreds miles. Who would know to get out?

Or how about the one in 1893 that hit the land now under Kennedy Airport?
>"It came ashore in Jamaica Bay, near where JFK airport sits today. A cluster of saloons, casinos and resort hotels on a sandy spit of land called Hog Island was completely washed away. Even the island disappeared. A few miles west of the hurricane’s eye, almost every building on Coney Island was destroyed. There was extensive flooding in Brooklyn and wind damage to many of the city’s innovative new skyscrapers, including the just-finished Metropolitan Life building."

Meteorologists claim that a category three could hit NYC with disastrous consequences.
Listen up, all of you wjo have homes on the <coast.>