[Info-vax] [OT follow-up] Hurricane Sandy and hurricane frequency over time

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In article <c8330b60-473a-4b06-a1fd-468cf17bfcaf at googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>I can't find the original thread, but perhaps starting a new one is better.
>
>Way back some of you (JF, at least) said we were to have annual big hurricanes 
>like Irene and Sandy on the East Coast. Well, where is this year's?!
>
>We are through most of this year's North Atlantic hurricane season (see 
>http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/ for the frequency plot vs day of year) and 
>there's no big hurricane in sight. You can see on this plot (scroll down a bit 
>to get to it) that hurricane season is pretty much over. The odds for hurricanes 
>now are pretty slim. 
>
>Yes, we might get more and bigger hurricanes in the future, but were not up to 
>annual "Sandy's" yet.
>
>(Wunderground's current "anniversary review" of Sandy can be found at 
>http://classic.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2566 )
>
>Recall that 2004 and 2005 were very active years, but things have been very 
>mellow since, except for Irene and Sandy. Back in 2005 or so people were saying 
>"the sky is falling" type stuff. This is the new norm. Hi-frequency higher-
>powered hurricanes. And what did we get? A lull. A big lull.
>
>You can check hurricane archives for yourselves at 
>http://classic.wunderground.com/hurricane/hurrarchive.asp or 
>
>Here's the peak year, 2005:  http://classic.wunderground.com/hurricane/at2005.asp
>
>From there you can easily go forward or backward through the years.
>
>AEF 

Well, I, for one, am happy that the entire summer season was rather storm
free as there's still so much to clean up and repair here on the NJ shore.
Still, every where I travel in my area, I can see the uprooted tree root
systems of Sandy felled trees.  It'll take years to clear all that to get
the NJ shore areas back to where they were pre-Sandy.  Repairing the Benny
and Shoobie summer haunts should have taken a back seat to the repair of
the homes of the year-round residents -- a great many who are still taking
up residence in area hotels because their homes are either uninhabitable or
they've been completely destroyed. 

Kudos to my Uncle Sammy and Auntie Trenton for costing me more accountancy
fees to file storm damage victim forms which didn't offset the theft of my
dollars via taxation one iota.

On the bright side, JCP&L did, albeit too slowly, get the power restored.
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