NYC at risk for floods as forecasts call for a busy hurricane season
Meteorologists are forecasting an unusually busy hurricane season starting this month — and that could mean flooding in New York City.
“Whether it's a direct hit by a hurricane or the leftover remnants of the hurricane, the flooding is going to be really a bad problem,” said Mark Wysocki, a climatologist and lecturer at Cornell University. “I feel really bad for some of these cities, New York City, Binghamton, Albany, Syracuse – they're not adapted for this kind of heavy rainfall.”
While the city is unlikely to get a hurricane, it’s at the mercy of intense winds and extreme rainfall and coastal flooding that are left over from hurricanes or powerful storms that have waned once they’ve reached the city. Although Hurricane Sandy was no longer considered a hurricane by the time it made landfall in New Jersey in October 2012, it still caused $19 billion in damage in New York City alone.
Daniel Brown, branch chief of the Hurricane Specialist Unit at the National Hurricane Center, urged people to begin thinking about preparing for big storms.
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