Whoa! 1960 photo of Hurricane Donna storm surge around WTC area in NYC(Sandy's predictions worse)

[Are_grits_groceries]

@mattmfm:
For reference NYC, this is WTC site (form. West and Cortlandt St) during Donna in 1960. Forecasted surge is higher


Gah!

[thecrow]

1. Whoa indeed!

How high was the surge in 62?

[kentauros]

8. Here are the surges according to the National Hurricane Center:

Donna caused storm surges of up to 13 ft in the Florida Keys and 11 ft surges along the southwest coast of Florida. Four to eight ft surges were reported along portions of the North Carolina coast, with 5 to 10 ft surges along portions of the New England coast. Heavy rainfalls of 10 to 15 inches occurred in Puerto Rico, 6 to 12 inches in Florida, and 4 to 8 inches elsewhere along the path of the hurricane.

[malaise]

2. Wow!

That's a lot of water

[treestar]

3. Donuts and coca-cola

obviously popular at the time.

The photographer and and guy ahead of him couldn't do without it that day.

[liberal N proud]

6. It was the breakfast of champions.

Before we all got fat.

[hedgehog]

4. I hope most New Yorkers experience only a slight

inconvenience at worst, but I admit to hoping that the flood surge causes problems for the Wall Street gang!

[lalalu]

5. My parents use to talk about this.

My mother use to also tell us about the Holland tunnel fire. Our hair use to stand on end and we would get completely silent while my father drove through the tunnel. I think that was her goal.

[TomClash]

7. At the time West Street was basically on the Hudson

The WFC was built on landfill to the west of it.

Cortlandt no longer runs to West Street. It is only one block now. All of those businesses died long ago when the WTC ws built.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Well, looks like the FD will have to break out the boats

And that is a cool photo from a journalism POV.

Thanks.

[marybourg]

10. The entire Rockaway Peninsula was under water.

Moms and kids were taken off rooftops of 2 story houses by Coast Guard in boats (Dads were at work). This is IN New York City. In those days there was a CG station nearby. Now--I don't think so.