Hurricane Alice is the one i remember-- back in 1971-- Faldage will remember it too, it he was living up state then-- it stalled, just south of NY, lost alot of power, but picked up moisture.. NYC was flooded -- but upstate got it even worse.. places like Corning NY had massive floods-- the river flooded and water was 6 to 8 foot deep in town. and most of Corning is a high bluff-- not in true "bottom land" -- last time i was there, (about 10 years ago) some building still had "water marks" visible.
the Gulf Stream current directs warm water up the east coast, and across the Atlantic-- southern ireland sports tropical american palm trees-- the seeds travel 2000 miles before hitting land.. and many a hurriicane travels with the warm waters of the Gulf stream.. the warm water keeps the hurricane active.. if we are lucky, a nice high pressure system from the west drives the hurricane out to sea.. Unlucky-- an a Low, and it moves inland.. Obviously, the further north you go, the better chances you have..
the hurricane of '38 was called the Long Island Expressway (In NY at least)- it raced across the middle of the island, and on up into NE and nearly washed away all of Rhode Island-- a place that it joked has 10 counties at Low tide, but only 3 at high tide. part of the problems was the storm had remained out at sea, and no one knew it was coming.. so no precautions had been taken at all to evacuate low lying areas.
