saurgoth wrote:Shouldn't this just be a map of the entire contiguous United States with the word "Katrina" stretching across it in huge letters?
It's basically a map of what was the worst hurricane that hit
that particular area that people alive could remember. Katrina may have been the worst overall, but it didn't hit the East Coast, so it's not the worst hurricane that hit the East Coast areas.
Alsadius wrote:The Hurricane Hazel area should be extended further north - it was still a hurricane when it hit Toronto and killed 81 people.
NCEP and HURDAT are US agencies, so they likely don't have data on Canada. The lines almost all stop at the Canadian border, with only a few straying in. Not sure if those are conjecture, or if the agencies have data for some parts of Canada near the border on some hurricanes.
LtPowers wrote:I was surprised that most of Western NY is Hazel and not Agnes. Both were before my time, but I've never heard about Hazel before. I've heard a lot more about Agnes -- mainly because the floodwaters on the Genesee River reached within inches of the top of the Mt Morris Dam. Had the Dam not been there, Agnes would have caused at least $210 million in damages (in 1972 dollars) to the city of Rochester.
Hurricane Hazel happened in 1954, so Agnes is more recent in most people's memory, and likely is simply remembered by far more people; for everyone younger than 60, Agnes would be the worst. Remember that the map's title is "what's the worst hurricane that
anyone in your town remembers?" not "what's the worst hurricane most people in your town remember."