The following story got a lot of attention when it was first written following a presentation by Nicholas Coch, a coastal geologist, at an Advisen conference in June.
It may apply more now with Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the Northeast—scheduled to make landfall somewhere along the Southern New Jersey coast and bringing with it the possibility of significant storm surge and inland flooding.
The predictions of Coch, a professor at Queens College, are startling. Think it can't happen? Remember that storm surge from Hurricane Irene (which actually was just a tropical storm when it made landfall in Northeast) came very close to entering the subway system, and officials right now are talking about the corrosiveness of salt water under New York City from Sandy's surge.
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