Interesting reading, I grew up on LI in Bay Shore and vaguely remember, as kid, a mild hurricane during the mid to late 60?s. I seem to remember there was significant beach erosion, power outages and closed roads. Of course the development and population on LI has increase dramatically and the damage to home and life would be significant.

I remember during the 70?s when discussing various manmade or natural disasters, getting off the Island would be impossible. We will be visiting family there this coming Labor Day weekend, hope the storms elude the area during our stay <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.

Pete