Prepared for Frankenstorm?

[mikeo80]

Even just trying to model the blast and damage patterns of the initial strike could get "interesting" when you throw in such a powerful storm. Makes me wonder what a nuke going off at the eye would do to it...

Probably not much of a result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_...nitude_(energy)

IF I read this article correctly, (I am not a expert in energy production )

One day of rain from an average hurricane is 1000x more energy released than a 50MT Tsar Bomba blast.

So, if I read this right, hurricane Sandy (NOT an average hurricane ) would not even be affected by a nuke. It would probably take a good chunk of our nuclear arsenal to have an effect on a hurricane.

My $0.02

Mike

[Schone23666]

Having witnessed the effects of Sandy firsthand, I would say that I very much doubt a nuke or two would have had much effect, though granted a storm this size was rather unprecedented, hence the media-coined term "Frankenstorm". It annoys me how the media use to love labels like this to sell their "if it bleeds, it's a read" articles, but that's a discussion for another time.

When Sandy hit, I was one of the few crazy enough to venture outside (Disclaimer: DO NOT try this at home when a hurricane or tornado hits) to check one or two things...the wind was literally HOWLING so damn loud I could barely hear myself think.