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[Andrew Vida]

Wow... not that is a thought to make one cringe... I am not sure I would 
have thought a storm surge would go 20 miles up river... but then again, 
why not?  Imagine what the surge would have been had Staten Island not 
been there to redirect the flow.  I wonder how far up the Raritan it went.

On 11/6/2012 6:08 AM, Bruce . wrote:
> They're now calling Staten Island a "barrier island".  Never though of
> it that way before, but it makes sense.  Little Ferry got hit by a
> storm surge that must have come up the Hackensack River (a tributary
> to the lower Passaic River), 20 miles from the ocean.  I don't know
> any details, just some news reports.  Staten Island is between the
> ocean and the Passaic River.