{"id":969,"date":"2011-08-03T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2011-08-05T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:32:18","slug":"savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/03\/savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah and hurricanes: a tale of two centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"269\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/03\/06\/savannah-stopover-preview-7-sanders-bohlke\/window-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-orig-size=\"67,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D40&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1244646881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"window\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?resize=67%2C77\" alt=\"\" title=\"window\" width=\"67\" height=\"77\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-269\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Tropical storm Emily is a long, long way away from Coastal Georgia, and the current forecast has it remaining a tropical storm (not a hurricane) as it gets closer to us. [Update, 8\/4: Emily collapsed earlier today over the mountains of Hispaniola.]<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the projected track had the storm hugging the east coast of Florida and potentially coming ashore along the Georgia coast, but the track as I write this shows the storm peeling off to sea a little earlier than that. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_971\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-971\" data-attachment-id=\"971\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/03\/savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries\/205513w5_nl_sm-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/205513W5_NL_sm1-e1312407908752.gif?fit=650%2C520\" data-orig-size=\"650,520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"205513W5_NL_sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Emily&#8217;s track as of 8\/3\/11 at 5 p.m. on the National Hurricane Center website&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/205513W5_NL_sm1-e1312407908752.gif?fit=300%2C239\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/205513W5_NL_sm1-e1312407908752.gif?fit=594%2C475\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/205513W5_NL_sm1-e1312407908752.gif?resize=594%2C475\" alt=\"\" title=\"205513W5_NL_sm\" width=\"594\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-971\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily&#039;s track as of 8\/3\/11 at 5 p.m. on the National Hurricane Center website<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In my 16 years in Savannah, hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic have followed the same general trend &#8212; they move to the north and east as they get closer to our seemingly protected spot. Or they take a turn west and cut across the northern portion of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>But it hasn&#8217;t always been that way. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoml.noaa.gov\/hrd\/hurdat\/\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA Revisits Historic Hurricanes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the 20th Century, <strong>Georgia did not have even a single major hurricane make a landfall along its coast<\/strong>. However, such absence did not continue back to the 19th Century. In contrast, <strong>Georgia experienced three major hurricanes in the later half of the 19th Century<\/strong>: a Category 3 in 1854 near Savannah, the Category 3 &#8220;Sea Islands Hurricane&#8221; in 1893 that killed 1000-2000 people near Savannah and a Category 4 in 1898 near Brunswick. Knowledge that such strong hurricanes have impacted this portion of the coast (and <strong>will undoubtedly hit again<\/strong>) is important for residents of Georgia to plan for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, from that same site, here are the tracks of those three hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>First the 1854 Category 3 storm:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"973\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/03\/savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries\/1854georgia-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1854georgia1-e1312408725611.jpg?fit=650%2C502\" data-orig-size=\"650,502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1854georgia\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1854georgia1-e1312408725611.jpg?fit=300%2C231\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1854georgia1-e1312408725611.jpg?fit=594%2C459\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1854georgia1-e1312408725611.jpg?resize=594%2C459\" alt=\"\" title=\"1854georgia\" width=\"594\" height=\"459\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-973\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nThe deadly Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"974\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/03\/savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries\/1893seaisland\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1893seaisland-e1312408869619.jpg?fit=650%2C502\" data-orig-size=\"650,502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1893seaisland\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1893seaisland-e1312408869619.jpg?fit=300%2C231\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1893seaisland-e1312408869619.jpg?fit=594%2C459\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1893seaisland-e1312408869619.jpg?resize=594%2C459\" alt=\"\" title=\"1893seaisland\" width=\"594\" height=\"459\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-974\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nThe 1898 Category 4 hurricane:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"975\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/03\/savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries\/1898georgia\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1898georgia-e1312409009291.jpg?fit=650%2C502\" data-orig-size=\"650,502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1898georgia\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1898georgia-e1312409009291.jpg?fit=300%2C231\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1898georgia-e1312409009291.jpg?fit=594%2C459\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1898georgia-e1312409009291.jpg?resize=594%2C459\" alt=\"\" title=\"1898georgia\" width=\"594\" height=\"459\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-975\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nThe Georgia coast could go another century without a major hurricane making landfall. But I think that would be a surprise.<\/p>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical storm Emily is a long, long way away from Coastal Georgia, and the current forecast has it remaining a tropical storm (not a hurricane) as it gets closer to us. [Update, 8\/4: Emily collapsed earlier today over the mountains&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/08\/03\/savannah-and-hurricanes-a-tale-of-two-centuries\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livingsavannah","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/1854georgia1-e1312408725611.jpg?fit=650%2C502","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}