Global Warming and Sandy and Irene and next year

I was listening tonight to Al Gore talk about Global Warming on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart and wondering whether a breakwater will be built to protect New York and parts of New Jersey from the next "Hurricane Sandy" Clone next year or sometime in the years after and realized it is sort of like playing Russian Roulette with the lives of everyone on the coast of the Northeast waiting for another "Hurricane Sandy" especially after:

Hurricane Irene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hurricane Irene was a large and very destructive tropical cyclone, which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during the 2011 ...

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hit the previous year. And even though Hurricane Irene did not hit at the seashore it devastated towns inland with flooding like no one had ever seen before there.

 

So, if freak storms can hit in a two year succession like this in the northeast what is the probability something similar to Sandy or Irene on next Halloween or next fall or winter sometime?

 

Since I put Hurricane Irene up from Wikipedia I thought I would put up Hurricane Sandy from Wikipedia too that destroyed 300,000 coastal homes of people in the Northeast. Though not many people died in the initial storms no one does a count of how many might die from their homes having been destroyed if they cannot afford to rebuild them somehow in the next few years.

 

Hurricane Sandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hurricane Sandy was a hurricane that devastated portions of the Caribbean and the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States during late October 2012, with ...

2012 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical wave - Hurricane Hazel - Haiti