Chapter 20: August 11th U.S. North East Coast, Wednesday Teddy seemed such an innocuous name for this monster, but that was the next name on the list so “Hurricane Teddy” it was. After being off the coast of Panama it had meandered in the depths of the Caribbean for a while, developing into a Category 5 hurricane. Then it set off on its path of destruction towards Jamaica. As it neared the coast it just kept strengthening, stunning the analysts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hurricane Center. It passed through the yet to be formalized Category 6 and went straight on to the unofficial Category 7, with winds over 200 miles per hour. After it had finished with Jamaica, that island “looked like a nuclear bomb flattened the place” as one commentator remarked. Having weakened a little, it recharged over the warm waters on the way between Cuba and Hispaniola, leaving even more devastation in its wake. Then it continued onto the Bahamas, and the open waters of the Atlantic.
Hmm... I used to live in DUMBO (down underneath Manhattan Bridge), right on the bank of the East River in Brooklyn.