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Their wives rode the waves with them, for them, for each other, coursing through the storm of the century.
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This was the storm of the century.
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That's far behind the No. 1 1993 Storm of the Century and the more famous 1978 blizzard that ranked 13th.
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This evening, as the core of Sandy moves ashore, the storm will carry with it a gigantic bulge of water that will raise waters levels to the highest storm tides ever seen in over a century of record keeping, along much of the coastline of New Jersey and New York.
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Superficially, the cost of storm damage has risen massively over the past century.
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Of course, given our impending storm, it is worth mentioning that the Blizzard of the Century came in early 1978, right before the end of the Snake year of 1977, which also saw the Great Blackout and Son of Sam hysteria.
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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration considers that storm to be "the greatest tropical system disaster" of the century.
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The U.S. is currently experiencing the longest absence of severe landfall hurricanes in over a century the last Category 3 or stronger storm was Wilma, more than seven years ago.
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This was the worst storm to hit Brisbane in a quarter of a century, unleashing hail, torrential rain and strong winds.
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Dr Landsea then asked, for each of the century's big storms, what would happen if an identical storm with an identical track were to strike today?
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Formed by storm tides as early as the 10th Century, the Wadden Sea is responsible for the distinctive formations of its many islands, characterised by high sand dunes and lush, wide beaches on the open sea side and a shallow coast towards the mainland.
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