just because i'm weird...

...and i had a few minutes to fart around searching for worst case scenarios:

a book about hurricane gloria hitting fire island in 1985 - and the people who stuck around and refused to evacuate to the mainland - they all survived, although i'm sure they're a bit loco

storm surge maps in the event that a category 1 hits long island

how about a category 4?

here's a photo of gloria - a category 2 - hitting fire island

gloria hit at low tide.