Hurricane Sandy: Ocean Surge May Hit Lagos In Seven Days

Lagosians need to be vigilant and be careful when they go to beaches as the Lagos State Government, yesterday alerted residents of a possible ripple effect of the hurricane currently ravaging some parts of the United States of America, such as ocean surge on the state’s coastal areas within the next seven days.
Hurricane Sandy has hit the United States hard with over 7 million residents without power, 15,000 flights cancelled in 3 days, and 48 lives lost, while several have been rendered homeless.
The alert was given by the state Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure Development, Prince Segun Oniru; Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba as well as Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment, Mr. Taofeek Folami, at a joint media briefing in Alausa, Ikeja.

It would be recalled that an Ocean surge which claimed 15 lives occurred on August 17 at Kuramo Beach, Victoria Island.

However, a professor of climatology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Professor RNC Anyadike, countered that Nigeria could not suffer any ripple effect from the hurricane.

Asked if Lagos could suffer ripple effects from Hurricane Sandy, Anyadike said: “It is not possible. We don’t have hurricanes in West Africa.

“Meanwhile, Hurricane Sandy has already hit land, it will soon dissipate. What kind of ripple effect are they talking about? Do you know how far we are from New York?

“The only thing we are likely to experience is heavy rainfall occasioned by climate change not hurricane.”

Oniru attributed the likely ripple effect of the Hurricane to the location of Lagos, lying parallel to the South America region.

“We want to let Lagosians know what is going on, and what to expect, it is not to create panic, they should be careful around the ocean and lagoon. In the last five to six days, around the Caribbean, from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and Hurricane Sandy has hit the east coast of America.

“Normally, when such happens, and the magnitude of it hits that part of the world, we always have a ripple effect in Lagos and around the West Coast,” Oniru said.

Ibirogba also urged residents to be vigilant, while he assured that the state government’s emergency response squad was on alert to manage any likely surge caused by the Hurricane.

Taofeek Folami, Special Adviser to the Lagos Governor on Environment, however, warned residents to refrain from dumping refuse in drainages and canals so as not to block passage of water.

3 COMMENTS

  1. As a geologist, i wondered where this fellow got the ripple effect theory from, it’s not like the Atlantic Ocean is now the size of his fish tank.
    It’s not like an earthquake happened, it’s a storm hitting land, the energy of the storm reduces as it goes over the land causing it to drop the water as rain. No energy left to make another trip across the Atlantic

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