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Long Island is known for its affluence and high quality of life. According to the two thousand Census, Nassau County is the second richest county per capita in New York State, behind New York County, which is coterminous with the New York City borough of Manhattan, and the fifth richest in the United States. Suffolk County is known for beach towns, including the world-renowned Hamptons, and for the most eastern part of the Island, Montauk Point, home of Montauk Lighthouse. Long Island is also known for its strong middle class accenting a strong dedication to hard work, suburban homeownership, investment in schools and education and people who are strongly committed to family living and local community events. Many of these are second, or third, generation families who had originally come from Brooklyn and Queens, seeking the space and tranquility of the early suburbs. In particular, a strong Brooklyn orientation remains among many of these families. Long Island's Nassau County has the second highest property taxes in the United States. Long Island temperatures vary from west to east, with the western part of the island warmer on most occasions than the east. This is due to two factors: one because the western part is closer to the mainland and the other is the western part is more developed causing what is known as the "urban heat island" effect. The eastern part is cooler on most occasions due to the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound and it being less developed. On dry nights with no clouds or wind, the Pine Barrens in eastern Suffolk County can be almost twenty Fahrenheit degrees cooler due to radiational cooling. Long Island is somewhat vulnerable to hurricanes. Its northern location and relatively cool waters tend to weaken storms to below hurricane strength by the time they reach Long Island. Despite this, some storms had made landfall at Category 1 or greater strength, including two unnamed Category three storms in nineteen thirty-eight, (New England Hurricane of nineteen thirty-eight) and nineteen forty-four, Hurricane Donna in nineteen sixty, Hurricane Belle in nineteen seventy-six, Hurricane Gloria in nineteen eighty-five, Hurricane Bob in nineteen ninety-one, brushed the eastern tip, and Hurricane Floyd in nineteen ninety-nine. There is debate among climatologists as to whether Hurricane Floyd made landfall as a Category 1 or as a very strong "almost hurricane strength" tropical storm. The official records note it as the latter.
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