RE: So what happens if a real disaster/crisis shows up?
09-09-2017, 08:48 PM (This post was last modified: 09-09-2017, 08:54 PM by SilverFang01.)
09-09-2017, 08:48 PM (This post was last modified: 09-09-2017, 08:54 PM by SilverFang01.)
Right now I am waiting at home for Irma to hit. I live in Jacksonville so we should get a pounding but it won't be as bad as those at the *checks latest report* south and west and...*YIKES*
Okay, we are maybe getting a lot more than I expected based on earlier reports (remembers hurricane Georges back in Puerto Rico). At least my brother and his family got out of Miami on time.
There are several things that this hurricane season has put in stark relief:
1) There is no more denying climate change -- Four hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, José, and Katia) with a rapid intensification I have no memory of seeing before. Surface sea temperature is still way up there. And the fact that the western part of the country looks like Mordor.
2) We really need to reconsider land use and zonification in light of the damage to Houston and how close Miami came to be erased off the map (which may still happen) plus all the damage Irma will do on its way north.
3) Evacuation infrastructure -- our transportation system cannot handle the sheer volume of vehicles trying to get out of an evacuation zone. If I remember correctly, it was the disaster that resulted from trying to evacuate Houston previously which helped to decide against evacuating this time. Maybe Harvey would not have been so bad on its own, but the fact that it stalled and tried to move the Gulf of Mexico some miles inland shows that we cannot always count on weather systems behaving normally.
After I heard about that, I wanted to grab him, cover him in copper and tie him on a beach on the path of Irma.
Okay, we are maybe getting a lot more than I expected based on earlier reports (remembers hurricane Georges back in Puerto Rico). At least my brother and his family got out of Miami on time.
There are several things that this hurricane season has put in stark relief:
1) There is no more denying climate change -- Four hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, José, and Katia) with a rapid intensification I have no memory of seeing before. Surface sea temperature is still way up there. And the fact that the western part of the country looks like Mordor.
2) We really need to reconsider land use and zonification in light of the damage to Houston and how close Miami came to be erased off the map (which may still happen) plus all the damage Irma will do on its way north.
3) Evacuation infrastructure -- our transportation system cannot handle the sheer volume of vehicles trying to get out of an evacuation zone. If I remember correctly, it was the disaster that resulted from trying to evacuate Houston previously which helped to decide against evacuating this time. Maybe Harvey would not have been so bad on its own, but the fact that it stalled and tried to move the Gulf of Mexico some miles inland shows that we cannot always count on weather systems behaving normally.
(09-07-2017, 12:38 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: It's not helping that Rush Limbaugh is yammering about how the hurricane forecasts and reports are actually "fake news" designed to sell climate change, and the storms aren't really as powerful as reported. He apparently goes right up to the edge of claiming the storms are artificially engineered as part of a propaganda campaign.
After I heard about that, I wanted to grab him, cover him in copper and tie him on a beach on the path of Irma.
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