I think these houses are going to start getting more popular on the coast considering they are CAT5 hurrcane proof.
Posted on 10/19/2005 7:14:25 AM PDT by Quaker
Hurricane Wilma, which was upgraded from a tropical storm just 24 hours ago, has roared to become one of the strongest cyclones ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
That distinction is based on barometric pressure, the force which drives a hurricane's winds. The National Hurricane Center's 8:00 a.m. advisory indicated observations inside Wilma are the lowest in history.
Hurricane hunter aircraft reported Hurricane Wilma's winds soared to 175 mph early Wednesday, making it a catastrophic Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
Hurricane Wilma's surprisingly rapid intensification is the quickest on record, and its characteristics are now in line with some of history's most powerful storms.
NOAA noted the pressure readings in Wilma are lower than that of the 1935 'Labor Day' hurricane that leveled the Florida Keys, a storm went down in history books with the lowest air pressure ever recorded in the United States.
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Well, this is bad.
The problem, as I understand it, is that the gulf of Mexico is 5 degrees warmer than it should be so there is a lot of extra energy available for storms.
We all pray that this storm is going to disappear on sea.
Leni
So what's the barometic pressure readings? 880?
"Well...we know whose fault that is! BUSH!!"
It's amazing that people think that because global warming has been going on for 100 years and started getting serious 30 years ago (during President Carter's term)
Not to mention that local variations occur all the time so any one temperature variation could be natural and not global warming.
Unless we want Kyoto to get rammed down our throats we need to seperate the issue of global warming (which has been happening for decades) from the issue of human causes - which is not proved.
881 measured. Also, the pilots are having a hell of a time trying to fly into this thing, the eye is extremely tight, 2 miles!
So what's the barometic pressure readings? 880?
This one is likely to take pretty much the same path that Hurricane Charley did. Central FLA is STILL recovering from that one. My parents live in an area (Polk County) which saw the three separate hurricane eyes go over their home two years ago.
Wilma/'cane ping!
I think these houses are going to start getting more popular on the coast considering they are CAT5 hurrcane proof.
That didn't go over your head did it? It was sarcasm.
That is not a hurricane that is a tornado.
If I lived in Florida, that is the house I would have.
They look pretty cool too!
Are those geodesic domes, or are they yurts, or something like that?
Check out the Monolithic Dome site
They have a couple of articles on dome homes that took direct hits (hurricane and tornado) and came thru fine. Lots of photos as well.
It's a geodesic dome with concrete panels and steel beam reinforcing.
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