Posted on 12/06/2011 7:36:50 AM PST by kidd
New hurricane record – 2232 days and counting since major Hurricane made landfall on the USA – last record was year 1900
While the alarmists squall over trying to control what they perceive as “extreme weather” driven by global warming at Durban COP17, urging immediate action in the form of coughing up 100 billion a year to poor countries for “reparations”, a quiet record has gone almost unnoticed. As of midnight Sunday, it has been 2232 days since a major hurricane (CAT3 or greater) made landfall on the USA.Irene this year (Cat 1) doesn’t count, and I have doubts it was even a Cat1 hurricane at all given the low wind speeds when it made landfall.
And that record can only get bigger, since hurricane season ended on December 1st...
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Interesting. It seemed like there were going to be a lot of hurricanes early in the season, but not much going on during the late summer and fall, when most of the major hurricanes occur. Probably part of the same weather pattern that gave us a major drought.
Oh, wait, they didn't?
hmmm
I blame global warming.
And Bush, this started during his presidency.
Bragging about record lengths of time between natural disasters is sort of like bragging about unsinkable ships. I wouldn’t do it.
What about Katrina, Rita, and Ike? Wouldn’t they fall in this time period? And hurricane season ends on Nov. 30, not Dec. 1.
2,232 days ago was 10/26/05. Do your math.
Now, algore glumly stares into his pablum, shedding tears over Durban and wondering where it all went wrong.
While Ike and Katrina were large storms, they were significantly weakened by the time they actually hit shore.
Rita hit before the 2232 day count started.
Not that property & casualty insurers will lower their rates because of this news. They’re loving the 100% rate hike the Hurricanes from 2004 got them (despite the fact they weaseled out of every claim they could).
hehehe, I guess some people who were not right underneath Ike (2008) thought that was going to be a walk in the park...
That was pretty much a Catagory 2 storm, but the storm surge was a Cat 3/4...
I sat on my small front porch in a nice foldable chair (out of the main air stream) during most of Ike...It would probably be the worst one I would do like that, if it had been anything more intense, we would have locked up and headed out...
The big problem was the aftermath...We had no power for 16 days...I’ve seen and heard worse...
But we are better prepared because of this risk and area we live in...
“As the oceans get warmer, storms get stronger... there is now a strong, new emerging consensus that global warming is indeed linked to a significant increase in both the duration and intensity of hurricanes.” Nobel Prize Winning Charlatan and Failed Presidential Candidate Al Gore.
Has anything this clown predicted ever come true?
An argument between global warming hoaxsters and real estate antis. Irrelevant. We’re in an extended solar minimum with increased volcanism, polar shift and resulting weak defense against geomagnetic storms. There will be unusual storms and temperature fluctuations more noticeable in about 3 years or so—an adventure but nothing to panic about. My place saw a temperature variation of 57 degrees (F) between yesterday afternoon, and early this morning.
If Ike had gone a little farther to the west, the winds and flooding would probably have been significantly worse for Houston. Makes you wonder what the 1900 Galveston hurricane was really like, esp. since they didn’t have a sea wall back then.
Why? I have you to do it for me.
I believe most people are getting smart...With a few exceptions, people are getting out of Dodge if it ever came to it...
Galveston took the worst hit it could take with the preparations it has been putting into place since 1900...
The Galveston causeway has been given a faceligft and more capability to dump that islands population in very short order...The state and local Galveston and Houston planners have a good evacuation plan in place to keep the traffic flowing north and away from becoming too much of a burden on the population not evacuating inland...
We were right on the edge based upon our Zip Code to evacuate for Ike...So we were kinda screwed...But we were prepared...If it all went up, we had our “very few, and necessary” things ready, and a vehicle staged in a protective situation within walking distance to bug out if it just got too bad...But it didn’t...Within a few days I was getting ready for work in the dark, and heading to work...Gas prices were thru the roof, but at least we could still afford it...
We just played like we were camping out, the weather after the storm was actually, and strangely cooler than had been expected, and the generator we had was good for small electronic usage and charging, and a fan at night to keep the air moving over us...
It just amazed me how many people weren’t even prepared for a minor inconvienience...Like no power for so long...
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