Posted on 08/24/2019 12:08:40 PM PDT by topher
The weather channel names every snowflake. The weather folks have named two fish storms (one was not even tropical; Chantal!) so they can say that the Accumulated Cyclonic Energy Index (ACE) is running above average for the year (it's very low globally) and therefore a sign of, "anthropomorphic climate change".
"Figures don't lie but, liars do figure".
Hurricane María was a totally different animal. In my 40+ years on the island, I’ve gone through a few storms but I don’t think we will ever experience anything similar again. Knock on wood.
Well the skies will be gray, that's for sure.
What do you have against Greenland?!
Pre-positioned relief supplies.
Those pallets of water have lasted longer than how many recent Puerto Rican governors?
Point of personal privilege! Comrades, please don’t use gendered names for hurricanes!
Well ... the locals said the water stinks and tastes bad and they stopped distributing it in 2018. Seems odd and my instincts is to not trust anything the Puerto Rico government says. I would think bottled water sitting outdoors on a landing strip for a year would still be good but don’t know.
Picture perfect.
I heard that water in plastic bottles that sit for a long time in the sunlight gets bad. Chemicals from the bottles leach into the water. It sounds plausible but the water could still be used for non-drinking purposes.
Could be and it gets quite hot down there.
Y'all didn't listen to me after Katrina:
On Rebuilding New Orleans:
I advocate is turning New Orleans into a giant debris disposal facility.Because of it's location at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi, it is ideally located to accept debris from the entire Mississippi basin and Gulf Coast.
Fill in the entire Crescent City area with enough construction debris, mine tailings, dredging debris, slag, and fly ash to build it up to 30 feet above sea level.
Cover it with 10 feet of dirt, incorporating underground utility grids, a few feet of topsoil, and rebuild on top of that.
Tel New Orleans would become the South's new 'Shining City on a Hill'.
Fund the entire project with fair market rate disposal fees.
I admire your ingenuity but all that is only a temporary fix. There is no continental shelf under N.O. breaking all leves and letting the river rebuild the delta then waiting a few hundred years is the only cost effective solution. Everythin else is like piling bricks on a sponge in a filled bathtub. Then turn.a hose on it to somulate hurricanes.Thr Gulf will reclaim SE La.
Before you do all that, I want one last dinner at Commander’s Palace. With the Shrimp & Tasso Henican appetizer.
City streets are flooded now!Afternoon thunderstorm! StCharles Ave, Treme,Algiers too. Forget about hurricanes. No longer a livable viable city.
Just a note here: Since South Florida is within the Cone, if Dorian does approach this area, I WILL be doing a LIVE STREAM of the approach. I have a good birds eye view from my bedroom window upstairs where I will set up my camera IF Dorian approaches. If it happens it would be sometime this weekend.
Live feed, first low-level recon into center of Dorian:
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/recon_AF300-0405A-DORIAN.png
Please arrange the cameras so we can see you eating Rubio’s fish tacos while the storm is raging.
I want you to be the first diner at Commander’s Palace on the Hill!
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