Comments on: Irma

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 23:31:01 +0000

huxley: I remember Donna very well. It came to NY. This is the first storm I ever remember hearing about. I was very very young, but I remember it because I had an Aunt Hazel.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 23:02:18 +0000

I was a Florida kid during Hurricane Donna in 1960. We spent the night playing cards and telling stories while sitting under the kitchen table. As I recall, I was also reading Mad magazine.

Around midnight the eye came right over our town. Mom let us go out and look around very briefly. The stillness was eerie. Then we scurried back inside.

In the morning we went outside and saw over the half the tall trees had been knocked down. A 50-ft pine tree in our neighbor’s yard had fractured at the 15-ft mark and crashed down on our roof.

Hurricane Donna traveled all the way up the East coast and lapsed into a mere tropical storm in Maine.

A dozen or so people died in Florida and there was much property damage, but Florida wasn’t nearly as crowded then.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:36:29 +0000

Geoffrey,
I lived in Melbourne, FL, when I worked on the AF missile range. I was in old Melbourne which is about 30 feet above sea level so we didn’t have to worry about storm surge. If the water got that high, it was going all the way to Orlando and there was no safe place. There used to be little construction along A1A but now there are condos all down A1A. Friend of mine that lives in Melbourne tells me all those condos make excellent wind breaks during hurricanes. LOL.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:53:14 +0000

Overnight, Irma went from a West-Northwest track to a West track and computer models of the projected path show little change.

Irma is traveling West through Cuba and is showing no indication of taking a right turn up to Florida but you wouldn’t know it from the media. Until and unless it does radically change direction, Irma is NOT a threat to the U.S.

The hyperbole has been and is still at a stratospheric level. It’s very hard to get accurate info. Best look at reality I’ve found is at: http://www.livewxradar.com/

I say this while residing about 10 miles inland on the central east coast region in Florida. No winds, a light drizzle here… if it gets worse, we’re prepared for it. Not our first ‘rodeo’.

By: Yann

Yann — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:38:04 +0000

One additional article about climate change subject: right now climate change is about hurricanes. But last year it was about Arctic Ice… what happened with the Arctic Ice? did it finally melt down? Why nobody is talking about it?

Well, since September 2016, it has been growing fast, and the extent corresponding in May 2017 was the biggest one (for that month of the year) in the last 5 years.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/arctic-sea-ice-update-may-2017/

Don’t expect to hear about Arctic Ice sometime soon…

By: charles

charles — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 01:51:43 +0000

Irma is Trump’s fault!

By: Tuvea

Tuvea — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:24:14 +0000

I thought The Almighty was punishing Florida ( and Texas ) because of ( insert reason here ).

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:37:10 +0000

In talking with a reinsurance guy I figured out why Corporate America loves the CAGW scam. If global warming is scientific fact, one can charge higher premiums until 2100 in order to account for all the horrible damages that will hit America. And you won’t get a refund when the damages never happen.

Same deal with electric vehicles.

The thing we on the right never get about the Left is that it is ALWAYS about money for them but they are masters of hiding that fact. CAGW was always about money.

By: Yankee

Yankee — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 22:44:11 +0000

All of the news has focused on people trying to escape by driving or flying out. But since this is Florida, you also have to think about what will happen to the many boats and other vessels there, not to mention the structure of the marinas themselves.

This is a very bad situation for a boat owner. Some would have had the time and opportunity to navigate their vessels to safe harbor. Others will have to choose between losing their boat or losing their home. Expect to see a lot of wreckage all along the shore, and other flotsam carried a good deal inland.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 22:27:01 +0000

Heart is heavy for my native state, and the many relatives and friends who are facing a situation that may prove apocalyptic.

Ramirez had a great cartoon post-Harvey in which two protestors, standing waist deep in water, were trying to remember what they were protesting.

So much can become irrelevant so quickly. Right now I don’t care what the moonbats say.