Posted on 10/05/2015 7:02:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After a week of hype, Hurricane Joaquin did not actually directly hit the U.S., thus continuing the country’s decade-long period without a major hurricane making landfall.
The U.S. has not seen a major hurricane — Category 3 or higher — make landfall since Hurricane Wilma hit on Oct. 24 2005. The nearly decade-long hurricane drought has come as a big surprise to climate scientists and environmentalists who have argued that global warming will make storms more frequent and intense.
Joaquin, which was initially predicted to make landfall on the U.S. East Coast this past weekend, ended up moving eastward. The hurricane did cause heavy rains and flooding in the South, but most of the eastern U.S. was spared from the worst impacts of the storm.
The Bahamas, however, weren’t so lucky. One journalist reported that smaller islands in the Bahamas were “completely obliterated” under intense rain, high winds and storm surges. In the aftermath of the storm, there were shortages of things like food, bottled water, diapers, toiletries, but U.S. Coast Guard ships were already on their way with relief.
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No hurricane, but global flooding in South Carolina.
I use this as one of many examples of cause-and-effect with my students.
Some of them get a little annoyed.
What age group?
The U.S. has not seen a major hurricane—Category 3 or higher—make landfall since Hurricane Wilma hit on Oct. 24 2005 …Why is that the classification for “major”? Sandy was no joke in terms of damage done never mind duration.
More hurricanes! Global warming!
No hurricanes! Global warming!
Sandy had weakened from a Category 1 Hurricane to a Tropical Storm by the time that it made landfall in the United States
As a hurricane, Sandy was a wimp. The problem was having even a small hurricane, loaded with warm, wet air, colliding with an Arctic air mass. The resulting deluge was the source of most of the damage.
The lack of hurricanes hitting the US east coast is a sure sign of man-made global warming. /s
I can’t help but think it’s God saying, “Wait just a moment there folks...”
This is something the anti-global warming folks should point to all the time.
We were told hurricanes were going to be very bad from 2005 on out..., then nothing.
Now it’s considered heresy to even disagree on things like this.
The global warming folks don’t know much of anything, and the hurricane issue proves it.
Sandy was a tropical storm when it made landfall. Not even a Category 1 hurricane. Yes, the damage was significant, but not what it could have been.
GLOW-BULLLL WAAAARMINNNGGGG.... *drool*
CLY-MUTT CCCCHAAAAANNNNGEEE...*drool*
Because of the giant El Nino that is purportedly heading our way, hurricanes in the Atlantic are supposed to be light this year according to what I have read.
Still got back up to Category 1 winds over NJ.
What’s really egregious is how the destruction was blamed by some libs on “loss of Arctic ice”.
——Sandy was no joke in terms of damage done never mind duration.-——
“Super Storm Sandy” ( I hate that term) was a joke. It wasn’t even a hurricane when it made landfall...
The damage done was mostly bad timing from wind surge and high tides and poorly planned development with decades old building codes on the beach front...
I would hate to hear the whining if they experienced a real hurricane like Andrew...
I empathize with the people who lost everything, but it could have been much, much worst on a scale they don’t understand...
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Still got back up to Category 1 winds over NJ.
OK. So it got up to 74 mph sustained winds in some parts of NJ.
——Sandy was no joke in terms of damage done never mind duration.-——
“Super Storm Sandy” ( I hate that term) was a joke. It wasn’t even a hurricane when it made landfall...
The damage done was mostly bad timing from wind surge and high tides and poorly planned development with decades old building codes on the beach front...
I would hate to hear the whining if they experienced a real hurricane like Andrew...
I empathize with the people who lost everything, but it could have been much, much worst on a scale they don’t understand...
generally being Unprepared.
Well, I wasn’t comparing it with Andrew, which was a monster, but was still less costly to the US either way. Also, nothing really matched Sandy’s range in terms of diameter thus far.
The neologism “superstorm” is an example of the worst of tasteless media hyperbole, too.
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