Another idiotic and historically uninformed scare headline. Because we don’t have any records from the past and the means to measure storms we have now didn’t exist in the past, there is no way we can honestly know if Patricia actually is: ‘the most dangerous storm in history.’
I liked what Joe Bastardi said on the Shawn Hannity show this afternoon (paraphrase): “Because of our modern ways of measuring storms and tracking them every moment of their life, I will say that this is the strongest storm in modern RECORDED history.”
Sorry, I’m a historian and don’t like folks who recklessly throw around ‘first, biggest, smallest’ and etc.
Yep....we only have about three decades of accurate satellite data on hurricanes....we have NO CLUE what went on before that.
Most dangerous storm in history? Horsecrap.
I suspect that has little to do with being a historian and much to do with being a stickler for the truth.
In a heated debate a liberal friend once told me "I'm not seeking truth, I'm seeking advantage." I think of him frequently as I listen to the Democrats.
Is there such a thing as unrecorded history? We know what they mean but doesn't the word history mean a record of what happened?
The baloney graduates of journalism schools often write is incredibly short sighted.
Well worst storm in 200 years is nothing to sneeze at. Why are you trying to say oh well 500 hundred years ago a storm may have been worse. So what.....200 years is a ton of time to have this be the worst and it is happening now.