I live in Florida. I remember so clearly when I saw Katrina turn into the Gulf. My son, with new born premie twins lived in New Orleans. I called him and told him to leave NOW. He boarded up and got out before the roads became parking lots.
I fear the entire world is now facing a Katrina. There is no place to run to. We can only prepare, batten down, and wait it out.
The time to stop it in Africa is long past. The rate of increase is greater than any governments can deal with. We will have more time here, but make no mistake, it IS comming.
The http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228267 article cited by Gadsden1st above makes precisely that point. When faced with exponential growth, you cannot take timid measures. You must be taking ridiculously out-sized steps that are WAY ahead of the growth curve. The lag time required to take the necessary prevention steps allows the disease to outgrow whatever you planned. What is being done today should have been done 6 to 12 months ago.
This is what’s so shocking. The world has had 40 years notice to get ready for this day, and it hemmed and hawed and dawdled, never taking it seriously.