Posted on 09/04/2019 4:03:49 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Grand Bahama this morning looks a lot like Galveston did on September 9, 1900. – On September 8 of that year, the deadliest hurricane in American history slammed into Galveston Island with winds in excess of 140 mph – which would make it a Category 4 hurricane – and a storm surge that inundated the entire island.
Captains and sailors from ships coming into port had been warning islanders for days in advance of a large storm lurking in the Gulf, and a prominent local weather man, Isaac Cline, also tried to warn locals that a big storm was coming. But government officials assured residents that a major hit on the island was virtually impossible due to the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and other factors, and predicted that any storm in the Gulf of Mexico would be most likely to make landfall in Florida. Thus, few people evacuated Galveston in advance of the storm, and, without air travel or gasoline powered automobiles, evacuation for most residents would have been difficult if not impossible in any event.
Thus it was that more than 8,000 Galvestonians died in the resultant inundation. Cline himself lived in a two-story home near the downtown area, and was only able to survive the rising flood waters by climbing onto the roof of his house along with his family. The destruction of all but the sturdiest of buildings on the island, like the famous Moody Mansion and many of the downtown business establishments, was utter and complete.
For many months afterwards, the refuse and debris from those buildings that had been carried out to sea was washed back up onto the island’s shores, along with the rotting carcasses of human beings, farm animals and pets who had perished in the storm. The cleanup operations were grim and seemingly unending; the stench was horrible and reportedly lingered for years afterwards.
The story we see coming out of Grand Bahama this morning is similar and tragic. The island was largely inundated by the storm surge, and thousands of houses and non-sturdy buildings have been destroyed. The refuse and debris from those buildings that was carried out to sea will wash back up onto shore in the months to come.
But that debris and refuse will not be accompanied by the rotting bodies of thousands of dead human beings. Many of the island’s pets and other animals were also taken to safety and even evacuated off the island, thanks to volunteer animal rescue operations. That happy result is largely due to modern means of predicting the path these storms will take days in advance. But it is also due to the existence of modern means of travel that allowed so many of the residents there to evacuate the island.
Virtually all of those means of travel, whether by boat, by plane or by automobile in the case of mainland U.S. residents in several states who are evacuating their own homes in advance of the storm’s path, are powered by gasoline or diesel fuel. Almost 100% of them. Even the growing number of electric vehicles on the roads now obtain their charge from power stations whose electricity is generated by a U.S. energy grid that is more than 80% powered by fossil fuels, including coal.
These modern, fossil-fueled means of transportation are why, when the ultimate death toll from this very strong hurricane is totaled up, the number most likely will consist of two digits instead of four or five.
So, when you see craven Democrat/Socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders issue a tweet like this:
Bernie Sanders ✔ @SenSanders The fossil fuel industry is now the equivalent of the tobacco industry. It creates death and destruction, then spends billions denying its responsibility.
Let us be clear: Hurricane Dorian has everything to do with climate change, which is the existential crisis of our time. https://twitter.com/newconsensus/status/1168954578571812864 …
New Consensus @newconsensus Talking about Hurricane Dorian without talking about climate change is "akin to talking about lung cancer and being afraid to mention smoking."https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/opinion/hurricane-dorian-climate-change.html …
5,203 2:02 PM - Sep 3, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,787 people are talking about this …remember that the deadliest hurricane in American history occurred in 1900, when Americans were traveling using horses and buggies, almost a full century before the climate change scam was invented by the global socialist political movement.
Next time you run into someone who works in America’s oil and gas industry, thank them for producing the fuels that help save so many human lives in advance of these terrible storms. I guarantee you they will appreciate the gesture.
That is all.
Shameless,ignorant hack. That’s actually a compliment to that crazy Communist.
The author should have mentioned the amazing satellites that enable us to predict the path of these deadly storms far in advance. They could not get into orbit without so-called fossil fuels or their derivatives.
As usual, DB’s article provides excellent information and analysis of a situation.
Unfortunately, it makes too much darn sense to be taken seriously by idiotic Lefties like Sanders and Occasional Cortex!
Kerosene replaced whale oil for lighting. JD Rockefeller was the worlds most consequential involuntarily animal rights activist.
The author seems to have an absolute lack of understanding regarding liberals. Liberals WANT human populations diminished. Liberals WANT large numbers of humans to die. How can the author miss this fundamental point?
Lefties murdered 150,000,000 or so humans last century...not counting the abortions. They are just getting started . Buy guns and ammo. Stay fit. Go to the range. Be prepared .
Lefties murdered 150,000,000 or so humans last century...not counting the abortions. They are just getting started . Buy guns and ammo. Stay fit. Go to the range. Be prepared .
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Best advice anyone can take. Ever.
how does this fool heat his 3 houses?
That article raised my curiosity as to how many people survived; according to Wikipedia, fatality estimates ranged from 6,000 to 12,000 (with 8,000 as a rough consensus), with about 10,000 homes lost, at a time when Galveston had a total population of about 38,000. We don’t know how many evacuated, or how many (if any) weren’t included in an account of official residents, but still odds of buying the farm somewhere in the range of one out of four or one out of five is pretty scary. Imagine if something like that had been the death toll for Katrina.
Evacuation, rescue and cleanup are done using gas powered vehicles! There are no solar trucks! Backup generators are powered by oil! not by the sun!
The Marxist agenda is worse than the tobacco industry. It creates death and destruction, then spends billions of YOUR money denying its responsibility.
Communism kills. Sod off old bastard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_population_growth
>>According to some, zero population growth, perhaps after stabilizing at some optimum population, is the ideal towards which countries and the whole world should aspire in the interests of accomplishing long-term environmental sustainability.
The Left wants BILLIONS of people dead. We are more than double the number of people when they already were saying that the planet was too crowded (1960s).
Trump is sending help to the Bahamas. Bahamas are mostly Black. Will the media start saying “Trump loves Black people”? Absolutely not! they will find a way to turn it into something negative.
Is Bernie walking to his rallys?
I remember down in Galveston
when storm winds swept the town
the high tide from the ocean, Lord,
put water all around.
Wasn’t that a Mighty Day (a mighty day)
a Mighty Day (a mighty day)
a Mighty Day, Great God, that mornin’
when the storm winds swept the town.
The first verse and chorus from “A Mighty Day”.
Chad Mitchell trio in the 60s.
That estimate is about a hundred million low.
Thanks EyesOfTX.
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