Posted on 07/13/2024 9:53:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
This year, hurricane season has taken off with a ferocious, ominous start thanks to Beryl—the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded, with winds topping out at 165 mph. Beryl bulldozed the Caribbean, made its way through Mexico and then plowed into Texas. As of the time of publication, over 2.1 million Texans are without power, just as a severe heat wave descends on the region.
The increasing severity of hurricanes acutely stresses power grids like those in Texas, which could adversely affect everything from homes to health care facilities. It could cost a city "billions of dollars to recover from these deadly storms that sent hurricane-force winds through the city's downtown," Radley Horton, professor at the Columbia Climate School and climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, recently said on the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast.
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These “experts” predicted that coastal New England would get flooded.
Instead the remnants flooded northern VT.
They only missed by three hundred miles.
Lol.
Experts at BS is more like it.
Parts of Texas was sold a bill of goods that meant that 20% of the state's power capacity depends on wind and solar power. Both of those sources are not available to any significant degree during a hurricane.
Simple solution: Send all your money to FedZilla. They will stop the weather.
It isn’t the generation problem. Hurricanes flatten the transmission and distribution towers and lines. Always have, always will.
It's actually cooled down some. Highs in the 80's.
Earliest by two weeks
Weather happens. Only issue nowadays is that there are people living in places where they didn’t before, so the news is them being affected for weather that always occurs, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker.
Which — ironically — was exactly the same solution suggested by Newsweek back in 1975, when they predicted Earth would soon freeze.
In other “news”, Joe Biden is sharp as a tack.
I hear the weather nuts “screaming” about “the highest temps” since 1913 (or whatever.)
Kind of makes you wonder what was going on in 1913.
And 110 years in weather terms is literally “nothing.” The earth is very old and geologic terms are usually stated in the hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
The same crap they were spouting after hurricane Katrina creamed New Orleans, which led to predictions of more and stronger versions in the coming years: then we went almost a decade before a Cat 3 or higher hit the mainland US!
From “Watts Up with That” : “ Most 10-year anniversary articles about Katrina omit one chapter of that sad story: its exploitation by climate activists. They predicted more and stronger hurricanes. Let’s grade them. Every time activists falsely cry “wolf” we become weaker, less able to prepare for real threats. Remembering is the first step to learning.”
If only the 30 million acre wind farm was up and running in the gulf off LA an TX......... Oh,cat 5 storm.....
It’s about time we try the mother of all fuel air bombs right down the eye of the hurricane when they’re in the Mid-Atlantic that way no one’s going to complain.
which hit the Texas coast as a Category 1
This woman at work aggravated me on Friday is at that Florida will be underwater soon...
The kids live in Katy, west side of Houston.
The storm hit them directly. An hour later they helped the neighborhood pick up fallen twigs. Done.
Houstan Texas mayor John Whitmire is a democrat. So the city was likely not prepared for a storm.
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