Beryl sets off alarm bells among hurricane experts

Phys.org ^ | 06.10 .2024 | Nisha Gopalan

[Jane Long]

Epic post, regarding the power situation in the Houston area ...

https://x.com/JosephLTrahan/status/1811463273780298073

[Texas resident]

Beryl was nasty in that it had lots of strong gusts of wind, not constant high velocity wind. This gusting caused a lot of trees to snap or fall over.

[Racketeer]

Is this the storm that was so horrible Biden refuses to provide FEMA funds to Texas?

[woodbutcher1963]

National flood insurance gives people an incentive to rebuild in flood prone areas.
Like the Outer Banks of NC and other barrier Islands from New England to the gulf coast.

[ShadowAce]

The storm hit them directly. An hour later they helped the neighborhood pick up fallen twigs. Done.

Meanwhile in the north of Houston, nothing but 2-foot diameter 50-foot tall pines down all over the place, crashing into houses, and blocking streets.

Slightly larger than "twigs."

[ro_dreaming]

The problem with Houston is that all the trees that aren’t supposed to be growing so well fell on the power lines. And then Centerpoint Energy (who manages the lines/poles) are negotiating with the thousands of line workers who came down to help - not even paying for the hotels and food! WTF?

This is a company that made somewhere around $9,000,000,000 last year - I think they can pay the guys on the ground actually doing the work.

[ShadowAce]

And then Centerpoint Energy (who manages the lines/poles) are negotiating with the thousands of line workers who came down to help - not even paying for the hotels and food!

Wow! I had not heard that. That's just stupid. Pay the workers!

[Alas Babylon!]

I’m in Southeast Alabama, so I’ve seen my share.

My land used to be part of a large pecan farm, but most of the trees where blown down by Hurricane Opal in 1995.

I’ve regrown a number of trees since. Over the past 10 years or so, every hurricane gives me anxiety.

[Alas Babylon!]

Some scientists in Louisiana and Florida universities have done some great research. They’ve found driven ocean sand and debris fields dating back a few thousand years as to awash all the land in the Florida panhandle to the border of Alabama. These layers are very thin, and indictive of one massive storm every couple of years.

That’s over 30 miles from the coast.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320079131_2500-year_paleotempestological_record_of_intense_storms_for_the_northern_Gulf_of_Mexico_United_States

Also, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hunting-prehistoric-hurricanes

[Rdct29]

They want to change the climate because it can do bad things. But allowing millions of illegals across our border who cost billions of dollars and commit rapes and murders is just fine. Don’t worry about what we can stop. Worry about the climate instead.