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.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Epic post, regarding the power situation in the Houston area ...
https://x.com/JosephLTrahan/status/1811463273780298073
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.
Is this the storm that was so horrible Biden refuses to provide FEMA funds to Texas?
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.
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."
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.
Wow! I had not heard that. That's just stupid. Pay the workers!
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.
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.
Also, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hunting-prehistoric-hurricanes
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.
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