Posted on 10/19/2005 6:18:27 AM PDT by Dirty Old Bulldog
I dare say, he's not heading to Florida.
Why should there only be one thread on this?
Your link is to the live thread. This goes to a news story.
No Pacific storm of that strength is ever likely to come close to hitting the continental United States, so why would you expect Americans to care? It gets colder in Siberia than it does in North Dakota in winter, but that doesn't make record cold in that state any less noteworthy when it happens.
"Climatologists also fear global warming could be making the storms more intense."
How odd for Reuters to slip that in. I don't think I've ever heard such a thing before. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
I can do without orange juice for a year......doing without gasoline would be more difficult.
I guess I was suspecting that this was sloppy reporting played up for drama. This seems correct after a little research, which yields conflicting numbers for "lowest pressure."
Hurricane damage is not directly related to such an isolated fact anyway. Prayers for all affected.
I'd have to agree with that. Nobody likes paying more for something than they think is fair. But we didn't run out of gasoline - maybe because the higher prices curtailed wasteful use of the product. For sure, my family has altered its fuel use. Who would have anticipated a doubling of fuel costs?
And as an aside, how can the government calculate an accurate CPI by removing the costs of fuel and food from consideration?
well you are asking the media to factually report things that aren't intuitively grasped by much of their audience...kind of like having new years dec. 31st 1999 be the 'millenium' new year...
"And as an aside, how can the government calculate an accurate CPI by removing the costs of fuel and food from consideration?"
Who on earth said they wanted to provide an accurate measure of consumer prices? (humor)
The news folks are so much smarter than the rest of us. I only expect them to report betterer. ;-)
True enough. Living far from the hurricane area, I have to remember that a Cat. 3 is not some weak rainstorm because it isn't Hurricane Andrew.
And in case there are any DU on this thread, DO NOT RUN A GENERATOR IN OR NEAR YOUR HOUSE. KEEP THE GENERATOR AWAY FROM THE HOUSE. Well away.
Your place or mine?
Has anyone seen the satellite images from the 1933 hurricane season??? Oh. That's right. There weren't any weather weather satellites back then. I wonder how many storms turned back into the Atlantic without anyone ever knowing they existed???
The season still has six weeks left to run. Hurricane experts say the Atlantic has swung back into a period of heightened storm activity that could last another 20 years.
Seems like this pattern has occurred many times the past few hundred years. That is the way nature works, and there is not much we can do about this natural cycle.
Was there ever any doubt? Everything is Bush's fault, unless it's good.
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