The equivalent of a tornado track - but probably 25 miles wide.
Posted on 10/11/2018 12:42:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
The equivalent of a tornado track - but probably 25 miles wide.
There were 285 people remaining in Mexico Beach. They’ve found 20 alive so far.
I’ve lived in Okinawa and in the Philippines.
The typhoons there are like this.
Clearly caused by whoever is president in the States at the time.
Correct. Within many Freeper's lifetime, before weather satellites, high ground was the valuable real estate. People built inland from the shore because they didn't have enough warning of an approaching storm to safely evacuate.
Amazing only 2 deaths reported >>
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And not even at the point of landfall.
One was caused by a tree.
In fact most of the damage from the storm will be found to be caused by the involvement of trees.
Sooner or later, every eastern US coastal area from Brownsville, TX on up to Long Island and even Cape Cod, MA will have a devastating hurricane. You take your chances.
My daughter’s ex in-laws had a home in Mexico Beach...had is the key word but they did evacuate and are fine. When she was married to their grandson they used to go there to visit, she could not believe it is all gone or nearly all gone.
Sick of these stupid headlines. The damage is very imaginable and routine for Hurricanes and Tornado’s all the time.
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Agreed, and the windspeed cited isn’t a speed measured at landfall. It’s an absolute maximum speed measured at sea with modern technology.
“Why people didn’t evacuate is something we should be studying,” said Craig Fugate,
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How many people were harmed by not evacuating?
As far as the media was concerned Katrina was a New Orleans only event. Hardly any real-time coverage at all about Pass Christian.
“This area is not New Orleans.”
I have stayed in New Orleans for a couple hurricanes, but would not stay right on the coast for a major storm.
Staying on the coast is just ignorant.
Thats part of the answer.
The other part is that the transportation and housing infrastructure for such massive moves simply does not exist.
There are not enough lanes on highways, and the fuel distribution system isn’t capable of delivering the amount of fuel that would be required in such a short period of time to all the vehicles that would be required to carry such an evacuation out.
It sounds like such an obvious answer...until you start to actually calculate real world resources and move from the theoretical to the practical.
Nagan is an idiot and had no clue what to do...along with politics in the mix. The politics had more to do with fed, state, and local not being able to work together than anything.
What people must understand is even if expected, there is no way for outsiders to help immediately after a large disaster. Supplies and people to help can be staged ahead of time, but obviously not in the area expected to be hit. So locals must be able to as much as possible deal with the situation until the area is safe to enter, and roads are cleared enough to enter. That is how it has to work. If local government is inept before, during, and after the disaster I have no idea how to solve that issue. Move?
The purpose of federal help is to HELP local and state governments because their resources, manpower will not likely be enough to deal with a large disaster over an extended time. The problem is now in some areas people seem to think when disaster hits the feds should magically appear within moments to fix everything.
That has been known for centuries.
During the cleanup of Hurricane Elena in eighty five we could tell where the tornadoes had been by the rotational damage patterns in the debris. A pine tree that has been twisted apart by a tornado looks different from one knocked over by straight winds.
Chainsaws work on either though.
“It’s the price one pays to live on the coast.”
Sad, but that’s the reality. If you chose to live in near the beach in a hurricane zone, or on any any low-lying area, especially reclaimed swamp land, then this is what happens. In lifetime growing up in NC, I remember when no one built anything substantial on barrier islands or coastal areas not protected by barrier islands, or on reclaimed swamp land. Then, there was a lull in hurricane activity after the early 50s. Then, air conditioning became more available. Then, Yankees came South, following the sun and the dream of living near sand and shore. There were (and still are), naturally, many scoundrels willing to build and sell them huge expensive houses on the barrier islands, on unprotected coastline, and on reclaimed (drained)swamp land. Then, folks are shocked and dismayed when Mother Nature flexes her muscles. Amazing.
I think most folks who live or own property on a coastline know what the risks are. But they roll the dice, trading a few years of a lifestyle they want for that one time when the Big One comes along and wipes it all out.
It’s a decision everyone has to make for oneself.
I’ve been visiting Panama City Beach for 60 years. My wife and I go 2 or 3 times a year now. We both absolutely love the beach and the restaurants. And we’ve discussed purchasing property down there from time to time.
But we’ve always known that sooner or later what happened yesterday would occur. And we would be worried sick about investing money in something that could be wiped out in an afternoon.
So we decided to let others assume the risk and earn the property appreciation, if it occurs. We rent.
Not True
He seem to have forgotten about Hurricane Camille that hit slightly to the west of Michael 49 years ago in 1969.
Camille had the highest wind speed at landfall of any storm ever anywhere in the world.
https://geology.com/hurricanes/largest-hurricane/
Michael, the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in NEARLY 50 years.......................fixed it..........
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