Posted on 09/26/2022 1:07:54 AM PDT by caww
Amen.
That’s why their are so few trees.... the wind will not stop blowing long enough for them to get hold in the soil..
Thanks for your #268, a fine post indeed !
Welcome! It’s important to me that I let people stuck in liberal zones know not to give up because red state people know what is going on and they don’t run from a fight. LOL
Yeah, it’s lightly populated. I’m right in it, and, let’s see:
-SeMo-TN-W.KY tornado not even 12 months ago. Plow that baby on a similar vector through the Philly - NYC region...
-The Tri-State tornado of 1925 (695 people killed in a low population area - see above).
-Huge floods.
-10 state ice storm in 2009 with power outages affecting millions (1.3 million outages alone), power off for 3 weeks some places.
-Major earthquake SERIES that create significant geological disruption / changes (Reelfoot Lake, temporary falls and reverse current flow on the Mississippi River, etc.) & reportedly cracked sidewalks 600+ miles away.
-Blizzards...
When I lived in Kansas as a kid there were less rivers to flood (but guess where almost all the major towns are), and the earthquake faults less active, but, then again we had impressive range fires (on a couple occasions I could see them from my bedroom window) They were usually just left to burn out of their own accord. I also was “privileged” to be in a house as it was destroyed by a tornado.
Of note is that many of our Central US disasters do not give us the kind of warning that hurricanes do. Esp. the New Madrid fault. When that puppy cuts loose again, it’s going to be a case of “That (Ian) was not a major disaster. THIS is a major disaster.” And that’s with only the present modest population (including St. Louis, Memphis, and Evansville.)
So much for “safe”.
Moreover, while SOME building in floodplains should be avoided, generally speaking, most large cities (and even quite a few medium size towns) are on waterways for reasons of transport and water availability that still hold. Less populated areas are less populated for usually very good reasons.
Oh, sure, there are exceptions. And with cyclical drought affecting most of the US west of tornado alley, most of them have water shortages current or looming. Massive desalinization and water pumping powered by equally massive investment in nuclear power “could” address that but as it stands...
https://www.abqjournal.com/2535469/nm-needs-leaders-who-will-tackle-real-water-solutions-now.html
The actually “safe” areas of the USA simply will not readily support 330 million people at our current high standard of living.
TANSTAAFL.
No; they are now classified as Noxious Rectal Vapors.
Well I guess I was a bit off on that estimate
It’s interesting reading this thread after the fact.
It sure didn’t turn into a big “yawn” for an awful lot of people.
Ooops…..
Wow, the storm tracks are almost identical.
That was your problem.
Counting on forecast models from that far out. Even meteorologists know better than to count on anything in as a dynamic system as the earth’s atmosphere. And as warm as the Gulf waters were, strengthening should not have surprised anyone.
Did you ever hear the saying, “Don’t count your chickens until they are hatched”?
I know people are tired of the gloom and doom that the MSM puts out and more often than not it’s not as bad as they make it out to be. But not always. And not enough to dismiss any one particular storm offhand as nothing to worry about.
My point is how many people took those predictions as absolutely accurate and didn’t evacuate?
I hope none died because of it.....but some more than likely did.....and nobody holds these weather outlets accountable in the aftermath.
On the other hand, I didn't think going in, nor after the fact, it was worthy of 24/7, wall to wall reporting like the three days following JFK's murder nor the build up to the Faulkland Islands, Great Britain's troops mobilized on the Q.E. 2.
Americans are too easily led by sensational things . . . . and allowing our kids to be conditioned to be worse discerners of truth.
I love me some Tull.......
Me too.
Every time I drive in the rain, I have Stormwatch cranking.
This wet summer though, I’ve gotten kind of sick of it.
;D
/I’m a needle on a spiral in a groove
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