What's with hurricane season?

[Kimby]

Very relieved. Thanks for passing along the news!

[mossie]

Best wishes to all who have been affected by this storm.

[Kimby]

What it’s like to ride out a hurricane. One survivor’s report:

“ Good evening everyone. Rode out the storm in Guste Island. Lost power internet and internet on phone around 7pm. Couldn’t pull up radar or anything on the phone. Had Fox 8 simulcast on the radio until they lost ability to broadcast. Switched to WWL only to have no storm location information in real time. They instead spent all their time comparing this to Katrina as if life saving information wasn’t needed in real time. Had to rely on wind chime direction in the dark to gauge where the storm was in location to my house.

Spent the last 4 hours during our peak intensity pushing my weight against my garage door along with a heavy ladder to keep it from blowing in. It seemed like it was never going to end and when I thought it couldn’t get any higher gusts it did. Cleaned up after I woke up this morning and went to a family members house in Florida. Having lived thru Andrew as a kid and Katrina in my 20s, this was by far the worst hurricane I’ve ever experienced. Just catching up on all information I missed now that I have internet again. I wish everyone good luck in the quest for power restoration and renovations to your houses.”

[lugg]

So relieved to read that Casimira is ok, thank you Bixa. Hope that the weather calms down now.

Are hurricanes getting more intense and more frequent or is that just hype in the Uk press ?

[Kimby]

More intense and more frequent. And with rising sea levels, storm surges will become even more damaging.

[questa]

If the hurricanes can't sink Florida there is the little problem of the sink holes and half the state going under the sea.

Wouldn't it would be good if we were starting over about 200 years ago but with the knowledge and good intentions of today.

what would our world look like? If we invent clean water, antibiotics, insulin...how do we deal with over-population?

if we don't invent the steam or internal combustion engines we would need huge families to do the manual labour that machines do now.

Discuss.

[mickthecactus]

How long have there been hurricanes?

[questa]

Hurricanes - 1
People - Nil

[htmb]

Oddly enough, where I am right now in Northern Arizona, we are experiencing the remnants of the hurricane that recently went up the eastern Pacific along the coast of Mexico (Nora?).

[lagatta]

I can't think of many democratic and socially acceptable ways of curbing over-population other than better education provision for young people -especially girls and young women, but also boys and young men - and curbing baleful fundamentalist religious influence, whichever the religion. I'd love to hear any ideas!

And also free and general access (even in remote and rural areas) to contraception and abortion, of course.

[kerouac2]

Oh, I thought you had posted that on this thread because you think they should drown in a hurricane. (But I suspect that you wanted to post this on a different thread.)

[lagatta]

No, I was responding to Questa's comment about population vs the Earth's carrying capacity.

I don't want anyone to drown in a hurricane. I'd rather see "my personal villains" stand trial. Divine retribution is really not my thing.

[casimira]

Thanks for all the well wishes good people.

It was pretty hairy I have to say. The sounds of the wind, most especially the gusts were very scary.

5 days without power was grueling with temperatures in the upper 90F's and barely a breeze.

Shortages of fuel for some people to run their generators as well as ice to keep our ice chests cool enough for the provisions we had.

Many neighbors rallying to support one another and taking care of numerous pets in the hood.

Alot of people who rode out the storm left town afterwards because of the lack of power city wide.

If we could have we would have too. But, with 2 animals that we were in no way going to leave behind, we had nowhere to go.

Our wifi just came back on this a.m.

Gratefully, I was able to make connections via cell phone with dear friends from Mexico to Hawaii which really helped boost my spirits.

I don't know if I have it in me to go through another one of these again. I don't have the stamina I once had to endure it.

[kerouac2]

So glad to see you back, casimira. I still attribute the final decline of my parents to the "year of 4 hurricanes" in Florida where they went without power for a week. They were too proud stubborn to move to a motel and just lived out of an ice chest after buying ice at Walmart every day. When I returned to pick up the pieces, I saw that some of the containers in the freezer were still there. Thank god they never touched them.

[casimira]

I heard reports of many elderly people who refused to leave despite offers of transport to safe places.
One friend of mine that lives in Tennessee drove all the way down here to to rescue his parents, (they are in their 80's) and they stubbornly refused to go with him.

[tod2]

I checked back on YouTube and saw the devastating winds and flash floods - It is wonderful to know our Anyporters down there are safe and secure. My fear of travelling down south Miami way ( even in 1983) was seeing dark clouds gather over the sea as we travelled to Key West. Thank the pope nothing storm wise ever developed.

[casimira]

There's a new one, "Larry" that looks quite ominous heading toward Bermuda and expected to head up the Atlantic Coast.

The folks up in the NE do not need this at all. Ida caused so much destruction there after her departure from here and, even though she was downgraded to a Tropical Storm she dumped double digit inches of rain in NYC and South New Jersey. There were several drownings. Some of them with people trapped inside.

[lugg]

Not good news at all Casimira.

[casimira]

Another "disturbance", "Nicholas" heading into the Gulf and reek havoc somewhere West of us, SW Louisiana and Texas or so it appears.
We will see a lot of rain here as it is a pretty wide system.
The folks SW of us are barely getting back on their feet from "Ida".
The governor has already declared a State of Emergency.
There are over 100,000 homes that still don't have power and many without roofs on their homes.

[kerouac2]

I did see that the Texas coast at least is getting a bit of a wet brush as well as a bit of Louisiana. And I also saw that there are 3 other tropical depressions possibly brewing in the Atlantic. Looks like it is going to be a major hurricane season again.

[casimira]

Let's hope not but, they are getting more and more difficult to keep up with. How we went from Ida to Nicholas I had to look up what storms occurred in between.

[kerouac2]

I think I read somewhere that they did not want to use the Greek alphabet again if they ran out of the Roman letters. But Rose and Sam are whirling around at the moment, and there are not very many letters left. I wonder what they will do.

[casimira]

Why they skip over using Q, U, and Y, Z unnerves me. A little creativity on their part wouldn't hurt before they resort to Greek alphabet letters.

[bixaorellana]

Quincy, Queenie, Ulric, Ulysses, Ursula, Ysidro, Yolanda, Zachary, Zelda ~ and those are just off the top of my head.

[kerouac2]

After Sam, they still have Teresa, Victor and Wanda.

But if they use up those, we go back to the Roman alphabet: Adria, Braylen, Caridad, Deshawn, Emery, Foster, Gemma, Heath, Isla, Jacobus, Kenzie, Lucio, Makayla, Nolan, Orlanda, Pax, Ronin, Sophie, Tayshaun, Viviana, and Will.

Braylen? Deshawn? Kenzie? Makayla? Tayshaun? Are these from the woke list? We should at least have LeBron in that case.

[casimira]

Sept 23, 2021 19:00:56 GMT kerouac2 said:

After Sam, they still have Teresa, Victor and Wanda.

But if they use up those, we go back to the Roman alphabet: Adria, Braylen, Caridad, Deshawn, Emery, Foster, Gemma, Heath, Isla, Jacobus, Kenzie, Lucio, Makayla, Nolan, Orlanda, Pax, Ronin, Sophie, Tayshaun, Viviana, and Will.

Braylen? Deshawn? Kenzie? Makayla? Tayshaun? Are these from the woke list? We should at least have LeBron in that case.

_{Maybe it's just me but I find your post to be a tad racist.}

[kerouac2]

No problem. You are definitely woke.

[questa]

I will graciously let them use Questa as long as it isn't too destructive.

When I bred Dalmatians I registered the 1st litter in reverse order.
Zorro, Zelda, Zook (Buyers request) Zoe, Zodiac, Zina.
Zodi was bought by a US service family returning to US where he was to be a Fire Station dog. They renamed him "Clancy" which I loved...typical Ossie.

[casimira]

The National Hurricane Center has predicted 19 named storms for this year. 
At least we won't have to deal with sandbags where we are living in a substantially raised dwelling and now have a reliable road worthy vehicle to evacuate if we have to.

[questa]

Eastern regions on the west of the Great Dividing Range are flooded and it is bucketing down. The name that has become the buzz word is "Water Bomb". Some of the damaged towns on their 3rd inundation this year look like war zone...except wetter.