It's called the Law of Probability, stupid!!
Reuters Updated: 1:50 p.m. ET Aug 22, 2006MIAMI -
If you thought the sight of the great American jazz city New Orleans flooded to the eaves,ts people trapped in attics or cowering on rooftops was the nightmare hurricane scenario, think again.
Max Mayfield, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, says theres plenty of potential for a storm worse than Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,339 people along the U.S. Gulf coast and caused some $80 billion in damage last August.
People think we have seen the worst. We haven't" Mayfield told Reuters in an interview at the fortress-like hurricane center in Florida.
"I think the day is coming. I think eventually we're going to have a very powerful hurricane in a major metropolitan area worse than what we saw in Katrina and it's going to be a megadisaster. With lots of lost lives," Mayfield said. "I don't know whether that's going to be this year or five years from now or a hundred years from now. But as long as we continue to develop the coastline like we are, we're setting up for disaster."
OK. What brilliant idiot thought this was news? This is math. Oh, and for you Al Gore-global-warming-will-kill-us-all-send-us-money goof balls, Listen up....
Kam-biu Liu, a geology professor at Louisiana State University, discovered ocean sand in core samples from inland lakes on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. From these samples, Liu concluded that extremely powerful hurricanes battered the Gulf Coast and dumped the sand into the lakes.
Liu thinks the core samples indicate that hurricanes that would be considered catastrophic by modern standards were regularly battering the Gulf Coast thousands of years ago.
From about 3,400 years ago to about 1,000 years ago, the Gulf Coast was hit repeatedly by very powerful hurricanes, Liu said. The frequency of hits increases by three to five times more than today.
The ancient Maya Indians who had their heyday in Mexico and Central America from about A.D. 250 to 900 had more than a passing familiarity with the tempests that regularly howled off the Atlantic. They called their god of storms Hurukan, and its likely that our term for the storms evolved from this name
Bigger, more frequent catastrophic storms 1700 years BEFORE the industrial age? Another proof that "global warming" is ja unk science-gimme money scam. As for the "send-me-government-money-or-donations-to-rebuild-because-I-choose-to-live-in-an-area-where -natural-disasters-occur-and-I-don't-buy-insurance" crowd, sorry about your luck. This also goes for folks who build along rivers, on slippery hillsides, or where the ground shakes, or where you can't build firebreaks because the little animals or bugs have more rights than you.
Food, medicine, temporary shelter, I'll donate to you, but rebuilding, that's your responsibility. And to you weaseling insurance companies shirking your responsibilities to the people who did pay you for protection, a pox, law suits and more government regulations to curb your trifling ways.
If you thought the sight of the great American jazz city New Orleans flooded to the eaves,ts people trapped in attics or cowering on rooftops was the nightmare hurricane scenario, think again.
Max Mayfield, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, says theres plenty of potential for a storm worse than Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,339 people along the U.S. Gulf coast and caused some $80 billion in damage last August.
People think we have seen the worst. We haven't" Mayfield told Reuters in an interview at the fortress-like hurricane center in Florida.
"I think the day is coming. I think eventually we're going to have a very powerful hurricane in a major metropolitan area worse than what we saw in Katrina and it's going to be a megadisaster. With lots of lost lives," Mayfield said. "I don't know whether that's going to be this year or five years from now or a hundred years from now. But as long as we continue to develop the coastline like we are, we're setting up for disaster."
OK. What brilliant idiot thought this was news? This is math. Oh, and for you Al Gore-global-warming-will-kill-us-all-send-us-money goof balls, Listen up....
Kam-biu Liu, a geology professor at Louisiana State University, discovered ocean sand in core samples from inland lakes on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. From these samples, Liu concluded that extremely powerful hurricanes battered the Gulf Coast and dumped the sand into the lakes.
Liu thinks the core samples indicate that hurricanes that would be considered catastrophic by modern standards were regularly battering the Gulf Coast thousands of years ago.
From about 3,400 years ago to about 1,000 years ago, the Gulf Coast was hit repeatedly by very powerful hurricanes, Liu said. The frequency of hits increases by three to five times more than today.
The ancient Maya Indians who had their heyday in Mexico and Central America from about A.D. 250 to 900 had more than a passing familiarity with the tempests that regularly howled off the Atlantic. They called their god of storms Hurukan, and its likely that our term for the storms evolved from this name
Bigger, more frequent catastrophic storms 1700 years BEFORE the industrial age? Another proof that "global warming" is ja unk science-gimme money scam. As for the "send-me-government-money-or-donations-to-rebuild-because-I-choose-to-live-in-an-area-where -natural-disasters-occur-and-I-don't-buy-insurance" crowd, sorry about your luck. This also goes for folks who build along rivers, on slippery hillsides, or where the ground shakes, or where you can't build firebreaks because the little animals or bugs have more rights than you.
Food, medicine, temporary shelter, I'll donate to you, but rebuilding, that's your responsibility. And to you weaseling insurance companies shirking your responsibilities to the people who did pay you for protection, a pox, law suits and more government regulations to curb your trifling ways.
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