and the Weather Channel is scared of what will happenNightfall, high tide and a Cat 4 Hurricane converging on the Florida Coast....Not a good mix— Marshall Shepherd (@DrShepherd2013) October 6, 2016
as well as Rick Scott, the Governor of Florida and not somebody Eli would ever recommend is urging evacuationImportant statement from @weatherchannel. Catastrophic impacts likely for those in #Hurricane #Matthew path. pic.twitter.com/6Ibe4GlJSY— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) October 6, 2016
but Matt DRUDGE thinks it is an evil plan of President Obama to scare folk about climate changeWe can rebuild homes. We can rebuild businesses. We cannot rebuild your life. #HurricaneMatthew— Rick Scott (@FLGovScott) October 6, 2016
and his fans, well his fans vote, and they vote for the strangest thingsThe deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 6, 2016
But Eli has a question. If freedom of speech does not extend to yelling fire in a crowded theatre, what are the rules for tweeting don't evacuate from a low lying beach on a barrier island. Should Matthew make landfall in Florida, it would be interesting to see how the family of victims pile on to Drudge and Co.
Half of those surveyed thought the US military either engineered Matthew or consider it a possibility?! I genuinely hope that the Heat Street readers who responded to the poll are not representative of the US public.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is they are exaggerating the hurricane strength to play it safe. The hurricane strength core is small, the eye opens and closes, and the wind I see reported in the Bahamas isn't really that bad. I would have evacuated if I lived east of the intracoastal, or if my house were located near a canal, but this hurricane is humdrum.
ReplyDeleteI'm also noticing it leaves behind a large pool of cooler water (it has a negative temperature anomaly). The high pressure ridge in the Atlantic is blocking cyclones trying to head northeast towards Europe, so they'll linger for days in the Bermuda Triangle and will cool down the Atlantic. I never gave it much thought, but these hurricanes must behave like huge radiators, blocking incoming radiation and lofting a lot of heat up into the upper troposphere.
Deplorable denialist humdrum... Hurricanes are good because they cool the ocean!
ReplyDeleteFlori, are you denying what I wrote? Or just try to elaborate your fantasies?
ReplyDeleteObama destroy Mar-A-Lago?
ReplyDeleteHorsefeathers -all respectable conspiracy theorists agree that Trump had the hurricane aimed at PB because the Bath & Tennis Club blackballed him.
In other Florida news, Florida Gov. Rick Scott is refusing to follow the lead of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and extend the voter registration deadline for the state.
ReplyDeleteHorsefeathers -all respectable conspiracy theorists agree that Trump had the hurricane aimed at PB because the Bath & Tennis Club blackballed him.
ReplyDeleteA smart move. To paraphrase comrade Groucho, I don’t want to belong to any club that would have the Donald as a member.
Well, Donald gave Rick Scott's ECO+ PAC $125K; see FL section of Table 1 in Election Databases Expose Extent of Trump-Bondi Connection
ReplyDelete$125K to ECO-PAC?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder they blackballed him!
Look on the bright side - dead knuckledraggers don't vote
ReplyDeleteEli. what are the rules on yelling ' Be of good courage ! ' in a burning theater?
ReplyDeleteI got schmucked pretty bad with this one, but once I knew it was going to stay offshore to the east at the cape I knew the worst of it was past. However, methinks Eli is still blissfully unaware of the magnitude of the problems here. Where have I heard that before? Unaware.
ReplyDeleteWhy do "you people" want the law to silence critics and adversaries? In any event Drudge was right, the storm behaved as expected, not as it was shaded to behave. I love the schadenfreude spawned of schadenfreudoitus interruptus.
ReplyDeleteSo Drudge is a hurricane expert? Hurricanes do what they want to do.
ReplyDeleteHowever, big ones tend to follow the heat, and that heat is of greatest magnitude in deep warm waters. Thus, it ran up the Tongue of the Ocean, through the Northwest Channel and then it ran up the Florida coast. Weather (steering) has a lot to do with that track as well.
Drudge:
ReplyDeleteThe deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate
Howard:
In any event Drudge was right
Chorus:
Bravo! Clowns! Bravo!
Over 800 dead in Haiti -- just a humdrum hurricane...
ReplyDeleteRight, but if the hurricane had run up the coast onshore instead of offshore, then there would have been hundreds of dead and injured and vast uninhabitable areas here in the US as well. Some call it luck. Others call it physics. Where I come from, we call it preparation. And insight.
ReplyDeleteEven that doesn't help sometimes. But it helps most of the time.
Where I come from, we call it preparation. And insight.
ReplyDeleteEven that doesn't help sometimes. But it helps most of the time.
A tad insensitive, 8c, given the death toll in Haiti. Or are they lacking in insight there?
I understand how you people relish mass causalities to support your unpopular causes, but the death magnitude in Haiti has more to due with civil infrastructure and emergency preparedness than hurricane strength.
ReplyDeleteOne word - tsunami(s) plural.
ReplyDeleteLet's add multiple nuclear meltdowns too. How quickly you forget.
Welcome to life on a terrestrial planet with a molten core and a hydrogeological cycle. I guess that excuses not preparing for an asteroid strike, considering the number of nuclear weapon tipped missiles you have. NASA has that covered, right? lol.
I understand how you people relish mass causalities to support your unpopular causes, but the death magnitude in Haiti has more to due with civil infrastructure and emergency preparedness than hurricane strength.
ReplyDeleteYou are genuinely unpleasant, Howard.
Howard I understand how you people relish mass causalities to support your unpopular causes, but the death magnitude in Haiti has more to due [sic] with civil infrastructure and emergency preparedness than hurricane strength.
ReplyDeleteYes it does. But concluding it has nothing to do (sic) with hurricane strength is an unwarranted conclusion. Hurricane Matthew was cat 4 when it struck Haiti, and there is evidence that it reached that level more quickly than normal. This is what warmer ocean waters would lead us to expect.
Here's another unwarranted conclusion: that mentioning a high death toll means that I "relish mass casualties." I don't; I mentioned it to counter the assertion that Matthew was just a humdrum hurricane.
Indeed, calling Matthew or any hurricane "humdrum" could reasonably be taken as evidence of callousness.
aerial pictures show universal devastation; not quite as matchstick-y as Haiyan but along those lines. Yes, they're poor, and stuck with it. But this storm took down a group of people making a valiant go of not very much. As I understand it, lack of water and starvation are rampant.
ReplyDeleteAlso being underreported is the continuing devastation in North Carolina, where flooding is breaking down infrastructure such as waste ponds from factory farms and slurry/sludge from other activities.
Weeks of floods create a toxic situation, and once again a lot of news outlets are not covering the problem, or giving it a brief mention.
I guess when they put together to waste management operation and sludge containment vwessels, the didn't predict this kind of thing happening, in North Carolina, a state right in the middle of hurricane alley. How could that be?
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