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Will Hurricane Rita be Another Katrina? (pg. 3)
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| _Nut_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
There's a high pressure circulation at 500mb too, having southerly winds pushing towards Louisiana. not really sure if that's going to do much, but I'm doubtful that it's going to go north towards that area.
props for dissing accuweather too! |
I think everyone inside the MET community feels hate towards accuweather for the bill they tried to pass. Can you believe that if you were to start there after graduation... you would have to sign a contract binding you to 2 years of work at 14,000 a year? If you leave early... you have to pay every dime back... also if you leave you cannot work for another MET company (private or govt) for 5 years... else you will be sued.... |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
I don't think Rita will be worse. I mean, Katrina was like a once in a generation kind of storm and it just happened to hit a place that was most vulnerable to flooding. I doubt that combination of things would happen again in the same year, but that is what they should prepare for. |
It was not a once in a generation kinda storm. There are level 5 huricannes all the time.....they just don't hit the US all the time and now that one did it is this huge media thing for us all to stare at.
It doesn't matter what they do...if they rebuild new orleans the same thing will happen again. If another huge storm is to hit the new orleans area then now is the time for it to happen...this way there will not be further casualties and maybe people will think twice about moving back to the area. The best thing that could happen is for the US government to let the levees go and let the water take its natural position and then rebuild. |
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| DaveSZ |
This thing has me pretty worried as most of my family lives in the area of the possible projected strike zone(s).
No I don't think it will be as bad as Katrina, but it could still be pretty damn bad if it hit Galveston/Houston or Corpus Christi directly.
| quote: | Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk::
houston isnt right on the gulf, but its not far. it also has a river going through it, that could flood. houston is on the southwest coast about 2 hours from the mexican border. |
It's way more than 2 hours from the Mexican border, and it's about 50 miles (80 KM) inland.
Corpus Christi is more like 2 hours from the border.
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
It was not a once in a generation kinda storm. There are level 5 huricannes all the time.....they just don't hit the US all the time and now that one did it is this huge media thing for us all to stare at.
It doesn't matter what they do...if they rebuild new orleans the same thing will happen again. If another huge storm is to hit the new orleans area then now is the time for it to happen...this way there will not be further casualties and maybe people will think twice about moving back to the area. The best thing that could happen is for the US government to let the levees go and let the water take its natural position and then rebuild. |
By your logic half of Holland would be underwater.
| quote: | Originally posted by _Nut_
I think everyone inside the MET community feels hate towards accuweather for the bill they tried to pass. Can you believe that if you were to start there after graduation... you would have to sign a contract binding you to 2 years of work at 14,000 a year? If you leave early... you have to pay every dime back... also if you leave you cannot work for another MET company (private or govt) for 5 years... else you will be sued.... |
I read about that.
Is that bill still pending or did it pass?
$14,000 a year? I'm sure the goop led congress would be all for it, so I'd expect it to pass. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
By your logic half of Holland would be underwater.
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I don't see a problem with that either. When was the last time a huricanne hit holland?
When you build in areas that are not meant to be built on you are playing with time bomb....eventually mother nature will bitch slap you and show you who is boss. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
When you build in areas that are not meant to be built on you are playing with time bomb....eventually mother nature will bitch slap you and show you who is boss. |
Touche! There are certain areas that just shouldn't be inhabited..... places that are below sea level and in huricane zones qualify. I always laugh when I read about a million dollar home being taken out by a landslide and think "well of course, you built on the side of a mountain and removed all the trees!". Same thing whenever a small village gets whiped out by a valcanic erruption, "it's a volcano!!!! in' move!" In the same vein I have to chuckle a little about the whole New Orleans situation.... I mean really, "we need more room so lets pump out some water, build our houses on this peat bog that is below sea level and hope that it doesn't sink or that the dykes never break." Even more idiotic is the resolve to rebuild it..... IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN! |
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| Slylee |
| it's not going to be good. global warmning is causing the gulf waters to be warmer and warmer and that is like basically adding fuel to the fire. every time a hurricane crosses over florida and heads in the gulf, i always get nervous for those states. i think it'll become a cat. 4 or 5 easily. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
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damn hurricanes stop following me .. :nervous: ...
but i agree with slylee .. there's got to be a reason why all these hurricanes are spawning this season .. actually, i think more have been spawning this past 5 years, compared to a stretch of 5 years a decade ago ..
of course everyone knows warm waters is fuel to the hurricane ... but what is causing the warm waters in the gulf ??:conf: .. there's got to be an explanation why the gulf of mexico is almost 90 degrees ? |
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| Zewad |
reason why the gulf is almost 90 degrees is b/c its summer...
but its not global warming.. its just that we had about a 20-25 year span when the water wasnt as warm,.. which made everybody think it was safe and people built on teh gulf and in hurricane prone areas... now that the temps are starting to return to normal status everybody is flipping out and the impacts seem more disasterous b/c more people live there.. |
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| Slylee |
another thing is that we used to be able to track these things down off the coast of africa. they actually start off as sand storms in the sahara desert which is crazy. anyway, now they are just popping up right in the atlantic near the bahamas and we only have like a couple of days to track them...it's very weird.
also, i have always been really in tune with nature and the weather and there is something very different about the storms in south florida lately. the air smells different and the cloud formations are insane...i took some pictures and posted them in another thread. it really looked like something out of a movie. things are definitely changing...the conditions are different and the patterns are more bizarre...we get lots of tornado warnings now too.:wtf: |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
reason why the gulf is almost 90 degrees is b/c its summer...
but its not global warming.. |
they said it was on 2 different news stations down here...where do u get your information from? |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
reason why the gulf is almost 90 degrees is b/c its summer...
but its not global warming.. its just that we had about a 20-25 year span when the water wasnt as warm,.. which made everybody think it was safe and people built on teh gulf and in hurricane prone areas... now that the temps are starting to return to normal status everybody is flipping out and the impacts seem more disasterous b/c more people live there.. |
i am just used to hearing the gulf temperatures being in the lower 80s .. not in the upper 80s .. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
there's got to be an explanation why the gulf of mexico is almost 90 degrees ? |
How about because it is a relativly shallow body of water in a tropical area... good enough reason?
The frequency and relative strength of the huricanes is no different then it was a few years back. The only difference recently is that more of them have been hitting the northern part of the Atlantic huricane zone (ie the US). You think there are more now then ever before because the news media in the US doesn't report on huricanes that don't hit or threaten the US.... the only real difference now is that you hear about more huricanes. There have been six tropical storm systems to come and go since Katrina and likelihood is the only ones you've heard about are Ophelia and Rita because they are the only ones that threatened the US. |
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