With apologies to the Beatles, just read below as Rita gives us a high five:
"Winds greater than 155 mph. Storm surge generally greater than 18 ft above normal. Complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings. Some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away. All shrubs, trees, and signs blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Severe and extensive window and door damage. Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors of all structures located less than 15 ft above sea level and within 500 yards of the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas on low ground within 5-10 miles (8-16 km) of the shoreline may be required."
God help us.
Three, count 'em, three Cat 5 storms have made landfall in the U.S. since records were kept. Katrina was a Category 4+++ and then you turn around with another in less than a month? And as Schmidlap points out, we have three out in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic on-deck circle.
But climate change has NOTHING to do with this. Right.
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Check the science, Dude.
What science have you checked?
This solar system and the forces that drive it are a helluva lot more potent than our puny species.
I'm not concerned about the solar system, I am concerned about planet Earth. If you don't think that industrialization, urbanization and the internal combustion engine have changed the ecostructure, then I can't help you.
The global warming paranoia is just another example of the lunatic left's contempt for their own humanity. Denying the possibility of a higher power, they assume that, when Mother Nature proves she is a mother, it's the fault of those who don't share their Utopian visions.
I embrace the notion of a higher being, I teach Sunday School! And just what are my "utopian visions?"
Yeah, we're getting hammered right now. We've been hammered before. We will be hammered again. I'd still rather be here than anyplace else. Are you planning on moving?
Why should I?
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