O/T Hurricane Season

[TheBlackHorse]

... no Mapp, that's the inward-looking Remainers. Us Brexiteers are outward looking and care about our fellow world citizens with who we will become trading partners and friends. Anyway, who wanted bananas from Ecuador; Leeward Isles every time for me.

[Mapperleypie]

... no Mapp, that's the inward-looking Remainers. Us Brexiteers are outward looking and care about our fellow world citizens

Ha, top Bantz.

[tarquinbeech]

Back up to cat 5 now. If this becomes an annual event, some of those islands are going to become uninhabitable unless you can afford to build a house that can withstand this sort of thing, but what is the impact on tourism going to be? It must be making people think twice about holidaying in that area - or at least at this time of year.

The intensity of the storms are getting stronger as the planet warms up and the oceans need to vent the excess heat.....building codes have to be tougher, plus we need to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.

Atlantic Category 5 hurricanes (33 in total):
1851-1900: 0
1901-1930: 2
1931-1960: 8
1961-1990: 10
1991-2017: 13

[tarquinbeech]

Some comments:
1. I remember you downgrading Grenfell in its first few days as just another fire
2. Does Trump - the withdrawer - still think there's no such thing as climate change
3. Have you any idea of the numbers who died in Bangladesh while all this was going on? Thought not... you couldn't give a toss

Sid - You obviously missed this post from the "Harvey" thread ref a man who lost his whole family in Asia


29-08-2017, 07:51 PM #41
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To put Harvey into context....the story of a super-typhoon, from the first tiny disturbance spotted on a US radar....to the young man burying his whole family on a hillside in graves he dug himself by hand......absolutely gut-wrenching scenes.

6,000 deaths and a whole city razed to the ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxYbnWmM-0