Exposing More Hurricane Harvey Fake News
Again and again, our sympathies, donations, and support for the victims of hurricane Harvey should be foremost in everyone’s mind. But let’s pause and reflect as the climate hysterics are at it again.
Facts:
1) Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 and was immediately downgraded to Category 1. Harvey was blocked by two (2) high pressure cells to the north , so it just lingered over Houston to dump 50 inches of rain.
2) Tropical Storm Amelia dumped 48 inches of rain back on 1978.
3) Katrina (Category 3, 2005) was so horrific due to the failure(s) of the New Orleans levee system. The French never built out beyond the current French Quarter, which is nominally above sea level. New Orleans was always destined to go sub-sea. A disaster waiting to happen.
4) Both Houston and New Orleans had over-developed and over-paved in flood-prone areas.
5) In all of these events the rain came straight down — threatening all mammals and causing major water damage. Emphasis – water coming down.
6) Water coming sideways is a REAL big problem. Tidal surge was the monster effect in Andrew (1992, and most destructive hurricane to hit Florida) and Camille (1969, and the most destructive hurricane to hit Mississippi). I lived in Pass Christian in 1984 – 1985. You didn’t have to look hard to find overgrown fields where a three-storey, heavily-built hotel had once been. Scrubbed down to plumbing stub-ups.
7) Texas has that big exposed coastline and a “target-rich environment”. Galveston was a prosperous port in the 1800s. In the aftermath of the Category 4 hurricane in 1900, they had to bury bodies in mass graves or cremate them on funeral pyres mounted on barges.
Wikipedia:
“Storm surges rose 15 feet and, within hours, estimates of 6,000 to 12,000 unwary people were killed and over 3,600 buildings were destroyed. The Galveston Hurricane remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.”
Galveston never fully recovered.
Yet man did all this by driving SUVs.
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