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The flood washes over us<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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A year ago I wrote an article discussing Hurricane Harvey<\/a>.\u00a0 Here we are again watching another 1 in a 1,000 year hurricane disaster unfold.\u00a0 I won\u2019t try to summarize all the other weather disasters that have been unfolding around the world this year.\u00a0 This year is going to be the fourth warmest year on record<\/a> behind 2016, 2015, and 2017 respectively.\u00a0 \u00a0 Our global climate is obviously in chaos and weather disasters becoming more frequent and severe.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the days leading up to Hurricane Florence\u2019s landfall meteorologists struggled to find words to describe this storm\u2019s unbelievable potential for destruction.\u00a0 The storm was \u201cbiblical\u201d, \u201cunprecedented\u201d, \u201chistorical\u201d, \u201ca monster\u201d\u2026yet none of the words really conveyed the reality of risk that few have yet faced.\u00a0\u00a0 Governor\u2019s of both Carolina\u2019s took the warnings seriously and called for evacuation.\u00a0 Many heeded their warnings but the fact that some people chose to stay and ride out the storm showed a dangerous lack of understanding for the danger they faced.\u00a0 The media\u2019s obsession for making storm disasters into morbid entertainment was in full form when one reporter struggled to stand against wind<\/a> that seemingly had little affect on nearby pedestrians strolling by.\u00a0 Like passing a highway accident we can\u2019t seem to turn our eyes away.<\/p>\n

The fact that Florence didn\u2019t inflict greater wind damage when it made landfall was a fortunate break that had to do with the storm weakening after its final eyewall replacement cycle.<\/a>\u00a0 By Thursday evening September 13th<\/sup> hurricane reconnaissance indicated that a new eyewall was not likely to be completed; the eastern section of the wall not likely to reform.\u00a0 This prevented Florence from rebuilding the strength of its winds and the storm continued to weaken as it lumbered towards landfall.\u00a0 Instead of a Category 4 hurricane, Florence came ashore a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 90 mph versus 140 or higher.<\/p>\n

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The flood washes over us A year ago I wrote an article discussing Hurricane Harvey.\u00a0 Here we are again watching another 1 in a 1,000 year hurricane disaster unfold.\u00a0 I won\u2019t try to summarize all the other weather disasters that have been unfolding around the world this year.\u00a0 This year is going to be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16692,21710,21583,16693],"class_list":["post-37910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-animasoul","tag-extreme-weather-events","tag-hurricane-florence","tag-jody-tishmack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37911,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37910\/revisions\/37911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}