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geckzilla wrote:Breezy Point is a flood prone area, though. You'd have to be crazy not to insure it for that! ...And crazy as an insurer to issue the insurance, too. Then again, don't the insurance policies all have exemptions from the nebulous "acts of god" clause? That's always confused me.

Ann wrote:
To those of you who often post here, and who live in the eastern parts of the United States or Canada:

Are you okay?

geckzilla wrote:Flooded houses catch fire in the presence of some kind of accelerant, like natural gas leaking from broken pipes.

geckzilla wrote:I don't think it even comes close to the devastation of Katrina, at least as far as life, property and breadth of area affected are concerned, unless I live in a strange, unaffected bubble just far enough away from the chaos not to notice.

geckzilla wrote:
I don't think it even comes close to the devastation of Katrina,
at least as far as life, property and breadth of area affected are concerned,

Rank 	Hurricane 	Season 	Damages
--------------------------------------------------------
1 	   Katrina 	 2005 	$108 billion
2 	   Ike 	     2008 	$29.5 billion
3 	   Andrew 	  1992 	$26.5 billion
4 	   Wilma 	   2005 	$20.6 billion
5 	   Irene 	   2011 	$19 billion
6 	   Ivan 	    2004 	$18.8 billion
7 	   Charley 	 2004 	$15.1 billion
8 	   Rita 	    2005 	$12 billion
9 	   Frances 	 2004 	$9.51 billion
10 	  Allison 	 2001 	$9 billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900 wrote:
<<The Hurricane of 1900 made landfall on September 8, 1900 in the city of Galveston, Texas, in the United States. It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. It was the deadliest hurricane in US history, and the second costliest hurricane in US history based on the US dollar's 2005 value (to compare costs with those of Hurricane Katrina and others).

The hurricane caused great loss of life with the estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals; the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths or injuries of any Atlantic hurricane, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and 1998's Hurricane Mitch. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. By contrast, the second-deadliest storm to strike the United States, the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, caused more than 2,500 deaths, and the deadliest storm of recent times, Hurricane Katrina, claimed the lives of approximately 1,800 people.>>

geckzilla wrote:The question here is, which will last longer... 3 different cars all with mostly full gas tanks, or the gas shortage? (we really shouldn't have 3 cars... but we do)

Ann wrote:It's been snowing all day today. The weather reports say that the cold weather will continue, and we will get more snow.

Chris Peterson wrote:

Ann wrote:
It's been snowing all day today. The weather reports say that the cold weather will continue, and we will get more snow.

Lucky you! Our drought just continues to drag on, and
it's not even cold enough to require wearing a jacket.
Barely hitting freezing, even at night.
No snow, but lots of dust...

[list]A warm Arctic Ocean makes for
large gyrations in the jet stream. [/list]

Chris Peterson wrote:

Ann wrote:It's been snowing all day today. The weather reports say that the cold weather will continue, and we will get more snow.

Lucky you! Our drought just continues to drag on, and it's not even cold enough to require wearing a jacket. Barely hitting freezing, even at night. No snow, but lots of dust...

orin stepanek wrote:We did get a snow last week; but it was so light that it was all melted in half an hour! Sounds like the drought will extend through next year unless there is a change in the weather patterns. :? :cry:

Chris Peterson wrote:Ouch. We're paying double for hay what we were a couple of years ago. Might need to drive halfway across the country even to find any if this keeps up much longer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Bopha_%282012%29 wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF]Animated enhanced infrared satellite loop of Typhoon Bopha from peak intensity to landfall in the Philippines.[/color][/b]

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<<Typhoon Bopha is currently a powerful tropical cyclone which formed unusually close to the equator. Bopha, a Cambodian word for flower or a girl, became the second most southerly Category 5 super typhoon on December 3, at 7.4°N, with winds in excess of 160 mph (260 km/h). The record is held by Typhoon Louise of 1964, which was a Category 5 storm at 7.3°N. After affecting Palau, Bopha made landfall late on December 3 over Mindanao, an island devastated by Washi in December 2011, becoming the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Mindanao in the past two decades. The storm caused widespread destruction on Mindanao, leaving thousands homeless and more than 300 fatalities.>>

Ann wrote:

Photo: SCANPIX

It's sure snowing here. Snow, snow, snow.



Ann

owlice wrote:Hoping for lots of snow, Orin?

owlice wrote:Hoping for lots of snow, Orin?

(I would not like a high of 27°F, but if it's going to be that cold, it should be snowing! That's the only thing that could make that temperature worthwhile in my book!)