Hurricane Willa is an Extremely dangerous Category 5

[NAC4EV]

Monday, October 22, 2018, 7:07 PM -

This year's hurricane season has added another dubious distinction to its already impressive list, as Hurricane Willa strengthened dramatically over the weekend to become the ninth storm worldwide to reach Category 5 intensity. That puts 2018 into a tie for second place when it comes the record for 'most Category 5 storms in a year', and there are likely yet more to come.

 

[BoomerD]

Expected to hit Mexico...so don’t care.

 

[NAC4EV]

Expected to hit Mexico...so don’t care.

Didn't to care when it was Mexico Beach?????

 

[BoomerD]

Didn't to care when it was Mexico Beach?????

Not quite the same thing.

 

[ElFenix]

Expected to hit Mexico...so don’t care.

 

[NAC4EV]

Not quite the same thing.

So Dumb...
And American's wonder why no one likes them..

 

[BoomerD]

Thinking Mexico Beach Florida is the same as Mexico is as silly as thinking Kansas City is the same as Kansas...




(even though there IS a Kansas City, Kansas)

 

[deadlyapp]

Keeping an eye on this one in case it loops all the way to texas, however I expect it to fizzle out over Mexico and maybe drift out into the gulf and not hit us.

 

[IronWing]

Latest forecast has it fizzling over Mexico. They gonna get wet.

 

[DrunkenSano]

Lucky for the peasant convoy that the hurricane isn't hitting Mexico in the narrow part further southeast or they would get bulldozed on their way to the USA.

 

[Oyeve]

The US didn't care about PR of FL with hurricanes so I am pretty sure the US doesn't care about a hurricane hitting Mexico.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

So Dumb...
And American's wonder why no one likes them..

Maybe it's their inability to properly use apostrophes.

 

[Herr Kutz]

So Dumb...
And American's wonder why no one likes them..

So no one likes us because we don’t give a shit about hurricane hitting mexico...ok...

 

[gorcorps]

So Dumb...
And American's wonder why no one likes them..

I'll have you know that I haven't given much of a shit about any of the hurricanes. Just another perk of being a land locked, cold hearted bastard

 

[DrunkenSano]

I only give a shit if one is about to hit the northeast, too many other stuff to worry about in my life.

 

[BUTCH1]

All of us should be "worried" about climate change and the havoc it's wreaking across the planet, if you live in an area impossible to be struck by a hurricane it might well be a drought or unexpected torrential rainfall ruining crops wholesale and causing fires as well. Here in FL we're F-ed, I can imagine home values plummeting due to the amount and severity of these storms. Every year I see the same remarks "wow, we've never seen strengthening on this scale", or "this storm has grown into a monster 400 miles wide". I can imagine how much my "wind" insurance is going to be going forward, yes, here in FL you buy wind insurance as a separate policy.

 

[Muse]

All of us should be "worried" about climate change and the havoc it's wreaking across the planet, if you live in an area impossible to be struck by a hurricane it might well be a drought or unexpected torrential rainfall ruining crops wholesale and causing fires as well. Here in FL we're F-ed, I can imagine home values plummeting due to the amount and severity of these storms. Every year I see the same remarks "wow, we've never seen strengthening on this scale", or "this storm has grown into a monster 400 miles wide". I can imagine how much my "wind" insurance is going to be going forward, yes, here in FL you buy wind insurance as a separate policy.

My sister and SO were contemplating retiring to FL (and they were trying to convince me to join them). I asked her recently if that was still the case, and she assured me NO!

Maybe one day soon the chickens will come home to roost and Maralago will be destroyed. I'd celebrate that.

Here in northern CA, no chance (nearly) of significant impact from a hurricane. However, wildfires have been getting worse and worse and will very likely continue to do so. It's gotten quite out of hand. Droughts have gotten a lot worse.

 

[Muse]

I'll have you know that I haven't given much of a shit about any of the hurricanes, I'll have you know. Just another perk of being a land locked, cold hearted bastard

I heard that land locked people really are the creepiest. It's best to live near an ocean. I always have. It's also best to care about other people. Yeah, that makes me a "bleeding heart liberal," huh? But gotta tell you, life is a ton more interesting if you do care about other people.

 

[gorcorps]

All of us should be "worried" about climate change and the havoc it's wreaking across the planet, if you live in an area impossible to be struck by a hurricane it might well be a drought or unexpected torrential rainfall ruining crops wholesale and causing fires as well. Here in FL we're F-ed, I can imagine home values plummeting due to the amount and severity of these storms. Every year I see the same remarks "wow, we've never seen strengthening on this scale", or "this storm has grown into a monster 400 miles wide". I can imagine how much my "wind" insurance is going to be going forward, yes, here in FL you buy wind insurance as a separate policy.

The only thing I'm worried about is people to my lovely part of the country that's been blissfully ignored by crowds... keeping the traffic and cost of living wonderfully low. Once people find out about it, I'm fucked. It already happened to Colorado, and I left. I don't want to flee across the country again.

 

[gorcorps]

I heard that land locked people really are the creepiest. It's best to live near an ocean. I always have. It's also best to care about other people. Yeah, that makes me a "bleeding heart liberal," huh? But gotta tell you, life is a ton more interesting if you do care about other people.

If there was a place to live near the ocean that was inexpensive and not so crowded, I'd be down. But there really isn't, so it's not worth it for me.

 

[Iron Woode]

being surrounded by the Great Lakes, the only thing I worry about is massive snow storms and Lake Effect Snow.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

All of us should be "worried" about climate change and the havoc it's wreaking across the planet, if you live in an area impossible to be struck by a hurricane it might well be a drought or unexpected torrential rainfall ruining crops wholesale and causing fires as well.

And it's been that was through every single second of history. Every square inch on Earth is subject to one natural disaster or another and always has been. Humans have been at the mercy of floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes since day one. Dinosaurs were at the mercy of of floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes for every day of their 150 million year reign and before them, 500 million years ago trilobytes were at the mercy of of floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes too.

And somewhere there's a tree hugger that is sure that we were responsible for all that. Climate change is why we're here and the Earth has been doing it long before we developed egos large enough to consider for a second that we can prevent it.

 

[BUTCH1]

And it's been that was through every single second of history. Every square inch on Earth is subject to one natural disaster or another and always has been. Humans have been at the mercy of floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes since day one. Dinosaurs were at the mercy of of floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes for every day of their 150 million year reign and before them, 500 million years ago trilobytes were at the mercy of of floods, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes too.

And somewhere there's a tree hugger that is sure that we were responsible for all that. Climate change is why we're here and the Earth has been doing it long before we developed egos large enough to consider for a second that we can prevent it.

Saying there have been floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, ect since the planet's been around is rather pointless. What we are talking about is the measurable impact we're seeing NOW from our burning of fossil fuels for the past 150 years. There are few, if any, in the scientific community who disagree with this and it's not about "ego's" or political leanings.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Saying there have been floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, ect since the planet's been around is rather pointless. What we are talking about is the measurable impact we're seeing NOW from our burning of fossil fuels for the past 150 years. There are few, if any, in the scientific community who disagree with this and it's not about "ego's" or political leanings.

Even better is conservative politicians screaming "its politicized!" when they're the ones doing it (just like the NRA screaming about guns being politicized when again they're the ones doing it most of all). I sure as shit don't listen to politicians when it comes to scientific understanding, other than to see if they're actively choosing to ignore it, let alone if they're stupid enough to go around screaming about not listening to politicians but want people to take them (a politician) seriously. Nor do I listen to celebrities other than when someone is espousing stupid bullshit that they were, and only then to refute it.

 

[DrunkenSano]

All of us should be "worried" about climate change and the havoc it's wreaking across the planet, if you live in an area impossible to be struck by a hurricane it might well be a drought or unexpected torrential rainfall ruining crops wholesale and causing fires as well. Here in FL we're F-ed, I can imagine home values plummeting due to the amount and severity of these storms. Every year I see the same remarks "wow, we've never seen strengthening on this scale", or "this storm has grown into a monster 400 miles wide". I can imagine how much my "wind" insurance is going to be going forward, yes, here in FL you buy wind insurance as a separate policy.

Meh, I'll worry about climate change when other countries who are 1000x worse than we are start changing. Look at China, they are much, much worse than we are. They had to turn off all of their factories the last time they hosted the Olympics so it wasn't a smogland when people from other country came. We have bigger things to worry about in our country than climate change issues that other countries need to fix first.