Well, yes, we have the occasional wildfire,
and floods and drought. Floods here where I live can be really bad, but
they come only about once every 20-30 years......really bad ones, that is.
Then there was 1998, the El Nino year, when it didn't really flood so bad, but
the ground was so saturated that we had horrendous slides. Good ole
Nature! The thing I like about weather is that NO ONE has control over
it. We can predict it with some accuracy, but we can't control it. I
rather like the fact that MAN cannot control everything.
You forgot wild fires, drought, floods, blizzards, killer heat
waves and killer cold waves, crazed people running around with with guns or
flying airplanes into buildings killing other people, and all the rest mother
nature and mankind can dish out. I've lived in tornado alley and I've lived in
FL for some years now. The "midwestern" tornado I think is the most
impressive. It can take a half mile swath for miles - and pulverize everything
and everybody in its path. We have them down here and they have them in the
middle atlantic but they are puny little suckers compared to those full grown
tornados they get in the alley.
There were 27 dead from Charley three
weeks ago. There have been tornados that have killed 100's of people. So I
don't like any of them and it looks like I'm going to be the exit point of
this current storm but we are ready and it's pretty slow moving so it will be
pretty well beat up and disorganized by the time it gets here. I could change
course by a few degrees and we wouldn't see anything - only time will tell.
For those folks at the entry point - this is a big one and big slow
moving one and where it will enter is wet and flat so flooding will be a real
problem and 120 knot winds are nothing to sneeze at. Howard was going to come
over - bring his horses and stay at my place. At that time "ground zero" was
his house. He was going to buy all the beer and promised to vote for the man I
told him to. Turns out that it is going to hit far enought south of him
that he's not worried.
The atlantic hurricanes are mean storms but
they don't even come close to the pacific typhoons For a lot of reasons
hurricanes don't get much higher wind speeds of 125 knots then they start to
feed on themselves. But the western pacific and Indian Ocean typhoons can pack
winds of 180 knots (about 200 mph) and sustain them. Those are truly
awesome. If you know any sailors that have been in the pacific ask them what
they are like.
While you have to respect them you have to admire them.
The ability of form a hurricane - to form a system so very organized from
pretty much nothing is impressive.
We have plenty of water - water
tanks in the back of the truck for to fill the horse water if the electricity
goes off. We have food and we are used to 60- 80 mph winds from out normal
summer thunderstorms. We have plenty of beer and wine so we will be fine.
As far as earthquakes - you can have em. I like to be able to see what
is going to try to kill me days ahead so I can flip him the bird when he fails
;-)!
Truman
Barbara McCrary wrote:
And I've heard people say they wouldn't live in California because of "those
awful earthquakes!"
At least they don't happen every year like clockwork. But they do take one
by surprise when they do happen. I'll still take them instead of hurricanes
and tornados.
Barbara
--
"It is necessary to
be noble, and yet take humility as a basis.
It is necessary to be
exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."
