Hurricanes...
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For sure! My parents owned a house right on Siesta Key by the beach.
Loved it there. It was a sad day when they sold the house
For many years I dreamed of retiring in that area. Such nice beaches. But with current cost of life it will now happen in Mexico
Sarasota was hit quite hard yesterday we have yet to see all the damages... It was the main landfall of Milton, wasn't it?
Landfall was somewhere between Sarasota and VeniceFor many years I dreamed of retiring in that area. Such nice beaches. But with current cost of life it will now happen in Mexico
Sarasota was hit quite hard yesterday we have yet to see all the damages... It was the main landfall of Milton, wasn't it?
It's human nature to want to blame something for terrible things that happen in life. Just as worrisome is the Western idea that we can simply eliminate or share risk through insurance programs.
People are going to say look at the all the damage as evidence storms are stronger. Overbuilding on the coasts particularly low-lying areas has created larger and larger damage zones. Florida had 5 million people in 1960. Today it has 24 million and they are concentrated along the two coasts.
If you look at Florida geography, the Gulf coast is/was mostly low-lying marshland. You can drain a swamp, but you can't raise it.
I remember when two hurricanes hit Florida in 2005, climate scientists were predicting two or more Florida hurricanes annually would be the new norm. Of course as your chart demonstrates, the opposite was true.3 major hurricanes?? There's only been 1 so far, Milton will be the 2nd.
This has happened before btw.
In 1950 (when there was no global warming) Florida got hit by 2 as well.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes
If global warming supposedly is increasing hurricanes, how come between 2005 and 2017 Florida got hit by exactly ZERO hurricanes.
So thats a 12 year span. Did global warming take a little coffee break for those 12 years or something??
