Having survived Supertyphoon Pamela (1976), wherein my ship (LST) came within an RCH of sinking, and I got 9 vertebrae broken, I totally agree with you.
and I think you will find many of us have been thru fun times with storms- hurricane Gloria, 1985.. ice storm of 1998 in maine.. weathermen aka fear mongering alarmists, over play weather to make it worse than it is… up here its “wind chill is gonna be XX below zero”!!! and the morons all start panicking cause ZOMG its gonna be cold!! and in summer it “feels like XXX”… be prepared to take care of yourself..
It is pointing out a reality. (Granted, sometimes getting struck in the face with reality makes people mad.) But, you are correct. The building codes in western NC are not designed for hurricane level winds. Nor do they take into account a once in a century flooding. Why should they?
It is like expecting roof standards in Florida or SoCal to be deigned to support an Alaska level snow load. Or requiring tornado level structural ties on a cottage in New England.
What is important to fight back against is the idiocy thinking this destruction is some kind of proof of climate change. It is proof that different regions have different building requirements. Nothing more.
"Climate change" is a term chosen to be always true (it started when Earth acquired an atmosphere and will remain true so long as it has one -- ask any dinosaur). That's why they dropped "global warming" which is falsifiable.
The far left wannabe dictators pushing that term are trying to conflate "climate change" (obviously true) with "anthropogenic climate change" (demonstrably false). BTW, the reason I categorically call it false is that climate data (from the US agency NOAA) shows average temperatures going up and down quite substantially over the past 10,000 years (since the last ice age), with warmer weather in the days of Julius Caesar than we have now. And it shows that 1850 is within a whisker of the coldest in the past 100 centuries (a hair warmer than 1600 or so) -- and of course, that's why the warmists pick that year as their reference for "pre-industrial temperatures" as if it was typical rather than a very cold outlier.
Hurricanes (and tornadoes) do come far north, tough rarely. The key point here isn't how far north, but how far inland you are. Hurricanes fall apart over land, but over water they weaken according to the water temperature. So New England gets an occasional one, if it comes in over the Atlantic and hits the coast just right. As I recall that happened in 1938 (before hurricanes got names).
Having survived Supertyphoon Pamela (1976), wherein my ship (LST) came within an RCH of sinking, and I got 9 vertebrae broken, I totally agree with you.
and I think you will find many of us have been thru fun times with storms- hurricane Gloria, 1985.. ice storm of 1998 in maine.. weathermen aka fear mongering alarmists, over play weather to make it worse than it is… up here its “wind chill is gonna be XX below zero”!!! and the morons all start panicking cause ZOMG its gonna be cold!! and in summer it “feels like XXX”… be prepared to take care of yourself..
What you wrote should not make people mad.
It is pointing out a reality. (Granted, sometimes getting struck in the face with reality makes people mad.) But, you are correct. The building codes in western NC are not designed for hurricane level winds. Nor do they take into account a once in a century flooding. Why should they?
It is like expecting roof standards in Florida or SoCal to be deigned to support an Alaska level snow load. Or requiring tornado level structural ties on a cottage in New England.
What is important to fight back against is the idiocy thinking this destruction is some kind of proof of climate change. It is proof that different regions have different building requirements. Nothing more.
"Climate change" is a term chosen to be always true (it started when Earth acquired an atmosphere and will remain true so long as it has one -- ask any dinosaur). That's why they dropped "global warming" which is falsifiable.
The far left wannabe dictators pushing that term are trying to conflate "climate change" (obviously true) with "anthropogenic climate change" (demonstrably false). BTW, the reason I categorically call it false is that climate data (from the US agency NOAA) shows average temperatures going up and down quite substantially over the past 10,000 years (since the last ice age), with warmer weather in the days of Julius Caesar than we have now. And it shows that 1850 is within a whisker of the coldest in the past 100 centuries (a hair warmer than 1600 or so) -- and of course, that's why the warmists pick that year as their reference for "pre-industrial temperatures" as if it was typical rather than a very cold outlier.
Hurricanes (and tornadoes) do come far north, tough rarely. The key point here isn't how far north, but how far inland you are. Hurricanes fall apart over land, but over water they weaken according to the water temperature. So New England gets an occasional one, if it comes in over the Atlantic and hits the coast just right. As I recall that happened in 1938 (before hurricanes got names).