22852nd poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

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#22112

Thanks hope you both are having a great day!

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#22113

It’s already great when you appeared!!!

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#22114

Thanks whachu been up to recentlly?

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#22115

Reading on hurricanes, recreationally

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#22116

Honestly very fair any cool fact you learned from the reading?

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#22117

Hurricane deaths usually cause around 1K damage nowadays. But sloppy cases like poor engineer work (for New Orleans against Katrina) or not adding seawalls (for Galvestone in 1900) can definetly swell the numbers when it really shouldn’t.

I think being the president in the 2000s must have been a really difficult job. You have snowballs after snowballs and the only thing you’re catching are strays.

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#22118

Also I think hurricanes get worse with climate change because they form in really warm oceans. There was Hurricane Mitch that entirely devastated alot of the central american countries. What I thought was weird is that specific hurricane was so resistant that from the Gulf of Mexico it travelled to MidWest until it passed New York to then bring strong waves in Dublin. That’s a horrifying distance.

Hurricanes usually dissipate after they make landfall.

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#22119

That’s an insane distance actually wtf

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#22120

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Mother Nature did not like Honduras in the frightening year of 1998.

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#22121

It seems I confused the hurricanes though. Mitch didn’t cross NY, whoops.

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#22122

thankfully for me I wasn’t alive then >_<

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#22123

Fair alot to keep track of

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#22124

Hurricane Ida (2021) and Hurricane Ike (2008) or Hurrican Ivan (2004)
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#22125

When the hurrcanes does a loopdy loop
also never realized how many strick lousiana/florida

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#22126

They always seem to drift north and then east.

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#22127

fun hurricane facts:

hurricanes gained people names first based off saints from where they landed, then politicians a weatherman particularly disliked

then they were given the name from american’s girlfriends or wives, which spread throughout the world, till a feminist group made them have a database that wasn’t purely women’s names, and all the weather services had rejected a second plan to name the hurricanes after politicans, considering they “love having things named after them”

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#22128

Those feminists that ruin everything :triumph:

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#22129

Found it. It was Hurricane Galveston, though it didn’t approach Europe like Mitch did.

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#22130

okay so didn’t get as close but that’s still so much living land effected

makes more sense why others might know more about them then thought they were mostly just hit and dones

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#22131

1905-1930 like every 2-3 years hurricanes or storms wouldn’t spawn as often even though they’d still be really bad.

1907 and 1914 never had hurricanes with the latter having only one single storm.

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