Hurricane Maria

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HURRICANE MARIA

Shows currently a direct hit, Cat 4, on Dominica. Projected path puts it hitting Puerto Rico just east of Ponce, near Guayama, and continuing NW right across the whole island. If it stays a Cat 4 that's going to be REALLY ugly.

The good news is that it looks like it will miss Barbuda and Antigua so they should miss a double whammy. It also looks like it will stay off the east coast.

Ya know I gotta feeling that the Caribbean Islands are about to see some depopulation as people decide this gets too deadly and too expensive....living there I mean.

Same with the cities that flood over and over.

Houston and New Orleans for sure.

Miami We'll See.

Hawkeye10 said:

Ya know I gotta feeling that the Caribbean Islands are about to see some depopulation as people decide this gets too deadly and too expensive....living there I mean.

Same with the cities that flood over and over.

Houston and New Orleans for sure.

Miami We'll See.

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Watch for the tornado alley to become desolate, not to mention fire and mud slide zones. Did I mention blizzards and flooding and tsunamis will eventually come about?

Lovebug said:

Watch for the tornado alley to become desolate, not to mention fire and mud slide zones. Did I mention blizzards and flooding and tsunamis will eventually come about?

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They dont do that much damage.

You probably dont know but there is actually something like a civilization long record of areas that get to be too environmentally costly to live in getting depopulated, sometimes abandoned completely.

See it's always good for the mind to know before the mouth speaks.

cat 5 now.

lets hope the current projected path is true.

Hawkeye10 said:

Ya know I gotta feeling that the Caribbean Islands are about to see some depopulation as people decide this gets too deadly and too expensive....living there I mean.

Same with the cities that flood over and over.

Houston and New Orleans for sure.

Miami We'll See.

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There is a vast difference between Houston and New Orleans.
We did have lots of flooding in Houston, but it drains!
I think something like 20% of the homes flooded in the 4th largest city in the country, and that is a lot of homes,
but 80% of the homes did not flood.
I do think one of the housing questions people buying in Houston will be,"did it flood in Harvey?"
If a home did not flood in Harvey, it is unlikely to ever flood, as this was a rainfall event unlikely to be duplicated.
Many parts of New Orleans are below sea level, and so do not drain, but must be pumped out.
As to the Caribbean Islands, theirs is a very different attitude, I would not expect many to leave, even if they have a choice.

Hawkeye10 said:

They dont do that much damage.

You probably dont know but there is actually something like a civilization long record of areas that get to be too environmentally costly to live in getting depopulated, sometimes abandoned completely.

See it's always good for the mind to know before the mouth speaks.

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Other disasters happen more frequently though, don't they? How many tornados do we have every year? Of course many are in less populated areas.
So where do you want all the coastal areas to relocate to? Lets say you move NO, Houston, Miami, Napels, Tampa, Jacksonville and the Keys, and you cluster them up in the midwest, what will happen if a tornado strikes?