like you did in say 1800

has it been that long with no strong hurricane?

i guess so

Yes

Hurricane Matthew last year came close

AGW fags said hurricanes would get stronger, instead we barely get any, sad!

But it rapidly deintensified before it hit Florida

i remember big hurricanes being fairly common in the 90s

and early 00s

The Gods of the Copybook Headings



As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

Hurricane Sandy was barely a category one

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Katrina hit as a Category 3

Sandy was odd because of the location more than anything

Yes

Sandy was also the largest Atlantic hurricane by surface area covered, because it maintained its hurricane strength at such a Northernly latitude.

They tend to get bigger by surface area the further they get away from the equator

Sweet, 2 foot rain predictions

@NuckFigures katrina 2.0 chimpouts when?

4 inches flooded us to hell 2 years back

It's the storm surge that will really fuck Texas up

Inb4 they use this to try and prove trump hates blacks.

That's what destroyed Galveston

Storm surge is a bitch

Corpus Christie seems ground zero

Gonna be fun times

@AnonMindset 2 FEET?

Total rainfall forecast for Hurricane Harvey

Watched the news today, that's what they said

Donald Trump hates mestizos so much that he absorbed the black sun's power and sent a hurricane at them.

That's fucking bad

i would gtfo

The ground can only handle about 4 inches a day

i hope you have 2 weeks of supplies

Yeah, you don't wanna hang around for a Category 3 hurricane

I've been in Florida for one of those

I'm more inland

This is shaping up to be Trump's first big natural disaster.

At least it will change the news

No more kvetching about Cville

oh man