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How irresponsible and careless can you get? What if some people listen to Drudge instead of the official warnings and decide not to evacuate and are killed? If anyone is harmed by listening to Drudge, I hope Drudge is sued into oblivion. Gross negligence on his part.
The facts:
Does climate change cause hurricanes? No.
Does it make them worse? It can by making the ocean warmer, thus providing more energy.
Does it make flooding worse? Yes, definitely. The ocean today is 6 inches higher than normal due to ice melt and thermal expansion, all because of global warming. Six inches may not sound like much but in a hurricane storm surge it will drive flood waters considerably farther inland because of it.
If anyone's harmed by listening to Drudge, they should sue him into oblivion? Is there something wrong with you?
Fact: People have refused to vacate, hurricane after hurricane, for reasons having nothing to do with Matt Drudge.
I've been living in Florida for a few decades. Sometimes you just have to question the amount of weather depressions just happen to hit the magical number of 39 mph just so it gets a storm name or 74 mph so it can be called a hurricane. When the storm passes over, it turns out to be a big nothing.
This is why the locals will so frequently discount what the weather people say about these storms and just go about their business. They have a long history of exaggerating this kind of stuff. People know it.
Sorry if that does not fit in with some people's "politically correct" narrative.
Indeed. Finished near the bottom of his class in high school, never went to college. Yes, he is supremely qualified to comment on meteorology.
Really? Then he's an amazing success story actually. All he does is aggregate news articles onto one site and make headlines to drive people to the article. He seems to have a natural instinct on how to write a summation of the story in just one line. He's a millionaire, so obviously college wasn't necessary to his success.
This is why the locals will so frequently discount what the weather people say about these storms and just go about their business. They have a long history of exaggerating this kind of stuff. People know it.
Sorry if that does not fit in with some people's "politically correct" narrative.
They will next time around for sure. After Hurricane Katrina came Hurricane Rita bearing down on Houston. They told everyone it was going to be worse than Katrina and people should evacuate. The traffic nightmare it caused with people literally going less than a mile in 15 hours and running out of gas along the way was a total disaster. Thank God Rita ended up hitting closer to Beaumont because had it hit Galveston all those people stuck on the highways instead of safe in their homes would have probably died. Then Hurricane Ike did hit, and no one evacuated unless they were forced to. And even then people in the mandatory evacuation zone ignored it, and many died.
I have far more faith in the educated forecasters on the Weather Channel than anything posted on the Drudge Report. I also have more faith in the forecasters than in some old fart sitting in a bar on the coast convinced that "Aw, this ain't much of a storm 'cause I remember back in 1820 when we had a real fierce storm."
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