2018 Hurricane Season

Kirk,possibly Leslie while in the Pacific,Trami could become a super typhoon next week.
Here's What We're Watching in the Tropics as Activity Starts to Increase Again | The Weather Channel

 

Kirk regenerated into a tropical storm.
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane-central/AL122018

 

Beware-humans aren’t the only “residents” that can be displaced by floodwaters!!
Florence floodwaters result in 'islands' of floating fire ants

 

And to get that ol heart a pounding..
Rattlesnake emerged from water in Florida, beachgoers say

 

That was reported during the Texas ones last year. Around here we have to worry about copperhead, water moccasin(cottonmouth), and the timber rattlesnake. Still...I'd not want to have a floating thing of fire ants get near or on me. lol.

An one of the reasons other places outside the states get wrecked by hurricanes isn't always cause their stronger(which normally their not, still only goes up to cat 5)but because said country has far worse infrastructure, less ability to prepare, or even fixed damaged areas...so those areas get wrecked again and again, and the damage gets worse each time. Japan? There were people on roof tops filming the Tsunami.

Haiti? It's a dirt poor country. They have no kind of regulations in regards to building, same with many, many other places. So yea..they get wrecked. The states only handles it so well cause we've learned from the past, have the money to enact fixes where things failed, etc. Katrina was a wake up call to a lot of cities.

Here in the OBX(Dare county as mentioned in posts above) we have regulations. They learned over many years and tons of costly rebuilding. So now we have them. New homes are built to withstand up to a certain amount of wind, etc. Same with places that are earthquake prone, regulations help to keep folks safe when it comes to building in regards to storms.

Here on my sandbar..highway 12 heads to Hatteras and the southern part of sandbar. It gets wiped out every year in various places. Now after much fighting with the EPA, animal people, etc, etc they are finally building a bridge to go over the road/sand where it normally gets breached.

I can't speak for other places but for my sandbar, it's not the strength of the storm so much as the way it comes in that locals watch for. Oceanside...lots of damage but you can rebuild. Up the sound? Eh, not so pretty aftermath. As most of the locals live sound side vs ocean side. Sandy is a good example, not very strong when it hit us, didn't do much damage ocean side. Sound side it wrecked a lot of homes and property.

Ah well, folks like me choose to live in places at risk. You can't control mother nature, best you can do is roll with the punches an prep as much as possible. In the end, if she wants you gone, you will be.

I respect mother nature. Woman scorned an all that.

The above is based on my experiences after living in a hurricane prone area for a very long time over the years. YMMV.

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*YMMV = Your mileage may vary

 

Here that southwestern Az?

Scorpions, rattlers, and everyone else batten down the hatches.

Careful of the ocean surge to.

As a past resident of Arizona...I'm going to bet...nobody will care. Or even chat about it over the old water cooler.

Then again on the bright side it'll bring much needed rain to certain parts of Cali, Mexico, and Arizona.



Yes I jest, I'll gladly take back my words if it actually gets to the border as anything stronger then a tropical storm.

Shame that wall ain't got built yet. It'd keep out illegals AND storms...!

Sirscrapntruckalot - Everyday should be Taco Tuesday.