Hurricane Rita

Well, another hurricane, another category five monster. Don't you feel that we get lots of category four to five hurricanes this year? Global warming? Climate change? Sun's temperature rising and solar winds appearing, etc? What's important right now, is that USA will not make the same mistake twice. Losing over 1,000 people is more than enough. It's a tragedy. Tragic, tragic incident that can't surface once more.

Although, Hurricane Rita might devastate New Orleans again. How much can such place take? But hey, at least some warnings and preparations are better than no preparations.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050921/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Come see 3D-animations of global storms: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/n...ultimedia.html

Only five Catagory 5 hurricanes have been measured in the past 100 years, and two of them happen in one month. Obviously this is a sign of global warming, as hurricanes feed off of warm waters.

Yay I like storms ... but yea its pretty weird that we get so many high intensity storms... Maybe its a message of some sort. O_o or not. I wish good luck for all the peoples on the path of the storm.

Global Warming is the cause. Increased sea temperatures mean more energy for hurricanes to feed of.

I am kind of sad, I will be hit by a less intense version. I most likely will not be hurt or anything, since it is just a smaller version of the same storm, but it will be raining HARD here for like, 3-4 days.... I kind of am excited, but I am scared at the same time, it is fascinating yet deadly.... weird, huh?

Crazy that the ocean as a whole has only raised one degree in temperature in the last 50 years... I shudder to think what happens when it raises two or three more...

Well, I live in Houston, and am probably evacuating tomorrow. Not 'cause we're afraid of getting owned or whatever, but because the city has crappy power stuff. It's like a squirrel bites the line and the city's power goes out completely and utterly for a few hours.

I feel sorry for the LA people that came over here....they have to go through ANOTHER 5....sucks.

Originally Posted by Trv016

Crazy that the ocean as a whole has only raised one degree in temperature... I shudder to think what happens when it raises two or three more...

According to my anthropology professor, the average climate during the ice age was only seven degrees lower than today. Small shifts in climate temperature make a huge impact.

tis sad to have yet another giant storm come again. It happens however. Global warming is going to happen no matter what.

ALl I can say is Good luck, and sinc emsot people are not living in the area again, it should be easy enough to get everyoen out. Plus remember.... they just almsot got allteh water out. They gotta do it all again.. grr....

Or.. maybe don't rebuild NO?
Is it really worht it. It will just get struck again in a year or two.

It's rather depressing. . . . . . .we should really take this as a sign. It's going to keep happening until we finally get it.

But, we need to take this as a blessing instead of a curse. It will effect a lot of things. . . . .Like oil. If this makes our oil supply shorter. . . . . .this will be a good thing. Some people (okay, a lot) will not think of it that way, but if we keep using oil, the air will get polluted even worse, and it wouldn't be very good to inhale. . . . . . Also, With New Orleans below sea level, it was obvious this was going to happen anyway. It's better sooner than later.

Originally Posted by IHN

Well, I live in Houston, and am probably evacuating tomorrow. Not 'cause we're afraid of getting owned or whatever, but because the city has crappy power stuff. It's like a squirrel bites the line and the city's power goes out completely and utterly for a few hours.

I feel sorry for the LA people that came over here....they have to go through ANOTHER 5....sucks.

Heh same here. Hello Arkansas....

Originally Posted by Epyon

According to my anthropology professor, the average climate during the ice age was only seven degrees lower than today. Small shifts in climate temperature make a huge impact.

It's expected to keep increasing over the next few decades... what happens when it gets so high? Does it plummet into another Ice Age? I don't think I'd like that, but at this point, it seems inevitable.

I have a feeling that Galvaston may turn into another New Orleans due to the increasing power of the storm and the fact that Galvaston is on an island. Hopefuly, the city has planned out it's evacuation better than New Orleans did. 2005 is just the lucky year, no?

Oh and as for this weather we have been getting, (don't forget, the Midwest had a drought) maybe it is global warming, maybe it isn't. Persoanly, I don't know whats causing this, but if it is global warming, God help us all.

Updated: 12:10 PM EDT
Decades of Heightened Hurricane Activity Predicted
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, AP


WASHINGTON (Sept. 21) - Expect more hurricanes large and small in the next 10 to 20 years, the director of the federal National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.

Max Mayfield told a congressional panel that he believes the Atlantic Ocean is in a cycle of increased hurricane activity that parallels an increase that started in the 1940s and ended in the 1960s.

The ensuing lull lasted until 1995, then "it's like somebody threw a switch,'' Mayfield said. The number and power of hurricanes increased dramatically.

Under questioning by members of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on disaster prevention and prediction, he shrugged off the notion that global warming played a role, saying instead it was a natural cycle in the Atlantic Ocean that fluctuates every 25 to 40 years.

Mayfield predicted several more named tropical storms this year. The latest, Hurricane Rita, is the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June through November. Since record-keeping started in 1851, the record is 21 tropical storms, in 1933.

Mayfield also listed a number of cities and regions in addition to New Orleans he believes are "especially vulnerable'' to damage from a major hurricane: Houston and Galveston, Texas; Tampa; southern Florida and the Florida Keys; New York City and Long Island; and New England.

"Katrina will not be the last major hurricane to hit a vulnerable area,'' he said.

The center's predictions on Katrina's movements were more accurate than usual, but the storm grew more intense more quickly than expected as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico, he said. Three days before it made landfall on Aug. 29, computer models predicted it would hit near New Orleans.

Asked to assess the nation's ability to track hurricanes, one expert before the panel said forecasters have grown better at predicting the path of a storm over a few days but lag in their ability to gauge its intensity, rainfall distribution and surge in water levels.

Better sensors, computers and computer models of hurricane behavior can lead to improved forecasts, said Keith Blackwell of the Coast Weather Research Center at the University of South Alabama.

Senators praised the National Hurricane Center's accurate prediction of Katrina's track, calling it one of the few things the government has done correctly in regards to the storm.

"The people that did get out from the storm owe their lives to you and your people,'' said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.

What it is saying is these hurricanes are not caused by global warming but a natural cycle that will last ten to twenty years.

I found this on AOL today. I think it is interesting that this happens in cycles. it is a bit scary to think that this is just the beginning of a cycle.

Never liked that global warming. I haven't had a good ol' fashioned winter in years.

But yeah, it's unfortunate that New Orleans is in the picture again when it comes for disasters. As if the city needed some more damage after being mostly submerged. And another category five whopper. Hopefully, we'll have some precautions this time and thus, we won't receive all that "the government didn't help" stuff. Not suggesting anything, as I don't claim to have knowledge on that matter but yeah.

Originally Posted by T-Nemesis

Global Warming is the cause. Increased sea temperatures mean more energy for hurricanes to feed of.

Other's argue it's part of a 20 year cycle. I don't know. Lately ice caps the size of Rhode Island have been breaking off of the North Pole. Eventually that ice is gonna' melt, and once it does, bye bye Florida Keys, and pretty much anything near or below sea level.

As for the 20 year cycle, the temperature of the gulf is around 90 degrees, the hurricane itself is officially category 5.

Damn, this is ridiculous, almost like the world is ending.

that really sucks. people who live were i live should be really grateful. (no, i don't live in antartica, the flag is just a joke- i live in california.)