2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

[Justin_Rice]

As it turns out, most of our cities are located close to water, because for a long time we depended on water-based transport to reach markets and maintain communications.

That's also where hurricanes tend to hit.

 

[WolvEagle]

We're really good at putting major cities in places where Mother Nature just shakes her head.

Washington, D.C., also swampland. South Florida? Dug out of the Everglades. Below sea level New Orleans stays dry because of levees. Every major town on the Mississippi River is on a flood plain. A third of San Francisco is reclaimed landfill, just begging for another major earthquake. Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas? Wait until the water runs out.

And I think Sherman burned Atlanta because he was tired of sitting in traffic.

Uh, how's Los Angeles going to run out of water when it's next to the Pacific Ocean? Dumb question from a Midwesterner who likely will be in Beryl's path on Wednesday.

 

[BTExpress]

Because we haven't figured out a way to remove the salt from the water that doesn't require a ton of energy and isn't three times more expensive than just getting the water from other sources.

 

[UPChip]

Is there still time for some Yell Leaders to tell a G-rated story about the hurricane to mock it?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Uh, how's Los Angeles going to run out of water when it's next to the Pacific Ocean? Dumb question from a Midwesterner who likely will be in Beryl's path on Wednesday.

Fresh water is the question. Pacific Ocean kind of salty.

 

[Twirling Time]

We're really good at putting major cities in places where Mother Nature just shakes her head.

Washington, D.C., also swampland. South Florida? Dug out of the Everglades. Below sea level New Orleans stays dry because of levees. Every major town on the Mississippi River is on a flood plain. A third of San Francisco is reclaimed landfill, just begging for another major earthquake. Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas? Wait until the water runs out.

And I think Sherman burned Atlanta because he was tired of sitting in traffic.

At least Memphis was built on a bluff so it's not as floodprone, but that won't matter when the New Madrid lets go.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

We're really good at putting major cities in places where Mother Nature just shakes her head.

Washington, D.C., also swampland. South Florida? Dug out of the Everglades. Below sea level New Orleans stays dry because of levees. Every major town on the Mississippi River is on a flood plain. A third of San Francisco is reclaimed landfill, just begging for another major earthquake. Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas? Wait until the water runs out.

And I think Sherman burned Atlanta because he was tired of sitting in traffic.

I'm in no position to criticize. I live on a sandbar 30 miles out into the Atlantic, one winter storms rearrange each year.

 

[Liut]

At least Memphis was built on a bluff so it's not as floodprone, but that won't matter when the New Madrid lets go.

Memphis may "slide" into the river.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Memphis may "slide" into the river.

The whole continent may split apart! (The premise of this cheesy movie is based on the New Madrid causing a 10.0 quake.)

 

[Driftwood]

Atlanta was never meant to be the size it is, and that's why Georgia keeps crying about access to the Tennessee River.
As noted, waterways were our highways prior to the 1950s.
In Tennessee's case, your four major cities - Nashville (Cumberland), Memphis (Mississippi), Knoxville and Chattanooga (Tennessee) - are all located on rivers. The state's motto is Agriculture and Commerce, and we have a sheaf of wheat on a river boat on the state seal.
All your port cities along the east coast and the Great Lakes, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Louisville, on and on.

 

[MileHigh]

Fresh water is the question. Pacific Ocean kind of salty.

And environmentalists.

Can Desalination Be a Solution for Drought in SoCal?

 

[FileNotFound]

My older kid lives on Galveston Island and got a hotel room in Houston mostly because he could. Power is out at the hotel and it's rainy and windy. I got out via IAH last night, only about an hour behind schedule, which under the circumstances really wasn't too bad.