I have no clue what you are saying here. I don't have any plans of visiting New Jersey before it's underwater.

If you are saying we should bail out these cities every time they go underwater then I'm fine with that as long as they do so by just printing more money. Don't raise my taxes.

Apparently they have a new evacuation plan in place should it be necessary in the future. The problem last time was they essentially said **** the plan everybody leave, which didn't turn out great

Also politics forum is that way

Sorry bro... you're talking to someone who knows climate change is real, but I also know ain't nobody going to pay for this guy to relocate his chemical company.

That plant was built decades ago in a region where the chemical industry is big enough to support it. The chemical industry is big in this region because of the port of Houston.

Guess we should rewind the clock 40 years and tell the guy that started the chemical company he should move it to Nebraska.

A large portion of the **** you buy in your life depends on Houston in some way. If you care so much, stop buying **** and live off the land.

several scientists predicted this would happen.

Didn't know that, thank you.

that's that pimp ****, youngstown would be like a quick 45-minute drive to the beach. beats the 7.5ish hours to the closest beach now (ocean city, and who wants to go there being that they're basically the only state on the east coast without reciprocity on my ohio ccw)...

Irma still too far out to accurately predict but looks like it could be another bad one.

That will apparently be another once in a century event: (multiple category 4+ storms hitting in the same year).

it seems like these once in a century events are happening more frequently than that.

what places on Earth are not subjected to this kind of bull****? New Zealand?

US: you are ****ed everywhere it seems. Either hurricanes, flooding, snow, tornado or Earth quakes.

Also, they are projecting Irma to curve north but it also looks scarily following Katrina's path, with that curve southward it is making. If it goes south through south Florida and then comes out in the UNUSUALLY WARMER THAN USUAL FOR THE 20TH YEAR IN A ROW waters of the gulf of Mexico...

FOX News in USA#1 tho... so there's that, i.e crack news stations reporting ftw

Yes, that's the way it works.

That's the way what works? Hurricanes don't follow the same paths are previous ones.

GG Florida. Latest tracks have Irma hitting the keys as cat 4/5 and then making a beeline straight north up across the state.

Sarcasm ah.. Whooosh

Actually, there are very few major storm events or earthquakes in Arizona and New Mexico. I believe west Texas is also fairly free of those types of occurrences.

Only problem there is that every day is like living in hell from the heat.

Upper Midwest (Iowa and North) is quite nice. Chance of a random tornado once and a while. Some snow. Might break 100 couple times a year.

Wouldn't say we are fked by any means.

Confirmed as it is 103 right now. The worst that happens here (Tucson) is 1-2 months of very frequent thunderstorms and flash floods in July/August. Maybe a dust devil touches down on a street once every couple years as well.

I'm from West Texas...Midland to be exact. Weather is very mild there. Snow storms and natural earthquakes are very uncommon. Tornados never seemed to be a big concern although one did nearly knock Saragosa off the map in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Saragosa_tornado

The weather in Lubbock is a different story though. One of the windiest places in the US. Tornados are bad. Straight line winds are bad. Dust storms can be pretty epic too. Plus they get more snow.

I'm from Iowa...Sioux City to be exact. The snow storms there are terrible and it's just cold as hell in general throughout the winter. I recall the tornados being really bad but judging by this map not nearly as bad as some other places. (the worst place I've lived for Tornados is Gainesville, TX which is pretty much Oklahoma)




I'm from New Mexico...Roswell to be exact. It's hot during the summer but the other 9 months are quite mild (actually, gets a bit too cool for me in the winter). Other places in NM are much cooler than Roswell.

Anyways, what about Austin and San Antonio. What terrible weather do they get? Some remnants of a hurricane?

The original track of Harvey was supposed to go through San Antonio. But because of the distance from the coast, it wasn't supposed to be terrible.

This tells me you've never been anywhere that has a real winter.

10F average January low qualifies as pretty damn cold in the US imo, it's not like there's a bunch of people from Oymyakon on 2+2