Americans are at the cusp of a new danger they cannot compensate to survive.
Dallas: Storms hit the US South, (click here) Southwest and Midwest over the Christmas holiday weekend, unleashing floods and tornadoes that killed at least 43 people, flattened buildings and snarled transportation for millions during a busy travel time.
The bad weather or threat of it prompted the governors of Missouri and New Mexico to declare a state of emergency for their states.
Flash floods killed at least 13 people in Missouri and Illinois....
Eight deaths at least in Missouri. These are totals of the dead from a single storm system at this time of year is unheard of. I have to look up the death tolls of Sandy. Sandy was an east coast phenomena and considered the equivalent of a Category One hurricane in wind velocity. Sandy is not the same as the Christmas Storm of 2015.
In Missouri, emergency workers have evacuated residents from their homes and conducted dozens of water rescues, Governor Jay Nixon said on Sunday. He said at least eight people had been killed and numerous roadways had been closed....
The Christmas Storm of 2015 was enormous. It was drawing supporting warm air from a very large swath of Earth. Sandy built it's size over a warm ocean.
Sandy's death toll was 285 primarily from drowning regardless of warnings made to evacuate. Americans don't 'get it' necessarily. It isn't the media's fault. The American media dedicates a great deal of time in warnings about storms. People focus on something to convince themselves they'll "be alright."
In the case of Sandy, I think people focused on "Category 1" status and thought the media was overplaying their hand.
Americans in large measure don't understand physics. A storm the size of Sandy needed a great deal of energy to sustain it's size. The winds were a minor event compared to the size and scope of THE TIDAL SURGE. Americans think high velocity storms carry "high walls of water" a shore and they take it seriously. But, in the case of Sandy it had what most Americans consider a survivable Category wind speed of One.
These lower category storms carry a large tidal surge not necessary in height but width. The radius/diameter of Sandy was enormous. People have to realize the height of tides at lower velocity storms is not the problem, but, the WIDTH of the ARRIVING tide will 'pile up' once it reaches land/the shore.
The tide of these lower velocity storms are similar to tsunamis. The height can be lower, but, when it reaches the shoreline/beach/land the water piles on top of itself to cause THE ACCUMULATION of high amounts of water that is not survivable.
May 23, 2015
By Laura Petrecca
New York — Drowning (click here) was the most common cause of death associated with the devastating Superstorm Sandy, according to a report out Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Almost half – 45% — of the 40 drowning deaths in the October storm occurred in flooded homes in New York City's mandatory Evacuation Zone A, said the CDC, citing research from the American Red Cross.
That zone covers swaths of coastline areas in city boroughs and includes hard-hit communities such as Breezy Point, Queens, Midland Beach, Staten Island and Lower Manhattan. Residents in Evacuation Zone A received mandatory evacuation orders the day prior to the storm, but many remained in their homes.
"A lot of the drowning occurred in the evacuation zones, and so that just reminds us how important it is to listen to these (evacuation) messages, whether it's for a hurricane, tornado or any severe event," says Amy Wolkin, Team Lead for CDC's Disaster and Epidemiological Response Team....
Dallas: Storms hit the US South, (click here) Southwest and Midwest over the Christmas holiday weekend, unleashing floods and tornadoes that killed at least 43 people, flattened buildings and snarled transportation for millions during a busy travel time.
The bad weather or threat of it prompted the governors of Missouri and New Mexico to declare a state of emergency for their states.
Flash floods killed at least 13 people in Missouri and Illinois....
Eight deaths at least in Missouri. These are totals of the dead from a single storm system at this time of year is unheard of. I have to look up the death tolls of Sandy. Sandy was an east coast phenomena and considered the equivalent of a Category One hurricane in wind velocity. Sandy is not the same as the Christmas Storm of 2015.
In Missouri, emergency workers have evacuated residents from their homes and conducted dozens of water rescues, Governor Jay Nixon said on Sunday. He said at least eight people had been killed and numerous roadways had been closed....
The Christmas Storm of 2015 was enormous. It was drawing supporting warm air from a very large swath of Earth. Sandy built it's size over a warm ocean.
Sandy's death toll was 285 primarily from drowning regardless of warnings made to evacuate. Americans don't 'get it' necessarily. It isn't the media's fault. The American media dedicates a great deal of time in warnings about storms. People focus on something to convince themselves they'll "be alright."
In the case of Sandy, I think people focused on "Category 1" status and thought the media was overplaying their hand.
Americans in large measure don't understand physics. A storm the size of Sandy needed a great deal of energy to sustain it's size. The winds were a minor event compared to the size and scope of THE TIDAL SURGE. Americans think high velocity storms carry "high walls of water" a shore and they take it seriously. But, in the case of Sandy it had what most Americans consider a survivable Category wind speed of One.
These lower category storms carry a large tidal surge not necessary in height but width. The radius/diameter of Sandy was enormous. People have to realize the height of tides at lower velocity storms is not the problem, but, the WIDTH of the ARRIVING tide will 'pile up' once it reaches land/the shore.
The tide of these lower velocity storms are similar to tsunamis. The height can be lower, but, when it reaches the shoreline/beach/land the water piles on top of itself to cause THE ACCUMULATION of high amounts of water that is not survivable.
May 23, 2015
By Laura Petrecca
New York — Drowning (click here) was the most common cause of death associated with the devastating Superstorm Sandy, according to a report out Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Almost half – 45% — of the 40 drowning deaths in the October storm occurred in flooded homes in New York City's mandatory Evacuation Zone A, said the CDC, citing research from the American Red Cross.
That zone covers swaths of coastline areas in city boroughs and includes hard-hit communities such as Breezy Point, Queens, Midland Beach, Staten Island and Lower Manhattan. Residents in Evacuation Zone A received mandatory evacuation orders the day prior to the storm, but many remained in their homes.
"A lot of the drowning occurred in the evacuation zones, and so that just reminds us how important it is to listen to these (evacuation) messages, whether it's for a hurricane, tornado or any severe event," says Amy Wolkin, Team Lead for CDC's Disaster and Epidemiological Response Team....
