Are DUers noticing the size of these storms recently

[malaise]

Andrea is just a Tropical Storm but she is huge. Sandy was massive.
One of these days we will face a hurricane as strong as Katrina but the size of Sandy.

We had better start paying attention to climate change although it may already be too late.

[onehandle]

1. Centered in the Carolinas currently. Been raining for 20 hours in Philly.

The new normal.

[malaise]

2. Just look at the size of her

[William769]

3. Kind of on topic.

You should see the millions (literally) & the size of gnats this storm has spawned in S.W. Florida.

I have been here since 1973 and have never seen anything like this.

[malaise]

4. Damn

I hate gnats - yuck!!
Look out for the mosquitoes next week.

[William769]

5. Thats what I'm afraid of.

And if you think I'm joking, check out this story. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/giant-mosquito-florida_n_2943791.html

[malaise]

6. Frightening

Use neem oil- It stinks but it will protect you without all the chemicals.

[William769]

7. Thanks.

[CatWoman]

13. another thing that is highly effective is Skin So Soft Bath Oil Spray

(original scent)

[malaise]

24. Did not know that

Thanks

[dlwickham]

58. I always thought it was funny that a horrible Avon product works so well against bugs

my grandmother used to buy it

just found this on line on how to properly use the stuff

In my 59 years of being the preferred outdoor insect Hors d'oeuvre. I have tried many yeah most insect repellants in the worst of conditions including Florida everglade insects, Florida beach Black Flies,
common flies and clouds of rocky mountain mosquitoes.

I have not found anything that is 1/2 as good as the ORIGINAL (AVON Skin so Soft Bath Oil) Nothing else works the same.

The problem is 99% of the public do not know how to use it correctly.

Use a medium to large premium pump spray bottle, fill it half full of plain water and half full of the above mentioned ORIGINAL; (AVON Skin so Soft Bath Oil)

While you are fully dressed and ready to go trecking start shaking the bottle vigorously (it will become milky looking in the bottle). Get out of the car into the cloud of bugs and spray yourself (with your eyes and mouth closed) head to toe while continuly shaking the bottle. Completely cover yourself and do the same for your best friend making sure you are completely covered everywhere, even behind the ears. Put the bottle down and rub it all in,(Watch those eyes). By this time you will notice all the bugs that used to be around have left and won't be back to bother you for one to two days, Do NOT WASH IT OFF. If you do, you had better Re-Spray yourself, bugs love clean people.. This always works for my entire family of five we have never been bitten by a bug after this approach. Now instead, You actually get to watch the swarms hover around and feed on all the other folks especially those who stink of Deet and other similar products; while everyone in your camp smells nice and flowery. I would rather smell pretty that feed the native insects. PS I have used this in bear country hearing bears within 75 yards of our tent and have never had a problem. Bears come when you do not store your food and waste carefully folks, or if a woman in your camp or nearby is in season, not because you wear Avon!!!!

Read more: Does avon skin so soft really repel bugs? | Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/627779#ixzz2VayUN4zR

[RebelOne]

63. I used ti buy it to keep fleas off my dogs. n/t

[MattBaggins]

26. So you are saying that

dimethyl (2aR,3S,4S,R,S,7aS,8S,10R,10aS,10bR)- 10-(acetyloxy)- 3,5-dihydroxy- 4-[(1S,2S,6S,8S,9R,11S)- 2-hydroxy- 11-methyl- 5,7,10-trioxatetracyclo[6.3.1.02,6.09,11]dodec- 3-en- 9-yl]- 4-methyl- 8-{[(2E)- 2-methylbut- 2-enoyl]oxy}octahydro- 1H-furo[3',4':4,4a]naphtho[1,8-bc]furan- 5,10a(8H)-dicarboxylate

as well as

Methyl (2R,3aR,4aS,5R,5aR,6R,9aR,10S,10aR)-5-(acetyloxy)-2-(furan-3-yl)-10-(2-methoxy-2-oxoethyl)-1,6,9a,10a-tetramethyl-9-oxo-3,3a,4a,5,5a,6,9,9a,10,10a-decahydro-2H-cyclopenta[.b]naphtho[2,3-d]furan-6-carboxylate

will protect you but without chemicals?

That stuff seems a lot scarier than N,N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide.

[malaise]

28. Neem is a plant

with lots of uses

[MattBaggins]

37. Neem is a plant.. loaded with chemicals

[malaise]

42. Better raw neem than big pharma

We use it a lot even as a pesticide in our vegetable and herb garden

[MattBaggins]

47. On what grounds?

Chemicals are chemicals

[malaise]

49. But some are free

It's that simple

[kestrel91316]

52. The ones made by nature are less of a Pandora's Box than the ones made by man.

I'm guessing you don't have any background in chemistry, biology, or toxicology.

[MattBaggins]

53. LOL

Your appeal to nature leads me to believe you do not.

[siligut]

55. A Veterinarian would have studied all three

Did you look at her profile?

[MattBaggins]

56. Someone with a background in science ought

not to make appeals to nature.

A chemical is a collection of atoms in a particular arrangement and may or may not have certain bioactive properties.

It matters not if it is a so called "natural" or man made chemical.

[siligut]

57. If the plant is whole, the chemicals may mediate each other

When the chemical is isolated, that mediating factor is removed. But I agree, a chemical is a chemical.

[kenny blankenship]

38. I recently learned that catnip has a chemical in it far more effective than DEET

in repelling mosquitoes. Another reason to plant catnip. I don't know how effective the plain unprocessed catnip leaf is when rubbed on the skin. You might not deter that many mosquitoes perhaps, but you'd be a hit with all the local kittehs.

[malaise]

41. We use neem oil or rub the leaves on our skin

People also use breadfruit leaves

[kenny blankenship]

51. Interesting plant.

I don't think it grows well around here, but no doubt the oil can be found through gardening supply stores or someplace.

[malaise]

59. We can buy it by the bundle in the markets

for US2 pennies or find a tree for yourself

[greytdemocrat]

8. Yep

I walked into a zillion of them walking the dogs just a while ago.

But to be fair, it's nothing new. They always pop out after
a prolonged dry spell. Hardly anything new.

The worst was when I was still jogging and I'd get
covered in them...

[William769]

9. I just don't remember them this bad.

I'm letting my pets do their business on the lani for awhile.

[Lochloosa]

15. We call them Tiger Mosquitoes in N. FL

[William769]

17. Want them back?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Yup. have noticed that

increased energy in the atmosphere... now I wonder what could have led to that?

[malaise]

12. Well the oceans are heating up

We've really messed up this planet

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I remember watching the head of the Mexican

National Weather Services after hail fell like nuts in Mexico City, (one more I was attacked for here, punching bag and all that)

He explained, imagine that, having a scientist on TV... RUN!!!! that the one degree (centigrade) extra in temperature has added the equivalent of 100,000 Hiroshima bombs to the atmosphere. So that increased energy makes for a far more dynamic weather system.

[malaise]

29. Ignorance is promoted by several interests

Why would any people ignore scientists?

[CatWoman]

11. Last night I heard the rain loud and strong

It rained cats and dogs about 30 minutes ago, and the sky is dark again.

I'm in Atlanta. We are getting a lot of storms from that system. They are full of winds and are due to last all weekend.

[malaise]

14. Just you stay safe

[RebelOne]

25. I am in the Atlanta area also. I live in Woodstock just northwest of Atlanta.

I have been seeing reports on TV news about all kinds of road collapses, flooding, and damage from fallen trees. In fact, all of this is more than I have seen in recent years.

[CatWoman]

32. saw plenty of downed trees and huge limbs

driving to work this morning

[ileus]

16. We could end up with a flood of 1985 every year...

[Arugula Latte]

18. Sad to say, I think it's too late.

[Control-Z]

19. Yeah. That's what

I was going to post. It makes me so sad.

[malaise]

22. You may be right

Too many people don't give a damn

[stuntcat]

21. too bad we can't go back 20 years and start over, listening to the scientists

They were saying the same things back then, even before. We can't go back even ten years and pay attention.. even five years..
Nope, in 2023 we'll be just as clueless, but CO2 in the atmosphere will be at 450 ppm by then. We'll be trashing things even faster then.

[malaise]

23. Guess people will watch coastal cities drown

with their citizens

[kenny blankenship]

39. In 20 years the iditots will be just as idiotic as they are today

and they'll say, "Global Warming? Pfft, when I was a kid twenty years ago, I saw New Orleans go and ten years later Oklahoma City was wiped out by a tornado. Then there was that hurricane that swallowed Cuba after Castro died. It's just the weather, man! It's always been like this. Can't do nothing about it, so why complain? Weather's gonna do what the weather's gonna do. The price of gas on the other hand, that is really starting to chap my ass! Why don't our politicians DO SOMETHING???

[malaise]

40. Why don't our politicians DO SOMETHING???

And upset their owners?

[jimlup]

27. It is way too late to stop the freak storms but ...

Me may yet avoid civilization threatening famines and displacements if we act now.

[backscatter712]

30. Weather whiplash.

But don't worry. The same PR flacks that worked for Big Tobacco and told us that cigarettes are harmless will be happy to explain that these are perfectly normal weather patterns, and are not caused by the carbon emissions of their oil industry clients.

[malaise]

31. You are 100% correct

[kestrel91316]

33. Silly - weather and climate change have nothing to do with each other.

[malaise]

61. I should know better

[Earth_First]

34. FOCUS! We're still outraging over the NSA leak... n/t

[malaise]

35. I'd like Obama to get rid of it but I can't be outraged over

something that is anything but breaking news

[tardybar]

36. storms

The Corporate News Media does not want to inform the public. They are in the pockets of Big Corporations who make big profits by dumping on the environment.

[raouldukelives]

44. And are given aid & immunity by shareholders.

Nothing makes people feel secure about themselves like assisting in the raping and profiting from it as much as possible before they depart this mortal coil.
Nothing makes corporations happier than sharing the wealth & spreading the blame around under a blanket of fiduciary responsibility.
It's a win-win.

[rurallib]

43. The storms crossing the continent have also been massive

The mess that went through last week causing problems from Texas to Minnesota and all places in between covered about 2/3 of the country.
At least one storm last winter had fingers in something like 43 states at one time. They are also getting more massive and dumping much more water.

[malaise]

45. You're correct

Special interests couldn't care less

[customerserviceguy]

46. Rained practically all day in NY/NJ

Not like it's a problem for me, as I spent 37 years in Western Washington state, where this was normal. Still, the rain has noticeably intensified in the last ten minutes, and I know the drainage systems here are not sufficiently developed.

I guess I can hope it drowns the cicadas before they make enough noise to wake the dead.

[BumRushDaShow]

48. She's practically sitting on top of us now

Feel her in every joint....

[RedCappedBandit]

50. It probably is just too late.

[NutmegYankee]

54. Usually the storms get smaller as the winds increase

The hurricanes will become very organized and shrink into a small but very damaging storm. Andrea never had significant development and so remains a large mass of rain.

As of right now, 2.8 3.5 inches and rising of rainfall in SE Conn.

[Socialistlemur]

60. Too late for what?

I don't find global warming to be such a big worry. Long term, overpopulation worries me a lot more.

[YeahSureRight]

62. It is already too late the size and destruction of the stroms now

is mother natures way of getting some pay back.

At least she is hitting the right targets unlike that god being.

Humans are acting like asshats and will get their comeuppance soon and it is well deserved too.