Do DUers realize that there was not one major US landfall hurricane

[malaise]

during Obama's tenure?

Remember Sandy was not a hurricane.
I have added the NOAA release on post-tropical Sandy from October 27, 2012
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20121027_pa_sandyTransition.pdf

Eclipse that Groper Don the Con you stupid incompetent fuck!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Surely pat robertson will tell us this hurricane is to show how god is displeased with trump, right?

[malaise]

2. Hehehehehhehe

No he'll say not bowing down to the Con caused it.

[flibbitygiblets]

46. Well if we're talking about the God of Karma, then...yeah.

That actually explains quite a bit.

[rpannier]

53. Gay marriage

Always gay marriage

[catbyte]

54. Heck no, it's the media's fault!

[JHB]

56. I have the honor of Pat Robertson steering a hurricaine right at me

(not really, but...)

Pat used his special connection to on high (y'know, his broadcast license) to pray that Hurricane Gloria not hit his locale, Virginia Beach.

Well, it didn't hit VB, but it did hit Long Island (NY). The eye passed right over where I was.

[MLAA]

3. Perfect, I think God was displeased with somebody's Phoenix rant!

[dsc]

4. My part of NC would beg to differ with you

Matthew was devastating in 2016

[malaise]

6. But Matthew was Cat2 when it hit SC is not a major hurricane

I remember because we still don't know how Matthew missed us in Jamaica.

[marylandblue]

9. Matthew hit around when Trump's pussy tape came out

So God must have bee expressing his displeasure with Trump.

[malaise]

15. Getting up off the floor

literally

[malaise]

12. From Jeff Masters

Surging beyond tropical storm strength on Thursday, Hurricane Harvey is projected to become the first major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) to strike the United States in almost 12 years. A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Port Mansfield to Sargent, Texas, including the Corpus Christi area, with a Storm Surge Warning from Port Mansfield north to High Island and a Hurricane Watch southward to the Mexico border and. Harvey poses an unusually complex, multifaceted, prolonged, and dangerous threat over the next several days to parts of South Texas, including the central TX coastline as well as locations well inland. Localized multi-day rainfall amounts could be as much as 35", according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/intensifying-harvey-track-hit-texas-major-hurricane

[Ligyron]

45. 35 inches of rain?

I can't even imagine what that would do.

We got 17 inches over two days here in south florida back a decade ago and 50% of everywhere one went was flooded. Standing water everywhere.

Throw 35 inches of rain into some elevation and it would be biblical.

[malaise]

50. Yep I was reading that Harvey will stall from SUnday to Tuesday

Homes and businesses will be heading down those rivers and since orecasts are now suggesting Houston is in for a rough ride, this could be very bad.

[marylandblue]

5. It's heading for Texas which means

If we had built a high enough wall, it would have kept the hurricane out.

[malaise]

8. One of my beloved nephews and his family are in Houston

I wish I could stop it for the poor folks in Texas, but I'm all for anything that damages the bigly ego.

The water would eclipse his wall.

[marylandblue]

11. I have a friend in New Orleans

They are expecting 5 to 10 inches of rain, and once again, the city is not ready for it.

[malaise]

17. When I hear or read about the expected rain

I don't know who is prepared for that - parts of Texas are expecting close to three feet of rain.

[Sgent]

48. eh.....

We are operating at about 85% of overall capacity as of today, and have 2 levels of backups for power generation -- both generators and the 60hz system if our power plant goes down (we have a 25hz plant for the water pumps) vs 1 2 weeks ago. In addition, keep in mind that these are the pumps meant from dewatering the city once flooded (ie rain), not pumps related to the levee system which prevent tidal surge -- which almost certainly not be used for this hurricane. There will probably be localized flooding like there was a few weeks ago, but it will be nothing like the flooding during a Katrina event.

I'm still unbelievably upset that some IDIOT(s) in the SW&B took more than 20% of the system offline during the height of hurricane season for SCHEDULED maintenance, and the more that comes out on the management issues the more I want to scream. Everyone thinks its a major issue of cronyism, but imho its more that its just rank incompetence. The director of the drainage system -- 4 levels down from the mayor --- didn't even KNOW that there were pumps and turbines (electricity) out before the storm, and we had a turbine that had been out for 6 years........

Note -- NO SW&B uses 25hz pumps for moving water (potable, sewerage and drainage), and has its own power plant which dates from pre WWI. The design is from the 1800's. The reason the city hasn't moved over to 60hz is because pumps like water pumps are much more effective at 25hz -- meaning that the system is only about 60% as effective on these types of pumps. When working correctly, its one of the engineering marvels of its age, and still hasn't been replicated.

[mcar]

7. Obama the Strong kept those storms away from us!

[malaise]

10. Hehehehehehe

All I know is them lil hands have no such power - nature must hate the Con of a scumbag.

[mcar]

16. If we follow the beliefs of his "religious" council

Such storms are God's punishment for blah, blah.

[malaise]

19. For our not acknowledging that he's the new messiah

- but wait Texas did.

[mia]

13. Hurricane Sandy

"Groper Don the Con" is still "a stupid incompetent fuck!!!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy

[malaise]

14. Sandy was not a hurricane when it hit the US - complicated one that

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/intensifying-harvey-track-hit-texas-major-hurricane

Surging beyond tropical storm strength on Thursday, Hurricane Harvey is projected to become the first major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) to strike the United States in almost 12 years. A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Port Mansfield to Sargent, Texas, including the Corpus Christi area, with a Storm Surge Warning from Port Mansfield north to High Island and a Hurricane Watch southward to the Mexico border and. Harvey poses an unusually complex, multifaceted, prolonged, and dangerous threat over the next several days to parts of South Texas, including the central TX coastline as well as locations well inland. Localized multi-day rainfall amounts could be as much as 35", according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

[mia]

20. Thanks for the information.

[malaise]

32. This is even better from NOAA during Sandy October 27, 2012

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20121027_pa_sandyTransition.pdf

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. Um, yeah. While Sandy was post-tropical by the time it hit NY/NJ...

...it still had all the power and punch of a Hurricane.

And I seem to remember a fairly significant hurricane hitting the mid Atlantic a year or two before Sandy.

[malaise]

21. Jeff Masters is boss

Surging beyond tropical storm strength on Thursday, Hurricane Harvey is projected to become the first major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) to strike the United States in almost 12 years. A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Port Mansfield to Sargent, Texas, including the Corpus Christi area, with a Storm Surge Warning from Port Mansfield north to High Island and a Hurricane Watch southward to the Mexico border and. Harvey poses an unusually complex, multifaceted, prolonged, and dangerous threat over the next several days to parts of South Texas, including the central TX coastline as well as locations well inland. Localized multi-day rainfall amounts could be as much as 35", according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/intensifying-harvey-track-hit-texas-major-hurricane

I suspect Dumbya had the most for any President

[crazycatlady]

49. Irene

Funny thing is that a mini golf course on a boardwalk near me (the golf course was renovated/changed ownership after Sandy) has two prop ships on it. The big one is Sandy and the smaller one is Irene.

Irene hit around this time in 2011. About 14 months before Sandy. Spring Lake, NJ has its boardwalk destroyed, rebuilt for the following year only to have it taken out by Sandy.

[brooklynite]

22. If you want to argue semantics, be my guest...everyone in NYC thinks of Sandy as a Hurricane...

...and I remember setting up an evacuation shelter for Hurricane Irene.

[malaise]

25. Tell Jeff Masters and the other experts

We debated this during Sandy - it was post-tropical.

Surging beyond tropical storm strength on Thursday, Hurricane Harvey is projected to become the first major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) to strike the United States in almost 12 years. A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Port Mansfield to Sargent, Texas, including the Corpus Christi area, with a Storm Surge Warning from Port Mansfield north to High Island and a Hurricane Watch southward to the Mexico border and. Harvey poses an unusually complex, multifaceted, prolonged, and dangerous threat over the next several days to parts of South Texas, including the central TX coastline as well as locations well inland. Localized multi-day rainfall amounts could be as much as 35", according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/intensifying-harvey-track-hit-texas-major-hurricane

[brooklynite]

28. You probably don't think Pluto is a planet either...

[malaise]

29. I defer to experts

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20121027_pa_sandyTransition.pdf

[TheBlackAdder]

52. In South Jersey, we call it Hurricane Sandy, not Tropical Storm Sandy.

[LanternWaste]

60. I don't think accuracy is the same as 'arguing semantics.'

I don't think accuracy is the same as 'arguing semantics.'

There is in fact, a precise and relevant difference between the two. Good luck!

[GulfCoast66]

23. I am so thankful we have such a strong FEMA head now...nt

[SleeplessinSoCal]

24. Sandy was a Hurricane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy?wprov=sfla1

[malaise]

26. It was a hurricane when it hit parts of Jamaica

Cuba and the Bahamas but it was post-tropical when it reached the US

[SleeplessinSoCal]

37. agree to disagree

"......While it was a Category 2 hurricane off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)). Estimates as of 2015 assessed damage to have been about $75 billion (2012 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina....."

[malaise]

38. While it was a Category 2 hurricane off the coast of the Northeastern United States...

Reread my OP - not one major US landfall hurricane
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/news/20121027_pa_sandyTransition.pdf

[SleeplessinSoCal]

34. image

Sandy knocked Christie from the 2016 race and should have helped seal the deal on Climate Change.

[malaise]

41. It was a hurricanee just not when it hit the US

Nice image.

[RKP5637]

30. Their god is striking America because all do not bow and worship the new jesus,

Groper Don the Con the stupid incompetent fuck!!!

[malaise]

36. Won't work

but that is how they'll spin it

[Not Ruth]

31. If you follow Al Gore, you had at least 20 years to prepare

[malaise]

33. Indeed the inconvenient truths

are staring us in the face

[lunasun]

35. This hurricane is probably one of those demons against Trump his fundies rant about

They could all just chant "out demon" at the Golf waters and pray I thought
????

In actual reality though, I hope the people in its path are helped and stay safe and our country's resources used to aid the area properly before and after the hurricane

[spanone]

39. K&R...

[Sgent]

40. I thought Isaac

was a hurricane when it hit land. Certainly knocked out power for two weeks in metro New Orleans and sucked royally. Down parish and outside the levees it flooded some.

It just was a Cat 1 though so it didn't get as much attention.

[malaise]

43. Major is Cat3 and above

There were several smaller ones with lots of inconvenience to folks

[ornotna]

42. We're screwed

With any luck it will only be one season.

[malaise]

44. Well let's hope it's not Bush2

[Honeycombe8]

47. We're going to have plenty, now. The temperature is going to start rising fr global warming...

with all the new fossil fuel and other crap spewing into the environment. It only takes 1 or 2 degrees.

[malaise]

51. Yep

If only the climate change deniers would be the only victims

[Sunlei]

55. I'm in SW houston, hot and clear day. watch on gov radar, looks to me like the weather out in gulf-

moves towards tx/mexico border. local media is going crazy with 'possible' 'maybe' 'worse case' 20 inches of rain & 80MPH winds. ,

stores are packed with shoppers stripping the shelves. 20 inches of rain will have downtown Houston underwater, anyone with homes near the bayous (drainage ditches) will flood again.

I hate climate change near the gulf, extreme rain, always hot and humid. Standing water brewing flesh eating bacteria with 'rafts of invasive African fire ants floating around.

worse case-my cell phones in an otter case, grab my credit card and dogs and call an uber van go north to some nice hotel with air conditioning and a bar

[malaise]

57. Stay safe

[Sunlei]

58. Thanks, looks like a weekend of heavy rain for the gulf coast.

I think Houston area can deal with 20+ inches if it's spread out over a couple of days. So far our bad weather warning dog, "Jimmy" is calm & happy.

[malaise]

59. Listen to the birds

They always know what's coming

[ghostsinthemachine]

61. Obama the hurricane protector!

Yeah. Wonder how FEMAs response will be. Hope its adequate for the people's sake.

[malaise]

62. Wishing everyone the best

This is a mess. The Con will find some way to mess up