Katrina

No thanks

I think I’m good, be off to watch a documentary about my own life

I’d rather not watch another doc telling me how I as a white man are the problem and cause of all the problems of society

How prophetic was it to hear we'd be getting more like Katrina, and even stronger, right?


Oh, except that never happened. 20 years and the number / strength of hurricanes to make landfall here in the USA has dipped, stayed steady, peaked for one year *(2020) and then declined to just 1, in 2023.

Year Hurricanes Made Landfall Highest Category at Landfall

2000 8 Category 3 (Hurricane Gordon)
2001 1 Category 1 (Hurricane Erin)
2002 2 Category 1 (Hurricane Isodore)
2003 4 Category 2 (Hurricane Fabian)
2004 9 Category 3 (Hurricane Ivan)
2005 8 Category 5 (Hurricane Katrina)
2006 2 Category 1 (Hurricane Ernesto)
2007 4 Category 2 (Hurricane Felix)
2008 5 Category 2 (Hurricane Ike)
2009 2 Category 2 (Hurricane Bill)
2010 1 Category 1 (Hurricane Alex)
2011 3 Category 3 (Hurricane Irene)
2012 1 Category 1 (Hurricane Sandy)
2013 1 Category 1 (Hurricane Ingrid)
2014 1 Category 1 (Hurricane Arthur)
2015 2 Category 2 (Hurricane Joaquin)
2016 2 Category 3 (Hurricane Matthew)
2017 6 Category 4 (Hurricane Harvey)
2018 3 Category 4 (Hurricane Michael)
2019 6 Category 5 (Hurricane Dorian)
2020 12 Category 5 (Hurricane Laura)
2021 7 Category 4 (Hurricane Ida)
2022 3 Category 4 (Hurricane Ian)
2023 1 Category 1 (Hurricane Lee)

Key Points
The most active year was 2020, with 12 hurricanes making landfall, including Hurricane Laura, which reached Category 5 status.

Significant landfalls occurred during 2017, with hurricanes like Harvey and Irma, both of which reached Category 4.

In 2023, only one hurricane made landfall as a Category 1 storm.


* 2020 is curious as that was when everything globally was shut down for many months, with industry, car travel, flights, all the things we're told contribute to the so called climate crisis yet we saw a spike in activity. Weather folks care to comment on that?


** at the snowflake getting worked up over FACTS.

I won't be watching that. Reason is, every single one of these Docs on Katrina always seems to take the entire situation and want to sell it as a "RACIAL" angle and how this was all about exterminating the black man.

No mention of the insane destruction that took place along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, who took a direct hit with a 24' storm surge. Maybe a mention before they go back to racial hate.

No mention of Louisiana and NOLA politicians incompetence in the face of this tragedy. How they acted, or should I say, didn't act, in response to the storm. Typically no mention of lawlessness, the fact that the people that stayed behind in NOLA were up to no good, looking for an opportunity to loot businesses blind.

They only focus on race and how much the government sucks. I've had enough of the grievance bullshite to last me 10 lifetimes.

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Unbelievable catastrophe for New Orleans and the Gulf coast

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Yeah, we know. A lot of us were there.