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re: How did they track hurricanes in the 1900s?
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:30 pm to LSUmajek
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:30 pm to LSUmajek
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How did they track hurricanes in the 1900s?
Chicken opened the hurricane board for duke v and rds. How else would you track a hurricane?
This post was edited on 12/22/21 at 8:31 pm
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Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:31 pm to LSUmajek
Kinda a hijack but watched a documentary about Julia Brown Voodoo Priestess
It’s about a hurricane in 1915 that hit Frenier, always thought it was an interesting story
It’s about a hurricane in 1915 that hit Frenier, always thought it was an interesting story
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:31 pm to LSUmajek
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How did they track hurricanes in the 1900s?
Once radio came on the scene, they'd get reports from ships that were near or in the storm.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:33 pm to LSUmajek
They couldn't read print or cursive. They were fricked.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:33 pm to PowerTool
quote:great book, easy read
I need to read the book "Isaac's Storm."
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:39 pm to BestBanker
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Nash Roberts
There was a good story about how the power would go out before the hurricane in Nash's neighborhood. The neighbors would look out the window to see if Mrs. Roberts car was still in the driveway.. If it was gone they knew to invacuate..
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:39 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Just checked Amazon for Isaac's Storm. One copy listed for ~$80.
Don’t know if you like audio books, buts it available on Audible.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:43 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Just checked Amazon for Isaac's Storm. One copy listed for ~$80.
Check your local library.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:47 pm to LSUmajek
It’s wild thinking about how everything could be nice and peaceful back then and the next day a massive hurricane is destroying everything with no time to prepare
Posted on 12/22/21 at 8:49 pm to GatorH8r
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I can almost guarantee they didn’t know wtf they were looking at though lol
I mean, if they're waiting for pressure to go down to know if there's a hurricane, the hurricane's already there.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:15 pm to PacoPicopiedra
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But that’s far from the truth. As early as Monday, September 3, the storm was being observed by meteorologists in Cuba. They were perhaps the best in the world at assessing and predicting the tracks of hurricanes, and they knew the storm had grown into an unmistakably violent one headed for the Texas Gulf Coast. Why didn’t the U.S. Weather Bureau know that? The grim answer to that question had to do with a highly problematic relationship between the United States and Cuba following the Spanish-American War. Cuban revolutionaries, assisted by the United States, had won independence from Spain in 1898. Yet in September 1900, the U.S. government still administered the island, and within the U.S. Weather Bureau, which had stations in the Caribbean, resentment and disdain for Cuban forecasting had become entrenched.
This sounds like revisionist history BS. Pray tell how Cuban observers of wind direction could possibly know where a storm was going to hit the Texas gulf coast.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:15 pm to Jones
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Iirc, thats not very true at all.
Cuba meteorologists had messages being sent out about the storm but the US blocked all messages from them because of politics etc.
It could have been way less of a loss
Really? Ok, The US just took over "influence" from Spain over Cuba in the Spanish American War. America was just starting to invest in Cuba while Cuba may have felt the US was helping fight for it's independence from Spain. So US relations to Cuba were generally good while the Cuba relations to the US may have been tepid. This marked a roughly 50 year run of American investments into Cuba, to which, New Orleans was a major hub to Havana.
So if your assertion of Cuban meteorologists sending warnings to the US were correct, then the US blocking for political reason wouldn't make sense. Now, if Cuba was blocking the messages due to them being pissed at the US for the "takeover" then I'd understand.
Even Thomas Jefferson offered to buy Cuba in 1809, God I love that man. Spain was a stubborn old empire.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:17 pm to Jake88
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Most of those were totally missed in the past.
And now they blame the increase in storms on climate change instead of better technology.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:35 pm to Twenty 49
LINK
Isaac's storm is available as as E-book as well as a paperback for under $15.
To see where Library copies are near you or through Interlibrary Loan, go to Worldcat.org
LINK
There is info for several editions, and if you enter your zipcode, it will list the libraries near you that have that edition.
Isaac's storm is available as as E-book as well as a paperback for under $15.
To see where Library copies are near you or through Interlibrary Loan, go to Worldcat.org
LINK
There is info for several editions, and if you enter your zipcode, it will list the libraries near you that have that edition.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:41 pm to real turf fan
This one is interesting too, used to have hotels and casinos - now just pelicans:
The Last Island Hurricane of 1856: Killer storm wiped out a pre-Civil War resort island
https://www.americanpress.com/2021/09/21/the-last-island-hurricane-of-1856-killer-storm-wiped-out-a-pre-civil-war-resort-island/
They had looters even back then :
The Last Island Hurricane of 1856: Killer storm wiped out a pre-Civil War resort island
https://www.americanpress.com/2021/09/21/the-last-island-hurricane-of-1856-killer-storm-wiped-out-a-pre-civil-war-resort-island/
They had looters even back then :
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Nobody came to rescue the wounded and retrieve the dead because nobody on the mainland knew what had happened at Isle Dernière. The group was soon found however — not by rescuers but by bands of Spanish, Swiss and Portuguese pirates who happened to come upon the decimated island. The pirates swarmed the island, picking through the carnage and plundering the dead. A letter from Bayou Boeuf printed in the Picayune on Aug. 21, 1856 reads, “They (pirates) were seen to drag the corpses from the water, rob them, tearing studs from the shirt bosoms of men and ripping the earrings from the ears of ladies.”
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:56 pm to back9Tiger
We did a ghost tour in Galveston, they said the wind was so bad that seashells were a common cause of death in that storm. They were slicing thru people
Posted on 12/22/21 at 9:56 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Just checked Amazon for Isaac's Storm. One copy listed for ~$80. ?
Erik Larson. Narrative non fiction GOAT
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:03 pm to LSUmajek
Our grocery bags had maps and news provided quadrants. True story.
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:18 pm to PacoPicopiedra
quote:In other words, Washington has been screwing things up for well over a century.
Havana would report directly to Washington, and Washington would decide what information to give New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast
Posted on 12/22/21 at 10:24 pm to Junky
He already posted his sources to another poster who argued the same thing.
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