Re: Hurricane Milton 'could be' a CAT 3 up to a CA... - Page 6

Isobel Archer · ‎04-04-2015

@Lakelife62 wrote:
@songbird wrote:
@SilleeMee wrote:
Sea levels have been rising causing hurricanes to get worse with the higher temps and storm surges. I wouldn't live anywhere near the coastlines during these times. It's not going to get any better in the future.
Climate change does not mean more storms, just stronger ones. The oceans are warming, the ice is melting. During the Ice age, the human population faced some near extinctions. Hopfully with a new coming warm age, something like that will not happen.
How many humans were on earth during the ice age? Were there villages with a million people crowded into a small space? If we can avoid it, wouldn't we want to avoid reaching near extinction? Or do we just let it happen and hope it's not us?

Climate change is obvious to everyone finally, even the people who deny it who are now experiencing it first hand. There will be climate change refugees- escaping the collapsing mountain terrain and escaping the rise of sea levels that are pulling homes whole into the ocean. A lot of coastline is predicted to be gobbled up over the next decade. Where will these people go, when they can't go back home? What happens to those businesses, towns, churches?
We've been warned and the attempts to deny are blowing up in a lot of faces. Time to wake up and do what scientists have told us we need to do.

I don't disagree, but the worst climate offenders are China, India, etc - you know the ones we encourage with our trading practices. I'm all for getting serious about this - but lecturing folks in the U.S. is not the answer, nor is claiming hurricane victims somehow deserve what they get.

Lakelife62 · ‎05-09-2023

@Isobel Archer wrote:
@Lakelife62 wrote:
@songbird wrote:
@SilleeMee wrote:
Sea levels have been rising causing hurricanes to get worse with the higher temps and storm surges. I wouldn't live anywhere near the coastlines during these times. It's not going to get any better in the future.
Climate change does not mean more storms, just stronger ones. The oceans are warming, the ice is melting. During the Ice age, the human population faced some near extinctions. Hopfully with a new coming warm age, something like that will not happen.
How many humans were on earth during the ice age? Were there villages with a million people crowded into a small space? If we can avoid it, wouldn't we want to avoid reaching near extinction? Or do we just let it happen and hope it's not us?

Climate change is obvious to everyone finally, even the people who deny it who are now experiencing it first hand. There will be climate change refugees- escaping the collapsing mountain terrain and escaping the rise of sea levels that are pulling homes whole into the ocean. A lot of coastline is predicted to be gobbled up over the next decade. Where will these people go, when they can't go back home? What happens to those businesses, towns, churches?
We've been warned and the attempts to deny are blowing up in a lot of faces. Time to wake up and do what scientists have told us we need to do.
I don't disagree, but the worst climate offenders are China, India, etc - you know the ones we encourage with our trading practices. I'm all for getting serious about this - but lecturing folks in the U.S. is not the answer, nor is claiming hurricane victims somehow deserve what they get.

If you're serious about it, you do what we need to do here, for our people, and let others follow suit. Or not. We do our part because it's the right thing to do. Nobody is lecturing. They are warning. And if we keep dragging our feet and denying what's right in front of us, we will deserve what we get.

smoochy · ‎03-10-2010

@RescueLover wrote:

Hi! @smoochy 🤗

Have you been asked to evacuate?

Are there shelters nearby for you and your family to go?

hi! No we live in a shelter in place county. Not on the coast. Our house is sturdy masonry and we have done all the necessary prep. We should be ok. Thanks for thinking of us. 😘

MICHIGAN STATE MOM

smoochy · ‎03-10-2010

@TheWanderingOne wrote:
@Magicrat wrote:
Personally, I don't know why anyone would live in Florida. Between the bugs, the humidity, and the hurricanes, I'll take Northeast Ohio weather anyday!!!! Just my opinion.
I live in SW Michigan. It gets just as hot and humid here in the summer as it does in Florida, sometimes worse. Hurricanes, no. Blizzards and tornadoes, yes. My community got hit with 2 tornadoes earlier this year. If your house gets blown to bits by 150 mph winds, does it really matter if it was a hurricane or a tornado? No place is perfect. If my island is still there after Milton passes, I'll go back as soon as it's open to visitors.

we moved to Florida from sw Michigan. I respectfully beg to differ about that area of the mitten being as hot and humid as Florida. Maybe you might get a brief heat wave. Here it's every day from May to September in the mid to upper nineties with 78% humidity in general. You mentioned two tornadoes. The community we lived in had two tornadoes this summer. We lived in Portage. How about you? I hope you will get to enjoy AMI before too long

MICHIGAN STATE MOM