Category Archives: Natural disasters

Here we go again…

Ernesto

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Stupid

You know, it doesn’t help if you have a tsunami warning system and don’t use it.

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Seems I’m becoming a hurricane blogger…

Our friends in Oz are getting hit by another major nasty - cyclone Monica. Via Coalition of the Swilling. Let’s hope it weakens considerably before it hits Darwin.
Update Tues 4/25: Looks like it turned south a bit and hit an area with very low population. But… it’s expected to cross land and [...]

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You have my sympathy, mates.

Thousands ordered to flee cyclone path
Residents are fleeing parts of far north Queensland in the path of Cyclone Larry as authorities compare the violent storm to America’s Hurricane Katrina.
Larry could intensify to a category five - the most intense rating for a cyclone - by the time it hits between Innisfail and Cardwell, south of [...]

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This is absurd.

Tropical Storm Zeta
WTNT35 KNHC 301710 TCPAT5 BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM ZETA SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1 PM AST FRI DEC 30 2005
…LATE SEASON TROPICAL STORM…THE 27TH OF THE YEAR…FORMS IN THE EASTERN ATLANTIC…
AT 1 PM AST…1700Z…THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ZETA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.0 NORTH… LONGITUDE [...]

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A remembrance

PJ Media has a good roundup of posts on the tsunami that killed so many people a year ago: Remembering the Tsunami.

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