Hurricane Katrina & Hurricane Rita; deadly sisters.

[Jetsgo]

Category 3? At least it's going down from 5. Wouldn't the safest place in the USA (safest from natural disasters) be like New York or
other more northern states?

[DBE]

Jetsgo wrote:
Wouldn't the safest place in the USA (safest from natural disasters) be like New York...?

Not if you believe what's developing in the Canary Islands ==>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/st...8989c.html

And as far as Rita is concerned...

Hang it out!!!

[Jetsgo]

For some reason that link wont load on my Internet Explorer, weird. But I'm assuming it's something headed from spain into New
York? Well I'm in Toronto! What is it! Damn internet explorer, oh how I hate you..

UPDATE: CNN says that the worst is still hours away from Galveston, and is expected to arrive early, early saturday moarning.



Post Edited ( 09-24-05 02:55 )

[nem]

DBE wrote:

Jetsgo wrote:
Wouldn't the safest place in the USA (safest from natural disasters) be like New York...?

Not if you believe what's developing in the Canary Islands ==&gt&gt http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/st...8989c.html

That's not a matter of belief, just a matter of time. Only how much noone can say.

[Jetsgo]

Will someone tell me what is heading this way from Spain!

[olseric]

There were about 25 people on IVAO tonight flying in that crap. LOL!

[DBE]

Jetsgo wrote:
Will someone tell me what is heading this way from Spain!

Here you go:

Previous research by Simon Day and colleagues predicted that a future eruption would be likely to cause a landslide on the western flank of Cumbre
Vieja. A block of rock approximately twice the volume of the Isle of Man would break off, travelling into the sea at a speed of up to 350 kilometres
per hour. The disintegration of the rock, this earlier study predicted, would produce a debris avalanche deposit extending 60 kilometres from the
island. The energy released by the collapse would be equal to the electricity consumption of the entire United States in half a year.

The new model - which provides further insights into the consequences of the collapse - predicts that the landslide would create an exceptionally
large tsunami with the capability to travel great distances and reaching speeds of up to 800 kilometres per hour. Immediately after Cumbre Vieja's
collapse a dome of water 900 metres high and tens of kilometres wide will form only to collapse and rebound. As the landslide continues to move
underwater a series of wave crests and troughs are produced which soon develop into a tsumani 'wave train' which fuels the waves progress. After only
10 minutes, the model predicts, the tsunami will have moved a distance of almost 250 kilometres.

The greatest effects are predicted to occur north, west and south of the Canaries. On the West Saharan shore waves are expected to reach heights of
100 metres from crest to trough and on the north coast of Brazil waves over 40 metres high are anticipated. Florida and the Caribbean, the final
destinations in the North Atlantic to be affected by the tsunami, will have to brace themselves for receiving 50 metre high waves - higher than
Nelson's column in London, some 8 to 9 hours after the landslide. Towards Europe waves heights will be smaller, but substantial tsunami waves will hit
the Atlantic coasts of Britain, Spain Portugal and France.

[AeroJim]

The reason i say NYC is not the safest is not only the crime rate, but mostly, NY and northern states often get pounded by blizzards in
winter.

[SWAFO]

I'm safe here in ABQ... lol.

[Jetsgo]

DBE wrote:

Jetsgo wrote:
Will someone tell me what is heading this way from Spain!

Here you go:

Previous research by Simon Day and colleagues predicted that a future eruption would be likely to cause a landslide on the western
flank of Cumbre
Vieja. A block of rock approximately twice the volume of the Isle of Man would break off, travelling into the sea at a speed of up to 350
kilometres
per hour. The disintegration of the rock, this earlier study predicted, would produce a debris avalanche deposit extending 60 kilometres
from the
island. The energy released by the collapse would be equal to the electricity consumption of the entire United States in half a year.

The new model - which provides further insights into the consequences of the collapse - predicts that the landslide would create an
exceptionally
large tsunami with the capability to travel great distances and reaching speeds of up to 800 kilometres per hour. Immediately after
Cumbre Vieja's
collapse a dome of water 900 metres high and tens of kilometres wide will form only to collapse and rebound. As the landslide
continues to move
underwater a series of wave crests and troughs are produced which soon develop into a tsumani 'wave train' which fuels the waves
progress. After only
10 minutes, the model predicts, the tsunami will have moved a distance of almost 250 kilometres.

The greatest effects are predicted to occur north, west and south of the Canaries. On the West Saharan shore waves are expected to
reach heights of
100 metres from crest to trough and on the north coast of Brazil waves over 40 metres high are anticipated. Florida and the Caribbean,
the final
destinations in the North Atlantic to be affected by the tsunami, will have to brace themselves for receiving 50 metre high waves - higher
than
Nelson's column in London, some 8 to 9 hours after the landslide. Towards Europe waves heights will be smaller, but substantial
tsunami waves will hit
the Atlantic coasts of Britain, Spain Portugal and France.

[fruitfly]

Hi! I've got a question.
But first a clarification: I'm not trying to be funny or something - it's simply something that always amazes me when I see the aftermath of
a storm in the US: why do they make houses of such b.s. material such as wooden planks, plaster (gyps?) or tin roofs? in a typhoon
zone!?!?!? They could have made them of cardbord for that matter!
Why don't they make houses of bricks and cement with concrete roofs?
I never really understood this. Is it because it's too complicated and exhaustive? I don't think so: last summer my father, two of my
cousins and me built another floor on our house in let's say 10 working days (just the walls and the roof).
Could the price be the reason? NO!!! You'd be surprised how cheap it was (comparitively) - less than 5000 euros! Only ceramic tiles and
furniture will be faaaaaaaar more expensive.
So is it because it's more preactical to build with such light material for it's easier to rebuild? I'd say no. I'ts more practical to build with
concrete and lots of iron in it and never have to rebuild than to start from scratch every time again.
Safety reasons? Nope! It's all the same wheather you're hit with a brick or piece of wood flying 280 kmph

So I give up. Can someone explain what's the reason they make houses the way... you can't lean on them for fear they will collapse?

[Jetsgo]

fruitfly wrote:
why do they make houses of such b.s. material such as wooden planks, plaster (gyps?) or tin roofs? in a typhoon
zone!?!?!?

My question is, why does anyone live there in the first place?

[AeroJim]

hey fruitfly, even concrete really doesn't help, concrete isn't beautiful looking, and brick costs more money than a small airplane, but a
piece of plywood flying through the air at 120 mph will definately go through brick.