Reprise ~~
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A NUMBER
24 BEFORE. . . . NEVER!
Tropical Storm Gamma weakens
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published November 21, 2005
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- Tropical Storm Gamma weakened into a tropical depression Sunday and drifted off Honduras after torrential downpours lashed the Central American coast, killing 14 people, including a young family of four.
Gamma, the 24th named storm of a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to dissipate over the next day and was likely to miss Florida. But the storm was expected to bring steady rain to northern Honduras and central Cuba as it becomes less organized, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Gamma's maximum sustained winds decreased to 35 m.p.h., the hurricane center said. Forecasters said Gamma's projected path would carry it south of Jamaica by Wednesday.
Gamma, the 24th named storm of a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to dissipate over the next day and was likely to miss Florida. But the storm was expected to bring steady rain to northern Honduras and central Cuba as it becomes less organized, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Gamma's maximum sustained winds decreased to 35 m.p.h., the hurricane center said. Forecasters said Gamma's projected path would carry it south of Jamaica by Wednesday.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
look for you yesterday, here you come today
I think that the coming depression/ weather crisis is going to make anything in the remembered past seem tame.We have messed, without caring what the consequences, for too long in too many different pots.
The problem? Mother Nature and Papa Economics have rules that operate regardless of whether we "believe" or not.
"During the past half century, the annual number of Atlantic Basin hurricanes has been as low as two and as high as twelve. The percentage of such hurricanes making landfall in the United States in a single year has been as low as zero and as high as 86%, in 1985, when six out of seven storms made landfall. "
Remember kiddles, that's a maximum of 12 not an average
Rita = #18. . . .
And a final word from Papa Economics: rising tides only raise those with boats. The rest of us drown. . . .
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Well, see, that's a basic mistake--the belief that economics is a male invention. Actually, throughout the evolution of humans, the accumulation, storage, processing and allocating of the resources necessary to sustain human life was the responsibility of the female of the species.
It was when males, who like to give orders, started claiming to know how these processes work that our sustainable economies got stuck in that handbasket.
Humans are omnivors, but they never could have survived on what the hunter brought home until all kinds of storage and processing strategies had already be developed.
Of course, one of the things that spreads resources around so they don't end up being consumed by weavils and rats is trade and exchange. And whoever invented money sure makes that a lot easier. Just think, we can buy and sell things in China without ever having to visit there ourselves--as long as money isn't being horded, that is.
Just think how much currency was routinely withdrawn from circulation by the Catholic Church's penchant for gilding the roofs of their churches and outfitting themselves with gold ornaments.
hannah
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