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Last updated on July 26th, 2017 at 12:22 pm
J.F. Beck analyses Michael Moore’s possible influence on Hurricane Katrina:
Moore’s presence certainly explains Katrina’s rapid weakening over Florida. I mean, the guy’s gotta be the world’s largest living wind-break.
Mop it up, Mike! In other Katrina news, Chuck Simmins has a rolling tally of Katrina relief donations; private US assistance is currently at $201,801,504.
- A new hurricane toast! “Here’s Moore in your eye!”Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 09/03 at 03:08 PM • permalink
- Well, to be fair paco, if you popped Michael Moore into the eye of a cyclone spinning anti-clockwise, it would immediately put out the cyclone.
However, hurricanes are exactly the same thing in the northern hemisphere, but they spin anti-clockwise, so one would have to put a clockwise bias on the said M. Moore, before dropping him through the eye.
Does anyone know whether a hurricane crossing the equator suddenly changes direction, and becomes a cyclone?
- Thyroid cancer. His condition suddenly worsened a few days ago.Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/03 at 10:55 PM • permalink
- 8:
Hurricanes don’t cross the equator, the Coriolis force that creates them is too weak near the equator, and hence they don’t get created in a ~10 degree band around the equator…The Coriolis force getting larger the further you are from the equator also causes the winds of the hurricane/cyclone furthest from the equator to move faster which due to Bernoulli’s principle creates a lower pressure region that pulls the hurricane/cyclone away from the equator.
If one did start heading towards the equator then the Coriolis force would get weaker as it travelled further and hence the storm would weaken – if it crossed the equator the Coriolis force would start pushing it in reverse and slow the winds down until it was no more…
- Hang on, I hear MM’s as skinny as a rake since leaving the fat farm. He was inspired by that woman…what’s her name? Ummm…is it Cindy something?
No doubt at least $200 000 000 came from Louisiana’s red state brethren. No thinking blue stater would donate to these idiots who sowed the seeds of their destruction by voting for Bush.
Posted by James Waterton on 09/04 at 01:27 AM • permalink
- ‘Breaks on the levee logic’ on Tech Central Station:
Are budget cuts to blame for the levee break? A look a the facts suggests the answer is no. The regional Army Corps of Engineers chief said in 2003 that a project to protect the city from a category 4 or 5 storm would take 30 years to complete. At the time he opined, “Hopefully we won’t have a major storm before then.”
Posted by walterplinge on 09/04 at 05:08 AM • permalink
- An excellent article, walter. Thanks for the link. It clarifies some of the mis-information I’ve seen floating around the INTERNET these past days.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 09/04 at 05:37 AM • permalink
- Guys, I hope I’m not alone in being disappointed in the sheer opportunism of the left during this crisis. Disappointed but not surprised. Without reading a shred of hard evidence, they have allocated all blame for its severity on Bush. They point to the mayor’s criticisms of Bush without stopping to note that as city mayor he has a clear interest in deflecting blame to the federal government. I didn’t hear them blaming French ‘society’ when 10,000 citizens of that socialist, statist country died during a heat wave. Apparently only American disasters are evidence of a cultural malaise. the truth is, many of them are enjoying this tragedy for the cheap political capital it gives them.
Glad I broke ranks with them years ago. sorry I’m just pissed off.
- The tales I hear say that the Salvation Army is the most efficient conduit of funds from the giver to the receiver.
Also see: http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
- Hey, guys! Speaking of useful idiots, Bryla is over bothering Arthur Chrenkoff now. Drop by and say g’day!Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/04 at 11:35 AM • permalink
- Franklin: The tales I hear say that the Salvation Army is the most efficient conduit of funds from the giver to the receiver.
Yup. “You can take that to the bank”, as they say. In America.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 09/04 at 04:07 PM • permalink
- I have not been able to raise the Salvation Army donation page all week.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 09/04 at 08:36 PM • permalink
There’s a gravitational pull, steering current- created by a thermal lift-due to all of the hot air eminating from his piehole- argument forKatrina’s rapid weakening over Florida in here somewhere…