Terez

Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:42 UTC

isn't he saying that he has covered it and will continue to cover it though? maybe an analysis of his show tells a different story, but i'm not seeing the issue with what he said. he is not msnbc; when he says "we" he is talking about his show.

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

kids generally don't have money, unfortunately

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

all of this is just to say, please do not read too much into category designations. on average, yes, category does make a significant difference. but from one hurricane to another, the actual destructive power of hurricanes at a certain wind speed can vary a lot for many reasons!

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

one of the harbingers of katrina's destructive power was the damage it did when it crossed the florida panhandle as a category 1. it briefly lost hurricane status as it passed. these were people who lived through the worst of andrew. everyone was astonished at how much damage was done.

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

the difference between category 1 and 2 damage is often just...random. does a certain gust hit a certain weak structure, or does it hit a stronger one, or nothing at all? wind speed raises the probability of weak structures failing, but probability is not certainty.

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:35 UTC

in hurricanes, outages generally have more to do with how much above-ground infrastructure is destroyed by the storm. poles and lines and transformers and substations. hurricanes can take a lot of it, and they always shut down the grid for the big ones like katrina. saves many electrocution deaths.

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:26 UTC

i assume you're thinking of the levees in new orleans? i'm from the MS coast, where the river levees weren't even relevant. it had nothing to do with maintenance of anything. katrina just caused more destruction, and again, it wasn't even close.

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:20 UTC

katrina, of course. camille did more wind damage, but the storm surge damage from katrina was catastrophic in the extreme. the scale of the damage wasn't even close. years don't make a difference in themselves, obviously. katrina was a bigger storm; it covered more area, creating a much worse surge.

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

as someone who has lived through many hurricanes, this is a BS argument anyway. hurricane katrina was a category 3 when it made landfall near the LA/MS border in 2005. hurricane camille was a category 5 when it made landfall in the same place in 1969. guess which did (incredibly) more damage?

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

i hate the same thought! i was sitting there trying to decide whether to say something when they clarified...

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

i first came across this a few months ago. (the person i was talking to is not white)

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Terez @terez.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

it's a very kindly smile

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