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bajabuddha
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Getting back on topic, she'll be crossing the US border by midnight at/near Laredo, and still possibly a tropical depression.
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/eastern-pacific/2015/T...
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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captkw
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chubasco grande
or Stormento grande....yes lecho I know mex is NOW growing a lot poppys ...But we can get some facts about how the folks in manzanillo, PV and area
are doing...For gods sake..
[Edited on 10-24-2015 by captkw]
[Edited on 10-24-2015 by captkw]
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Whale-ista
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Why Hurricane Patricia Didn't Cause Epic Damage
Why Hurricane Patricia Didn't Cause Epic Damage
http://time.com/4086096/hurricane-patricia-damage-explainer-...
Justin Worland @justinworland
TIME Science weather
Why Hurricane Patricia Didn’t Cause Epic Damage
The storm landed in a sparsely populated area
Hurricane Patricia—the strongest hurricane ever recorded—made landfall on Friday without causing the catastrophic damage that many had anticipated.
That lack of destruction is in large part due to the storm’s record winds staying confined to a small area and hitting a relatively unpopulated
region.
“The amount of damage is going to be entirely dependent on where the storm hits,” said Sean Sublette, a meteorologist at Climate Central. “If it had
been a more heavily populated area, we’d be having a much different conversation.”
The storm made landfall near Cuixmala, a luxury retreat in a sparsely populated ocean reserve, early Friday evening with winds of around 165 miles per
hour. But the storm’s strongest winds didn’t extend much beyond 15 miles of its eye. The nearest city Manzanillo, which has a population of more than
100,000, is located more than 50 miles away.
Hurricane devastation is often due more to a combination of unfortunate circumstances rather than the sheer size of the storm. New Orleans, for
instance, only sustained category 1 or 2 level winds during Hurricane Katrina but the storm caused a high “storm surge”—when elevated waters get
pushed onto land by the wind—which ultimately led to much of the devastating flooding. Failed levees and neighborhoods located below sea level only
contributed to the problem. Damage due to Hurricane Sandy was also largely the result of a high storm surge.
And while Hurricane Patricia avoided the most populated places along the coast, experts said that the storm had caused widespread damage in the area
it did hit, including mud slides, flooding and power outages. Officials in the more densely populated areas, like tourist haven Puerto Vallarta, also
appeared to follow preparation practices that would diminish the chances of injuries or death.
While the damage caused by Patricia may not scratch the record books, its strength certainly will. The storm’s winds reached 200 miles per hour Friday
before making landfall.
“There was still damage and still flooding,” said Sublette. “It was a quite a kick.”
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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captkw
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thank you whale !!
Yea !! whoopee !! thank god !! Hillary for prison, trump for prez !!
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pauldavidmena
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Cuixmala is an exclusive retreat catering to wealthy visitors like Bill Gates, Madonna and Tom Cruise. It's probably too early to determine whether or
not kharma took a last-minute aim at such an auspicious target, but we can dream can't we?
Seriously, even mega-resorts like Cuixmala can't exist without its workers - the vast majority of them locals. Let's hope they didn't become unlucky
statistics of an otherwise "lucky" storm track.
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