Hurricane Florence prompts evacuation of more than a million people

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I live in a very safe area, St. Louis. It's 358 ft above sea level and far from any coast. We have beautiful scenery, the city is surrounded by three large rivers, Meremac, Missouri, and Mississippi, so we have lots of boating. The summer breeze bring EF5s so we can make crazy-mad Youtubes ("found footage" is epic) and the New Madrid Fault is just waiting to test the safety of our tall buildings, saving us loads of money in "conventional" testing.

So yeah, them coastal types are just crazy, man.

[Cavebear]

I live in a very safe area, St. Louis. It's 358 ft above sea level and far from any coast. We have beautiful scenery, the city is surrounded by three large rivers, Meremac, Missouri, and Mississippi, so we have lots of boating. The summer breeze bring EF5s so we can make crazy-mad Youtubes ("found footage" is epic) and the New Madrid Fault is just waiting to test the safety of our tall buildings, saving us loads of money in "conventional" testing.

So yeah, them coastal types are just crazy, man.

Beware New Madrid.  It's just waiting to happen. 

[Baruch]

Stilt-houses are temporary solutions at best.  And "storm-of-the-centuries" are becoming decadely recently.  Inland areas survive well, except for people building on riverbanks.  What I want is for the government to stop guaranteeing rebuilding funds repetitively for places the get destroyed routinely.

Future weather control WOULD be nice, but I don't expect it soon.

That is a practical suggestion.  But the plutocracy owns the beaches, so they will get their crony capitalism.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Beware New Madrid.  It's just waiting to happen. 

" New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years, of a repeat of a major earthquake like those that occurred in 1811â€"1812, which likely had magnitudes of between 7.6 and 8.0."

[Cavebear]

" New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years, of a repeat of a major earthquake like those that occurred in 1811â€"1812, which likely had magnitudes of between 7.6 and 8.0."

And is that 7-10 percent more each 50 years after or does it increase by magnitudes of likeliness?  We could be getting into human lifetimes of the event.

Personally, The Yellowstone Supervolcano is higher on my list of possible bad natural events, though.  It's overdue.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years...

[Cavebear]

I think you missed your entering your actual post...  ;)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think you missed your entering your actual post...  ;)

I can see it. It's the first part of what I posted previously. Answered your question before you asked it.

[SGOS]

So where is the eye right now?  I've been trying to see how far inland it is, but almost all coverage is still focused on the coast, and weather underground quit posting maps of the predicted path yesterday.  Obviously, hurricanes that move inland and lose their force don't have the same media appeal as the coasts where houses a wiped away, and people drown.  Hydra has been the only source of anything inland I've seen this morning.

[Cavebear]

I can see it. It's the first part of what I posted previously. Answered your question before you asked it.

I'm not seeing it.  Some screen glitch, I assume.  Could you repeat it?

BTW, to others, Am I the only one not seeing his post? 

[SGOS]

I read one article that implied this might be a 1000 year flood.  100 year floods are commonly reported, but 1000 year flood is not a term I'm familiar with, and such would be speculative since we don't have records from a thousand years ago.

[Cavebear]

So where is the eye right now?  I've been trying to see how far inland it is, but almost all coverage is still focused on the coast, and weather underground quit posting maps of the predicted path yesterday.  Obviously, hurricanes that move inland and lose their force don't have the same media appeal as the coasts where houses a wiped away, and people drown.  Hydra has been the only source of anything inland I've seen this morning.

It appears to be above Georgetown County SC right now.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm not seeing it.  Some screen glitch, I assume.  Could you repeat it?

BTW, to others, Am I the only one not seeing his post? 

New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years... 

That means that there's a 7-10% chance for each of the next fifty years.

[SGOS]

It appears to be above Georgetown County SC right now.

Thanks

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I read one article that implied this might be a 1000 year flood.  100 year floods are commonly reported, but 1000 year flood is not a term I'm familiar with, and such would be speculative since we don't have records from a thousand years ago.

Yes, we do. Alluvial deposits with plant matter in them can be dated. If a flood deposit stops well away from the water course it would follow that the event was "epic". I've read of deposits from floods there were space ~700 years apart. Scientists use "1000 year flood" to indicate a truly catastrophic flood.  flood,