The front page of cnn.com makes the situations caused by Hurricane Ida sound pretty bad:
Given that U.S. media adopts a hysterical tone almost every day, should we be skeptical of the forecast doom? Or should we expect a lot of tragic consequences from the 115 mph winds of what is currently a category 3 hurricane?
Why the US Gov’t selected this region to place a major data center for critical Gov’t services is beyond me. Furthermore, it escapes me why they don’t just move it!
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/department-homeland-security-issues-33bn-data-center-and-cloud-solicitation/
DHS’s Data Center One is operated by General Dynamics, but owned by the government. It is located at the National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage at the NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, a wider facility that also handles other government workloads.
I won’t handicap it in reality yet, but my first approximation reading of the forecast behind the scenes as shown is: “Blame and damage must begin with power company and spread from there in increasingly vicious and damaging overlapping waves.”
The level of panic is directly correlated with how racist you think hurricanes are!
Hurricanes aren’t exactly rare. Most likely it will cause a bunch of property damage, kill a few people, and that will be it until the next hurricane. The way things have been going, I’m more worried that the ruling class will suddenly start demanding that everyone on Earth wear a wetsuit nonstop for the rest of their lives to protect them from drowning in a hurricane.
As a survivor of Hurricane Michael (2018) I say it’s not a laughing matter.
Donald: Nobody laughs at Mother Nature when she is at her most intense. On the other hand, the NYT told us that there was a significant chance of Ida being worse than a 100-year event. See https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/29/us/hurricane-ida-live-updates-new-orleans-louisiana
The governor (a righteous science-following Democrat presiding over a state with the 4th highest COVID-19-tagged death rate among the U.S. states (one spot above Maskachusetts; see https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/ )) said “the most powerful hurricane to hit the state in more than 160 years” (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/29/hurricane-ida-takes-aim-louisiana-coast/5641741001/ )
“not a laughing matter” is bad, but not as bad as “worst thing in 160 years” (hence my question about the correct level of panic)