re: #137 Bobibutu

With all the poo pooing over Irene - my associates in Connecticut and NY just got power back today and many are still without - I hope Obama stays out in front on these.

The flack over Irene was odd, wasn’t it? The problem with hurricanes is that it often doesn’t matter how big they are when they hit, but how big they were *before* they hit. Like I posted the other night before Irene came onshore, unless it’s a Cat 4 or 5, it’s always the water, not the wind. Irene had a huge amount of water entrained in it’s core and bands. Katrina hit New Orleans as a Cat 3, but carried a Cat 5 storm surge. Ike hit Galveston as a Cat 2 but put a Cat 4 20’ storm surge over the High Island peninsula.

I think the negative coverage of the effects of the storm, which were not really accurate (it was as nasty as a honey badger), were part of a greater effort to discount scientists by certain media (Faux News and the other usual suspects).