American Thinker: The footage from Hurricane Ian’s landfall along Florida’s west coast is staggering. It should remind us how puny we are compared to nature. For the entirety of their time on earth, humans have had to reckon with nature’s incomparable power, whether it comes in the form of hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, or anything else the earth dishes out to the lifeforms inhabiting it. This post has a collection of just some footage of the storm’s fury, all arranged in roughly chronological order so you can get a sense of the storm’s trajectory. At the end, I’ve also thrown in a couple of posts showing both how foolish and how vindictive leftists are and a Halloween-esque piece of good advice.
Here’s the footage, every bit of which is overwhelming and, to the extent it represents the loss of people’s homes and businesses, tragic: more
Big deal. Another rain storm in Florida. Never seen that one before. The first video showing lightning in the storm is fake computer animation. Compare it to one of the other views from the Space Station. Storms are NOT more frequent and more powerful. There is more damage, yes………..but that is because each year more stuff is built, so more to get damaged. Weather experts are just cooking the numbers to make you think it is worse.
Dueling world views are also at play; our side sees these events as further evidence of man’s insignificance in taming or even understanding the majestic force of an all-powerful God and his magnificent creation. The lunatic left views these as some sort of cosmic punishment for man rapping the planet in his unquenchable first for fossil fuels, and a splendid opportunity to push the junk science of anthropogenic climate change to control the populace.
Fort Myers Beach is on a barrier island with an elevation of 3 ft above sea level, of course the surge swamped it. Anyone that lives on the coast in Florida has to know they have a target on their back.
This storm made landfall at 3 PM as a CAT 4 with 155 MPH max winds. After 6 hours and creeping along at 8 MPH, it is now a CAT 2 with 115 max winds. I live in Bradenton, about 50 miles south of Tampa. It’s been Shake Rattle and Roll in this mobile home all day here. Will have to go out tomorrow when the rain stops to see what kind of damage was done to the outside. Just heard another piece of sheet metal go flying off another mobile home. Wind is slowly dying down, but still have some pretty heavy gusts.
Here’s wishing, hoping and praying in the path of this thing, including Georgia and the Carolinas the best.
Counties in the center of the state here also some major flood warnings along with the wind damage warnings.
Almost exactly 400 years ago a large hurricane took the same path through Cuba, the Dry Tortugas and the Florida Straits.
It sunk the Spanish Galleons Atocha and Santa Margarita.
Centuries later Mel Fisher got very rich…”Today’s the day”
The Aztecs blamed climate change & colonization…
Tryin’ to reason
with hurricane season…
Hurricane Ian is racist!
If you want to see real damage, go to Google Images and see the Hurricane Ike before and after photos of Bolivar Peninsula.
Mark S. McGrew
another shit stain that doesn’t know what it’s talking about.
Now Bob….that’s not nice. Some people like storms. A good storm like this gets rid of poor people.
God has spoken.
My son is in school in Melbourne, on the east coast. They’re on lockdown in the dorms, but he says it’s just heavy rain, no big winds, just as his Aviation Meteorology instructor said it would be a few days ago.
Sorry to hear about the west coast damage, though.
I heard that if the hurricane was 20 miles west it would wipe out all humans in its path. Must be true because it was on network tv and they have to tell the truth because science.