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Everything is so cool and good all the time I love the path we’re on 
I will be pleasantly surprised if they add a Category 6. I figured instead that there'd be a concerted effort to normalize environmental collapse (e.g. using more recent dates as a benchmark instead of pre-industrial)
Americans will add a whole new category to hurricanes than ~~go to therapy~~ address climate change.
I’d make a joke about houstonians doubling down on not evacuating bc of not running from the gay woke hurricane but they already do that so
In fairness, the Rita evacuation was an absolute shitshow and Harvey had a much lower casualty rate than mass-evacuations in other years.
Sitting tight through a storm isn't the worst idea, particularly if you're in a sturdy facility with backup power like a school or stadium. Trying to pile out of town with another 4M people, particularly in this town, is nightmarish. And getting caught on a road in the middle of a flood/storm is even worse. Nevermind how this just kinda creates a blister in hotel prices and a rash of living-in-car homelessness for the duration and then another giant mess as people pile back into town.
One might argue that this would encourage my city administrators to invest more aggressively in domestic shelters and other life-saving facilities. But we all know that's not going to happen. In the meantime, I would not consider evacuation a given as a solution to an incoming storm.
Sitting tight through a storm isn't the worst idea, particularly if you're in a sturdy facility with backup power like a school or stadium
Yeah that would be good if we organized stuff like that at a high level but I feel like most of the people I know just ride it out in their trailers or homes and hope they don’t take on water
One might argue that this would encourage my city administrators to invest more aggressively in domestic shelters and other life-saving facilities
Lol no for sure, texas’s solution to everything is “you should have had flood insurance”
Literally nobody will sell you flood insurance in Houston.
First they made Pluto not a planet anymore and now this...
Back in my day we have cat 1 through 5 now they go and make this fake cat 6 cable
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i think it shouldn't be "category 6" but rather "Category 5X" and then when they have to add another, it's 5XX. and just keep doing that until we have like get a 5XXXXXXX that stays persistently, for years, over east Texas and we all just agree to call it The Eye of Wrath.
We should develop technology to redirect hurricanes so every time a new one forms we just send it to merge into the 5XXXXXXX superstorm over Texas and let them deal with it
So many ~~genders~~ categories.
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Florida got hit with the strongest hurricane in 30 years back in 2018, and even people from Florida have forgotten about it. It's hard to not be a doomer
In an amazing feat of mental gymnastics the destruction wrought by natural disasters is not counted into GDP, but the construction to rebuild is
scientists discover one quick trick to raising the rate of profit by inducing destruction of fixed capital during war
adding another category will only encourage hurricanes to become stronger
Are hurricanes like earthquakes, where there's actually no "new categories" because it's just a logarithmic scale?