During the 1950’s and early 1960’s, the US averaged one major hurricane strike per year. It has now been nearly nine years since a major (category 3-5) hurricane hit the US. The last one was Wilma in 2005.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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I guess hurricanes liked Ike, they peaked late in his administration.
Hurricane strikes don’t matter anymore…. Progressives and Alarmists out there now use the “storm index”… Which is easy to manipulate from your office and Windows Desktop anywhere … Don’t even need to go outside and check on the actual weather…
You’re one to talk about manipulation … 🙂
I heard some balony on WTOP radio in DC that the reason gasoline prices have recently risen is because the government is storing more gasoline. That is due to the fact that climate change is causing stronger and more frequent hurricanes. Apparently there were were gas shortages after Sandy. But no major hurricanes in 9 years represents “stronger and more frequent hurricanes”?
Hmmm … there is this:
The U.S. Now Has a Strategic Gasoline Reserve. It’s About Time
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-03/the-u-dot-s-dot-now-has-a-strategic-gasoline-reserve-dot-its-about-time
Fair use excerpt:
One of the biggest problems following Hurricane Sandy, not just for NYC but for the entire Northeast, was the utter lack of gasoline. The region is home to one of the country’s biggest hubs of refineries. But as Sandy bore down, they all had to shut in and brace for the impact. In the storm’s wake, with power out across the region, most refineries stayed dark.
Pump stations along the major pipelines that feed the region with fuel were left dead, meaning the gasoline couldn’t flow up from the Gulf Coast. Tankers laden with fuel were stranded out in the New York Harbor, unable to deliver their product because of the damage that had been done to the import terminals. In short, the entire Northeast energy distribution system was knocked out. For days. It didn’t return to normal for more than a month.
A year-and-a-half later, the Department of Energy is addressing what’s been apparent ever since: the region needs its own strategic reserve of fuel.
Something a little more technical from Platts:
http://www.platts.com/latest-news/oil/washington/us-to-set-up-two-500000-barrel-federal-gasoline-21567119
Fair use excerpt:
One East Coast trader said he was eager to learn what the Reid vapor pressure would be for the stored gasoline, adding that he wanted more clarity of specifications for the gasoline and how it would be used.
“I am guessing that would have to be summer grade,” he said.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said gasoline held in the reserve “will be turned over as part of commercial transactions,” he said. “We cannot store the same molecules for five years.”
and
The plan comes six months after New York state made its own plans to create the first state-run gasoline reserve in the US, a 71,425-barrel, $10 million reserve on Long Island.
What good is the reserve if there is no electricity to power the pumps?
That’s what others have said; read the Platts article and that point is addressed.
(The real problem during Sandy _was_ the lack or 60 Hz mains to run pumps all across the delivery network, down to the level of retail service stations.)
“9 year trailing mean”
Love it!!!
Quietest time since the US Civil War!! An interesting coincidence given developments lately.
Fred needs to keep Wilma happy. 😉
Quietest Period On Record For US Major Hurricane Strikes
Given that extreme weather events are a product primarily of thermal gradients, and given that global warming is going to warm the polar areas more than the tropics, that seems likely to be one of the probable benefits of a warmer Earth to me.