Current Events > I can't believe we haven't come up with anything defensive against hurricanes...

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It's pretty frustrating to see that something like Harvey was coming, people knew it was coming, and yet there wasn't much we could do about it anyway.

Wonder if science has anything in mind for the future, because I feel sooner or later people are gonna want to do something in regards to prevention in the future.
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I can't believe we haven't come up with a way to defeat the Goa'uld.
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0/10
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I can't believe it's not butter
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Maybe if those people took the multiple warnings to evacuate it wouldn't be that bad. I understand some people simply can't pick up and go that easily, but there's a lot of them that just "toughed it out" and it's costing lives.
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We really need to get cracking on giant hurricane vacuum technology.
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mustachedmystic posted...

I can't believe we haven't come up with a way to defeat the Goa'uld.

Indeed.
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Yes, how do combat an "Act of God"
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glitteringfairy posted...

Yes, how do combat an "Act of God"

We go up there and put God in an arm bar until he agrees to call it off.
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Yeah, amazing we haven't found a way to defend against 9 trillion gallons of water being dropped on a 500 mile radius.
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The Admiral posted...

Yeah, amazing we haven't found a way to defend against 9 trillions gallons of water being dropped on a 500 mile radius.

A giant sponge
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Maybe if those people took the multiple warnings to evacuate it wouldn't be that bad. I understand some people simply can't pick up and go that easily, but there's a lot of them that just "toughed it out" and it's costing lives.

it happens every storm. there will always be people who don't believe it will be that bad.

The Admiral posted...

Yeah, amazing we haven't found a way to defend against 9 trillion gallons of water being dropped on a 500 mile radius.

I'm honestly just surprised you didn't blame hurricanes on liberals.
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Harvey = Mayweather
US = McGregor?
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NES4EVER posted...

The Admiral posted...

Yeah, amazing we haven't found a way to defend against 9 trillion gallons of water being dropped on a 500 mile radius.

I'm honestly just surprised you didn't blame hurricanes on liberals.

Remember when that liberal said Harvey was justice for electing Trump
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You can't stop it, you can only mitigate the damage. But the problem there is that people have to care.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-harvey-engineering-20170828-story.html

The city’s flood system is supposed to protect the public from a 100-year storm, but Bea calls that “a 100-year lie” because it is based on a rainfall total of 13 inches in 24 hours.

“That has happened more than eight times in the last 27 years,” Bea said. “It is wrong on two counts. It isn’t accurate about the past risk and it doesn’t reflect what will happen in the next 100 years.”
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https://tinyurl.com/y95clru7
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A giant fan that we point toward the ocean to blow the hurricane in the other direction
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or just cool the gulf waters to 65 degrees and hurricanes cant feed on it and get stronger
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why do you think North Korea sent missiles into the sea?

Japan should be thanking Fearless Leader for saving them from destructive storms
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Maybe if those people took the multiple warnings to evacuate it wouldn't be that bad. I understand some people simply can't pick up and go that easily, but there's a lot of them that just "toughed it out" and it's costing lives.

U r a dummy. Evacuations aren't that simple.

The Sahara Desert refuses to pay for the research for the Trump 5000 Anti-Hurricane Ray.
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Bio1590 posted...

You can't stop it, you can only mitigate the damage. But the problem there is that people have to care.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-harvey-engineering-20170828-story.html

The city’s flood system is supposed to protect the public from a 100-year storm, but Bea calls that “a 100-year lie” because it is based on a rainfall total of 13 inches in 24 hours.

“That has happened more than eight times in the last 27 years,” Bea said. “It is wrong on two counts. It isn’t accurate about the past risk and it doesn’t reflect what will happen in the next 100 years.”

Yeah, that's the stuff I had in mind. You'd think after Katrina the entire South would've been extra vigilant so that things like this wouldn't have been nearly as terrible.
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thompsontalker7 posted...

Bio1590 posted...

You can't stop it, you can only mitigate the damage. But the problem there is that people have to care.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-harvey-engineering-20170828-story.html

The city’s flood system is supposed to protect the public from a 100-year storm, but Bea calls that “a 100-year lie” because it is based on a rainfall total of 13 inches in 24 hours.

“That has happened more than eight times in the last 27 years,” Bea said. “It is wrong on two counts. It isn’t accurate about the past risk and it doesn’t reflect what will happen in the next 100 years.”

Yeah, that's the stuff I had in mind. You'd think after Katrina the entire South would've been extra vigilant so that things like this wouldn't have been nearly as terrible.

I think they are aware of what needs to be done, but redoing infrastructure on a scale that big would be immensely expensive, at least in the mid-twelve digits
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Maybe if those people took the multiple warnings to evacuate it wouldn't be that bad. I understand some people simply can't pick up and go that easily, but there's a lot of them that just "toughed it out" and it's costing lives.

some of them couldn't get out for reasons... and as others have mentioned. would be a total ****ing disaster if they left all at once to get out of the war path of the hurricane.
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What if we just took Texas and PUSHED IT SOMEWHERE ELSE?
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All you can do to defend against hurricanes is have a natural or man-made buffering system off the coast that weakens a hurricane's power by making it hit land earlier. The other thing is to make sure your infrastructure includes up to date flood control systems. Houston has nothing in place to deal with massive flooding so a storm that dumps tons of water is a nightmare. New Orleans is fucked no matter what they do because it's in a sinking hole that's already well below sea level. They can just hope and pray a Harvey doesn't hit them.
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