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09.23.05
As The Crow Flies
The best BBQ Crabs I've ever had in my life came from a little joint in Port Arthur, Texas. Looks like it is right in the new projected path of Rita. Damn! To my point: I'm about 120 miles, as the helicopter flies, from the Atlantic coast. We have many hurricanes in North Carolina, and I've experienced 80 MPH winds, here at home, on several occasions. The Cape Fear area, Wrightsville Beach, and Wilmington usually get creamed. They are ground zero. What's different this year, so far? There have been no Cape Verde storms. The hurricanes that most often strike the North Carolina coast, or the Atlantic coast for that matter, develop off the Cape Verde islands, off coast of Africa...Cape Verde-type hurricanes are those Atlantic storms that develop into tropical storms fairly close to the Cape Verde Islands and then become hurricanes long before reaching the Caribbean. They build early on, and roar across the Atlantic, full force, with nothing to stop 'em, and then slam into the east coast. What I find interesting is this: These two latest Cat 5's, developed as tropical storms in the northern Caribbean, barely reached Cat 1 Hurricane status before skirting south Florida, and then went Cat 5 ballistic over the Gulf. This never happens. It’s not global warming…it is something else. Just my opinion… 
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Long-term cycles that show up as changes in wind patterns and ocean temperature variations can alter where storms form and what direction they move. This does not rule out global temperature increases as affecting the weather, but it does not prove it, either. Posted by: Jack at September 23, 2005 12:56 AM
What that place have been Sartain's Sam? Posted by: Christina at September 23, 2005 08:42 AM
Sartain's is/was in Sabine Pass, just below Port Arthur. They had some damn fine BBQ crabs, too. Posted by: Dash at September 23, 2005 06:19 PM
Is was there the last time I drove by, Sam. Let's hope it'll be there tomorrow afternoon. ; ) Posted by: Christina at September 23, 2005 08:12 PM
I agree with Jack. We can't really know what a one or two degree Celsius change does to a storm when it hits the relatively shallow, and certainly warm, gulf. I figure it doesn't do anything GOOD. And as the icecaps melt, for whatever reason (I'm figuring they saw Barbara Bush the elder in the shower, and gots the hot flash) that just compounds the problem. We are in a cycle of destruction unparralelled for the next 40 years or so. Bumma. Posted by: Velociman at September 23, 2005 08:20 PM
I'm gonna beat the dead horse and say it's cyclical. NOAA, got some pretty cool stuff on their site the Deadliest / Costliest Report (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/Deadliest_Costliest.shtml). Table 6 (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/table6.gif ) in that report shows the number of hurricanes to hit the mainland per decade back to 1851. As a side note , Sam if our helichoppers and crows are flyin' the same paths you're about 60 miles west of where I am. Sure didn't realize you were a NC blogger too. Posted by: phin at September 23, 2005 09:23 PM
I'm'a go with Phin on the cyclical thing. We've only been keeping records of things like hurricanes for a relatively short period of time, epochally speaking, but the little data we have suggests a pattern - thirty years of bad hurucanes, thirty years of light ones. Or close to that, time-wise. Regardless, this shit needs to stop, already. I want NOLA back, dammit... Posted by: Kelley at September 25, 2005 01:30 AM
I'm'a go with Phin on the cyclical thing. We've only been keeping records of things like hurricanes for a relatively short period of time, epochally speaking, but the little data we have suggests a pattern - thirty years of bad hurucanes, thirty years of light ones. Or close to that, time-wise. Regardless, this shit needs to stop, already. I want NOLA back, dammit... Posted by: Kelley at September 25, 2005 01:31 AM
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