[ExI] storms again

[John Clark]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> The years 1984, 2002 and 2013 all had their first hurricane of the
> season on 11 September of those years.*


*And September 10 is usually considered the peak of the hurricane season. *

>  Miami’s biggest blackouts, one in 2008 and one in 1985, were not caused
> by storms.


*In 1992 I was living in the northern part of Miami and Hurricane Andrew
left me without electrical power for about 2 weeks, and I was lucky, the
people further south had it much worse. Andrew was quite unusual in several
respects, for one thing very few hurricanes were produced in 1992, but it
only takes one. And Andrew was very **small but extremely intense, one of
the few category 5 hurricanes to ever hit the USA. And for most hurricanes
the greatest damage is caused by flooding, but for Andrew it was the wind
which was over 180 miles an hour, but only in a path 6 to 8 miles across. *

*My sister's house was right in the middle of that path, fortunately she
was smart enough to get the hell out and was not there at the time, but her
house was a wreck. Incidentally the power of the wind is proportional to
the cube of the speed, if you double the speed each individual air molecule
has 4 times the power, but there are twice as many air molecules, so you
have 8 times as much power, so 180 miles an hour really packs a wallop.  *

*By 2017 I had moved up in the world to Fort Lauderdale and Hurricane Irma
put me in the dark for about a week; Irma was not as intense as Andrew, it
was only category 4, but it was much larger. **Both hurricanes taught me
something, I much prefer an artificial environment. During a long black out
I feel like I've gone back to the Stone Age and become unhappy,
unreasonable and grouchy. You have never seen me during an extensive
blackout. You would not like me during an extensive blackout. *


*John K Clark*



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