I have lived up and down the Carolina Coast most of my life. I have a vague recollection of a Hurricane David when I was a child. I must have been asleep when my older siblings and parents recall a roar going over the house and they told later they believed it was a tornado. The next day surveying the damage they found a path cut in the woods behind our home. I was told the trees were snapped like toothpicks.
I've seen some of the big Hurricanes pass by or make landfall in the immediate area. One that sticks in mind is Hurricane Bertha --she came in on Coastal NC and shook everything up real nice... loosening trees and anything that wasn't nailed down, leaving a lot of water in the ground. Shortly after, I remember watching the forecast on the Weather Channel, and they were forecasting another Tropical Storm / Hurricane "Fran" and I remarked "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place." But Fran came right behind Bertha, and what Bertha hadn't taken out, Fran did. Bertha tore a hole in my roof, and the rain pouring in destroyed my daughter's furniture. Her room was soaked.
Bonnie was another really bad Hurricane. Who can forget how it stalled offshore and churning rain for hours? Finally a front moved in from the west and Bonnie was taken out to the Ocean.
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...In three years, three others have -- Bertha and Fran in 1996, and Bonnie in 1998. ... Hurricane Dennis expected to stall August 30, 1999 ...Bertha killed 25 people and caused up to $6 billion in damage. ...
When Bonnie got moving again, it moved with single-minded determination to Cape Fear, only to stall again as it ran against the force of an approaching cold front. Bonnie taught Tar Heels to fear the rain of a hurricane as much as the wind. Six to ten inches of rain poured down on much of the flat eastern part of the state, flooding roads, fields, and homes.
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Hurricane Bonnie really messed up my vacation in Avalon, NJ at the end of August.
It seemed like it stalled over North Carolina for 2-3 days and sent wind ...
*yeuck* if I never see another Hurricane, it'll be too soon.Despite the eminent threat of Hurricanes coming onshore, Coastal Carolina can be a beautiful place to live. This past weekend I took a trip to the beach with my kids, and let them spend some time playing in the waves. They loved it. I loved just watching them having fun. I caught some of the beach-time on camera and chose to share some of it online.
The kids collected shells... lots of shells of course, but no sharks' teeth, nothing unusual. On occasion you can find shark's teeth along the shore --but with tourist season at its peak, pickings get slim on what you'll find.
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Hurricane Ophelia
September 14, 2005Just an additional note. We got hit with Hurricane Ophelia along the coast today. Nothing that eventful to report. This storm came creeping up the coast at a record slow, and never came on shore *here* -- we received a pounding from its outer bands, at tropical storm wind speeds (50ish, 60ish+).
It was a category one hurricane when it passed by today, yet the eye itself was out over the ocean so we did not experience the amount of devastation we could have, had it came onshore, had it been anything higher than a category one.
From: "Sharon Mooney"
To: "Ed Babinski"
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Hurricane OpheliaOphelia's worst winds are pretty well gone (there are still strong winds here) but its moved up northward. I came home and the electricity is on, fortunately.
We got blasted with high winds and flooded with rain --yet, as George Elliot said and it is so true, we did not get hit with even *hurricane force* winds here. Only tropical storm force (50 and 60+ mph winds). It's been very bad, but by comparison this has all been relatively mild for a hurricane (the hurricane force winds are out at sea) --the electric company had men out working here on the power lines during the storm. I've been through Hurricanes in the past, that took several days to restore electricity. For the longest time (a few hours), our area was the one covered by the big dark red from the outer bands of the storm on Doppler radar. (The heaviest rain and winds).
I've been through some of the Category 3 storms and when they blast your home, it's just as well if it were the finger of god.
It's been a mild storm (if you compare with Bonnie and Fran.) The worst thing has been how slow movement up the coast, and all its any good for is high winds and pouring water.
All I have to say is `good ridance'.
From: "Sharon Mooney"
To: "Ed Babinski"
Cc: "McCall, Harry H"; "Steve Locks"; "Kenneth Nahigian"; "Dave Matson"
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:37 PM
Subject: A "God" Made the Mountain RumbleI find it amazing that Creationists/Christians still are as superstitious as barbarians and savages. There are some ignorant natives to this day who believe "demons" live in mountains and make volcanoes.
Ed, a message was left for you on the Guestbook...Jack wrote: "...some in Christendom proclaiming that hurricane Katrina in but one response coming from the God of Israel for what the United States is imposing upon the people of Israel. What do you think?" ---- Webmaster (Sharon) response... I can tell you exactly what Ed Babinski thinks, and it's along the lines of this:
"Hurricanes are intense low pressure areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall... The low pressure causes wind to begin to spiral inward toward the center of the low. These winds help to evaporate even more water vapor from the ocean, spiraling inward toward the center, feeding more showers and thunderstorms, and warming the upper atmosphere still more. The showers and thunderstorms where all of this energy is released are usually organized into bands (sometimes called "rainbands" or "feeder bands"), as well as into an "eyewall" encircling the center of the storm. The eyewall is where the strongest winds occur, which encircle the warmest air, in the eye of the hurricane."Strange how any god would choose to *only* unleash its anger during the summer and early fall. Even more strange, I just set through around 14 hours of Hurricane Ophelia, and I have set through Bonnie, Bertha, Fran, David, Diana, Floyd --the infamous Hugo, and more hurricanes than I care to count, and I have my serious doubts these storms have anything to do with Israel, but more to do with Africa and its ocean, where these storms form every year --Israel or no Israel.
"The word "God" is a trash can where the religous mind dumps unexplained events. Once the event is "canned' it has a reason!"
-Harry McCallA QUESTION FOR JACK FROM SHARON: Is the Hurricane on Jupiter any sign from a god? "The probe measured winds that increased from 192 to 400 miles (309 to 644 kilometers) per hour during descent. Wind speed was 192 miles per hour at eight miles above the cloud tops, rose to 391 miles per hour at 28 miles down, and stayed between 380 and 390 miles per hour down to about 80 miles, the end of wind measurements.
Independent of the radio tracking, Seiff measured the winds using two accelerometers on board the craft that reported speeds from 400 miles per hour to 450 miles per hour."
Source: "Probing a Planet of Powerful Winds"Another thought...
Any of you figure there's little green men living on Jupiter that god has cursed and punishing with "hurricanes"?
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The largest swirling area of gas is called the Great Red Spot. ... believe this is a large hurricane-like storm which has lasted for hundreds of years. ...Talk about infinite wrath.
LASTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS . . .Why waste all that perfectly "divine" power for desolation and destruction on a planet that does not contain life?
Maybe Ed can fill me in on "the mind of god", more on why we believe in a designer...MORE QUESTIONS
Doesn't scripture say God has no favoritism in people?What kind of narcissist egocentric would assume god would send a flood to drown and torment thousands of Americans, over some Jews in Israel? God missed his mark by a few thousand miles if that were the case.
Ah, but didn't God promise in holy scripture never to flood the earth again?
So, God is a promise-breaker as well.
From: "Sharon Mooney"
To: "McCall, Harry H"
Cc: "Ed Babinski"
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005
Subject: Thought on Mother Earth and the CosmosJack wrote: "...some in Christendom proclaiming that hurricane Katrina in but one response coming from the God of Israel for what the United States is imposing upon the people of Israel. What do you think?" ----
"The word "God" is a trash can where the religious mind dumps unexplained events. Once the event is "canned' it has a reason!"
-Harry McCallI think it can be explained, it's just not what they want to hear. I'm not an astronomer or geologist, but many Creationists seem to feel this planet is a cradle specially made for mankind -- a cosmological Garden of Eden so to speak. What would Jack feel like if he and other Christians were standing on the surface of the sun, with all that nuclear activity and *heat* -- would they say it was God cursing man then? Or rather, from the safe perspective of earth (not! The Ozone Layer doesn't totally protect us from Melanoma)--they do have the sense to realize those violent nuclear reactions are necessary for life on earth. The moon, uninhabitable, without oxygen. Venus, with poison gasses. Earth itself can be looked at from that perspective, it's just another of these "violent, churning planets", namely volcanoes. We're lucky we have a home planet to live on at all! During the storm the Meteorologist George Elliot made a brief comment about the Hurricane -- it's due to the Sun actually (he was brief, and commented if it weren't for the sun, none of us would be here)! All that energy from what I understand of it, is trapped here on earth, and a Hurricane merely harnesses the energy, this is Mother Earth's way of balancing out the energy in the atmosphere --that's why a Hurricane can feel like an atomic bomb when it comes onshore. All that energy must go somewhere. Earth is a violent planet, and does things like other planets do --but religion would lead them to believe earth was put here, for man. "Our safe little aquarium in the Cosmos", is a delusion.
Earth is merely another planet, and if you take many of the deserts on it, you can find more comparisons with Mars than an Eden. Some of its caves to Venus (poison fumes), some of its mountains to the Sun (volcanoes), the depths of the Ocean to Jupiter (the pressure can crush your lungs to a twelfth of their original size only around 400 feet below water)... etc etc etc
We live on a violent planet. But that's not the picture the Bible paints. Christians believe this planet was "hand-designed by God" and thus when something goes wrong, they're astounded asking "why did God do this?"
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Hurricanes are unpredictable. One of the most memorable Hurricanes that I recall was Hurricane Diana, in 1984. This Hurricane went northward a bit, did a turnabout and then came on shore --the eye going over our home.
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