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Today, 24 August 2020, marks the time three years ago when Hurricane Harvey began an RI in the Gulf of Mexico, as TS Laura appears ready to do shortly this evening. Harvey, in his Texas impacts, was actually two very different behaving storms. The initial fierce destructive high Cat 4 landfall on San Jose Island and the Rockport, TX area, then an inland excursion of about 80-90 miles NNE, with a loop-de-loop and subsequent ESE track back out to the GOM was one devastating event. The second event had a much different effect, with Harvey's further Gulf tracking and landfall east of Galveston and Houston in LA, which dumped billions of tons of rainfall, up to five feet in places, but had little wind. It all added up to the US's second most costly 'cane. Y'all maybe contrast and compare Laura with Harvey. I'll put a few links and images below. I'll try [later] to also add a few personal photos taken just before Harvey blasted into my homeport of Rockport. I got out in the last safe few hours, after securing my boat in it's slip and scooting for my inland home, which Harvey got real close to following me. Along with a few post-storm pics from various sources. This is difficult as my internet sucks. [hope I can edit later] References --- Corpus Christi, TX > Major Hurricane Harvey - August 25-29, 2017 [comprehensive report]: https://www.weather.gov/crp/hurricane_harvey Hurricane Harvey Summary PDF [88pages]: https://www.weather.gov/media/crp/Hurricane_Harvey_Summary_Rockport.pdf Western Gulf of Mexico Tropical Cyclones from 1851 to 2018: https://www.weather.gov/crp/tropical_cyclone_tracks 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/index.php?season=2017&basin=atl NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT HURRICANE HARVEY (AL092017) [77pages]: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf Hurricane HARVEY Advisory Archive: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/HARVEY.shtml? HARVEY Graphics Archive: [quite interesting...] Initial Wind Field and Watch/Warning Graphic: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/HARVEY_graphics.php

Another very respected scientist and leader stands up for the good people of NOAA, and [too, imo] politely excoriates the incompetent, and sycophantic, who cravenly interfere with the scientists and technicians of NOAA. From the "Scientific American" * : Observations - Leadership In The Age Of The Surreal "Leadership in the Age of the Surreal The professionals at the National Weather Service deserve political leadership that will stand up for them—even when that puts the leaders’ own jobs in jeopardy. .Over the past two weeks, Hurricane Dorian destroyed portions of the Bahamas and posed a major threat to the southeastern U.S., before eventually making landfall in North Carolina. Given that we are in peak hurricane season, this is not an unprecedented story. In today’s age, however, the devastating hurricane became a backdrop to a political farce that, even in retrospect, seems unbelievable. ... [read the whole article at the link] ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) David Titley David Titley is an affiliate professor of meteorology at Penn State University; Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired); former oceanographer of the navy; former Chief Operating Officer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and a member of the Governing Board at the Center for Climate and Security. [ * The "Scientific American", I began subscribing to it ~c. 1968 ]

No rational, logical, science-related or based US government policies will be possible until the place is cleaned up, reformed, until the 'swamp' is truly drained out. It's currently mostly controlled by and for anti-science, anti-factual, cultist grifters who act on a far different plane than a patriotic 'for the good of the nation' basis; when not acting on behalf of foreign interests [like RU, MbS, DPRK, etc].

An apt quote, but you should attribute it to George Orwell's great [and scary] book, "1984", which I think too few today are aware of. Yet, here we are, nearly living in it. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as "1984" George Orwell presented a situation where people struggle to live in a atmosphere of deceit under the pervasive rule of "Big Brother". An atmosphere of deceit where "that which is truth" is totally controlled by an authoritatively positioned ruling party. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening”

The American Meteorological Society, the 'pro mets' professional group, issued a statement of support for the working NOAA staff [below]; especially those of the Birmingham, AL WFO, who corrected the 'Met-in-Chief's' absurd Sharpie forecast and his subsequent doubling down on Sharpiegate. The NOAA upper level management and spokesperson types who folded under that wholly unjustified and corrupt WH political pressure, with that unattributed public rebuke of the Birmingham WFO, should be instantly removed, no later than on 22 Jan 2021. IIRC, NOAA still only has an 'acting' director, not a permanent one, yet another example of the gross negligence of this maladministration [and subservience to VP/RU]. "Only the Best"... https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/response-to-noaa-statement/ https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/ "Response to NOAA Statement The American Meteorological Society fully supports our colleagues at NOAA, who consistently put the safety of the American public first and foremost. They work tirelessly employing state of the art science to keep Americans safe. With respect to the press release that was issued by NOAA on Friday, 6 September, regarding the forecast of Hurricane Dorian, AMS believes the criticism of the Birmingham forecast office is unwarranted; rather they should have been commended for their quick action based on science in clearly communicating the lack of threat to the citizens of Alabama.

Anybody know what the turning radius of a 280 mile wide, 70,000ft high, multi-billion ton, 185-220mph, spinning mass of water, water vapor [and some debris] might be? Anxious Floridians and EC'ers would like to know. Pls reply: Box DUG, Cheyenne Mountain, CO. Not your grandmum's Buick at all.