The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
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New Orleans/Katrina is the worst disaster in recent history. Lest we forget our past history, the Galveston hurricane of about 100 yrs ago claimed 6000-8000 lives. It destroyed thousands of homes and swept half the city into a tangle of rubble and bodies. It also occurred in Sept.
They rebuilt by constructing a long 15' high concrete retaining wall with curved face and riprap placement. The land within was filled with pumped sand slurry. Thousands of homes were raised accordingly.
They rebuilt by constructing a long 15' high concrete retaining wall with curved face and riprap placement. The land within was filled with pumped sand slurry. Thousands of homes were raised accordingly.





RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
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RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com
RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
It occurred to me that a suitably sized FAB delivered by a cheap cruise missile, for example (it doesn't have to defeat any enemy radar etc) and targetted appropriately could disrupt the wind patterns.
After all, these are circulating air flows that create very stable free vorticies. They can grow, they sometimes do not. Sometimes they are disipated, sometime they split and frequenty they vear away from the expected path. All events that have a cause and I would have bet a fuel air bomb could influence at least some of these outcomes.
I say "why not?" because this seems so obvious an approach to try that it must have been considered and rejected for some reason. Maybe this is a dumb question but hey, i don't mind asking dumb questions sometimes (outside my field, of course).
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
You have to also remember that a goodly number of people are making a good living working on models that hope to predict the paths and landfall of storms.
A little nostalgia:
There was a serious proposal way back in the heyday of peaceful uses of nuclear energy to drop a good ole big one in storm.
RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
Hurricanes are a major method or redistributing the solar energy that falls on the planet. If you disrupt this you just very well may cause a larger energy gradient to develop resulting in larger and more destructive hurricanes.
It’s not nice to try to fool Mother Nature.
Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng
Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com
RE: The Galveston Hurricane ~100 ago was worse
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