Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
From the news coverage, looks like Panama City took a direct hit from the eye. I hope your family's ok, and if they're in a brick, 2-story structure they should be fine. Scared as hell maybe, but fine. Damn these hurricanes seem to be getting worse every year. Seems we're in an UP part of the climactic cycle for these things. It also seems it's a roll of the dice as far as where these things form and where they're headed. For us in the Caribbean, it's the Cape Verde hurricanes that scare us the most. Plenty of time to churn through the Atlantic and pick up steam. For you guys on the Gulf coast, it seems they can just form in the Gulf and give you problems with little notice. The East coast at least has length going for it, but the Carolinas jut out like a jaw asking for an uppercut and tend to be sweet for these storms. Oh well.... it's either this or earthquakes. I guess I'll stick with the occasional hurricane. (Although after Maria I may just move to Alaska... hahaha).
Too many people moved to the beaches, they built up areas which nature intended to absorb the storms. Even our wetlands have been encroached on by people and they are supposed to help stymie the storm surge.....oh well.