is claimed to have been
a Category 5 hurricane,
( wind speed exceeding 157 mph)
but actual wind speed
( see table) when it happened
was in the 113 to 129 mph
range, which is Category 3 !
Do our bureaucrats
lie about everything ?
More hurricane facts:
consider 2017's Harvey:
The last pre-Harvey
major hurricane
( category 3, 4 or 5 )
to make landfall
on the US
on the US
( 48 contiguous states )
was actually
hurricane Wilma
hurricane Wilma
in October of 2005,
about 12 years before
hurricane Harvey
hit Texas in 2017.
The previous record
major hurricane lull
was about 8 years,
in the 1860s.
Will those who falsely claim
that Harvey was caused by CO2,
also claim that the 12-year lull
was caused by CO2 ?
Actually, in 2017
no one in the
mainstream media
even mentioned
the 12-year lull
-- because that fact
doesn't support
their climate change
fantasies !
Hurricane Harvey dropped
up to 50 inches of rain
on the fifth most populated
metropolitan
statistical area (MSA)
in the country.
The Houston MSA
has a population
of 6.8 million people,
in 10,062 square miles
( 26,000 sq. km. ).
Harvey was not
the most intense rain
recorded in the world,
or in the US,
but was significant
for the Houston area.
There have been
many Houston floods
since mid-1800s.
The worst Houston flood
was in December 1935,
when the Buffalo Bayou
in downtown topped at
54.4 feet ( 16.6 meters ),
long before the fear of
CO2-caused global warming.
54.4 feet ( 16.6 meters ),
long before the fear of
CO2-caused global warming.
The 1930 population
of Houston was 292,000,
and the 1940 population
was 385,000, roughly 5%
of the population today.
The Houston ship channel
was closed for eight months
after the 1935 storm --
but it was open on a limited basis
only one week after Harvey hit
( limited to ships with a draft
of less than 33 feet, only in daytime ).
Soils in the Houston area drain poorly,
with low to moderate permeability
-- they flood easily and are not ideal
for building a city.
Following floods in 1929 and 1935,
the US Corps of Engineers built Addicks
and Barker dams to control flooding
of the Buffalo Bayou, and its tributaries.
Fear that hurricane Harvey rains
would overwhelm those dams
caused the Corps to release water
from the reservoirs,
causing additional flooding.
The Gulf of Mexico
is warm enough
every summer to produce
a major hurricane.
Climate scientist
Roy Spencer said this
about the history
of hurricanes:
“There is coastal lake
sediment evidence
sediment evidence
of catastrophic hurricanes
which struck
the Florida panhandle
over 1,000 years ago,
events which became
less frequent
in the most recent
1,000 years."