"But the trail of Hilary took an interesting turn Sunday night..."
Southern California is putting itself back together after a historic hurricane, named Hilary, formed in the Pacific and slammed into the state. She was, by then, a tropical depression and maybe named something else but no matter as her terror was unleashed. Green waste trash cans brutally tipped over. Hedges kind of getting bent.
Disaster.
And as I was driving home, after potentially straining social services with an entirely ill-advised sail trip, dodging people driving 40 mph in the fast lane with their hazard lights on while the rain lightly sprinkled, I wonder if this was the center of the storm.
Meteorologists had thought the business might make first hit in Encinitas then travel east but mostly north. In truth, she touched ground in northern Baja then did cruise east and mostly north until Sunday night when… well, let’s let the Los Angeles Times take up this unfortunate tale.
For days, forecasters have tried to determine the path of Hilary as it morphed from a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean to an exceedingly rare tropical storm that entered Southern California.
But the trail of Hilary took an interesting turn Sunday night, as the storm made a trek from the Inland Empire to the heart of Los Angeles.
The center of the storm went from being east of Murrieta in Riverside County at 5 p.m. to above Compton around 8 p.m., according to the National Hurricane Center.
Compton, as anyone who watches movies or listens to music knows, is a culturally rich, predominately black community.
The Inland Empire features, mostly, U.S. Open of Surfing attendees.
Racism?
Hard to say but science is science.
More as the story develops.
I thought you meant this one… https://m.media-amazon.com/…
I was relieved you meant the Klaus Schwab book. Whew. So, you’re not that far gone. Not yet.
Oops, I read that as The Great Replacement – no, I have not read Schwab’s book but I did just read a review of it now. I’ll check it out.
My god, you will swallow every ugly falsehood the mean-spirited right feeds you – and you will have many more climate catastrophes to try and explain away to your grandkids. – PS – The Great Reset is gibberish… read a REAL book – try Eaarth by McKinnon
Youve used fossil fuels for 73 year
And you still use em.
Activist professor? Now you are targeting college kids for trying to learn? How pathetic. I’m 73 and very well-informed on these matters. You are a low-information voter whose news sources only support your worldview – Newsmax, no doubt – and clueless about climate change and likely every other important issue of the day. Facts matter. Read a book.
It’s funny how you small government right-wingers are the first to whinge and point fingers at the “big government” that let you down.
The excessive drying and drought, which has gotten much worse over this past decade, not to mention the increases in wind, etc. are major factors in this fire – yes, local governmental dysfunction played a part, but this catastrophe was waiting and ready to happen. There will be more of them. Many more. Prepare for the worst, strive, and work together for the best. Politics aside, the world is in very deep shit.
And you should know that preposterous statements like yours are meaningless in a conversation wherein fossil fuels is the preferred nomenclature.
Think it might be Eesha under a new name or Eesha’s brother.
at one time or another, we are all forced ‘outta da hood’…and am not talkin ’bout rap. reading the Times? nope. it’s fish wrap!
nice secret turn!
glad bags…we put all the pollution in glad bags. tie ’em up and dump in the landfill. let’s look into his trash cans to see if he’s a contributor…
Jumping on a plane tomorrow to go meet with an old biz partner(SHHH, he’s a black dude) and he and I will discuss this article. YES, we are of an age where we can make fun of each others stereotypical racialisms…
Still love and remain inspired by the Negs “I have black friends” badge of honor!
Another unexpected gem on BG! BRAVO!
THIS is why I worship you. Not in a sexual or twisted manner BUT for this level of intellectual prose!
That’s the most interesting/incredible thing I’ve ever seen on the site. I can’t believe the article on phys.org doesn’t mention how it looks exactly like yin and yang, but I guess Taoism isn’t science, even though they seemed to know something about this interconnection before the scientists did. Thanks for making all the time I waste here worthwhile for once.
Yes. “Taoism isn’t science.”
Saw the taijitu symbol carved into stone on a Mayan temple in Belize. Was trippy seeing it where it wasn’t expected.
There are a lot of things throughout ‘his story’ that dont add up, or do depending on your perspective. Things like the many pyramids around the world, some much larger than Egypt. Or how there are other man made structures that should not be there, for example underneath many city streets in America and around the world.
Once you open your eyes to it you cannot unsee the truth.
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Please explain how you dismiss climate change as a driver in these worldwide weather, flood, and fire catastrophes our world has been increasing exponentially these past decades, which are following (though at an accelerated rate) the scientific models to the T.
Well TJ please take a few months(or longer) to truly read and digest the data and the historical records around the earth’s weather cycles. Look deep, really deep as sources like google are clogged with volumes of grant suported and/or government supported research(loose term for give me money so I can eat and push an unbalanced narrative) that in many if not most cases is out there to push a capitalist driven agenda and support the lifestyles of scientists who refuse to truly slice and dice data for a intellectually fair narrative. YES, TJ this is indeed factual as the evils on Wall Street(my old stomping grounds) and money centers around the word see an opportunity to line their collective pockets in the name of saving the planet. Well TJ, the planet earth is an amazing self-healing organism that has well documented heating/cooling cycles and man/womankind has done a fairly good job of cleaning up our collective bad behavior. Now I’m guessing you weren’t around the LA basin in the 70s when the pollution was 10x as bad as it is now. How did that cleansing occur? Any guesses? Can we do more? Well yes we can BUT the irrational push, a scorched earth greenwashed mentality isn’t helping my friend. Now as you do your research don’t miss the well documented devastating hail storms that hit Europe in the 1400s or the forest fire of the 1600s and before…as those weren’t caused by man. So balanced research and knowledge is what truly matters , not sound bite intelligence. BTW, is the earth in a heating or a cooling cycle now and what are the historical and typical outputs of this current cycle? Climate change isn’t all man made, it is mostly just a cycle pure and simple.
BTW, I am a balanced eco warrior my friend.
So, scientists are skewing research results to protect their “lavish” lifestyles? You must not know many scientists—most of whom are broke. As for “weather cycles,” yes, they are constantly changing – but weather isn’t climate, as any 9th-grader knows. We are talking about climate; an entirely different matter – and, yes, to head you off, fossils of palm trees can be found at both poles, thanks to continental shifting when those land masses were closer to the equator. Anyone who denies the reality of man-caused climate change has their head firmly stuck deeply inside their own south pole—and what’s heading that way ain’t palm tree, mate.
You lost me at “lavish” as nowhere did I assert any such embellishment.
Ha, the implication was clear, but this is even funnier – nowhere did I assert any such embellishments? What century are you stranded in, I’ll send the Delorean.
When you gain a basic handle on the English language come back at me, until then I’ll leave you with the basics:
Use quotation marks to show that you are writing the exact words that someone said or wrote.
Maybe you should go back and read my rather balanced words more carefully or find someone who can interpret for you.
I can’t imagine anyone has ever taken you seriously, Picard, so you must forgive me for not being the first. But it is entertaining to poke you as we wait for waves. Have a nice life. PS – My editors at HarperCollins would tell you that ” ” are old school.
BRAVO! TJ! Likewise TJ you are my entertainment, with name dropping prowess no less and a study in irony not unlike a greek tragedy. So it is not lost on me that you are the one who continues to offer up gems such as “that ” ” are old school” so your editors at HarperCollins(legendary name drop bro)likely educated in current J school laziness are easy to appease. Yes TJ no one takes me seriously and that is fine for me these days as I am done playing the big boy game. Except of course when I get drug back in as I was yesterday for a day trip to Chicago(city name drop for you) to you know, be taken seriously to possibly build out a really cool, right place right time entity to capture dislocation in a segment of a certain industry. So while happily not being taken seriously by design I kicked and screamed to and from Chicago while dreaming of paddling out tomorrow…
BTW, and in keeping with your waiting for waves boredom, name dropping prowess and entertainment lets pivot into nom de plume etymology. Imagine a legendary white shoe lawyer charged with acting as trustee and clawback king for the greatest ponzi in Wall Street history. That my friend is a clue as to the genesis of my not important lot in life and willingness to honor one of the most profitable barristers in the annals of US jurisprudence. Great sport my friend but I have a few hours of non seriousness to attend to…cheers!
pretty exhaustive explanation…meditation
then medication.eco-warriors are an exemplenary bunch. we work with our hands and go largely unapplauded. a few of my posts derive from years of enviro-consulting: wastewater pretreatment systems, leaking underground fuel tanks clean-up, sampling and classifying and proper haz mat handling (in a hazmat suit aka Felipe at trestles) toxic building syndrome studies, air quality measurements (NOx, SOx, VOCs, ozone, particulates). Final reports directed specific actions required for ensuring public safety and rarely with a counter argument(s). at the end of the day, feeling bold, would meditate on the requirement of the next day. then medicate!Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your time!
let me add TJ…was installing pvc recovery lines for a groundwater extraction and VOC recovery/treatment project at a Roadway Trucking facility near downtown LA…(LUFT site…leaking u/g fuel tank) was insanely hot and really experienced my first severe case of heat exhaustion….had to lay down and recover, then went back to work. driving home was listening to presidential? speech by Al Gore. He defiantly claimed: “I will cleanup your water!”
Gore would have tried to clean it up, but they wouldn’t let him – thank SCOTUS for its FL ruling.
it was just the irony. my moment. in truth the LUFT program was approved by the fed level and implemented by states. each identified site received $1M. what was FL SCOTUS ruling?
Had the SCOTUS not ruled against the state of Florida and states rights during the 2000 recount, Gore would have been president instead of Bush. Gore was posed for and ran on an environmental platform with designs on changing our energy dependence from fossil fuels to solar and wind, etc.
BRAVO!
Vodstok ice core samples were/are pretty good evidence of natural temp swings for the historical earth. Volcanos, cracks leaking methane virtually everywhere from deep ocean, and our sun do a pretty good job for fluctuating the temps.
I’m no climate change denier. I love and embrace the climate changing. I’m just not hearing the liars on the subject, aye? Especially politicians.
Totally agree – follow the science – not the junk science that the fossil fuel industries have flooded into the conversation since the 1950s. Follow the money to expose the politicians on both the right and the left—but if we are honest, most of that dough has gone to the GOP.
I honestly don’t know where most of that money goes, but I do know both parties masquerade as something other than servants for the people. Their cumulative lawlessness in grift is astounding to me.
Everyone needs to do their part, and I think most folks do. The rulers will never cease moving the measuring stick…
Many politicians spend tremendous time stealing, bending the rules, and breaking the law. Jared Kushner got 2 billion from the Saudis – and MBS isn’t in the solar panel business.
Compton: “That’s Hilary-us Chas.”
Englewood New Jersey has fresh bagels…lot’s o lux/