'Not' the storm of the century?

[TR32]

Granted predicting hurricane damage is not a straight forward task.... but isn't it clear already that Hurricane Milton was not the "storm of the century....this one is different...this one will be catastrophic".... that they said it was going to be?

Loss of life is never trivial, but this wasn't even the worst hurricane in the past 3 weeks. Is that accurate?

 

[WhyisIUBBcursed]

Granted predicting hurricane damage is not a straight forward task.... but isn't it clear already that Hurricane Milton was not the "storm of the century....this one is different...this one will be catastrophic".... that they said it was going to be?

Loss of life is never trivial, but this wasn't even the worst hurricane in the past 3 weeks. Is that accurate?

Climate change caused by government control of the weather

 

[UncleMark]

Granted predicting hurricane damage is not a straight forward task.... but isn't it clear already that Hurricane Milton was not the "storm of the century....this one is different...this one will be catastrophic".... that they said it was going to be?

Loss of life is never trivial, but this wasn't even the worst hurricane in the past 3 weeks. Is that accurate?

I'm waiting for COH to explain it to me.

 

[ChicagoFineForNow]

Granted predicting hurricane damage is not a straight forward task.... but isn't it clear already that Hurricane Milton was not the "storm of the century....this one is different...this one will be catastrophic".... that they said it was going to be?

Loss of life is never trivial, but this wasn't even the worst hurricane in the past 3 weeks. Is that accurate?

It appears so. We’ve come a long way, even in the last couple decades, in terms of preparedness and response. Still none of that can protect you from a 15 ft. storm surge. Humans are adaptable.

 

[UncleMark]

Granted predicting hurricane damage is not a straight forward task.... but isn't it clear already that Hurricane Milton was not the "storm of the century....this one is different...this one will be catastrophic".... that they said it was going to be?

As best I can tell, this one was an oddball in many respects. It took an unusual path; it jumped from like a Cat1 to a Cat 5 damn near overnight; it dropped from a Cat 5 to a Cat 3 right before landfall.

People might remember that Katrina was supposed to level NOLA, but the city weathered the storm well. It was the flooding when the levees broke and Lake Pontchartrain poured into the city that proved to be disastrous.

 

[TomEric4756]

Granted predicting hurricane damage is not a straight forward task.... but isn't it clear already that Hurricane Milton was not the "storm of the century....this one is different...this one will be catastrophic".... that they said it was going to be?

Loss of life is never trivial, but this wasn't even the worst hurricane in the past 3 weeks. Is that accurate?

There were two breaks:
1: Landfall was 50 miles south of Tampa bay, wind was blowing water out of Tampa bay.
2: Milton lost its Cat 5 classification, reducing the storm surge in Bradenton, Manatee County,

When the storm broadened out it unleashed an outbreak of tornadoes worthy any midwestern spring tornado alley outbreak. An Atlantic Coast county St Lucie was devastated, 140 mikes away form landfall. 3 million lost power…

I’d say the 500-year 1000-year flooding in GA, TN, SC, NC was worse, as it was not expected… the forecast was north and then west (not east).

 

[NPT]

Climate change caused by government control of the weather

Nah.... Trump caused the bad weather. 🤣