Godless Mom in the Bible Belt

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Hurricane season 2005. Goodbye and good riddance!

Tropical storm Epsilon was named Tuesday, the day before the traditional end of hurricane season.

Named storms this season...26
Previous record...21

Hurricane strength storms this year...13
Previous record...12

We also had three storms hit category 5 this year, more than any previous year. Katrina and Rita pounded the Gulf Coast and Wilma (the strongest storm ever on record) hit the Cancun area leaving Mexico to clean up the same sort of damage we are dealing with here in the states. It remains to be seen whether the Gulf coast will ever fully recover, I have a feeling things have permanently changed in New Orleans.
posted by GodlessMom, 12:33 PM

7 Comments:

Blogger Fred said:

Good riddance is right. I'm fearful that Tampa has been charmed; it's only a matter of time.
Posted at 5:43 PM  

Blogger dAAve said:

I absolutely llove the name Epsilon for a hurricane.

I think records go back to about 1880 or so. We'll never know if the several billion years before then if there were more hurricanes. The "records" reflect such a short blip in time, our reference is not very accurate.
Posted at 7:21 PM  

Blogger Kristie said:

Good riddance as well, but we may well see the same pattern next year. ugh.
Posted at 8:09 PM  

Blogger Saur♥Kraut said:

Shhh, Fred. *knock on wood*
Posted at 7:48 AM  

Blogger United We Lay said:

I'm very happy to be out of Florida and back in Pennsylvania. Now I only have to worry about the storms when they come this far up the coast, and even then, I'll be far enough inland that I'll just get a little rain! We went straight from summer to winter when we moved, though, so it's taking a little while to get used to it, and I had forgotten about paying for heating oil, but I can go skiing every weekend from now until March!
Posted at 8:55 AM  

Blogger The Lazy Iguana said:

The water is still warm, so do not put that tracking map away just yet!

As long as surface water near FloriDUH is above 80 degrees, which it is, something else could form.
Posted at 11:23 AM  

Blogger Fred said:

Sorry, Saur, hope I didn't jinx us. Knocking on wood...
Posted at 2:10 PM  

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