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Hurricane FK'd

Ah yes, Category 6 hurricanes. They are like “This Is Spinal Tap’s:” “But this one goes to 11.” The thing is, there is no 11—the volume dial stops at 10, just like the hurricane scale stops at Category 5. It’s like we’re sitting here, staring at the devastation, and someone’s saying, “But what if it was a 5.1 storm?” As if that extra tenth is going to somehow crank the destruction up to a level we haven’t already hit.

Spoiler Alert: the roof’s still gone, the powers out, and your neighborhood’s a lake. Your bed is down the street and not because your Karen neighbor stole it... But hey, maybe we just need a new rating scale. One that goes to 11—because apparently, some people won’t be satisfied until a storm picks up their house and relocates it to another dimension other than the Twilight Zone we already occupy.

Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned My beacon's been moved under moon and star Where am I to go now that I've gone too far? Soon, you will come to know when the hurricane takes my home…

Wondering about hurricane categories are we now? More specifically, the Category 5 rating and why we stopped there, as if Mother Nature might just politely say, "Okay, this is enough destruction. Let’s not go any harder." You ever know a drunk or an addict to ‘stop there?’ First off, no, there’s no such thing as a "Category 5.1" or a "Category 6." Yeah, Hurricane Ian in 2022 was a monster, and if anyone threw around the term "5.1," it was a way to give it that extra, "oh, shit, we’re proper Fucked," emphasis or click-bait because everyone’s an influencer now and needs your attention to make monies. However, technically, scientifically, and factually, Category 5 is where the Saffir-Simpson scale maxes out (1971). That’s because once you hit 157 mph sustained winds, you’re already looking at damage that can’t get much worse in terms of scale. It is now binary, black and/or white, zero and/or one. Most people that live in the binary world of decision making do not understand how binary works. They want to interject their opinion with a “but, followed by the long-winded explanation.” However, once you said “but,” your explanation/answer is null and voided. The only two answers allowed are; you are either Fucked or you are not. Once 157 mph winds are sustained we’re talking “everything is annihilated” levels of bad—roofs gone, power out, roads submerged, your backyard swing set now halfway across the state. An electrical pole that can range from 30 to 60 feet in height, about 2 feet in diameter weighing anywhere from 500 to 2,000 pounds being forced into the ground at a depth of around 6 feet, is either there snapped in half, uprooted or is nowhere to be found at all.

After 157 mph sustained winds it doesn’t matter. What more do you want? Here’s the thing: there’s a physical limit to how strong a hurricane can get. Planet Earth has its rules. There's only so much heat, moisture, and perfect storm conditions (pun fully intended) to fuel these behemoths. Sure, 200 mph hurricanes like Patricia (2015) have happened, but guess what? It's still Category 5. You get what you get. The whole point on five being the max is because once five is achieved the survival rate for everyone inside the storm drops to zero. That isn’t saying; “Holy shit, we really are going to die.” Zero probability in this context just means: — that mathematically; the chances of survival is not worth calculating because it is so small it might as well be zero. But not impossible, just not probable in terms of mathematical statistics. Those words do mean different things and can never be lumped together as one thing. Now, if you’re still holding out for a future Category 6 listing, good luck. Some scientists and influencers alike talk about it like it is a real talking point. They’ll use big phrases on their videos and in corners of climate change discussions, where the oceans heat up like someone left the oven on. I can see it being real only if superstorms become more frequent, then yeah, maybe one day we'll have a Category 6. But for now, they’d probably have to rewrite the scale and convince people to care about the difference between “devastating” and “really, REALLY devastating.”

In reality though, it’s like asking if we need a 10 on the Richter scale for earthquakes. Once the world starts shaking at a nine, your house is gone whether or not someone decides to crank up the number and call it a ten or higher. Does it even matter? Fucked is fucked, right? Hurricanes don’t give a damn about your feelings, opinions, categories or even knowledge. It cares not for likes, comments and subscriber numbers for advertisers that are all AI-driven now. Hurricanes don’t care what number we slap on them or how much we prepare for them. They’re coming, they’re massive, and they’re indifferent. Hurricanes don’t care about human concerns or emotions. They don’t change or adjust based on how prepared we are or how we label them. Whether we call it a Category 5, 6, or whatever, hurricanes just do what they do—destroy things—with no consideration for the impact on us. Sound familiar? “Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!” — Kyle Reese, Terminator (1984)

Normally, hurricanes that form in the Gulf would head from west to east, giving Florida a solid smack right where it hurts. But these days, it’s like someone threw out all the old data and replaced it with a mess of data that looks more random than predictable. We’ve had 12 major hurricanes in the past seven years alone, depending what you deem “major” these days. I say if it kills people and destroys communities, yeah, that is “major” to me…  GAIA is no longer fucking about—these storms are hitting with enough force to rearrange coastlines let alone your living room furniture. Whether it’s Category 5 devastation or even a tropical storm to category 1 storm like Helene, causing floods, and a loss of life they refuse to report on the national news networks, all of them. We’re not just talking bad weather, we’re talking about the earth throwing a fastball pitch right at your skull with the intention to erase everything you used to be before the pitch was thrown.

They are forces of nature that are completely unaffected by anything we think, plan, or feel. Welcome to the tangibility of existentialism… It’s a bit like life itself. You can prepare, make all your plans, get your supplies in order—but when the storm hits, all that meticulous human planning is just paper in the wind. You think you're safe behind definitions and scientific scales, but hurricanes laugh in the face of our pathetic attempts to quantify their power. But hey, we humans need our definitions, categories and numbers. It gives us the illusion of control, the comfort that we can define chaos and control it. We cannot… This decision making process within us all just show how trapped we are in this, our own personal Matrix. Chaos doesn’t care about our lines in the sand, the bathroom you choose to piss in, the false-political leader you vote for, our spreadsheets of wind speeds and damage potential. It doesn’t care how much money you have in the bank, the monies or the bank itself as their own physical things. Category 5 could be Category Infinity, for all the difference it makes to your splintered home and uprooted life.

So yeah, call it Category 5.1, call it Category 6, whatever. Hurricanes aren’t listening. People aren’t listening, reading either. They are sharing though, oh boy, do they share. Hurricanes, they…

They are just coming…

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#1102 Is category 5 the strongest a hurricane can be?

Is category 5 the strongest a hurricane can be? A category 6 hurricane is possible, but not with the current method of measuring hurricanes. The hurricane category system is called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. As the name suggests, it was invented by two people called Saffir and Simpson. Herbert Saffir was a civil engineer and Robert Simpson was a meteorologist. They came up with their scale in the 1970s for the National Hurricane Center. Herbert Saffir based the scale on the amount of damage the hurricane could do, using his background in structural engineering and Robert Simpson applied the meteorological part, describing the strength of the hurricane at each level. They came up with 5 levels. Each level of the scale lists the windspeed and then goes into considerable detail about what kind of damage to buildings and infrastructure that hurricane will cause. The damage each category of hurricane causes might be difficult to quantify, but Saffir does a great job. For example, in a category two hurricane: Well-constructed frame homes could sustain major roof and siding damage. Many shallowly rooted trees will be snapped or uprooted and block numerous roads. Near-total power loss is expected with outages that could last from several days to weeks. The wind speeds are easier to quantify and this is why a category six hurricane would be possible if we chose to make one. Category one has wind speeds of 119 to 153 km/h. Category two is 154 to 177 km/h. Category three is 178 km/h to 208 km/h. Category four is 209 to 251 km/h. Category five is 252 km/h or higher. The only way to make a category six hurricane would be to put an upper limit on the wind speed of a category five and then make the category six over that. But, are there ever any hurricanes that are that strong and is there any need for a category six? Because a category 5 has a wind strength of 252 km/h and above, it would be simple to cap that and then have a category 6. Hurricanes are getting more frequent and stronger year by year because of climate change, but are they getting so strong that they need a new category? There have been 42 category 5 hurricanes recorded since 1924. The quantity and intensity of the hurricanes is gradually increasing because climate change is heating the seas and the hot wet air is super heating the storms, making them more powerful. If we were going to make a category 6 hurricane, what would be the upper limit of category 5? Each category has a band of roughly 30 km/h, give or take a few. That means the upper limit of category 5 would be 282 km/h. The highest recorded wind speed in a hurricane was 345 km/h. That was with hurricane Patricia in 2015. However, that was a 1 min wind and the measure of a hurricane’s strength is a ten-minute sustained wind. If we look at those, there are 9 hurricanes that go over 282 km/h. So, if there was a category 6, 9 hurricanes would be in it. The problem is that wind speed alone is not a measure of the strength of a hurricane. We have to look at damage as well and the qualification for a category five hurricane is “catastrophic damage will occur”. There doesn’t seem a way to go higher than catastrophic damage. What could a category 6 hurricane have? Total damage? Catastrophic seems to have everything covered. The only way to make a category 6 would be to reclassify all of the other categories, and is there really a point in doing that? Another problem is that the strength of a hurricane is not a very accurate way of predicting how much damage it will do because a lot of the damage and deaths come from water. When we talk about a category 5 hurricane, people focus on the windspeed, but it is the rainfall, the floods, and the surges that are the real danger. The flooding can occur thousands of kilometers away from the windiest part of the hurricane, where it is nowhere near a category 5. As climate change heats up the seas, the hurricanes can carry more water than they used to, which is making them even more deadly, whether they are category 5 or not. And this is what I learned today. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/earth-planet-76969/ Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaffirSimpson_scale https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/07/category-6-hurricane-milton-gulf/75562829007 https://www.wfla.com/weather/tracking-the-tropics/is-a-category-6-hurricane-possible-what-research-says https://www.weather.gov/mfl/saffirsimpson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_5_Atlantic_hurricanes https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-02-08-category-six-hurricanes-saffir-simpson-scale Read the full article

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Explore the characteristics and impacts of Category 5 hurricanes, including historical examples and preparation tips. read the full article: https://bit.ly/3NlimJK #Hurricane #Category5 #Weather #NaturalDisasters #Meteorology read more: what is a category 5 hurricane

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🚨#BREAKING: In just over 24 hours, Hurricane Lee has rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to an extremely dangerous and powerful Category 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 160 mph, as it barrels through the Atlantic. pic.twitter.com/vC994c0SRB — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) September 8, 2023 Source: Twitter

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María vino soltera y sin compromiso

Un 20 de septiembre de 2017 a eso de las 3:30 a.m. una explosión (o así sonó) hizo levantarme en lo que será el día más largo que un boricua pudo haber vivido en el siglo 21. Un día de esos que nos quiso imponer la naturaleza, el gobierno que controla el clima o la pasada administración (ya que siempre tienen la culpa en este país). Puerto Rico pasó a ser un trend, pero no pudimos participar ni con un tweet... de eso se encargo la diáspora. Imagínate que hasta el Doppler se había ido con un vientito a pasear y la tecnología no le puso el tracker pa’ ver por donde se paseaba la maría que andaba soltera y sin compromiso. “Fue una tormenta a ciegas, no sabía ni por donde entró ni salió... o si los vientos de jueves todavía eran de María que quiso darse la vuelta otra vez��� dijo un compañero de trabajo el viernes después de la tormenta.

Un martes de incertidumbre y de preparación. Regresar “temporeramente” al hogar donde naciste, preparar tu cama inflable y crear un espacio en la casa que paso a ser un albergue de 9 personas. Tomar fotos de lo que hay con esperanzas que no cambie mucho, pero si cambia... se quede algo de bonito. Una de Categoría 5, mujer y no baja la “condená”. Creo que viene con ganas de llevarse lo que Georges no se llevó. 

Tómalo como un #HumpDay para la historia, que sin tocar tierra ya #HuracánMaría era un trending topic. No me imagino cuan largo se les hizo a nuestros ancestros en  San Ciprián o los late millennials en Hugo... a mí en María se me hizo más largo que la fila en cualquier agencia de gobierno en Puerto Rico. 

El miércoles 20 de septiembre se convirtió en un amor de esos que te rompe el corazón. Fue como que te dejen por un mensaje en whatsapp, le contestes y te hayan dejado en visto. No veías nada porque las ventanas permanecían cerradas y en la radio solo sonaba la estática del silencio... ¿Que pasa con la señal, las emisoras, con Puerto Rico? El sueño de muchos es tener piscinas y los techos se ocuparon en convertirse en jacuzzis de agua fría. “Hay que ayudar a los vecinos que sus casas se llenan de agua...” Salir en plena tormenta no era opción, pero como buen boricua: “ya los vientos no se ven tan fuerte na’.” Y ahí el primer regalo de María, salir de sus casa para ayudarnos mutuamente, destapar techos, sacar escombros y con el fin de meter mano y echar pa’ lante.Un camino de incertidumbre que se convierte en un último baño con agua potable que sale de la ducha (sin pensar en Leptospirosis) y a esperar que se acabe to’. Prepárate que jueves salimos a ver la calle. El jueves salimos y todo se resume en ver postes de cemento partíos’ como crayola e kindel’. 

Un siglo lleno de “interrupciones” que no vemos el tiempo pasar, como dijo una señora de esas retiradas que hacen la fila expreso pero compartiendo en una de las filas kilométricas para sacar cash: “Celulares, internet, güí-fí, Faisbú, estas cosas son las que los tienen interrumpidos, el reloj sigue viajando y ustedes perdiendo el vuelo.” Filas kilométricas de esas que nos acostumbramos ha empezar y nos llevó a odiar durante el proceso. Al principio cuando el 97% de la comunicación esta offline, las filas se convertían en diálogos eternos de relatos sobre “aquél 20 de septiembre”. Pero la energía negativa nos consume día a día y las antenas siguen subiendo. Mientras más comunicación, más individualismo... esto se traduce a filas con conversaciones vacías, monólogos basados en silencio, quejas o la expresión cotidiana “coño, esto no se mueve...” que se escapa de los que se acaban de colar 10 turnos. Pa’ colmo el que se cuela en la fila, también quiere avanzar más. Las semanas se convirtieron en días y los días en semanas. No tiene sentido porque los días no lo hacían. No pasaba nada pero pasaba mucho, buscamos respuestas donde no estaban. Queríamos una normalidad empezando la semana y sin saber de los míos en Mayagüez o los que tengo al lado en Guaynabo uno busca volver a lo mismo pero brincando cables en el suelo. Lunes de contar cabezas y martes de relatar historia y explicar nuevas rutinas, cuando miércoles nos dicen: “Ciao, no hay Diesel... nos vemos el lunes.” 

Un café negro el viernes 29 a las 6:30 a.m. con guille de Sherlock Holmes a ver si confirmo que los ruidos de anoche eran petardos o disparos me da con ir al patio y me encuentro con la pared que me remonta a la noche del jueves 28 de septiembre a las 10:45 p.m., casi llegando a mi primera victoria en lo que sería el torneo de Parcheesi más interesante del mundo y coronarme campeón... dos lluvias de “petardos” interrumpen con muchas ansias el gran torneo. Luego de estar 2 minutos en el suelo uno se pregunta: ¿Que sería de un Puerto Rico sin luz, comunicación ni policías accesibles?Nos convertimos en sobrevivientes... sobrevivientes de una tormenta y también de una mala experiencia. Unos disparos locos de esos que los árboles les daba con “bloquear” llegan a las casas porque María se los llevó a pasear. Olvidemos eso y pasemos la noche a secas porque el toque de queda no nos deja ni tragar este trago amargo que estamos viviendo. Pero hay que seguir en familia y seguir apoyándonos. Estamos en festejo porque los que nos rodean están vivos y los familiares van apareciendo. Luego de ese jueves que me hizo recordar que tiene más fuerza: ¿un libro o una bala? Mi Padre cumplía el sábado y teníamos que disfrutarlo a como de lugar. Empezando con la remoción de la Ley seca y lo demás es historia. Aparecieron extensiones, carpas, dominos, luces, BBQ, carnes, alcohol, alcohol y más alcohol. 

Domingo de dar gracias a Dios por estar con vida, sanos y a salvos. Nosotros estamos encargado de buscar unas cuantas libras de pan de agua para un desayuno en familia, una buena tripleta con ketchup. 

Con café en mano a las 9:00 a.m. me da con irme al patio otra vez a buscar la única cara de la moneda, porque confía que no estoy para cargar una cruz. Buscando detalles que admirar, que tal un nuevo techo con mucho que apreciar. María se llevo las maderas pero tal vez lo hizo para poder comprender que cualquier estructura se puede ir con el viento, pero uno que sobrevive la catástrofe queda en esta vida con mucho por recorrer. 

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#HurricaneIan is now a #Category5 storm and is one of the biggest storms to hit Florida in a while, especially the Tampa Bay Area. Be safe and let us know you’re okay 🫶🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDYm62r311/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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