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Speaking of incidents that are not disasters... there was a 633ft high tsunami in Alaska in 2015 that I never heard of!? Wow..... Some of these incidents are really interesting to read up on, despite them having gotten little or no news coverage at the time.
Note: The site claims to track "incidents", not "disasters". The word "disaster" is only here in the HN title. Speaking of incidents that are not disasters... there was a 633ft high tsunami in Alaska in 2015 that I never heard of!? Wow.... . Some of these incidents are really interesting to read up on, despite them having gotten little or no news coverage at the time.
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but it still ended up killing 2 people. I have a hard time imagining how that works.
Even if the wave isn't very tall, if it is fast-moving it can knock you off balance. Once you're down, wave doesn't have to be very tall to drown you. There's also the fact that rip currents are commonplace phenomena on beaches all over the world, so you combine that with a single unexpectedly fast wave and it's easy to believe a few people would die.
As someone who just went through Ian using the date it became a tropical depression seems wrong. It was a Cat 4 yesterday when it made landfall and it was a Cat 1, 2, and 3 storm before and after that.
Were you in Western Cuba when it made landfall? That was well before yesterday. Any particular landfall in general will be arbitrary and becoming Cat 4 is more or less objective.
As someone who just went through Ian using the date it became a tropical depression seems wrong. It was a Cat 4 yesterday when it made landfall and it was a Cat 1, 2, and 3 storm before and after that.
I hope you, your family, and the community are doing well. Were you in Western Cuba when it made landfall? That was well before yesterday. Any particular landfall in general will be arbitrary and becoming Cat 4 is more or less objective.
My point wasn't about the landfall. It was that if you're saying it's X days since the last category 4 hurricane then using the date it was designated as a tropical depression doesn't seem correct, because it wasn't a category 4 storm at that time. You should use the last day that it was a category 4 which is also objective, and is actually the most recent time we had a category 4 storm.
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I hope you, your family, and the community are doing well. Were you in Western Cuba when it made landfall? That was well before yesterday. Any particular landfall in general will be arbitrary and becoming Cat 4 is more or less objective.
We're doing okay we fortunately weren't too close to Ft Myers. My point wasn't about the landfall. It was that if you're saying it's X days since the last category 4 hurricane then using the date it was designated as a tropical depression doesn't seem correct, because it wasn't a category 4 storm at that time. You should use the last day that it was a category 4 which is also objective, and is actually the most recen…