Weather worries...

In theory, I'm going to the beach saturday. Otoh, Irma might be saying no. Hard to tell where that's going, other than "no place good".

Don't want any of what Houston just got. That was insane.

And from what I'm reading these days, we may have already passed the tipping point--without knowing it--where the planet kills us off soon.

In reality, what we have is that the weather we all grew up with was "stable", or seemed so. Some winters had more snow, some didn't. Some summers were rainier, some were drier. Still, didn't seem like there was much variation.

So that's a stable point. "A" stable point. But hardly the only one. An equally "stable" point would be where there are Harvey-sized hurricanes every year. Eventually that means no one lives near the Gulf coast any more. Houston gets abandoned. Miami.

Or of course we figure out how to build better for those locations. Houses on stilts is a corny example, but not unusual in areas prone to serious ocean floods. At OBX, houses near the beach are all elevated one story.

But that doesn't fix the problem in Norfolk, where the naval base is already at 0 MSL. That's going under permanently before too long.

The elevation here at Hyde U is about 500 feet. Flooding here = end of civilization. Not too likely, but storms ARE going to get worse all over.