A million flee as typhoon approaches China .
on 08/10/2009 at 09:52 AM
It appears that the chicoms are smarter than certain people in New Orleans.
Well there is that… but living almost dead center of “Hurricane Alley” as I do, I also found myself thinking, “Must be nice when your ‘highest possible’ alert is over 70 MPH and 12 inches of rain. Let’s see, that would be a category.... one.”
Yep.
Well, I suppose this is a sign of progress for China: the most recent time a million or so have fled their homes in abject terror comes form a natural calamity, as opposed to a man-made one.
Still, compared to a lot of hurricanes, this one is comparatively weak, particularly those that come in from Hurricane alley (poor poor GOF).
Posted by Turtler
08/10/2009 at 05:21 PM
Nah, I don’t mind. It’s work to pick up after a hurricane. Weeds out the lazy riff-raff better than anything I could ever devise.
Also, in fairness, if my house was built on nothing but dried and packed silt, as I understand most of China’s east coast is, ________ MPH winds and ________ amount of rainfall would probably be of MUCH more concern to me than it is here. I mean yes, the land down here is old silt as well, but it has plant roots, hell practically a jungle, tying it all together. As I understand it nearly all of eastern China is built on the old mud of the Yellow river, with very little plant life. Undermine the mud supporting the concrete and steel structures and it all just dissolves… much like New Orleans did.
