Re: Earth's Carrying Capacity

From: Gactimus (gactimus_at_xrs.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:22:29 GMT

"Ian St. John" <istjohn@noemail.ca> wrote in
news:qL5Wc.5364$_H5.59804@news20.bellglobal.com:

> Gactimus wrote:
>> Psalm 110 <LyingFrauds@Go_to_Hell.org> wrote in
>> news:l8edi0dlj9ffps806u8q4msvlg2n663ibr@4ax.com:
> <snip>
>>> Your opinion is immaterial. We are waiting for the "big one" the
>>> force five hurrican that hits dead on to megatropolis and kills a
>>> million people in one swope, and causes $500,000,000,000 in one
>>> event.
>>
>> No hurricane will kill a million people nowadays thanks to advance
>> warning technology.
>>
>> As for $500 Billion, I find that highly unlikely. Insurance estimates
>> for a direct hit on Miami by Hurricane Andrew were only around $80
>> billion.
>
> It could happen or nearly. Read up on the St. Louis area. A force 5
> hurricane with 25 meter storm surge would destroy the entire St. Louis
> and region ( 25 to 33 meters flood height as St. Louis is already up to
> 8 meters below sea level ) and there is no way to evacuate the entire
> region so the death toll would probably be in the hundreds of thousands.
> Figure out how many were in the area when Charlie hit and how many could
> have evacuated by road if Charlie had taken a detour to the west and hit
> St. Louis instead of veering east into Florida. They couldn't predict
> landfall a few hours ahead of the storm even in Florida and the area
> that was hit was almost unprepared BECAUSE of the predictions that it
> would hit further north. They cannot evacuate EVERYWHERE that it MIGHT
> hit. Nobody can predict where a hurricane will go with accuracy.
>
> The U.S. has been 'lucky' so far.

Um, St. Louis is nowhere near the coast.

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