Hurricane Harvey AAR

[Mortblanc]

If anyone is watching the predictions they might notice that the storm path has been moved to the west coast and by the time it reaches Florida the eye of the storm may miss the peninsula. If that happens an entirely new problem will arise since the storm will again gain power over the Gulf waters and then strike the Gulf Coast, where they were not preparing for it and have not evacuated.

The projected path has changed each day for the past week, sometimes by hundreds of miles.

The cold front high pressure system I spoke of earlier in the week and a huge high pressure system in the Atlantic is blocking the entire storm system and moving it west.

This is the problem with calling for evacuations. The south Florida area will lose billions of dollars in wasted time and materials if the storm bypasses them and the next time there is a "mandatory evacuation" declared the people will sit and laugh rather than leave.

Remember that even though the news services treat these storms as if they were living entities they are not. They are guided and pushed about by the pressure systems around them so as those systems move and change the path of the storm changes. The storm itself does not just "make a decision" and run somewhere.

BTW, I just read that there is a cruise ship "stranded" in the Atlantic and unable to reach port due to the storm. The passengers are in "survival mode" with a well stocked pantry of gourmet foods and a well supplied bar.

Is that really considered survival?