The good news is that Hurricane Nate became a tropical storm and then a depression quite rapidly, and its remnants will produce no more than a lot of badly needed rain for my area. The bad news is that it's the fourth Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on either the continental U.S. or its territorial possessions within a month . . . and it's the ninth straight tropical system in a row - in a row - to become a hurricane this season.
Did I happen to mention that five of those nine hurricanes were major? Including Lee, which made it no farther than a tropical storm and first and degenerated into an invest . . . only to regenerate and reach Category 3 status? At least that one was out over the open ocean.
I wonder how many more hurricanes have to hit the U.S. before the Republicans - never mind Trump, he's far from being the only Republican to deny climate change - realize that climate change is real?
Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Gulf Coast . . . the Northeast hasn't been hit yet, but we all know how a late-season storm could form in the Caribbean and make it as far north as New York City or New England. Maybe after, say, seventeen hurricanes have formed and we think we're in the clear, just like it was with . . . Sandy.
Hurricane Sean, anyone?? :-O
And if that happens, Sean Spicer's head will probably replace the cyclone symbol on track maps circulated on Facebook.
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