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In 2004, I called my mother in Fort Myers, Florida, to reassure her about Hurricane Charley. I was watching the Weather channel and the storm was just west of her city, but moving steadily northward in the Gulf and was expected to make landfall in Tampa, well north of her. I went back to work, but got a call from her later and heard water running. Charley had made a right-angle turn and went east, right through Fort Myers and tore open her roof. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew was off the east coast of Florida and predicted to continue north, but strengthened and made a right-angle turn inland around midnight and devastated Miami-Dade County. Hurricane Ian just eerily repeated this pattern. It was expected to hit Tampa, but instead turned abruptly east and went right through Fort Myers. Many had decided not to evacuate and were caught in the devastation. Was this all orchestrated?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Media representatives are roundly blaming the Republican Florida Governor for not enforcing an evacuation of Fort Myers, even though such an order was given the day before, when the news was still predicting the landfall would be at Tampa, well to the north. Is the media attack being orchestrated to happen or is it just playing politics?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Overall crime rates, especially homicides and violent crimes, have increased substantially across the nation, especially in large cities. What is causing this?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Thinking back about the hurricane history of the Florida Gulf Coast, I remember 20 years ago reassuring my mother, who lived in Fort Myers, Florida, that, unlike the east coast, the western, Gulf side of southern Florida had not had a hurricane during our lifetimes. Then came Hurricane Charley in 2004, and Irma in 2017. She had roof damage both times, with water pouring in from a hurricane-spawned tornado from Charley, and her condo was totally gutted by Irma. She passed two years ago and we sold her condo, and now Ian, the largest hurricane ever to hit Florida just passed directly through Fort Myers. This has the environmental activists in a tizzy, blaming the hurricane on climate change. Can you give us a tutorial to remind us about the true origin of tornados and hurricanes and what we can expect going forward?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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Is there any significance to both Florida Hurricanes, Charley and Ian, first making landfall at the same spot on the coast, tiny Cayo Costa island?
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Commentators have reviewed the hurricane statistics to point out that their frequency has not increased compared to such storms recorded a hundred years ago, although the severity has increased measurably, but only about 5%. Is that an accurate picture? Hurricane Ian is the largest to have ever hit Florida, and has been termed a once in 500 years occurrence. Is there a planned ramp-up of hurricane severity now that they have climate change as a cover story?
ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • 
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