hurricanes
44 pieces tagged “hurricanes”, newest first.

Is Hurricane Maria Trump's Katrina? Nope.
Leftmedia outlets hoped to label Trump's response to recent natural disasters a failure. Not so much.
Hurricane Relief: Brought to You by Fossil Fuels
Powering helicopters, generators and utility vehicles, fossil fuels continue to save lives.
Faith Groups Outperform FEMA in Disaster Relief
It's not necessarily a knock against government, but it also shouldn't be surprising.
Construction Worker Shortage Acute After Hurricanes
An industry already short on workers will need creative solutions in order to quickly rebuild TX and FL.
Report From Inside the Cone
This columnist is sitting in what amounts to ground zero, 24 hours before Hurricane Irma hits wherever it's going to hit.

Hurricane Irma and the Dubious Climate Change Link
No question 2017 has had a couple of major storms, but the '30s, '40s and '50s were pretty bad too.

The Texas Model of Disaster Recovery
The scenes of people helping people are enough that even the Beltway media are taking notice.

A Costly Hurricane
Now that Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters are receding, it's time to start focusing on the recovery efforts and costs.

Scenes From Houston
It's heartening to see some of the best of humanity exhibited by our fellow Americans.

Harvey: History Repeats?
The Leftmedia hope to replay their successful undermining efforts with Bush and Katrina.

Hurricanes and Chicken Little Syndrome
Leftmedia points to Hurricane Matthew as evidence of man-made climate change.

Obama Spins Hurricane Threat
"Hurricanes are only going to become more powerful and more devastating."

Lessons From Patricia
Failing to bring about the kind of devastation a 200 MPH hurricane does because (a) it did not have 200 MPH winds when it reached the coast and (b) it hit a sparsely populated area, Hurricane Patricia immediately became an example of how hurricanes have become a ping-pong ball between two different climate agendas, as I wrote about a few days ago.

Hurricanes Become a Ping-Pong Ball in the Climate Debate
It's been an amazingly quiet period, but that's likely to change.

Hurricanes Become a Ping-Pong Ball in the Climate Debate
This caught my eye, from USA Today: "Study: Climate change adding billions to U.S. hurricane costs." Oh really? The study quoted ended in 2005, not factoring in the last 10 years. During that time, by way of the Saffir-Simpson scale, there were no major hurricane hits on the U.S. (On my power and impact scale, there have been three borderline majors.) It's been an amazingly quiet period, meaning the dire ideas that we heard about have been nothing but *wrong*.