Hurricane Season
Hurricane season begins June 1st and the anxiety begins for many in the tropics, including people living in South Florida. For others, it is another day and they do not give the Hurricane frenzy too much attention or too much mental energy. The media have already began reporting about Hurricane preparedness and some meteorologists have already started pointing out and fostering some blobs on the radar.
While it is important to be cautiously aware of and prepared for a storm, some in the media take it to the next level, because it is a news maker (or filler) even when there are no storms as yet. Between the predictors and the forecasters, they have managed to put some people on main alert as to what could lie ahead in the season. While I am very grateful for the technology that can forecast coming storms, some reporters are just overly anxious at any spot on the radar and are only too happy to get viewers excited and in panic mode.
While some believe the high amount of storms which occurred about 3 years ago was due to Global warming, others believe they were due to the cyclical cleansing and re-birthing of nature. These people base their theory on major storms that have occurred over the years some 10-20 years apart. I tend to want to agree with this theory. "Andrew" happened in 1992 and the other major storms "Wilma" in Broward and Katrina in Louisiana and surrounding areas, occurred in 2005. Of course there were other storms in between, but not as severe. What are your thoughts. Do you agree with the Global Warming theory or the Cyclical - Nature's Way of Cleansing - theory?
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