Is it the apocolypse?

[Brent]

Ok, maybe that's a bit dramatic You have to admit though, it seems like there have been a lot of weather/natural events lately.

For example, in the US, real recently we had a relatively large earthquake for the area, on the east coast, which was felt by a lot of people (me included.) I know, Californian's will say 'meh', but here on the east coast, we haven't had one that big in a very long time. Then there was a hurricane that worked its way up the east coast, with major flooding. Then we have this tropical storm Lee which has worked its way up, again, lots of wind and flooding. Now we have wildfires in Texas, causing damage, being a menace. We also have Katia out there, but looks like it will turn away. Who knows what other hurricanes will pop up the rest of this season.

And if we want to look back not too long ago, we had the huge earthquake in Japan. And right now they've had this huge Typhoon there too. I'm sure there are other events happening over the world right now I don't know about.

A lot of events lately. Seems like there are big events like this more and more recently.

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I think some of it is just that we live in a cycle of 24/7 international news coverage. We're more aware of stuff that's happening. Also, I would imagine that this stuff comes in periods of greater and lesser activity. Who knows, maybe thousands of years ago when there weren't as many people around to be affected and communication wasn't what it is today there were just as many disasters.

 

[iguana_tonante]

A lot of events lately. Seems like there are big events like this more and more recently.

Stuff like that happens all the time, all over the place. Your lack of perspective is showing.

 

[Squiggy]

Ok, maybe that's a bit dramatic You have to admit though, it seems like there have been a lot of weather/natural events lately.

Yes. Never before in the history of the world has weather occurred twice in-a-row.

 

[Brent]

Just seems like its all bunching together lately, one thing after another.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Just seems like its all bunching together lately, one thing after another.

You know why similar events tend to cluster? Because it would be one hell of a coincidence if they were evenly spaced, don't you think?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

It's obviously the east coast's turn. There was also the earthquake in central VA. We need more virgins to sacrifice.

 

[RoJoHen]

The Midwest has had pretty boring weather this summer. I think we've only had maybe one or two major storms, and even then it was just a lot of rain. Definitely not the apocolypse.

 

[Roger Wilco]

It rained yesterday and I saw a toad - the sky is falling!

 

[Lonemagpie]

Duke Nukem Forever came out - so yeah, case closed.

 

[ITL]

I don't know about anywhere else, but weather happened here today. Blustery weather. WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?!?

 

[FlyingLemons]

A clue: no.

 

[Balrog]

We had weather yesterday. We had weather today. The weather person on the news says we'll have weather tomorrow and four days of weather after that.

Yup. Apocalypse.

 

[SPOCKED]

There has been but only one apocalypse..

and that was the cancellation of Enterprise.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The End Times are here.

Start stealing shit now!

 

[Brent]

Seriously though, there have been some "big" weather events lately, a lot of them, more frequent than ever.

 

[Kestra]

You're using pretty vague terms. What constitutes a big weather event? What timeframe are you using? Are you looking at the entire world? Do certain weather events count more somehow because they may be more unexpected in certain areas?

Threads like this come up every now and then, usually when there has been more coverage in the media, something that affects people in their own local area, and/or an event which causes many injuries and deaths.

 

[MANT!]

In Northern California we've had one of the mildest summers in the past 30 years..

perhaps the weather is telling you something.. MOVE!!

 

[Paulcpick]

I can understand where he is coming from, I mean, from where Im sitting, the weather has been very freaky this year.
Record Heat Wave in Texas that started with 95+ Degree heat in MARCH that Continued with temps in the 105-115 range from July to September, no appreciable rain in parts of Texas that get about 50in a year. there are atleast 180 different wildfires burning in Texas right now(including one that is about 12 miles from me and I can see its glow as I type this)

Also, the weather experts in my area are telling us to prepare for this drought to continue into Spring of 2012...

so yea, I would say the weather has been atleast Buggy, if not down right apocalyptic......


and if your wondering, this drought and the subsequent Wildfires can without a doubt be classified as a big weather(lack of?) event, being that this is the Worst 1 year drought to ever be recorded in the recorded History of the Texas area.

 

[Trekker4747]

Seriously though, there have been some "big" weather events lately, a lot of them, more frequent than ever.

Cite your source.

The hurricane season usually lasts from June to November.

In 2011 we're about half-way through the hurricane season and now in its peak.

As of right now the 2011 Hurricane Season has had 14 Hurricane/Tropical Depressions resulting in 84 direct deaths and about $10 billion in damages. (According to Wikipedia.)

Compare this to the 2005 Hurricane Season which had 31 Hurricanes/Tropical depressions (so many we burned through all of the names for that year and started using the Greek Alphabet to name the storms and setting a record high) and resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths with an estimated $159 billion in damages.

Unless some serious shit goes down in the next two months this hurricane season is pretty damn mild.

So, no, the presence of a hurricane that was more annoying than anything else on the East Coast around the same time of the first major earthquake happening there in decades isn't indicative of anything approaching an apocalypse.

Shit happens. "Shit" includes things like weather and earthquakes, neither of which the East Coast is immune to and neither of which is the "worst" that's ever happened in even recent memory with the possible exception of the earthquake which, again, seems was a non entity as no deaths have been reported, while there was heavy damage. It was the first major earthquake East of the Rocky Mountains in over 100 years. So, it seems, they were due.