As if things have not been bad enough this week...

[Bugman]

Flood waters are expected to stretch from Chicago (already inundated) all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Get out of the way if necessary. Nothing you own is worth your life.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...eavy-rains-soak-midwest?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1

 

[kopfhorer]

This trend of ever more destructive megastorms is scary.

 

[PiedPiper]

This trend of ever more destructive megastorms is scary.

Give it about another ten years (at which point I will probably no longer be observing). Warmer sea water is going to generate some powerful hurricanes, indeed. Of course by that time, there could easily be much larger concerns than the weather.

 

[C.A.B.]

If you are going invest emotional distress over something, statistically it would be better spent fretting over a slip in the tub, or getting hit by a bus, to say nothing of disease. Alas, all life is terminal. Drink up, me hearties.

 

[PiedPiper]

If you are going invest emotional distress over something, statistically it would be better spent fretting over a slip in the tub, or getting hit by a bus, to say nothing of disease. Alas, all life is terminal. Drink up, me hearties.

This is correct. My money's on disease, by the way. Easy come, easy go.