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Re: Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth’s strongest storm of 2025

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:38:42 -0000

She turned south...?!?!????

Re: Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth’s strongest storm of 2025

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:27:15 -0000

Thank you for this, Its really interesting watching this discussion.

Re: Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth’s strongest storm of 2025

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:15:17 -0000

Dolphins arent fish.

Re: Houston area slammed by Beryl’s winds and water

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:54:34 -0000

The leadership in Houston needs to start studying up on the "sponge city" concepts.

Re: Houston area slammed by Beryl’s winds and water

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:45:14 -0000

SSTs but still, WOW!

Re: Houston area slammed by Beryl’s winds and water

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:44:28 -0000

I was being a bit silly but...it might HAVE to happen.

Re: Houston area slammed by Beryl’s winds and water

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:44:06 -0000

It seems so.

Re: Houston area slammed by Beryl’s winds and water

Jim O'Donnell — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:02:02 -0000

I wonder how long it will be before Houston will need to be moved to higher, drier ground.

Re: The most reliable hurricane models, based on their 2021 performance

Jim O'Donnell — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:45:13 -0000

Good cause we REALLY need it.

Re: Plains mega-cyclone shreds December weather history

Jim O'Donnell — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:24:40 -0000

We got slammed here in northern NM Wednesday morning. Lived here my whole life. Never seen anything like it. From about 3am-8am. Roofs blowing off. Trees going down. Sheds exploding. Unreal.

Re: Aging Dams, Changing Climate: A Dangerous Mix

Jim O'Donnell — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:25:23 -0000

This is sarcasm, right?

Re: Will Covid-19 Spark a Cold War (or Worse) With China? (Ep. 414)

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 05 May 2020 13:12:40 -0000

I was somewhat shocked and very dismayed by this episode. As a very long time listener I understand that Freakonomics comes from a center-right perspective. Yet I’ve always valued your fact-based and responsible presentation of issues. Hence my shock over this China episode. It came off as a pure propaganda piece for the Trump administration and Right Wing China-hawks. I understand that you wanted to avoid American politics in this episode. However, in doing so you in fact handed the Trump administration and Republicans a propaganda fluff piece that is ahistorical, shallow, factually incorrect in some cases and wholly misleading. Perhaps most troubling was the attempt to blame the entire COVID19 disaster on China while avoiding the astounding mishandling of this crisis by the Trump administration. Yes, China deserves a lot of blame for lying and misleading on the new coronavirus in December but Trump completely gutted Obama's pandemic preparedness system and even now fails to take the threat seriously...and 70,000+ Americans are dead as of today from this. This episode ranks among your worst and I encourage you to do a more balanced and honest follow up.

Re: Spring Outbreak of Wildfire Hits Southeast Australia; “Catastrophic” Threat Near Sydney

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:06:12 -0000

😱

Re: After Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, What Next for Karen?

Jim O'Donnell — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 04:02:22 -0000

Not yet!!! Waaaaaaa!

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 05:29:46 -0000

We got ourselves in some deep doo doo.

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:18:06 -0000

Well. At least that is something. 😉

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:16:32 -0000

Yes. Seems like a really difficult situation. I had thought maybe they’d found more by now but...it’s gonna be a long clean up.

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:15:19 -0000

Exactly why I was asking. Thank you.

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:14:45 -0000

One would think...

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:14:27 -0000

Sounds like Carver-boy is cranky tonight. Go have another shot, amigo.

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:13:52 -0000

Thank you. That’s what I saw too and it seemed odd to me (that many still missing) so I wanted to ask here to see what other info pple might have. Thank you also for not being an A-hole.

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:11:49 -0000

Thanks for the finger wagging, grandma!

Re: Slow-Moving Atlantic Storms Like Imelda and Dorian are Growing More Common

Jim O'Donnell — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:09:32 -0000

What is the current death toll in the Bahamas from Dorian?

Re: Hurricane Humberto Batters Bermuda, Heads Out to Sea

Jim O'Donnell — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:09:09 -0000

Yup. I think you nailed it. Poor planning and greed are bumping up against climate change and it isnt pretty.

Re: Imelda's Floods: Part of a New Normal for Southeast Texas

Jim O'Donnell — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:07:40 -0000

Sadly, Houston best start planning to have these events several times each decade for the foreseeable future.