It's almost eerie and surreal...

[kentuck]

A gigantic hurricane stalls over the Bahamas, as if to catch its breath, before it begins its final journey.

The country is mesmerized. Nobody knows what is going to happen next? But we have our "models".

Are there powers in heaven trying to send us a message? Or is the Mother Earth attempting to cool her waters?

There is symbolism in all of it.

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Just my opinion.

[vercetti2021]

1. Earth trying to exterminate us

We are killing her. Shes trying to get rid of us.

[Bayard]

5. Like parasites....

[rampartc]

2. katrina's terrible counterclockwise fury reached far into my past and future as well

hurrukan was a god to the maya. I get it.

[retread]

3. 2nd law of thermodynamics? n/t

[abqtommy]

4. Even a casual review of history shows that ever since humans have lived

in the Caribbean and along what is now the East Coast of the US there have been legends and reports of destructive storms. I only managed to find a site that lists all hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons since 1850 but I'd like to think that humans are smart enough to figure this out. Evidently not!
http://metrocosm.com/map-of-hurricanes-cyclones-typhoons/

[pecosbob]

6. I grew up in Galveston County

It became a sort of a bizarre existential game of chicken or russian roulette with each new storm. I lived in homes built on stilts where we typically kept a small boat or skiff around to be able to navigate the neighborhood when it was flooded after minor storms. It was always an eerie time, dramatically enhanced by the stillness and ultra-high humidity...and then the birds would leave.

That was, of course, before my neighborhood subsided into Galveston Bay because the petrochem industry pumped up all the groundwater in the area for their damned refineries and the land subsided, but that's another story altogether.