Florida begins the lengthy strategy of clean-up and reconstruction following the devastation of Hurricane Milton that hit the Sunshine State earlier this week.
Throughout his press convention the Florida Governor was requested if world warming was a reason behind the hurricane.
Governor DeSantis let him have it. This was sooo good…
Reporter: What about world warming?
Governor Ron DeSantis: Tornadoes? Yeah, there’s a rise in tornadoes. I believe you return and discover tornadoes for all of human historical past, for positive. Particularly Florida, how does this storm fee within the historical past of storms, I believe it hit with a barometric strain of, what was it, about 950 millibars when it hit.
I believe in the event you return to 1851, There’s in all probability been 27 hurricanes which have had decrease bear. So the decrease the barometric strain, the stronger it’s. I believe there have been about 27 hurricanes which have had decrease barometric strain on landfall than Milton did. And of these, 17 occurred, I believe, previous to 1960.
And essentially the most highly effective hurricane on report for the reason that 1850s within the state of Florida occurred within the Thirties, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric strain on that was 892 millibars. It completely worn out the keys. We’ve by no means seen something prefer it. And that is still head and shoulders above any highly effective hurricane that we’ve ever had within the state of Florida. Probably the most lethal hurricane we’ve ever had was in 1928, the Okeechobe hurricane killed over 4,000 individuals. Luckily, we aren’t going to have something near that on this hurricane.
However even ones like Ian, the place you had… Wasn’t even near that. I simply assume individuals ought to put this in perspective. They attempt to take various things that occur with tropical climate and act prefer it’s one thing there’s nothing new beneath the solar. That is one thing that the state has handled for its complete historical past, and it’s one thing that can proceed to cope with. I believe what’s modified is we’ve acquired 23 million individuals.
A storm that hits is more likely to hit extra individuals in property than it might have 100 years in the past. And so the potential for that injury has grown. However what’s additionally modified is our means to do the prevention, to prestage the belongings. I imply, we by no means did the prestaging of energy belongings till I turned governor. Now individuals anticipate that, however that wasn’t what was performed up to now. That’s why individuals could be out with energy for 3 weeks when now we have hurricanes. We thought that that’s not good. Now now we have to pay to get these guys to return in. However my view is the faster you get everybody attached, the higher off the financial system goes to be anyway.
By way of FOX and Catturd2 and Curtis Houck.
WATCH: Ron DeSantis completely nukes a reporter who tried to tie yesterday’s tornadoes from Hurricane #Milton to world warming pic.twitter.com/Pj0nENTilZ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024
DeSantis is correct.
A lot of the strongest hurricanes to hit Florida occurred almost a century in the past.
By way of Chris Martz.
YOUR CAPS LOCK IS ON.
Listed here are some Florida hurricane details for you.
➊ Seven of the highest 10 strongest hurricanes [by their central mean sea-level pressure, or MSLP] to make landfall in Florida occurred over 30-years in the past. Six of these struck both in or earlier than 1960. Three… https://t.co/G4PfDw98CZ pic.twitter.com/JB5EyJ5LSd
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) October 10, 2024
