Have we become numb to the major natural disasters that are constantly happening all around us? Over the past couple of years we have been getting hit by historic natural disaster after historic natural disaster, and this week we are getting hit again. A “once-in-a-generation” blizzard is dumping enormous amounts of snow along the Gulf Coast, and new fires have suddenly erupted in southern California. Meanwhile, the other side of the planet continues to get hammered by unusual earthquakes. A steady stream of absolutely devastating disasters has become our “new normal”, and 2025 is certainly off to a blistering start.
Last year, the U.S. averaged a “billion dollar disaster” about every two weeks, and natural disasters inflicted a total of $417,000,000,000 in damage to the global economy…
We are going to easily surpass that figure this year, because it is being projected that the fires in southern California alone have already caused at least 250 billion dollars in economic damage.
Unfortunately, that crisis is far from over. In fact, two new fires broke out in San Diego County on Tuesday morning…
The Lilac and Pala Fires broke out early on Tuesday morning within an hour of one another in San Diego County, and they had already ravaged nearly 100 acres.
Evacuations for parts of the county have been ordered, while other area residents are urged to pack up their things and leave, according to Cal Fire.
Authorities are blaming these new fires on hurricane-force winds which have been ripping across the region…
Simultaneously, the Gulf Coast is being hammered by a very strange blizzard.
CNN is referring to it as a “once-in-a-generation winter storm”…
Historic snowfall is burying parts of the Gulf Coast amid dangerous cold as a once-in-a-generation winter storm wreaks havoc on travel in a region wholly unaccustomed to winter weather.
We have never witnessed anything quite like this.
In fact, this is the very first blizzard warning that we have ever seen in the state of Louisiana…
Portions of the Gulf Coast saw a first-ever blizzard warning, a wide swath of the South was targeted by a major winter storm, and brutally cold temperatures gripped much of the nation Tuesday as the U.S. grappled with wild winter weather.
Stacey Denson, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, told USA TODAY the blizzard warning was a first for Louisiana. A blizzard warning means the expectation that snow and frequent wind gusts up to 35 mph could reduce visibility to 1/4 mile or less.
If the planet is “warming up”, why are we having a blizzard in Louisiana?
That doesn’t make sense.
If you can believe it, some areas of Louisiana were expected to receive up to 10 inches of snow…
State Climatologist Jay Grymes said widespread snow accumulations of 4-10 inches are expected. Cities such as Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans are in the path of the storm.
“The impacts there are going to be crippling,” Grymes said. “Louisiana, this is definitely happening.”
This is a truly unusual weather event.
One meteorologist actually said that this winter storm “almost looks like a hurricane”…
On the other side of the planet, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that just hit Taiwan was so powerful that it actually caused chipmaker TSMC to evacuate factories in central and southern Taiwan…
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous, rural area of Taiwan’s south on Tuesday near the city of Chiayi, the island’s weather administration said, with reports of minor damage.
The earthquake shook buildings in the capital, Taipei. The quake had a depth of 9.4km (6 miles) with its epicentre in Dapu township in Chiayi county, and hit just after midnight, the weather administration said.
In China, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that recently hit that country caused major cracks in five different hydropower dams…
Cracks have been detected on five hydropower dams out of 14 in Tibet that have been inspected by Chinese authorities since a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the area on Jan. 7, killing at least 126 people.
Three out of the five affected dams have since been emptied, a Tibet emergency management official said at a press conference on Jan. 16. A hydrology expert said it indicates the problem is very serious.
In southern Brazil, a state of emergency has been declared after 120 millimeters of rainfall in just a few hours caused horrific flooding…
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