Monday, January 28, 2008

The Winds

The Winds. Here is a link to someone at weather.com experiencing up to 160 mile an hour winds.

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?collection
=videocoll2&clip=6522&nav=213

In past, blogs(articles) I've written about how when I look into the future we are now creating, I see winds above 100 miles per hour most places below 5000 feet to 7000 feet in elevation on earth at least sometime during the year and other places this wind occurs one or more times a day. I've given this some thought. What I realized is that it is not drought, or flood, or snow or rain that is the most problematic for mankind in the future. It is the winds frequently above 100 miles per hour for hours or days at a time.

Of course, there are ways to survive such regular occurences. First, one could not build a house or structure not made of large rocks or cement and/or metal and expect that structure to be around more than one year in sporadic above 100 mph winds or more. As I've said before this likely will not happen all of a sudden so we do have some time to adapt(100 to 500) years. But it is coming and I don't really see any way to stop it now no matter what humans do in the next 500 years.

One of the ways we can deal with this is to dig below the level of the land so the roofs of our dwelling are at or just slightly above the level of the land. However, this only works in areas where there is no flooding. Where there is potential for flooding other ideas would have to be utilized.

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