As the Hurricane shifts now towards Georgia and the Carolinas we see just how unpredictable this hurricane actually is. Could this shift out to sea further? That's possible. But, what if it goes up the coast and hits Washington DC and as far north as Boston and New York and New Jersey?
As hurricanes get bigger and bigger now from heating oceans and global warming in general, into the future the disasters they bring will also be bigger and bigger wherever they hit ongoing too.
I wonder when people might start to move inlands more to avoid some of the problems associated with bigger, stronger and more forceful hurricanes and taller and stronger storm surges as well.
It's likely happening to some degree already. But, since I live on the California coast, a lot is to be said for living near the ocean as well, the idea of no snow ever from northern California all the way to San Diego etc. and temperatures cooler in summer than inland as well. For example, here in Santa Barbara like I said before it is becoming more and more like Hawaii is during the fall, winter and spring where even during summers most days in Santa Barbara are still no more than 70 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit even in August and September (even though the humidity is climbing here which is also unusual because of global Climate change as well during the summers).
Though we do have earthquakes in California we haven't had many big ones since the 1990s at present, except for the big one recently near Ridgecrest out in the desert. We did have in early July at least one jolt of a 7.1 with thousands of smaller earthquakes centered there. We still are getting in this area small quakes ranging from 2.0 and smaller and bigger there almost every day now. But, as long as the pressure buildups on faults are released a little bit at a time that's a good thing and tends to prevent the really big quakes in those areas.
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