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PurgedVoter

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2. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the people during it.
Thu Oct 26, 2023, 08:36 PM
Oct 2023

This is where we are today. Hurricane Carla in 1961 swept through Texas and up into to Oklahoma. It was by modern ratings, category 4.
It hit Galveston hard. In 1900 the Galveston Hurricane caused 8000 deaths. It hit Galveston and continued up into Canada. In other words. No place is safe now. We don't have the wetlands they had back then to drop the intensity. We have higher water temperatures to feed the intensity. Water levels are starting out higher.

It is inevitable that we will see more and more of this. More deaths, more destruction, more suffering. It was always there, even before climate change hit hard.

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