Hurricane season has begun... still no leader for FEMA or NOAA

[pikachu]

The botched response to Katrina was when the tide really began to turn against Bush. Trump better hope this hurricane season is a mild one.

Some in the meteorological community are worried at the look of the weather patterns so far this year.  They bear a resemblance to other years when there were major hurricane strikes on the U.S.

A "Major Hurricane" is a Category 3, 4 or 5 storm.

The last major hurricanes hitting the U.S. were the following:

1992 - Andrew (Cat 5)
1995 - Opal (Cat 3)
1996 - Fran (Cat 3)
1999 - Bret (Cat 3, sparsely populated area of TX)
2004 - Charley (Cat 4)
2004 - Ivan (Cat 3)
2004 - Jeanne (Cat 3)
2005 - Dennis (Cat 3)
2005 - Katrina (Cat 3)
2005 - Rita (Cat 3)
2005 - Wilma (Cat 3)

We've gone an unprecedented 11 hurricane seasons without a major hurricane landfall in the U.S. It's unbelievable.

Plus, nowadays, run of the mill common storms like Isaac 2012 prompt CNN full-blown over-coverage and over-hype in the post-Katrina world.

That's an unusually good point comma naso. Still, wouldn't you agree that even a category 2 storm can cause tremendous destruction and human hardship requiring leadership from FEMA and the NOAA?

Even more scary, since it is an unprecedented string of 11 straight hurricane Seasons without a cat 3 or higher storm, aren't we kind of pushing our luck here?

It's worth remembering that Irene, Sandy and Ike were all very destructive, and that if it hits in the right place, a Cat 1 or 2 can end up being very expensive and lead a massive media blowup.