(Ed.'s Note: Texas and Louisiana residents are still trying to recover from Hurricane Harvey only to see that two other storms are threatening communities along the Gulf of Mexico. Katia is predicted to make landfall between Tampico and Veracruz and super storm Irma is threatening Florida. Irma has been downgraded (if that is the right word) to a Category 4, down from Category 5 yesterday.
According to the Science page of the Business Insider, "Katia is a much smaller storm than Hurricane Irma, which is causing devastation in the Caribbean and is expected to arrive in Florida this weekend. The storm's hurricane-force winds (classified as 74 mph or higher) extend 25 miles out from the center, and the radius of tropical-storm-force winds extends about 70 miles.
Irma, on the other hand, is nearly 400 miles wide. Katia is expected to drop 10 to 15 inches of rain over parts of Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo, and Puebla, Mexico. In isolated areas, total accumulated rainfall could be as high as 25 inches.
The National Hurricane Center is warning that "this rainfall will likely cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, especially in areas of mountainous terrain."
The 2017 hurricane season was projected to be unusually active, and that has certainly been the case so far. Three hurricanes are in the Atlantic simultaneously: Katia, Jose and Irma."
Blogger Dianne de las Casas posted an interesting history of the word hurricane. She said:
"According to the Popol Vuh, which recounts the Mayan Creation Myth, Huracan (from Mayan Jun Raqan) is the ancient Mayan weather god of wind, storm, and fire. Hurakan is “the one-legged”, and one of three creator deities, collectively called “the Heart of Heaven,” that participates in three attempts at creating humanity first from mud, and then wood. The final and successful creation resulted in the creation of mankind from maize.
The Creation Myth also reveals that Hurakan caused the Great Flood after the first humans angered the gods. According to the myth, he lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and repeatedly called forth the earth until land came up from beneath the seas. His “one legged” appearance refers to one of his legs having been transformed into a snake. His appearance features a snout-like nose, resembles that of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. Hurakan can also be spelled Hurrican, Huracan, & Harakan.” )
5 comments:
Three terrible politicians also Montoya. Oliveira Lucio Martinez. These sure are interesting times of self serving bastards
Someone needs to tweet that lunatic from North Korea he does not have to worry about sending of the H-bomb to hit us. We are being hit from above by the hurricanes, tornados, fires, earthquakes, civilians shooting like crazy, politicos steal us blind, etc. We will self-distruct. How sad but I guess it is written in that book.
You're better served, Juanito, covering local politics and history. CNN is covering the hurricanes.
It is all Trump's fault. He created the hurricanes!!! Pinche gringo cabron!
The three greatest pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americans (Incas, Mayas, Aztecs) had their gods and beliefs. If we are to follow the myth of Ura-Kan then let us remember that Quetzalcoatl promised he would return and come from the sea. (Aztecs).
From the sea came destruction but also cleansing and the emerge of a new man.
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