by Michael Snyder
August has undoubtedly been a “turning level”, and in current weeks now we have had the chance to look at some extremely stunning occasions unfold which is able to change the course of historical past completely. At this second, Hurricane Ida is the largest story that everybody is discussing. As I warned about on Friday, Ida went by a interval of “fast intensification” within the Gulf of Mexico earlier than coming ashore in Louisiana on Sunday as a fully monstrous storm. It hit New Orleans precisely 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina did, and plenty of are stating that this appears to be a very “unusual” coincidence.
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana in 2005, it was a Class 3 storm, however Hurricane Ida was truly a Class 4 storm when it made landfall close to Port Fourchon…
Hurricane Ida’s preliminary impacts started early Sunday because the outer bands introduced heavy rain to the Louisiana coast early Sunday. The Class 4 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 150 mph got here ashore at 11:55 a.m. CDT close to Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
Ida has develop into the primary landfalling hurricane on United States soil in 2021, and AccuWeather forecasters, anticipating excessive impacts for the Gulf Coast, have rated Ida a 4 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes.
The extraordinarily excessive winds have torn roofs from numerous houses and buildings, and in some circumstances energy traces have been snapped in two.
At this hour, a whole bunch of 1000’s of native residents are with out energy, and Governor John Bel Edwards is telling the press that Ida may very well be probably the most highly effective storm to hit Louisiana in over 160 years…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards mentioned the storm may very well be probably the most highly effective to pound the state in additional than 160 years. Hurricane Katrina, which flooded most of New Orleans, killing nearly 2,000 folks and inflicting damages estimated at $125 billion, made landfall 16 years in the past to the day – as a Class 3 storm.
From an financial standpoint, one of many greatest considerations is that just about all the oil manufacturing amenities within the Gulf of Mexico have been compelled to briefly shut down…
Greater than 95% of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil manufacturing amenities have been shut down, regulators mentioned Sunday, indicating the huge storm is having a big influence on vitality provide.
Six refineries within the New Orleans space — together with PBF, Phillips, Shell, Marathon and two Valero refineries — are shut down proper now, Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, a Houston-based consulting agency, advised CNN Enterprise. “It’s now a ready recreation to evaluate no matter wind and flooding injury will likely be prompted because the hurricane passes by the world.”
For sure, that is prone to trigger one other provide crunch, and we already being warned to anticipate considerably greater gasoline costs…
The Gulf of Mexico federal offshore oil manufacturing accounts for 17% of the nation’s crude oil manufacturing and 5% of its federal offshore dry gasoline manufacturing, in keeping with the U.S. Power Data Administration.
Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston, mentioned Saturday that if the New Orleans refineries take a direct hit from a Class 4 storm, gasoline costs would seemingly rise by about 10 cents a gallon within the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic markets.
In the meantime, the best overseas coverage debacle in fashionable American historical past continues to unfold in Afghanistan.
The way in which that the Biden administration has dealt with this disaster has been totally shameful, and it has resulted within the deaths of 13 service members.
As Hurricane Ida was pummeling Louisiana on Sunday, Joe Biden and his minions had been overseeing the switch of the stays of these service members…
In a silence damaged solely by the sobs of bereaved households, Joe Biden stood Sunday, hand over his coronary heart, to pay tribute because the stays of the US service members killed within the Kabul bombing assault had been transferred from a army C-17 cargo airplane to a intently parked row of grey hearses.
However Biden grew impatient at one level, and pictures of the occasion truly exhibits him checking his watch.
If in case you have not seen this stunning second but, you’ll be able to view it right here.
Did he actually assume that no one would discover?
Afterward, reporters wished to ask Biden some questions on Afghanistan, however he abruptly refused…
‘I’m not alleged to take any questions, however go forward,’ he mentioned as he turned to the travelling press pool.
‘On Afghanistan…’ mentioned a reporter earlier than he lower him off.
He snapped: ‘I’m not going to reply Afghanistan now.’
The president turned away from the press pool to speak to FEMA employees because the reporter continued with a query about whether or not he nonetheless believed ‘there was an excessive threat on the airport.’
This disaster has clearly demonstrated that our new “woke army” has develop into weak and pathetic, and it’s being led by weak and pathetic brass on the Pentagon.
After all today “weak” and “pathetic” are phrases which might be usually used to explain the person that’s at present residing within the White Home.
The Biden administration desperately wants a brand new distraction, and it seems the one has conveniently come alongside.
We’re being advised that probably the most excessive COVID variant but has been recognized in South Africa…
A brand new coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and plenty of different nations, with considerations that it may very well be extra infectious and evade vaccines, in keeping with a new preprint research by South Africa’s Nationwide Institute for Communicable Illnesses and the KwaZulu-Natal Analysis Innovation and Sequencing Platform. The research is awaiting peer evaluate.Scientists first detected C.1.2 in Might 2021, discovering that it was descended from C.1, which scientists discovered stunning as C.1 had final been detected in January. The brand new variant has “mutated considerably” in comparison with C.1 and is extra mutations away from the unique virus detected in Wuhan than some other Variant of Concern (VOC) or Variant of Curiosity (VOI) detected to date worldwide.
There are actually dozens of variants operating round on the market, and every new variant is a risk to trigger one other new “wave” of this pandemic.
Previous to 2020 I used to be warning that it could be “one factor after one other” as soon as we acquired into the “excellent storm” that we’re at present experiencing, and we are actually being advised that Individuals are creating “catastrophe fatigue” due to all the dangerous issues which have occurred over the past couple of years.
Sadly, many imagine that rather more chaos is useless forward.
These are extraordinarily troubled occasions, and we desperately want sturdy management from our representatives in Washington.
Sadly for all of us, Washington has develop into a whole and complete cesspool, and the entire world is laughing on the countless stream of incompetence emanating from the White Home.