150 years. And just to show you where some of the winds are, this is some guy named Wolf Read. He's really into this. He had done the Web. He has all these Web pages on the Northwest windstorms . I want you to look at some of these winds, 138, 131, 100 in Renton; 116 in Portland, 145 plus in Cape Blanco. We're talking about winds over 100 miles per hourall over the place. And so--this is at Cape Blanco. They had sustained winds of 150 with gusts to 179. This storm was equivalent to a category 2 or 3 hurricane. I mean, we're
A few years before that, I brought a group of teenagers to King's Canyon, where the biggest Sequoia trees incredible windstorms ?
He began by telling how these trees in this forest have stood over hundreds or thousands of years through massive snow storms, windstorms , and devastating earthquakes, and yet they keep growing bigger and higher and higher and higher. Now for most trees to have strength, they need roots that go very, very deep.
Then it goes down, it overshoots. It becomes too--it becomes warm than the air around it because it's less dense and then it rises. It's kind of the hand waving wave. Well, the most intense weather that we get around here are the Northwest windstorms , and I want to mention that briefly. I have a chapter in the book. I love these things. We get some world class weather around here and this is an example of one of them. This is what--it was called mid-latitude cyclone, low pressure center in the mid-latitudes. And this is what
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And in this area there have been devastating earthquakes over the thousand years that they've been standing. There have been massive blizzards, windstorms . How do they keep growing?
And they're calculating how to do a simulated landing of a rocket on the moon. And they've got to calculate how to do it amidst lunar windstorms and all these different challenges. That opens up all kinds of cool opportunities.
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And the question you may ask is why in the hell is that an evil place, okay? Well, one thing you may see on the news all the time--does anybody live in Enumclaw here? I give the trouble with the Enumclaw Chamber of Commerce. The thing about Enumclaw is they get these amazing windstorms here or there where they can have winds of over 100 miles per hour, where it's actually nothing is happening anywhere else. And here is an example. December 24th, 1983, I went there the next day to see this in front of my own eyes. So this is an example
kinds of claims about global warming. Some people talk about how the mountain snowpack has dramatically declined during the past several decades. You've heard that, right? And in fact, Mayor Nickels is big on that one. I mean, he's claimed 50 percent drop in snowpack. The number of heavy rain and windstorm events have already increased and it will increase further in the global warming, right? The media likes to say that. Some people suggest the Northwest climate around here is particularly sensitive to global warming.
You get hit by a 140-foot fir, right, you're going to know it, and your house can--just cut the house in half, right? I mean, it's funny, but it's not so funny, right? This makes things much, much worst here, here in the Northwest. You know, the most costly damage here is not from windstorms . And it's actually from flooding. And if you look at the billion dollar storms, the official National Weather Service documents, the billion dollar storms across the United States, you know--you probably can't read this very well--but these things