{"id":26908,"date":"2016-10-06T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=26908"},"modified":"2016-10-31T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T02:06:12","slug":"hurricane-matthew-a-trickster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=26908","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Matthew, a Trickster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As long as we still have electricity, there are some observations I\u2019d like to share about this hurricane.<\/p>\n

Matthew is a kind of trickster. None of the meteorological models predicted that it would become a cat 5, as it did last Friday. It\u2019s the longest lived <\/a>hurricane in the cat 4-5 category in October, in the Atlantic basin.<\/p>\n

According to the weather channel, it \u201cmay be one of the longest-lived Atlantic major hurricanes – defined as\u00a0Category 3<\/a>\u00a0or stronger – in the past 50 years of satellite records. Not only did Hurricane Matthew end a nine-year streak without an Atlantic Basin Category 5 hurricane<\/a>, but it did so at an unusually far south latitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

Astrologically, Matthew is also interesting. In October 2005, when Hurricane Wilma roared through our area, Jupiter was in Libra. It was mid-October. On 9\/9\/16, Jupiter entered Libra once again and today, it\u2019s October 7 and Matthew is headed our way, the first hurricane in 12 years, the timing of the Jupiter cycle.<\/p>\n

Most of the eastern coast of Florida is under a hurricane warning. Lake Okeechobee \u2013 just west of us \u2013 is the second largest fresh water lake in the U.S. and also falls under this warning. The dike around this lake was built in the 1930s and the water level is currently at nearly 16 feet. When it reaches 17 feet, people worry. If it reaches 20 feet, then the dike may fail and the 2000 miles of canals in South Florida flood and so does all the land around it.<\/p>\n

Regardless of where Matthew makes landfall in Florida \u2013 or whether it simply hugs the coast – we are supposed to get up to ten inches of rain. That means our neighborhood will flood because the drains can\u2019t get rid of the water fast enough. If the city hasn\u2019t released water from the canals into the Atlantic, we\u2019ll have water to our doorstep.<\/p>\n

Tonight, though, it\u2019s still outside, warm and humid. We\u2019ve had sporadic showers, nothing more. We\u2019re boarded up with two dogs and three cats and plenty of supplies. We have a generator in the garage that can be turned on once the storm has passed. But we have four skylights in our house that worry me. Our roof is 20 years old. In Wilma in 2005, our fence collapsed, we lost fruit trees, and we didn\u2019t have power for 10 days.<\/p>\n

But Matthew is a different sort of creature, I think, the product of climate change, volatile and unpredictable. Regardless of the precautions people take, it\u2019s a force of nature, an irrefutable power, and in the face of it, we\u2019re no more than an army of ants marching toward hope.<\/p>\n

Even Orlando\u00a0in central Florida, 40 miles or so inland from the coast, lies in the hurricane warning area. Will Disney board up Cinderella\u2019s castle? Will the dolphins miraculously escape? Central Florida rarely experiences hurricanes. Most homes don\u2019t have shutters and aren\u2019t built to withstand hurricane force winds. What happens if Matthew makes landfall there?<\/p>\n

Well, nothing good.<\/p>\n

My sense is that storms like Matthew may be examples of what becomes the norm if we don\u2019t do more to address climate change. Stay tuned. We\u2019ll document this as long as we have electrical power and the internet.<\/p>\n

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Then there’s this odd thing the weather channel picked up – an infrared satellite photo of Matthew from last Monday. What’s this look like, anyway? Skull? Alien?<\/p>\n

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