<story><title>Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/houston-hurricane-ship-channel-orourke/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoOneNew</author><text>The danger mentioned is realistic and should be taken seriously. However, for those who dont live in a hurricane danger zone (I&amp;#x27;m in Florida), these doomsday articles are a normal, everyday thing. Every single year since I was 12 and paid attention&amp;#x2F;tracked hurricanes (that&amp;#x27;s 21 years ago), &amp;quot;Experts predict ~3 major hurricanes will make landfall this year...&amp;quot; killing everyone, washing away Florida, flattening civilization, ending life as we know it, yadda yadda. This is the Weather Channel as well.&lt;p&gt;It gets old.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s sad, the 2 or 3 honest concerned studies are drowned out by the millions of fear mongering, wolf criers. Do I think this article is honest? Other than the unneeded slow burn beginning, yea. But at the same time, hurricane zones have different building codes. This isn&amp;#x27;t as big of a &amp;quot;surprise&amp;quot; problem as people imagine. No one is really surprised that anything is &amp;quot;vulnerable&amp;quot; on the gulf coast. The American Chernobyl is just clickbait.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>&amp;gt; No one is really surprised that anything is &amp;quot;vulnerable&amp;quot; on the gulf coast.&lt;p&gt;As someone who lived in Miami during Hurricane Andrew, and later watched Katrina and Harvey unfold, I beg to differ. I know that building codes have changed since Andrew. It will take another big hurricane to see if the changes were adequate and if they&amp;#x27;ve been followed.&lt;p&gt;A personal picture from back then:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ibb.co&amp;#x2F;TY4wMd0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ibb.co&amp;#x2F;TY4wMd0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;BTW, yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of Andrew and the 29th will be the 15th anniversary of Katrina&amp;#x27;s landfall in Louisiana.</text></comment>
<story><title>Expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be “America’s Chernobyl”</title><url>https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/houston-hurricane-ship-channel-orourke/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoOneNew</author><text>The danger mentioned is realistic and should be taken seriously. However, for those who dont live in a hurricane danger zone (I&amp;#x27;m in Florida), these doomsday articles are a normal, everyday thing. Every single year since I was 12 and paid attention&amp;#x2F;tracked hurricanes (that&amp;#x27;s 21 years ago), &amp;quot;Experts predict ~3 major hurricanes will make landfall this year...&amp;quot; killing everyone, washing away Florida, flattening civilization, ending life as we know it, yadda yadda. This is the Weather Channel as well.&lt;p&gt;It gets old.&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s sad, the 2 or 3 honest concerned studies are drowned out by the millions of fear mongering, wolf criers. Do I think this article is honest? Other than the unneeded slow burn beginning, yea. But at the same time, hurricane zones have different building codes. This isn&amp;#x27;t as big of a &amp;quot;surprise&amp;quot; problem as people imagine. No one is really surprised that anything is &amp;quot;vulnerable&amp;quot; on the gulf coast. The American Chernobyl is just clickbait.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WealthVsSurvive</author><text>You sound like all the people whom grew up in New Orleans that I spoke with when I lived there; I moved when Katrina hit. They heard the same thing. Turns out it was true, and the fact that it hadn&amp;#x27;t happened was in fact: just luck.</text></comment>