I never heard of it before, even though it hit France.
I'm sure it's very funny, but I don't get it.
Réunion is part of France and very recently it was noted here that almost no one knows this.
I never heard of it. Was I obvious to the news at the time, or am I correct that it wasn't taken seriously by the American news media? If the latter, is it because Freddy rampaged through the Indian Ocean, literally the other side of the world from America, and affected mostly poor African countries? Or because "Freddy" sounds childish and harmless?
We are always obvious to the news.
I've been in touch with a friend who visits Madagascar regularly and will report back.
I know they're deadly and tragic, but maps of cyclone tracks are really cool and interesting.
All together: https://www.climate.gov/media/14545
Time elapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRCgxo_0I1Y
The Indian Ocean and South Pacific ones are in such a clear well-defined band, while the northern hemisphere ones bounce off of continents giving a curved shape. The Philippines get the worst of it, even more than the Caribbean.
The South Atlantic, by contrast, has had exactly one Hurricane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Catarina
Am I making it up, or did we have a commenter from Madagascar at one point? I just have a memory of someone saying their internet was so unreliable that Unfogged was a great site because it's static and uses barely any bandwidth.
That sounds familiar. Maybe it was Mozambique?
That definitely sounds made up.
Just a conspiracy of cartographers. then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfxFaFEGjo&t=9s
Got the wording wrong.
I think the Madagascar commenter might have been on a research trip? Or traveled regularly there.
Even the search engines have stopped reading unfogged.
I'm sorry to say this, given my many friends in mainstream journalism, but all storm reporting basically boils down to "there was a big storm. A lot of shit got fucked up." And the interviews are always either poor-and-not-more-than-usually-dishonest trailer park resident saying "we're even more immiserated than before, but at least we are all alive" or a smugly insured retiree moaning "we built our dream home here in a place that ALWAYS gets hurricanes/floods/wildfires three years ago and never imagined that a hurricane/flood/wildfire would destroy it!"
17: Well, that plus the "will Jim Cantore be killed by flying debris" game.
I just now realized what mossy did with the post title.
One time I was in Mozambique on New Years Eve and some drunken South Africans were setting off fireworks, and one landed on top of the thatched roof of the camp's mess hall and burned it right down.
"Double rough as it went past, slowly, east to west, recharged and came back again, carving a
And it wasn't a fast drive before ...
Again without the accidental html.
"Double rough as it went past, slowly, east to west, recharged and came back again, carving a V of destruction across the South already struggling to recover from last year's battering by Batsirai. ... main road South has been beaten up so much it would take twice as long to drive, if not more. It's almost unrecognisable."
Seeds? Business traveler.
Not sure about business traveler, but it was seeds:
Speaking as someone who reads unfogged comment threads from rural Madagascar, the front page can take several minutes to load and comments are loaded at a rate of between 1 and 100 per 10 seconds, depending on the day.
I never did get a lemur. I'll have to steal one from Chapel Hill.