Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Donny admires the windy winds


In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael The Orange Humperdoo finally deigned to appear amid the wreckage to be photographed handing out bottled water, one bottle at a time, to people who have no potable water. Unlike the last hurricane, Donny was more amazed by the damage of the windy wind than that of the wet water.
In what has become a recurring ritual of the fall, President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, traveled here on Monday to survey the destruction of another hurricane, this one named Michael, which last week laid waste to the Florida Panhandle.

“This was beyond any winds we’ve seen for — I guess — 50 years,” Mr. Trump said, before he and Mrs. Trump handed out plastic water bottles to storm victims at an aid distribution center in this hard-hit town. “They say that 50 years ago, there was one that had this kind of power.”

“Fifty years,” he added. “It’s a long time.”

Even for a president who has now seen five hurricanes — including Harvey, which swamped Houston; Maria, which destroyed Puerto Rico; and Florence, which inundated the Carolinas — Michael left a particularly spectacular trail of wreckage along the Florida Gulf Coast.

Pine trees were uprooted and splintered — one lying across a Chevrolet sedan, others bisecting houses. Roofs had been torn off row after row of houses, blue tarps strung across the yawning holes. Windows were shattered, and even the wood siding was peeled off.

Gas stations were ripped apart — their colorful awnings carried across highways and dropped in twisted shards. In a parking lot, truck trailers were scattered like a child’s toys.

A water tower lay on its side, while some roads completely disappeared beneath a jungle of fallen trees. Next to a demolished warehouse, someone had spray-painted “Live video feed. Trespassers shot.”

After witnessing so many storms, Mr. Trump has begun to sound like an amateur meteorologist. He emphasized, for example, the fine differences between Florence, which stalled in North Carolina, inundating the state with record-shattering rain, and Michael, which raced through Florida in a few hours but with deadly winds of 155 miles per hour.

“Somebody said it was like a very wide, extremely wide tornado,” Mr. Trump said, as he stood next to Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who have both become familiar figures on these tours.

“These are massive trees that have been just ripped out of the earth,” Mr. Trump said, pointing to a tangle of uprooted pines. “We’ve seen mostly water. And water can be very damaging and scary, when you see water rising 14 or 15 feet. But nobody’s ever seen anything like this. This is really incredible.”

Still, for someone whose presidency has been interrupted repeatedly by these freakish storms, Mr. Trump remains stubbornly unwilling to acknowledge the threat of climate change.
Of course he won't acknowledge climate change. Climate change is science and science is facts and facts are deadly to a creature like The Orange Humperdoo.

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