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<\/p>\nRUSH: Hurricane Florence continues to churn toward the Carolinas. Looks like the latest forecast track has it hitting landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, as a Category 3. The danger of this hurricane — besides just the fact it\u2019s a Category 3 and you have the wind and the rain — is it\u2019s supposed to slow down significantly after reaching landfall. Now they\u2019ve got it speeding up a little bit, but if they\u2019re right on this forecast, it\u2019s a significant flooding event and a number of people are trying to figure out what to do. Stay, ride it out, get out, what have you.<\/p>\n
You know, this is one of the — and, by the way, this is made-to-order for the climate change\/global warming crowd. This is, they tell us, one of the most powerful hurricanes this far north, ever. And, of course, why is that? Well, that would be sea surface temperature. And why is that warmer than…? (Snort!) There you go! Climate change. It\u2019s being accepted as a non-argumentative fact. I don\u2019t care what meteorologist you watch or read, website or what have you. All of this seems to be acknowledged fact. So we\u2019re keeping an eye on that.<\/p>\n
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We have exhaustive experience with hurricanes here at the Southern Command, and we have great empathy for anybody who is in the pathway of one of these things. You remember the hurricane that hit Houston. It stopped shortly after hitting landfall, and you saw people with their speedboats and rowboats on the streets in front of their homes. This is one of the things that has everybody alarmed for the Carolinas. Not to mention if you get far enough into the state, you go far enough west in North Carolina, you have mountains.<\/p>\n
Did you know that people in south Florida go to North Carolina for the summer? I didn\u2019t know that until I moved here. Even after I moved here. “What do you mean North Carolina? Isn\u2019t that a humid hellhole?” “No, no, no, Rush. You get up in the mountains and it\u2019s gorgeous up there. Tom Fazio\u2019s built some golf courses. You ought to go.” Well, I haven\u2019t but a lot of people do. Well, that elevation with this kind of rain is gonna cause torrential mudslides and just water pouring down those mountains into the valleys below.<\/p>\n
Also, these things have become very politicized as you know, folks. Hurricanes and hurricane forecasting is much like much else that the left has gotten its hands on, and they politicize these things. For those of you asking, “What\u2019s the politics of a hurricane?” Climate change is the politics of hurricanes. The forecast and the destruction potential doom and gloom is all to heighten the belief in climate change. My experience is that the storms are bad; you don\u2019t want to get into arguments over degrees.<\/p>\n
But look at the latest hurricane that was headed for Oahu. Do you remember the forecasting about that? The first thing it was gonna do is it was gonna take out the Big Island. You have Hilo on northeastern side, then you got Kila Kona on the eastern side, a big mountain range in the middle of the Big Island. Do you know it can be 85, 90 degrees on the beach — well, it\u2019s not beach; it\u2019s lava rock — and up on the mountain where the telescopes are it can be snowing and 25 degrees on the Big Island of Hawaii.<\/p>\n
It was gonna level that. Then it decided to go a little bit further… What would it be? I guess northwest. Then it was gonna level Oahu and I have a bunch of friends in Oahu \u2019cause I\u2019ve been going there a lot and they were taking it seriously. I talked to my buddy. “Rush, I know what you saying about these things, I know, but I got my friends at the Hurricane Center.” I know Mr. Hawaii, by the way. Mike Hartley is his name.<\/p>\n
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I was talking to him. Everybody\u2019s thinking, “This is the big one!” This was it — and, of course, it fizzled. It just dissipated before it hit Oahu and Honolulu and nobody saw it. Nobody saw it coming four hours out. There was not one forecast, there was not one indication the thing was gonna fall apart. But it did. It went from what would have been, for Honolulu, a devastating event to a tropical storm to basically just a moderate amount of rain.<\/p>\n
My point is that nobody saw it, and this not a criticism. It\u2019s just hard to predict these things. Nobody saw it dissipating. They had it staying at full strength all the way through leveling Oahu. Now, I\u2019m not saying this is gonna be the case with Hurricane Florence, that it\u2019s gonna magically dissipate before it hits the coast. But I\u2019m gonna rely on intelligence guided by experience and hope that it\u2019s not nearly as bad as what is being forecast.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I know from my own experience that people that don\u2019t live in hurricane paths really don\u2019t get invested in \u2019em and don\u2019t care much. But I\u2019m telling you, you should. The potential damage from this one is off the charts, which I\u2019ll get to in just a second. I want to share a headline with you here from CNBC. “Florence Could Hit with a Punch Not Seen in More than 60 Years.” Really? What was going on 60 years ago that caused such a “massive punch”?<\/p>\n
“Florence Could Hit with a Punch Not Seen in More than 60 Years.” So something must have been going on 60 or more years ago to cause the massive punch that happened then. Just curious what it was. And try this headline, folks: “Hurricane Risks Include Toxic Sludge and Lagoons of Pig Manure.” Let me tell you what this headline is. The media is, as we speak, getting ready to portray Hurricane Florence as Donald Trump\u2019s Katrina. Do not doubt me. No matter what happens in the aftermath here, Trump is going to be blamed for this hurricane and its aftermath, and they\u2019re gonna be calling it Trump\u2019s Katrina — even, maybe, before it hits. You watch.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Now, look, I\u2019m not gonna do a minute-by-minute hurricane update thing here. But for people in the line of fire of this thing, believe me — do not doubt me — every morsel of information matters. It helps determine whether they\u2019re gonna leave, whether they\u2019re gonna stay, any number of things. The latest is that it\u2019s slowing down and is now gonna not make landfall \u2019til Friday. Now, that could be good if it dumps a lot of its strength over the ocean, if it dumps a lot of rain over the ocean. If it actually stalls over the ocean, that would be a great thing. As a hurricane expert and veteran, that would be fabulous.<\/p>\n
If it dumped its load offshore, if it stalled there and in the process weakened, that would be a pretty good thing to hope for.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Ah, you see, this is the kind of stuff that starts happening. The latest Hurricane Florence update: “New Reports from NOAA Aircraft Show Sharks Have Been Lifted into the Hurricane.” So those of you in the target path in North Carolina, South Carolina? In addition to the pig manure, in addition to the slop, in addition to the floods, in addition to the cars rolling around on the waters in front of your house — in addition to the mudslides and the landslides — now you might end up with a shark in your front yard.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m telling you right now… (interruption) You think I\u2019m making this up? This appeared somewhere. “Florence Now Contains Sharks.” I\u2019m telling you. You want to tell me this story is not true, that this is the one thing I cite…? Let me find the headline at the bottom of the Stack. “Hurricane Risks Including Toxic Sludge and Lagoons of Pig Manure.” I\u2019m telling you, they\u2019re getting ready to call this Donald Trump\u2019s Katrina! How many times did they…? You know, after George Bush had seen Katrina, how many other Katrinas did Bush have for the remainder of his term?<\/p>\n
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Well, it wasn\u2019t supposed to slow down until it reached land, according to previous forecasts. The latest is, it\u2019s starting to slow down now. It was gonna hit sometime late Thursday or Friday. Now it may not hit \u2019til Saturday. That could be good. If it slows and stalls offshore, that could be good, \u2019cause that could contribute to it weakening. Now, the