Hurricanes And Hidden Agendas: Can Weather Be Altered?
By Michael Snyder/End of the American Dream October 08, 2024
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This normally doesn't happen. During regular times, a hurricane is not supposed to go from Category 1 to Category 5 in less than a day. At this moment, the roads out of the Tampa Bay area are absolutely jammed with vehicles as local residents attempt to get out of the path of the coming storm.
We literally just witnessed one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history, and now we are being told that Hurricane Milton could also be one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history. So what in the world is going on here?
When I woke up on Monday morning, I was shocked to learn that Hurricane Milton had developed into a Category 5 storm with sustained wins of 160 mph...
With winds of 160 mph, Milton has strengthened into the second Category 5 hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Beryl was the first storm to reach Category 5 status, doing so while it was traversing the Caribbean Sea in early July.
Milton was only a tropical storm on Sunday morning, but winds ramped up at a tremendous pace, spiking from 60 mph to 160 mph in just 28 hours. Additionally, an abundance of lighting has been flashing around the eye of Milton, an indication that it could still be strengthening.
But that wasn't the end of it.
Just a few hours later, it was being reported that Hurricane Milton had sustained winds of 175 mph...
Hurricane Milton has grown into an explosive Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, just two days after it developed in the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said Monday.
The hurricane was expanding and intensifying quickly Monday while tracking eastward over warm Gulf waters, with the latest growth happening much faster than forecasts suggested. Milton is expected to bring life-threatening conditions to parts of Florida, potentially as early as Tuesday.
Milton's winds surged to 175 mph Monday, exceeding the threshold for Category 5 by a significant margin, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center. The storm's wind speeds more than doubled in the last 48 hours.
Of course that wasn't the peak either.
Just a little while ago, we were told that Hurricane Milton now had sustained winds of 180 mph...
Hurricane Milton strengthened to a Category 5 powerhouse Monday, driving sustained winds of 180 mph as it rolled across the Gulf of Mexico bound for what could be a devastating crash Wednesday along Florida's already storm-battered western coast.
The National Hurricane Center said on its 5 p.m. advisory that Milton had reached those rare wind speeds, three hours after warning the hurricane had "explosively" intensified to 175 mph.
Come on now.
This isn't supposed to happen.
Especially in October.
On Monday alone, the storm's winds increased by 90 mph.
That is nuts!
One meteorologist was literally "on the verge of tears" as he discussed how powerful this storm was becoming...
Meteorology expert John Morales was on the verge of tears as he reported on what is to come for Florida live on NBC6.
'It's just an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped- ' Morales said before pausing, visibly emotional.
'It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours,' he continued. 'I apologize. This is just horrific.'
A lot of people have been searching for "Category 6 hurricane" on Google, and USA Today published an entire article that speculated that a "hypothetical Category 6" could soon be added to the scale that we use to measure storms...
The rapidly developing hurricane that shows no signs of stopping won't technically become a Category 6 because the category doesn't exist at the moment. But it could soon reach the level of a hypothetical Category 6 experts have discussed and stir up arguments about whether the National Hurricane Center's long-used scale for classifying hurricane wind speeds from Category 1 to 5 might need an overhaul.
This is a "once in a century" storm, but of course we just witnessed a "once in a century" storm.
It is so difficult to project exactly where large hurricanes will go, but right now forecasters are telling us that Hurricane Milton is heading straight toward the Tampa Bay area...
Milton is aiming directly for the Tampa Bay area--one of the state's largest metro areas and home to more than 3 million people.
The Tampa Bay area has seen its fair share of hurricanes, but the storms typically do not strike the region directly from the west from the Gulf of Mexico, instead traveling north along the coast, as seen in the paths of Hurricane Ian in 2022.
AccuWeather's chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter called Milton's trajectory "unusual and extremely concerning."
This is the kind of storm that can rip the roof right off a home and send trees hurtling through the air like missiles.
If Tampa takes a direct hit, the damage could be absolutely catastrophic.
According to one local meteorologist, this storm has the potential to be "the worst natural disaster in modern history for Florida"...
Hurricane Milton will be the worst disaster that Florida has ever seen, a longstanding weatherman has warned.
David Hartman, who works for WAPT in neighboring Mississippi, wrote: 'Sadly, this is shaping up to the worst natural disaster in modern history for Florida.'
If you live in the Tampa Bay area, please leave.
At a press conference on Monday, one Florida official was literally begging people to evacuate...
Speaking at a press conference Monday alongside Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state's director of emergency management, Kevin Guthrie, urged those in the Tampa Bay area to evacuate.
"I beg you. I implore you," Guthrie said. "Drowning deaths due to storm surge are 100% preventable if you leave."
This storm was not supposed to become this powerful.
So what happened?
There are some people that are placing the blame on our changing climate, but others are pointing out that man-made tools can cause apocalyptic weather events as well.
For example, earlier this year "cloud-seeding" was being blamed for producing "the heaviest rain ever recorded" in the United Arab Emirates...
The United Arab Emirates is today attempting to dry out after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the desert nation caused utter chaos - but there are suspicions the horrific flooding in Dubai and elsewhere may have been self-inflicted.
The typically scorching UAE heavily relies on cloud-seeding - a technique which sees aircraft fire salt flares into clouds to speed up condensation and induce rainfall - to provide its groundwater.
Flight-tracking data analysed by the Associated Press showed one aircraft affiliated with the UAE's cloud-seeding efforts flew around the country on Sunday.
This technique has been used all over the world for decades, and in my opinion it should be completely banned.
According to CBS News, scientists have also been working on a way "to aim a high-energy laser beam into clouds to make it rain or trigger lightning"...
For many Americans who wished they could change the weather -- whether it be in the Northeast during this past winter or in drought-stricken California -- researchers may have found a way to aim a high-energy laser beam into clouds to make it rain or trigger lightning.
The existence of condensation, storms and lightning are all due to the presence of large amounts of static electricity in the clouds. Researchers from the University of Central Florida and the University of Arizona say that a laser beam could activate those large amounts of static electricity and create storms on demand.
By surrounding a beam with another beam that will act as an energy reservoir, the central beam will be sustained for greater distances than previously possible. The secondary beam will refuel and help to prevent the dissipation of the primary beam, which would break down quickly on its own.
Ultimately, there are lots of ways that the weather can be manipulated.
At this stage, we just don't know what has caused Hurricane Milton to experience "explosive" growth.
But what we do know is that this storm is extremely dangerous, and it is anticipated that it will make landfall some time on Wednesday...
Time is running out for Floridians to prepare for Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall as a major hurricane on Wednesday evening. Stores across central Florida, including those in Orlando, are already running out of bottled water and other essential supplies.
"We are preparing ... for the largest evacuation that we have seen, most likely since 2017, Hurricane Irma," Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said, according to The Associated Press. In addition to all of Fort Myers Beach, mandatory evacuations have been issued for all mobile and manufactured homes in areas near Tampa Bay. AccuWeather is predicting storm surge will reach 10 to 15 feet along a long area of the Florida coast surrounding Tampa Bay.
Needless to say, the Tampa Bay area is not the only area that is being threatened.
So far, a state of emergency has been imposed in 51 of Florida's 67 counties by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis already placed 51 of the state's 67 counties under a State of Emergency, and on Monday, President Joe Biden approved the state's pre-landfall emergency declaration request, which now authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate all disaster relief efforts and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures.
A lot of people will attempt to ride this storm out.
Some will survive, and others will not.
We have never had two storms of such destructive power hit us so close together.
As more and more people research the events surrounding Hurricane Helene - they have discovered some very interesting information.
Did you know that a little town in the mountains of North Carolina is the primary worldwide producer of a substance that makes our modern high tech way of life possible? Without the ultra-pure natural quartz that comes from Spruce Pine, North Carolina we would not have the ultra-sophisticated electronic gadgets that we enjoy so much and the global economy would collapse. So is it just a coincidence that Spruce Pine was absolutely devastated by Hurricane Helene?
The two facilities that produce this ultra-pure natural quartz in Spruce Pine are both shut down at this point...
Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber-optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene with no reopening date in sight.
Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in the Appalachian town of Spruce Pine on Thursday ahead of the storm that swept away whole communities in the western part of the state and across the border in East Tennessee. The town is home to mines that produce some of the world's highest quality quartz.
Hopefully these facilities will be able to open again before the end of the year, because they are absolutely critical to the global economy.
According to ABC News, it is estimated that somewhere between 70 percent and 90 percent of all crucibles that are used to make silicon chips worldwide are made out of natural quartz from Spruce Pine...
"To make silicon chips, you need to first melt down a highly-purified material called polysilicon. That can only be done in crucibles that are themselves made of a material so pure it will not react chemically with the polysilicon and is also able to withstand enormous heat," he said. "The best material for those crucibles is ultra-pure quartz. Spruce Pine is the source of the purest natural quartz ever found on Earth."
An estimated 70-90% of the crucibles used worldwide are made from Spruce Pine quartz, he said.
Without this natural quartz from Spruce Pine, our way of life would change dramatically.
The following comes from a Wired article entitled "The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible"...
The wooded mountains surrounding it, though, are rich in all kinds of desirable rocks, some valued for their industrial uses, some for their pure prettiness. But it's the mineral in Glover's bag--snowy white grains, soft as powdered sugar--that is by far the most important these days. It's quartz, but not just any quartz. Spruce Pine, it turns out, is the source of the purest natural quartz--a species of pristine sand--ever found on Earth. This ultra‑elite deposit of silicon dioxide particles plays a key role in manufacturing the silicon used to make computer chips. In fact, there's an excellent chance the chip that makes your laptop or cell phone work was made using sand from this obscure Appalachian backwater. "It's a billion‑dollar industry here," Glover says with a hooting laugh. "Can't tell by driving through here. You'd never know it."
This is a really big deal.
If the facilities in Spruce Pine are offline for an extended period of time, the entire globe will feel it.
Just consider what happened when a fire caused a quartz mine in Spruce Pine to shut down for a brief period of time in 2008...
In 2008, a fire in Spruce Pine forced a local quartz mine to halt production, which "all but shut off the supply of high-purity quartz to the world market, sending shivers through the industry." That fire impacted only one plant--the Unimin Corporation Quartz/Feldspar Plant, which has since been acquired by Sibelco--and its impacts were still felt industry wide. Today, demand for semiconductors is much higher than what it was in 2008 as they're used to power newer technologies like artificial intelligence and 5G connectivity.
Needless to say, what we are facing is far worse than the brief interruption that occurred in 2008.
The mountains of North Carolina are also very important to the lithium industry.
According to CBNC, a mining operation at Kings Mountain "could produce enough material to manufacture 1.2 million electric vehicles annually"...
Kings Mountain could produce enough material to manufacture 1.2 million electric vehicles annually. The mine sits on one of the world's richest deposits of spodumene ore, a source of lithium. There is currently only one operational lithium mine in the U.S. in Silver Peak, Nevada, which is owned by Albemarle.
Albemarle does not have a precise date for when Kings Mountain will become operational, Norris said. The company is preparing to start the permitting process, which will take two years to complete. Construction will be a multiyear undertaking before the mine is operational, according to the company.
Despite local opposition, Albemarle has been aggressively pushing forward with this project.
And it turns out that Albemarle was recently given a 90 million dollar grant by the Biden administration...
The Biden administration has made setting up a battery supply chain, supported by domestic lithium production and processing, a top priority to end dependence on China, which dominates the global market. Albemarle was awarded a $90 million grant from the Defense Department to support domestic mining, which the company is using to help reopen Kings Mountain.
90 million dollars is a lot of money.
So there is a lot riding on the success of this project.
Interestingly, BlackRock purchased more than 2 million shares of Albemarle less than 2 months ago...
On August 31, 2024, BlackRock Inc., a prominent investment management firm, expanded its investment portfolio by acquiring an additional 2,220,059 shares of Albemarle Corp (NYSE:ALB). This transaction increased BlackRock's total holdings in the company to 12,183,614 shares, reflecting a significant commitment to Albemarle, a key player in the lithium and chemicals industry. The shares were purchased at a price of $90.25 each, marking a strategic addition to BlackRock's diverse investment portfolio.
If you want to understand what is really going on out there, just follow the money.
Meanwhile, vast numbers of deeply suffering local residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are still without clean water...
Perhaps the greatest irony of Helene is the dire lack of potable water after the floods. The storm completely destroyed Asheville's water supply system. Water mains and underground pipes were swept away as the ground itself was removed by the torrent. Not a single building in town can access running water, and citizens survive by the thousands of gallons of water being shipped in every day.
"We need portable water ... nobody can flush their toilets, nobody can take a shower, nobody can do laundry. We have no water and the infrastructure for that water is totally destroyed," Dr. Carly Brown, a primary care physician in Asheville's River Arts District, told The Epoch Times.
"I haven't had a shower since last Wednesday. I'm hearing horrible things about [others]," Wendy Feinberg, a 77-year-old retired schoolteacher in Asheville, told The Epoch Times.
Many of the communities that have been destroyed by Hurricane Helene will never be rebuilt.
We have never seen anything like this, and the federal response to this disaster has been extremely poor.
But of course there seems to be plenty of money to send overseas. Just two days ago, Kamala Harris posted the following...
The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.
To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict. This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million.
How tone deaf can she possibly be?
Enormous numbers of victims in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee are not getting the help that they need, but she wants to send 157 million dollars to Lebanon?
Is she serious?
Sadly, this is just the beginning of the chaos that is coming. More historic natural disasters are on the way, global war will intensify, and the upcoming election will cause a tremendous amount of turmoil.
So I would encourage everyone to get prepared while they still can, because you never know when the next major crisis will strike.
Originally published at End Of The American Dream
