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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | It must have been {{w|Atlantic hurricane season|hurricane season}} in the United States! | |
− | + | This comic gives some ideas on upcoming {{w|Tropical cyclone|hurricane}} paths on an unlabelled map that shows the region roughly between central {{w|Canada}} and northern {{w|Brazil}}. Red dotted lines indicates possible hurricane paths. | |
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− | + | ''Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda'' enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the {{w|Atlantic Ocean}} in a scribble that seems to take the shape of an {{w|Ampersand}}. Then it goes north for a while, and then peters out without entering the {{w|Bermuda Triangle}}. The Bermuda Triangle is a location in the Atlantic Ocean loosely framed by the three corners {{w|Bermuda}}, {{w|Miami}} and {{w|Puerto Rico}}. The myth is that (too) many ships and plains get lost once they enter inside the area of this triangle and disappear without a trace. In this case the hurricane get lost before entering and can't even find the triangle. | |
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− | + | ''Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy'' comes from somewhere to the north-west, goes through {{w|Illinois}}, and then back to the north-west. This hurricane, while actually impossible, comes from Canada to strike {{w|Chicago}}, Illinois, before heading back to Canada. As hurricanes never hits Illinois this particular hurricane "think" they have too easy a time in this particular state. Interestingly enough, (though it did not affect the Chicago area or correspond with the path displayed in the comic), roughly one year later a {{w|Derecho|Super derecho}}, a storm resembling a hurricane or tropical storm in movement and form, struck central and South Illinois, in addition to much of {{w|Missouri}} and {{w|Kansas}}: {{w|May 2009 Southern Midwest derecho}}. | |
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− | + | ''Hurricane Freud'' starts in the {{w|Gulf of Mexico}}, draws a set of {{w|Testicle|balls}} to {{w|Florida|Florida's}} {{w|Penis|cock}}, and then {{w|Ejaculation|comes}} on land and stops. {{w|Sigmund Freud}} believed that accidental sexual expression was a reflection of the unconscious mind's sexual desires. The shape of the hurricane's path along the ''penis'' is taken as an example of this. | |
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− | + | ''Hurricane Screw-It-Let's-Just-Trash-Florida-Again'' comes from the east, starts to curve to the north, and then turns sharply to head straight for Florida and zigzag through it four times before dying out. Sticking out from the rest of the US, Florida is in a nice spot to get hurricanes from the East, South, and West. And with the state not being very high or wide, it is common for a hurricane to run over Florida, lose some strength, then rebuild strength over the hot waters in the Gulf of Mexico, only to do a U-turn and strike again. This is not exactly what happens with this particular hurricane, where it turns out into the Atlantic Ocean again each time. Just proving that it only wish to strike Florida! | |
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− | + | ''Hurricane Red'' and ''Hurricane Blue'', (which are the only hurricane path drawn in blue), are playing a game zipping in straight lines and right angles around {{w|Haiti}}, {{w|Jamaica}}, and {{w|Cuba}}. When ''Red'' successfully cuts off ''Blue'', the latter instantly dies, and then ''Red'' dies shortly thereafter. The game they play is the game of {{w|Tron_(video_game)#Light_Cycles|Light Cycles}} from the {{w|Tron_(video_game)|video game}} based on the movie {{w|Tron}}. ''Hurricane Blue'' lost because it crashed into the wall of light left by ''Hurricane Red's'' {{w|Light_Cycle#Light_cycles|light cycle}}. | |
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− | + | ''Hurricane Cos(x)'' forms a graph in the shape of {{w|cosine wave}} above the bottom edge of the map. Its path resembles a wave form called a {{w|sinusoid}}. This can either be a {{w|sine}} [sin(x)] or {{w|cosine}} [cos(x)] wave - they look exactly the same when there is no clearly defined coordinate system. If the {{w|Earths}} {{w|Equator}} is the x-axis and the y-axis goes through the {{w|Prime meridian}} of {{w|Prime meridian (Greenwich)|Greenwich}} it would be possible to say if this was a true cosine function hurricane. A cosine would be 1 (the maximum value) at x=0 (i.e. the maximum value over the Equator would also occur under {{w|Greenwich}}), whereas a sine would be 0 at x=0. If it had been a basic cos(x) without any constants added, then it should have been centered along the equator instead of as it is - ranging from about 5.5° to 9.5° north {{w|latitude}}. But if the formula was of the form a*cos(b*x)+c with a, b and c given constant, the wave could move to the center of this range with c=7.5°. With the constant a=2° the wave would move between the max and minimum of the range, and then b could be chosen to make the wave length fit with the path shown in the map. | |
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− | The 1938 hurricane is also [[980:_Money/Transcript#Disasters|referenced]] in [[980: Money]] | + | The title text refers to the {{w|1938 New England hurricane}} (also known as the Long Island Express), that caused $4.7 billion in damage in 2013 dollars. Had it been further west it could have caused more damage as the right side of a hurricane is stronger and more destructive than the left side as the winds on the right side push water inland. [[Randall]] asks for more damage assessments for such a hurricane that which would be able to flood {{w|Manhattan}} in {{w|New York}}. Almost prophetically for this comic, {{w|Hurricane Sandy}} did strike the {{w|New York metropolitan area|New York–New Jersey area}} only four years after this cartoon was published, causing an estimated $74 billion in damage. |
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+ | The 1938 hurricane is also [[980:_Money/Transcript#Disasters|referenced]] in [[980: Money]] where it is calculated that it would have caused $78 billion had it happened in 2011. However, if that hurricane had taken the same turn as Sandy did, the cost today could have been a staggering $237 billion. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[An unlabelled map shows the region roughly between central Canada and | + | :[An unlabelled map shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern Brazil. Dotted lines indicating hurricane paths cover the map, all red except Hurricane Blue which is blue. Each line is labelled - here follows the labels as they appear from the top and down:] |
:Hurricane Where-the-Hell-Is-Bermuda | :Hurricane Where-the-Hell-Is-Bermuda | ||
:Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy | :Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy | ||
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:Hurricane Blue | :Hurricane Blue | ||
:Hurricane cos(x) | :Hurricane cos(x) | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Hurricanes]] | [[Category:Hurricanes]] | ||
[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
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