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Not Stronger Than This Storm

Super Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines with sustained winds of 195 MPH with gusts as high as 235 MPH.  This may be the strongest tropical cyclone to hit land anywhere in recorded history.

This event must not go unnoticed, here, simply because it happened on the other side of our planet.

But I regret our tendency to think locally, to measure such catastrophic events solely in terms of impacts in our own region.

If it proves true that Haiyan was the strongest storm ever, anywhere, and coming barely one year after Sandy stuck our coast, then we have a problem, right here.   Here being any coastal region on planet Earth.
 

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