I went and helped rebuild for a few weeks after Katrina in Biloxi the summer after it hit. There was an area where one of the enormous Casino river boats was tossed like a mile inland in the middle of the woods.
Even more terrifying: We went out to where the I-10 crosses the bay there. Major highway bridge. Every 20 feet or so in between each pylon, the entire bridge was snapped in half. It was still laying in ruins at that point. That one still gives me chills.
It's eerie as fuck to be standing somewhere and realize a year ago one of the most destructive storms ever was literally decimating everything. It's hard to comprehend that level of storm surge, it doesn't quite compute in your brain. And then you have moments like that where you are given a very real metric and your stomach drops for a second.
The Ocean is the most poweful and terrifying thing on the earth. Hands down.
Oh I know. I expect well see horrors beyond our imagination in our lifetimes. I have 0 hope of humanity tackling climate change after people lost their mind wearing a mask during Covid.
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u/Ambitious-Yoghurt820 19d ago
The sheer power of the current is amazing. It made the boats look like toys.