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In reply to the discussion: DAMN! High winds blew in my glass window [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)39. Record high winds this year at other places
In the South Pacific, for instance, the highest wind speeds ever measured came last month when Tropical Cyclone Winston crashed into Fiji. Entire villages were flattened. In financial terms, the storm wiped out ten percent of the nations gross domestic product, roughly equivalent to fifteen simultaneous Hurricane Katrinas.
This was followed by a few months of the highest wind speeds ever recorded in our hemisphere, when Patricia crashed into the Pacific coast of Mexico.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35575-the-mercury-doesnt-lie-weve-hit-a-troubling-climate-change-milestone
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Do you have another set of sheets? Tiny slivers of glass will have worked into the fabric.
hedda_foil
Mar 2016
#35
I am waiting for the words "CLIMATE CHANGE" to cross the lips of my local
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2016
#19