Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
SEVEN “once-in-a-lifetime” events for Florida in 25 years. Climate Change is real and our elected officials need to be more responsive to it
Extreme weather events are becoming the norm in Florida driving up insurance rates, making real estate more difficult potentially to flip and ultimately creating a more and more uninhabitable situation which will impact the economy detrimentally. We have in this state elected leaders that have chosen to ignore or even deny the existence of climate […]
Florida’s Bubble is bursting again
20 million people led by elected officials in the pockets of special interests and being stuffed into a peninsula vulnerable to tropical systems and with a fragile ecosystem based around the Everglades, Springs, aquifers and the St Johns River has created the elements for Florida’s collapse. This wouldn’t be the first time such a thing […]
Spessard Holland’s huge impacts on Florida
Last week on the Florida History Podcast we discussed Spessard Holland, a legendary Florida political and legal figure who served as both Governor and a US Senator. You can listen to the Florida History Podcast on Anchor (which hosts our show), Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Radio Public, Breaker, Overcast, Castro or Pocket Casts. Overcast, Castro, Spotify, Radio Public and Breaker have App Store apps for free […]
Helene’s historical impacts: Crazy wind gusts ON THE ATLANTIC COAST from a GULF storm
Helene was a gulf storm that normally would not have even raised winds to 25 MPH on the east coast. But the monster wind field delivered some incredibly high wind gusts hundreds of miles from the storm’s center and lashed the east coast of the state with sustained tropical storm winds for 12 hours. Here […]
Helene “Once-in-a-Lifetime” impacts: Storm surge on Gulf Coast and Big Bend – sea level rise and climate change are the reason
For years those of us in Florida have been told that “Storm Surge is the biggest killer” in Tropical systems. Helene proved a once-in-a-lifetime event for this. We’ve had lots of once-in-a-lifetime events in Florida recently. So without getting too preachy, why exactly would all this happen within a two year period? Climate Change and […]
EMERGENCY FLORIDA HISTORY POD: Helene – Historic statewide event which was possibly the Tampa Bay area’s Katrina
Emergency Podcast to discuss Helene which brought major wind and storm surge impacts from Miami to Apalachicola and all points in-between. While Florida’s capital city was spared what was feared the Tampa Bay area, long on the “clean” side of Gulf hurricanes has experienced an event potentially unrivaled in the modern history of Florida Hurricanes. […]
Horrific Historic Helene: HUGE impacts on the peninsula without a peninsular landfall- where historically does this rank in modern (post 1990) Florida? (This isn’t even considering the more serious Big Bend impacts yet)
I have been watching and tracking Hurricanes since the 1980’s. We constantly hear about “the big one” or the “Storm of the Century” etc for those of us here in Florida. First it was Andrew, then Charley, then Wilma, then Irma, Michael and Ian. While Andrew and Michael were stronger storms in terms of winds, […]
Helene now a major Hurricane; Sunshine Skyway closed
The NHC has indicated Helene had reached Category 4 strength with maximum winds around 120 MPH as of 2:25 Eastern. The storm has blanketed the state with heavy winds, incredibly putting ALL of the peninsula into TS force winds as of 2pm. In addition to the heavy winds, Tornadic activity has blanketed the state from […]
Latest Helene impacts: Tornadic activity in Manatee, Brevard and Volusia; storm surge impacts in Collier, concern for Tampa Bay and about that “shift” (really wobble) east.
The latest satellite activity shows a slight wobble to the east of the center of the storm. This has raised concern in the Tampa Bay area of a shift to the east and potential direct impacts among residents there. DO NOT PANIC. The shift appears to be a mere wobble which does potentially shift the […]
The Florida Squeeze 