moving to tampa! hurricanes?

[Astro_man92]

I disagree BIG DOG. Let's look at California. When people say they are overdue for the BIG ONE, it is because pressure builds over time making it more likely that a big one will come sooner than later. Will it come in increments or on big blast? Who knows, but I'd say Tampa will get hit buy many smaller ones that one big punch, and if it does get hit by one big punch, it will be like no other....

the conseps of geology (earthquakes) and meterology (hurricanes) are two totaly different things. the reason why california is waiting for the BIG ONE is because if the earths plates there arn't moving and they are not having nearly constant miniature earthquakes that means that the pressure between the plates is not being releast meaning that it is building up and the BIG ONE is when the pressure is not releast for so long that the plates suddenly jurk and a major earthquake happens. now tell me does a hurricane go through any of that does a hurricane even have any thing to do with that.
what i'm getting at is a hurricane is formed by different temperatues creating convedtion and forming thunder storms that start to spiral around a center and eventually a deppression forms.
what does that have to do with pessure building up. how does that sequence of events build the chances of one particular area to get hit

now if any one dissagrees with anthing in this entry please tell me

In a sense it's a misconception that earthquakes "release" energy by reducing the stress on the plates. In effect what happens is they transfer that energy along the fault line. Take for example the San Andreas fault. Now say a 5 strikes southern California. It seems as if the frictional dissipation of the energy is released over a wide area. What happens for real though is the stresses become greater on the northern sections of the fault now. An earthquake in Los Angeles actually increases the probability of a larger quake in San Francisco. The plates aren't uniform in distance. If the southern section moves say a 1/4 of an inch further west (gross exaggeration for purposes of the illustration) then the northern section some day will be compelled to catch up.

i know that but he was saying that since tampa hasn't had a hurricane in a while that increased the chances that it was going to have one and he copared it to (of all things) earthquakes you couldn't pick something more different

[oceanbrz312]

I lived in Tampa a number of years a few miles south of Oldsmar. If you know the area we are a few miles inland from Tampa Bay. In preparing for the '02 storm season the Tampa Tribune gave a few examples of what to expect with the storm surge. It blew my mind when they wrote for my area if a Cat 3 hit we would have 4 feet or more of flooding. I am now in the Orlando area which I thought would be safer since everyone evacuates to this area during a hurricane. I found out differently last year. lol