Hurricane Oddities...

Strange.

That's the word that comes to mind when I mused over the recent rash of devastating hurricanes. Let's start by stating a few things.

1. Hurricane seasons appear to cycle from devastating to annoying over the course of decades.
2. Hurricane Rita appears on a near-perfect devastation course for Houston, TX and it's shipping lanes/refineries.
3. On June 5th of this year, the FX network premiered the faux-documentary Oil Storm. In the made for TV movie, a hypothetical scenario is set up in which a series of events triggered by a hurricane set into motion massive increases in gas costs which result in martial law.
4. We know for a fact that legislation exists that prohibits 'Weather Modification'. Why would such proposals even be drawn up that consider this, unless it was a remote possibility.
5. US Defence Secretary Cohen at one point said -

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."

The Real Effect
Does anyone else find it odd that in the wake of a war that secured much of the Mideast oil in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have not one, but two hurricanes that jeopardize much of our production?

Look for oil to explode well over $3 a gallon and the dreaded word 'shortage' to start to appear. I believe that we will see the economy start to stutter like a dying giant, staggering into a recession, if not a depression.


Edited for appearance, spelling and labels on 4/13/2010.