Nature is a pitiless blind idiot god that couldn't give two shits about the lifeforms that emerge and crawl upon the thin film of the biosphere in an equally harsh, arbitrary, and uncaring universe. Humanity may well self-destruct for ecological reasons instead of civilizations amassing doomsday weapons and deciding to use them when their pucker factor recedes, but there was always that risk.
Harvey was so destructive because of urban sprawl in low-lying areas, as was Katrina, and because of the inequality of the geography of rich and poor.
Of course in Ancient China this many natural disasters in six months would have seen Trump executed and a new dynasty executing the Mandate of Heaven, so.... *shrugs*
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Date: 12/9/17 02:12 (UTC)Harvey was so destructive because of urban sprawl in low-lying areas, as was Katrina, and because of the inequality of the geography of rich and poor.
Of course in Ancient China this many natural disasters in six months would have seen Trump executed and a new dynasty executing the Mandate of Heaven, so.... *shrugs*