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Thread #162725   Message #3874781
Posted By: Iains
02-Sep-17 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why build cities in path of hurricanes?
Subject: RE: BS: Why build cities in path of hurricanes?
Just to drive everyone totally insane.
Oxford English Dictionary definition of you know what.

A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean.

A wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale (equal to or exceeding 64 knots or 118 km/h).

A single-seat, single-engined British fighter aircraft of the Second World War, produced by the Hawker company and remembered in particular for its role in the Battle of Britain along with the Spitfire.

Now a meteorologist may have a more precise meaning for certain words, but in general usage words have a much less precise and wider meaning, as exemplified by the argument/discussion about theory recently.
I turn the forum over to our resident "guru" who no doubt will find fault with the dictionary defintions.

Joe. A future proof house?

https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/15/baca-architects-amphibious-house-floating-floodwater/