I cannot swear to you that there is swearing on this show, but there might be.

It's the kind of behavior I engage in.

It's Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

Hurricanes are like racism.

Who is this a Zenko? No, no, no, hear me out.

Remember, a couple years ago, for the current guy I got in the White House,

when most of the public expression of racism was dog whistles, really quite subtle.

And you'd always hear, you know, it's this subtle quiet racism that's the most pernicious.

And then douchebags and khakis with teaky torches show up in Charlottesville and we realize,

you know what? It's the yelling out loud stuff. That really is the worst.

Same with hurricanes. Because remember, last year we were told, well, although we do categorize them

by numbers according to wind speed. No, no, no, it's the storm surge. That's the real problem.

The greatest threat to loss of life during a hurricane doesn't come from the wind.

It comes from the water that the wind pushes ashore. This is something that we call storm surge.

But now that there's Dorian with its earth shattering really, air shattering gusts,

we have sentiment like this, as expressed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp.

This hurricane has shattered all time records when you think about the wind speeds of 185 miles an hour

yesterday afternoon. And it's certainly one of the most powerful we've ever seen in the Atlantic.

Yeah, it turns out that ripping our ears off, that's kind of a problem too. You know, it's all a problem.

We do this. And by we, I mean we humans, but also that narrow slice of humanity that's the media.

We all have the tendency to take the circumstance that's right in front of us and say,

this one's the worst. When Harvey dumped 40 inches or so of rain on Houston, that was the worst.

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