Hurt wrote:
How can a coincidence be anything but improbable?


Well, I meant on a scale of [0,1] it's a bit a ways from being .5
There's unlikely, and highly unlikely.




I will note, however, that your statement is a true one. (But
only because the if clause is false -- As a rudimentary
energy analysis would show.)


Oh I don't think so. It's not about injecting the energy; it's about
steering the energy.

Perhaps. It would be far easier to start a tropical
system than to steer it. Either action, however, is
beyond anyone's capabilities . . . (as an energy analysis
would show)


Do you think the levies were taken out intentionally because the
hurricane didn't quite manage to do it.

By whom was my initial question? Then I saw the
attribution list. Oops, my bad.

I wouldn't say that Mother Nature *intentionally* took out the
levies, as that ascribes to Mother Nature some kind of
consciousness. I will say that the removal of levies
was very likely governed by the laws of physics of
saturated soils and high lake levels.

Scott