Talk:Hurricane Retirement/@comment-3175978-20171017161130/@comment-3175978-20171017185251

The problem is, it doesn't matter what tropical what not tropical. We have storms of equivalent strength, or even worse, hitting Europe every autumn/winter and we don't give a hoot about the storm the next day. This is the cultural difference between the US and Europe, you see. Over this side of the Atlantic we get all hyped about a weather event and totally forget about it the next day, whereas you're very sentimental about it all, even 25 years after an event. I see people complain about Hurricane Camille in 1969 even up to this day and we had natural disasters that were even worse here in Europe (like the 50s floods in the Netherlands, I know, not a tropical cyclone), YES, people obviously were sad about what happened but the Netherlands found a SOLUTION to the problem, making plenty of money from water/sea defence whereas the US's solutions are a bit insufficient compared to this side of the Atlantic. Do you hear people moan about the 50s floods, or the Great 1987 storm anymore? NO!

And how do you know if Ophelia hit Florida, it'll be equivalent to $55 billion? The point is that neither Ophelia nor Fabian hit Florida. Fabian's impacts, IMO, are puny compared to other retired storms. We'd not give a hoot should he hit Europe, or a storm of equivalent strength. This is the attitude in Europe: GET A MOVE ON, FIND A SOLUTION AND LET IT GO. I condemn the retirement of Fabian, Igor and Juan for this same reason.

Secondly, we had, and will have, worse than Juan here in Europe when it comes to extratropical cyclones, winter storms and the like. It doesn't matter what or what not tropical. If Juan hit Europe, sure people would talk about emitting plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere and knocking down plenty of trees but we surely don't moan about it as much as those in NA. Plus we actually find SOLUTIONS to problems like the CO2 emission THAT ACTUALLY WORK in Europe and Asia whereas in NA, especially the USA, frankly the development and ideas there aren't as advanced compared to here.

As for Igor, we had the winter floods of 2015 which cut off more people in northern England. Sure people were devastated that their homes flooded but we got to work on it as soon as possible, rather than mope about it.

I am sorry to come off as cold, but this is my point of view. Please don't escalate this.