Bermudans are clearing up after a direct hit from
Hurricane Gonzalo left a trail of damage in its wake on the tiny Atlantic
territory. Bermuda was "bruised" but
came out of the storm better than expected, Premier Michael Dunkley said in a
radio broadcast. The storm made landfall on Friday, with strong winds and rain
causing power cuts for most residents. BBC; Oct.18 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29679079
The
cardinal ingresses of the Sun have a traditional reputation as important mundane events. Shown here is the
chart for Sun’s entry into sidereal Libra at Hamilton ,
Bermuda on October 18. Notice that the horizon is sharply aligned
with the Nodal axis, Mercury and Uranus. The Ascendant [19li] is conjunct stars
of Corvus – the Storm Bird. For this area Diana Rosenberg [1] writes:
Storm bird presides, for this is one of the highest
scoring storm areas of the zodiac. These stars were transited in 1274 when a
Kamikaze (“Divine Wind”) destroyed Kublai Khan’s invasion fleet; in 1815 at the
Autumn Equinox, the day the “Great September Gale” devastated New England; at
the Great Blizzard of 1888, a 4-day storm that dumped more than 4 ft of snow
over New England; in 1934 at one of the highest surface winds recorded up to
that time: 231 mph on Mt. Washington, NH; in 1955 at Blackwell,OK when a
monstrous twister killed 19; in 1979 when three twisters combined into one
giant tornado and hit Wichita Falls,TX, lifting debris ½ mile into the sky,
killing 100 and injuring 900, and at the Irish Sea Fastnet yacht race disaster:
a violent gale struck without warning: 5 yachts were lost, 19 abandoned; in
1996, at a severe weather outbreak: Illinois alone was hit by 30 twisters; and
climbers descending from Mt. Everest’s summit were caught in a storm and 70
degrees below zero temperatures; in 1998 when a F-5 tornado hit towns near
Birmingham, AL destroying whole communities and at the 2005 perigee Full Moon
before Hurricane Katrina wrecked New Orleans.
[1] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.88-91)
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