My faith as to whether these agencies really know what the fuck they are doing - or understand potential collateral effects - is less than zero.

I read somewhere that a previous Republican stretegist or advisor to Trump said that one of their tactics was to dump so much stupid shit on the people that nobody knows really what's going on or is always focusing on the small stuff. This whole 'Lake America' crap is an example. Nothing else was in the headlines for a few days. My point is, I think sometimes they do know what they're doing, but just want to look stupid as shit.

Regardless of the forces at work, this is shaping up to be a very active and unusual storm season. Hawaii is getting another fly by on Monday after many years of no activity. Looks like southern Japan is going to get walloped.