Hurricane Milton

TheCuntler said:
Wow, I wasn't aware a cat 3 was still so dangerous. I thought it had surely fizzled out to a nothingburger. Stay safe!
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I grew up in hurricane country, and the problem is that it's a complex storm. A Cat 1 can fuck you up with the correct circumstances and conditions, there's a reason several names attached to those have been retired. A large Cat 3 has gale force winds that can blast down even sturdy structures with enough time, a Cat 1 rolling through a very rain saturated area can cause severe flooding, and a Cat 5 can just sail off to sea and never actually hurt more than a few birds.

People see smaller numbers and underestimate exactly what they can do. It'a not like a tornado where an F1 gives you a concentrated little scythe of wind gust for a minute and moves on. A Cat 3 has winds comparable to an EF2 tornado spread across potentially a hundred miles that wail against every exposed surface for a few hours. It's no small thing, no matter how small it might sounds, and it's why you should always be prepped even if the perceived threat is low.
 
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AMHOLIO said:
I had to leave the thread for a while because of the huge hype. It's fine if you're out of state to panic, but in state we had to keep our head about us while we prepared. There's few hurricanes that go total meltdown, Helene really got some doomer's hopes up. At least 1 million people evacuated the state (including a friend of my cousin who left fucking Miami, who wasn't even forecast to be hit!) and everyone took it seriously.

Some people like to think negatively and cheer on disaster to confirm their world beliefs that everything sucks. Some just want to see shocking world and scientific events. The former won't change with this but I do hope some get perspective and realize that it's best not to wish death on thousands of people: natural disasters rain on the just and unjust. The later I'm sorry about but hey, at least it was a record.
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I used to rage about this overhyping bullshit back when it was just the weather stations doing it to drive clicks, now I think it's sort of the same thing by youtubers. Disgusting when they overhype stuff to the point folks think "oh it wasn't that bad last time, i can totally ride out the next one"... and get their shit pushed in.
 
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The real reason Milton hasn’t been a nothing burger was the retard beacon friends we made along the way:

Green shirt guy
Pasty white Mom and her slippery kids
The asshole inexplicably walking his TERRIFIED dog
Shirtless selfie guy
Selfie stick woman

I’ll never forget these precious shared moments. Hope the Florida kiwis are safe and well and the inconveniences are short lived.

See you all in a week or two for Nadine, Oscar or Patty.
 
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A Cardboard Box said:
Give me my fucking tophats, I don't care. I've seen enough carnage from Helene, which hit Florida as "only" a category 4 and ended up over North Carolina as "only" a post-tropical depression. Be fucking happy for once in your goddamn lives that we don't have to spend months digging dead kids out of collapsed buildings.
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And how many people died from Helene in Florida? Oh yeah, only 19 people. Most people died because of 18 inches of rain dumped in the mountains, not a bunch of wind and rain.

Fact is that hurricanes just aren't very dangerous to your health if you don't live on the beach or are a third world peasant living in a shack. Go on, look at the stats. Hurricanes just don't kill many people. Every time lots of people die from hurricanes in the US, it's because of either insane flooding in the NC mountains or New Orleans or because lots of retards were driving around and drowned. Last time hurricanes were actually dangerous in the US (decades ago) was when the average American in the South lived in third world-tier shacks. Houses are built better and people can take precautions like boarding up their windows and not hanging around the windows or exterior walls.

But hey, it's your choice to sit in traffic, waste money on price-gouged gas and hotels, and let JaQuan climb in the broken windows and look around your house.
 
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Sammich said:
I used to rage about this overhyping bullshit back when it was just the weather stations doing it to drive clicks, now I think it's sort of the same thing by youtubers. Disgusting when they overhype stuff to the point folks think "oh it wasn't that bad last time, i can totally ride out the next one"... and get their shit pushed in.
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I can kind of understand it. If they underestimate the storm and tell people to stay put, anybody who dies will have relatives suing them for causing their deaths. So they err on the safe side telling people to evacuate even during a weak hurricane...inadvertently causing people to stop taking hurricane warnings seriously, and getting themselves killed. Oops.
 
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Quijibo69 said:
I'm alive. Everything is screw so far alot of wind damage!
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Hell yeah. Glad you're alright.

A Cardboard Box said:
The "nothing ever happens" niggers and "I knew it was hype all along" faggots deserve to have horrific physical violence inflicted on them.

Milton went from a tropical storm to a category 5, sub 900mbar hurricane, with sustained 165mph winds, gusts up to 200mph, pushing the theoretical limit of what is possible for a storm to sustain, within 16 hours. It dropped to a Category 4 before tripling the size of its eye and intensifying back into a category 5. It wasn't until the NOAA release at 09:00 that Milton was officially downgraded to a Category 4, which, by the way, is a very, very strong storm still worth evacuating for. It wasn't until the NOAA release at 18:00 local time that Milton was officially downgraded to a category 3, what most Floridians would put under "ride it out" status.
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Retards thinking that Milton is a "nothing burger" when it randomly went from a category 1 storm to the 5th strongest Atlantic hurricane EVER in the span of 24 hours. As if that's not something you should be concerned about. You're goddamn right people got the fuck out of there. Had this storm maintained that intensity up to landfall and followed the exact same track, Tampa would have been fucking leveled.

Not to mention, it's the middle of the night. We won't even know the full extent of the damage or fatalities until morning and people are already bitching about how Nothing Ever Happens.
 
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Cassandra Says said:
The real reason Milton hasn’t been a nothing burger was the retard beacon friends we made along the way:

Green shirt guy
Pasty white Mom and her slippery kids
The asshole inexplicably walking his TERRIFIED dog
Shirtless selfie guy
Selfie stick woman

I’ll never forget these precious shared moments. Hope the Florida kiwis are safe and well and the inconveniences are short lived.

See you all in a week or two for Nadine, Oscar or Patty.
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Don't forget Lt. Dan! I hope dude is ok and his boat is still in one piece.
 
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CFC-12 said:
Hell yeah. Glad you're alright.


Retards thinking that Milton is a "nothing burger" when it randomly went from a category 1 storm to the 5th strongest Atlantic hurricane EVER in the span of 24 hours. As if that's not something you should be concerned about. You're goddamn right people got the fuck out of there. Had this storm maintained that intensity up to landfall and followed the exact same track, Tampa would have been fucking leveled.

Not to mention, it's the middle of the night. We won't even know the full extent of the damage or fatalities until morning and people are already bitching about how Nothing Ever Happens.
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St Pete won't be the same. People will talk about this for years, this was a happening here.
 
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