Hurricane Milton

DJ McHamfist said:
They got it wrong, again
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Read the rest of my post. It was a Category 5, and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, until less than twelve hours before landfall. What is your suggestion? Don't take precautions for hurricanes? It was still a Category 4 with sustained winds speeds in excess of 120mph until an hour and a half, ninety (90) minutes(!) before landfall. If Milton had kept it's strength for another 12 hours, the fifth most powerful Atlantic hurricane in history would've smacked directly into a densely populated lowland metropolitan area.

By the grace of God and the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mother did this go from a Category 5 to a Category 3, losing over half of its energy, within 12 hours of landfall.

So I pose this question to you: What is the appropriate preparation time? When should people make the decision to evacuate?
 
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The Report Of The Week reported in. He’s okay. IMG_1946.jpeg
 
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Sun's up now. What's the damage looking like, how widespread is it, how much was from the hurricane vs the tornados? Any official word on total dollar cost or when power will be back etc?
 
A Cardboard Box said:
Read the rest of my post. It was a Category 5, and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, until less than twelve hours before landfall. What is your suggestion? Don't take precautions for hurricanes? It was still a Category 4 with sustained winds speeds in excess of 120mph until an hour and a half, ninety (90) minutes(!) before landfall. If Milton had kept it's strength for another 12 hours, the fifth most powerful Atlantic hurricane in history would've smacked directly into a densely populated lowland metropolitan area.

By the grace of God and the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mother did this go from a Category 5 to a Category 3, losing over half of its energy, within 12 hours of landfall.

So I pose this question to you: What is the appropriate preparation time? When should people make the decision to evacuate?
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Did you actually read my post? Especially the last bit?
It feels like you're typing away firing spittle at your keyboard instead of being rational
 
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x3firehexx said:
Nah, it's just a box of sheetmetal. That's usually how those things are built, it's cheaper for the company to make sheetmetal boxes and replace them than to actually make a competent structure.
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Yeah but a storage place down in Florida? Surely the plan for a good storage facility is not evacuate the goods in case of weather emergency
 
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mmm semen said:
What kinda fag believes man made weather machines capable of creating artificial hurricanes and are funded by liberal shadow governments exist, but says post industrial emissions Dutch ovening the earth is whats actually unbelievable?
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Could always go with Option C: The Earth is being dutch ovened and it's mainly "self-regulated" chinky factories doing it, not my comfortable drive to work without sitting for an hour on a subway seat coated in bum piss.

Just edited to clarify: I think most people are in agreement that climate change is real and influenced by human activity, they just get defensive when you blame them for not wanting to be miserable, sharing transportation with the poors. China's a massive contributor to pollution, but the hippies that fearmongered nuclear power in the 80's are also partly to blame.
 
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Caesar said:
Yeah but a storage place down in Florida? Surely the plan for a good storage facility is not evacuate the goods in case of weather emergency
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Nah, dude they spring these pieces of shit up everywhere and they're always the most ugly tin structures even when they're like 3 minutes from the water front and absolutely gonna get hit by wind and storm surge.

Shit there's even a Marina I pass on the way to work built out of this stuff. I think it was Gordon a few years ago 'caused the entire side to break and a few boats to fall three stories to their deaths. It was literally cheaper for management to pay out to fix a few boats and a few years later put up new tin siding than build an actual structure, and that shit was literally on the water.
 
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x3firehexx said:
Nah, it's just a box of sheetmetal. That's usually how those things are built, it's cheaper for the company to make sheetmetal boxes and replace them than to actually make a competent structure.
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Wouldnt a distribution center want to limit its losses on the stuff inside of it that it distributes to the rest of the country though? Idk how this one was built but small PL I did some warehouse work filling trucks and aside from the metal rolling doors for those semis to back up to, thing seemed really sturdy, made of concrete brick. But idk anything about this particular structure. Would seem weird that they built a shoddy DC in hurricane country though, imo. Would be cheaper to replace the actual CVS cornerstore, Id assume
 
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ATI Escapee said:
Would seem weird that they built a shoddy DC in hurricane country though, imo.
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I think you're looking at it like a rational human.

What you need to do is look at it like an absolute faggot and then it makes sense:

You buy land, build a cheap building on it. The building is storage so you will make passive income because it exists. You then over insure the building and when natural disasters knock it over, you actually profit off of the disaster for more than the building was worth, replace the building and continue.

For most rich people's houses on the water and most of the storage facilities, this is actually a way to make a small windfall, instead of lose a lot of shit. Plus you get to parade around like a victim on National TV for support. Meanwhile its the workers who are now out of a job who actually suffer.
 
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