Hurricane Milton

DJ McHamfist said:
Did you type out this entire false equivalency purely just to inject a racist commentary? Since when is a Hurricane analagous to marauding gangs of dudes with intent to fuck your ass? Hurricanes have no intent. It's the difference between preparing for the definite and the indefinite
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Discussion of ethnicly heterogenous butt piracy is mandatory for all featured threads. It's called Null's Law.
 
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lorean.puletasi said:
Why peoples call it a hurricane if it's clearly a typhoon?
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Typhoons are called such not because of their intensity but due to the region they're located. That's why Asia always deals with Typhoons but not Hurricanes and vice versa for North America.

Yes Typhoons are often more intense but that is due to the warmer water climate near Asia which is why the distinction is made.
 
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Education Lottery said:
I remember some Canadian friends of mine came down here to the southeast long ago and mocked how we'd freak out over an inch of snow. For the record, snow down here is messy with a layer of slippery ice underneath, and not the dry fluff you'd have up there. I always wonder how they're coping with all that karma.
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Depending on where you live in Canada, we get all types of snow and ice, not just nice fluffy stuff. If that were the case I might not resent living here so much.
 
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Abbadon's Gate said:
Imagine being upset the Hurricane didn't cause more damage and the locals knew better about what was happening than the National Weather people did.

Guys, Meteorologists, are at least half journos, which makes them rating and advertiser driven scum.
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The evac-scolders sound exactly like armchair expert redditors jab-nagging and citing "The Experts".
 
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Gef Mongoose said:
Some of you in here need to be looking more retrospectively for why people evacuated the way they did, and why the media covered it the way they did. Evacuating for Milton if you were on the coast in the storm path was not unwise for anyone.
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I’d evacuate even if I had a hurricane resistant home unless I physically couldn’t and I was ok with possibly dying.

I’m glad it wasn’t as bad it could’ve been. Less casualties and damage is a good thing.
 
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KiwiFuzz2 said:
If I tell you that there's a pretty good chance that a gang of the biggest, blackest dudes ever are going to break into your house tonight and fuck your asshole into shreds, what's your response to that? Are you gonna sit there and watch TV while eating your microwave dinner on the couch? Or are you gonna stay strapped and listen for the sound of glass breaking?

When the National Hurricane Center says there's a pretty good chance that Milton is gonna flood your house to 15 feet deep and you're gonna drown in your attic, what's your response to that? Bugging the fuck out of there is absolutely the right call, especially given that most of the disaster response crews in the country are tied up in North Carolina right now.
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It's funny you mention that because I heard from a friend about a couple who ended up dead exactly like that!
 
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DJ McHamfist said:
Did you actually read my post? Especially the last bit?
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Yeah, I did, you said:
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My own opinion is that they haven't got a fucking clue as to what makes a dangerous storm. So instead of all shitting our pants every time one comes, we should instead be educating sensibly and calmly, and introducing building code that mandates sensible suggestions like yours of safe-rooms. We should also accept that shit, tragically, happens.
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Which is absurd. If you live in an area that's 4 feet above sea level, and a Cat 4 or 5 rolls in with a 12 foot storm surge, extra brackets for your roof and a storm shelter aren't going to prevent you from fucking drowning. Not to mention that, even if casualties are miraculously low in your hypothetical of "just build better buildings and ride these bitches out, lmao," the power and water are still going to be out for days or weeks. There's 3.1 million people in the Tampa Bay metro area. You're now staring down the barrel of the largest humanitarian disaster in American history. You think Helene was bad up in North Carolina? Wait until you have several hundred square miles of urban and suburban sprawl, with millions of people that survived the storm because of your magic building codes, but now have no power, no water, and are scared shitless and desperate to survive.
 
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The Storm Prediction Center has a preliminary tally of 38 tornadoes from yesterday's outbreak. Some are likely to be duplicates.


I went to bed before the finale last night. I am glad that the wind shear was able to knock Milton down a peg further than anticipated through badly damaging his internal structure, and that he came ashore in a generally 'good' place for storm surge.
 
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A girlfriend of mine went dark yesterday and still hasn't messaged me back. I'm not a praying sort, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't begging God for a sign that she and hers are okay.

Grateful to all the kiwis here who kept us all updated, even when Milton was bearing down upon them. Bless you all.
 
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Smyrna said:
I went to bed before the finale last night. I am glad that the wind shear was able to knock Milton down a peg further than anticipated through badly damaging his internal structure, and that he came ashore in a generally 'good' place for storm surge.
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It's fantastic! I'm sorry so many people lost stuff and the damage total will suck, but anything getting kicked down before landfall is great, especially with how nerve wracking the wait was.
 
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So it sounds like majority of the damage was from Milton sending his cronies (tornadoes) to do the dirty work for him only to get tired out. Much like the real Milton, lol fatty.

Since it's looking like the Florida Kiwis are confirmed safe, the only update I'd like to see followed up on is the dog's owner getting found/any other animal abusers being caught from the storm.
 
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I'm so grateful that our kiwi frens seem to be in one piece...believe me, prayers were being said. Still praying, because having been through Sandy in 2012, I know that in many ways the cleanup is the worst part. Where I live is *still* not 100% back to normal.

Also, I'm in awe of our folks making updates in the midst of the hurricane! I don't think I'd have had that kind of presence of mind.

God continue to bless all of you!
 
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Im just throwing this out there not because I want more damage or anything, but to remind you guys who are chomping at the bit to see dead bodies that the worst hit areas are very unlikely to send out photos and videos in the first hours of light after a catastrophe because they are probably busy conserving power, finding water, or straight up dead/dying. We do not know what the impact really is yet. We can definitely recognize that 'worst case scenario' was dodged, thankfully, but that the next step in the destruction is definitely not 'nothing happened'. That type of black and white thinking truly outs you as an autist, and not in a good way. 'Really bad' is still really bad even if it did not reach 'apocalyptic'. A lot of people who survived still are going to have one hell of a time getting their lives back to normal.

There are drone livestreams flying around FL on youtube now for an aerial view if you want to see an overview so far.
 
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