Hurricane Milton

[AMHOLIO]

It's all fun and games until Florida Man shows up

Thank you guys for making more of Florida sound badass than it really is.


Makes me wonder: how DO drug addicts fare before and after in a hurricane?

Some places are more disaster-prone than others. Japan has heat waves, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, and a volcano.

But... but... muh ethnostate of perfect submissive asian women...

Floridian users, ya'll are very blessed to have a competent administration devout to your well-being.

We're blessed that it's an election year, and they know they're out of a job if they fuck up. That said, genuine good effort so far, looking forward to getting back power & back onto life.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

For farmers, it's their worst nightmare in many parts of the world, on par with fire. Hail causes a lot of damage to Greece's olive groves and can fuck with their economy.

I am acutely aware of how bad hail is for most crops. I've had corn hailed out so bad 90% of the corn was shelled off the cobs. It's still not a disaster, it's an insurance claim.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

I am acutely aware of how bad hail is for most crops. I've had corn hailed out so bad 90% of the corn was shelled off the cobs. It's still not a disaster, it's an insurance claim.

https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/natural-hazards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster Hail is a natural disaster. It can do tens of thousands of dollars in damage to your house and car, and you if you get hit by one.

 

[Quijibo69]

Going back to work on Monday unless the power is still out there.

 

[Male Idiot]

Yeah there are floods but even those usually only cause an issue if the Soviet or even older systems are severely neglected.

It isn't in the same league as hurricanes, much less Japan.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

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You fool. Do not tell outsiders of the pub sub.

 

[pixel_lion]

https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/natural-hazards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster Hail is a natural disaster. It can do tens of thousands of dollars in damage to your house and car, and you if you get hit by one.

I remember a story years back of a dozen or so people getting injured by large hail at a Zoo, some of the animals were killed too.

I think hail tends to be pretty localized, which probably lends to the lower numbers of injuries/deaths, but it is serious business for those who find themselves underneath it unprotected

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

The failure specifically was a square piece of steel tubing flying at an estimated 200 miles an hour

Square tube?
Square
Tube
?
Its either box section or tube.
Tube by definition can't be square.

All states are prone to some sort of disaster. Cali has earthquakes and forest fires, the gulf has hurricanes, the plains have tornados, the great lakes region has polar vortexes, the southwest has heatwaves (which are dangerous, don't understimate them), and so on with all regions. There's no perfect place on earth where you simply won't have to deal with such events sooner or later

Laughs (guffaws even) in British.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Laughs (guffaws even) in British.

Winter of 2009-10, 'nuff said

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Square tube?
Square
Tube
?
Its either box section or tube.
Tube by definition can't be square.

No, I meant a square tube.

https://ultrasteel.com.ph/product/square-tube/

 

[Shittus Maximus II]

In one day, Florida restores power for 500,000 of its residents​

On Thursday, over 3 million Floridians are without power. Today, that number decreased to a bit over 2.5 million residents.

• Reuters: Over 3 million Florida customers without power due to Hurricane Milton (9:00 PM 10 October) - Archive
• Washington Post: Florida plans Hurricane Milton recovery; 2.5 million remain without power (4:50 AM 11 October) - Archive

In my town there were about 36k without power by the end of the hurricane (was in central Florida so it wasn't so bad since we were on the peripheral). It's currently 570. So a little over a day they've fixed a vast majority.

 

[thhrang]

The entire US is a disaster prone hellhole, best to get outta there to europe

I have not had power for two days and expect to not have any for a while longer. I look around my local area and see downed powerlines all over the place with trees having fallen on them, water flooding homes and streets and huge lines in every generator-powered grocery store.

And I would still rather live in this swamp than be a motherfucking, God-forsaken European.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

Laughs (guffaws even) in British.

Your country treats temperatures that I live with in October as most of North America is gearing up for fall, as a natural disaster.

 

[Gravemind]

Laughs (guffaws even) in British.

Behold, an image that scares and confuses the average Brit. Watch as they sputter in a stupor to refute and deny this marvel of Western technology that can keep a building perfectly climate controlled (when built and maintained properly).

 

[mindlessobserver]

VA seems like it would be pretty chill-- not too hot, not too cold. Not a whole lot of natural threats. There does seem to be a higher concentration of lolcows generated there--but that could be a selling feature for some.

VA has ALOT of mountain fed rivers and creeks with the same sort of issues that effected North Carolina. Hurricane Agnes basically did to Virginia what Helene did to North Carolina. That's part of the reason I started sperging about the Appalachian Rivers in the Helene thread as her track firmed up. This had happened before with a far less powerful storm.

This is downtown Richmond in VA after the storm went through.



For context, that train is on a bridge that is on a 20 foot high truss.

 

[FMW13]

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Behold, an image that scares and confuses the average Brit. Watch as they sputter in a stupor to refute and deny this marvel of Western technology that can keep a building perfectly climate controlled (when built and maintained properly).

These pussies wouldn’t last here Florida. I’m from New York City and dealt with heat waves that are on par with Florida‘s weather.

 

[Otterly]

There is no Perfect Climate on Earth.

England’s green and pleasant land.

 

[Computer Guardian]

My area was pretty unscathed since the worst it got was mainly wind with light showers and the large swaths of power loss everyone else had, now I got a lot of catching up on the farms.

 

[Equal Rights for Androids]

England’s green and pleasant land.

gray, rainy, full of sandniggers/rapists/chomos and His Majesty's govt which are just as bad as the American government except somehow worse.

 

[Xenomorph]

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Behold, an image that scares and confuses the average Brit. Watch as they sputter in a stupor to refute and deny this marvel of Western technology that can keep a building perfectly climate controlled (when built and maintained properly).

Every fucking time a brit gives you shit please post this lmao

VA seems like it would be pretty chill-- not too hot, not too cold. Not a whole lot of natural threats. There does seem to be a higher concentration of lolcows generated there--but that could be a selling feature for some.

Out for coffee and you spot Chris Chan/Boogie/Wings/Bossman Jack etc. It's like a state filled with Bigfoots (Bigfeet?)

Sounds fun.

VA is lit just dont go into NoVA unless traffic!

But we get amazing autumns. here and kickass hiking