Hurricane Milton

[LeChampion1992]

Sounds like Texas, except the people are used to severe weather. Sort of. Still get plenty of hydroplaning car crashes when the roads get a bit wet, but that's just because people are really bad drivers.

Those are LA drivers who discovered texas has severe weather other than droughts.
With Texans were prepared for floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and looting.
What were not prepared for is cold because texas is a sub tropical think florida but our winters are most states falls.

 

[LeChampion1992]

England’s green and pleasant land.

Where you get arrested for wrongthink and offending a police officer.

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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).

Say what you want but the Americans and Chinese understand the greatness of ACs and if you go to the third world you get people who love ACs especially in places like Vietnam and etc..

Do the homes in hurricane-prone areas have a special internal room where you can go and hide? like a glorified cupboard under the stairs, so even if the roof is ripped off, or windows blow in, the internal room will be relatively safe? I was wondering about a basement room/cellar, but then a surprise flood might drown everyone..and an upper floor room might lose it's ceiling if the roof peels off....so maybe ground floor, fully internal, no windows..?

Some mansions do but even well built with strictest building codes are getting fucked by category 5 hurricanes.
Florida got off lightly with Milton compared to other states.
(Sorry for the double post.)

 

[AMHOLIO]

Good news: we're down to 1.2 million without power from 3 million, and dropping fast.

 

[Chub Rub]

Good news: we're down to 1.2 million without power from 3 million, and dropping fast.
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I just got mine back, after two and a half days and honestly faster than I expected based on the tree Armageddon in my area.

Some family is still dealing with flooding though, which didn't start until after the storm had passed. Lots of people saying "In the 20/30/40 years I've been here I've never seen the water this high."

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Glad to hear that you Florida Kiwis are alright. Looked like one hell of a storm.

it wasn't a nothingburger, but it was a HELL of a lot less than the earlier "we are hitting the mathematical limits of what a storm can do"

 

[TheMeanOne]

Most tax payers don’t want to pay for something that the city doesn’t really have room for, and that won’t be used more than maybe once every 2 or 3 years.

You probably don't actually need full sized plows, but there are plow attachments you can add to a pickup truck and it would be wise to invest in a couple of those. Spending $1499-1800, which is about what those cost, is justifiable if it keeps people from dying or getting seriously injured in car accidents. Once someone's disabled they need services like Access-a-Ride, sometimes county or state funded caregivers, they're not working & producing they're on food stamps, etc. That all costs more than a couple plow attachments.

 

[Hermann von Salsa]

Really depressed that Tampa got hit the hardest. I went to go visit family in Tampa and remember how beautiful the beaches were. Really sucks to think how bad the damage is.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Really depressed that Tampa got hit the hardest. I went to go visit family in Tampa and remember how beautiful the beaches were. Really sucks to think how bad the damage is.

They'll come back. Nature can heal itself, and sometimes humans help out too. There's a lot of people who rely on the beaches for economic purposes, and a ton of nature lovers and conservationists. I'm not a fan of DeSantis's politics (I'm a filthy fucking blue leaning whore) but one of the things I respect him on is that he is also on the side of conservation. We agree on troons and I am very happy with his response to these hurrricanes. Also he wears shoe lifts and it's hilarious. I lean left but I do my best to have respect for people I don't agree with, aside from creepy Matt Gaetz. It'll take a while, and there's likely things that won't be the same, but they'll come back.

Besides, a lot of our nature is fortunately evolved for hurricanes. Do you know how sturdy palm trees are? They'll lose fronds, but they don't break easily, to the point of bending permanently out of shape when catagory 5 winds come through (the Universal Seuss land still has trees from hurricane Andrew decorating it since they are permanently funny looking!). Not everything stays that sturdy but it's good to keep in mind evolution has prepared a lot of nature to adapt.

Yeah it sucks, but I've heard it's where most florida's troons live, so I guess not a big L. Still sucks for the beaches.

I am sadly pessimistic on total troon leaving. They're like roaches, they can survive a lot of retarded things as long as they get their asspats. No electricity and their natural high anxiety might send some of them scurrying to some place that has less power outages and a bluer state, but a lot have no money and mooch off their parents anyway so they just sit around and whine instead.

The casualties for this hurricane are low too so far (yay!), so no TTD. We need to find a way to strategically cut down the internet on troons to force them to go outside and experience the hate crime of existing without internet, a hurricane just doesn't cut it and gets too many normies (and Florida men) caught as collateral.
DeSantis, I have a bill idea...

 

[indomitable snowman]

Just as a random observation, but when these hurricanes drop several feet of sand on the coast, isn't that the "natural" way of beach replenishment. By building on the coast and digging out all the sand that gets dumped, you destroy the ability for that process to work so you only get erosion part of that cycle.

 

[Chub Rub]

Just as a random observation, but when these hurricanes drop several feet of sand on the coast, isn't that the "natural" way of beach replenishment. By building on the coast and digging out all the sand that gets dumped, you destroy the ability for that process to work so you only get erosion part of that cycle.

Yes. Beaches and barrier islands are naturally always moving and in flux. But we started building on what nature never intended to be permanent ground.

 

[Caesare]

but that's just because people are really bad drivers.

I find that people in Texas are very aggressive drivers.

 

[oramge cat]

Our family usually provides shelter to animals that were previously left out to die even when we were on vacation. It sucks that there are so many subhumans who neglect their own pets, even in amidst of a deadly hurricane.

The poor cats that are stuck outside. Even if they have good owners they might have just not made it home in time to get scooped up and taken with the family.

I've worked both disaster zones and wildfires are worse IMO. At least with hurricanes you have a couple days notice to get your shit together and papers in order. For wildfires there's no notice. One minute the fire is a half-mile away going in the opposite direction and the next minute your house is on fire and you're running for your life with nothing but the clothes on your back. At hurricane shelters you see people lined up to check in with luggage, at wildfire disaster centers you see people standing there in their underwear and pajamas and that's it. Everything else is gone. Not just clothes but wallet, driver's license, ID, deed to the house, insurance paperwork - all ashes.

The damage to the area impacted is worse but hurricanes fuck up a huge area in one go whereas fires are localized and only fuck up relatively small area that's usually pretty rural. Damage is worse and happens faster but at a much smaller scale I guess is my point. Also you can fight a fire, there's no equivalent to firefighting aircraft or smokejumpers or whatever for hurricanes.

 

[Benjamin Spooner Briggs]

Gatornado.

 

[CFC-12]

Well, I'm ultimately glad this storm didn't meet expectations and went relatively easy on Florida. All the Tampa kiwis seem to be safe, and the official death toll is still in the low 20s, even including the tornadoes. That's pretty good for a storm making landfall in a major urban area.

It was fun getting to play weatherman in here and follow this system as it developed, especially considering how crazy strong this storm got early on out of absolute nowhere. Do we have a meteorology general for weather happenings? Be nice to get to sperg about shit like this on here more often.
This'll probably be my last post in this thread, so I wish you guys all the best with any necessary recovery efforts.

 

[Gravemind]

Rate me late if someone already pointed this out and I just missed it, but, seeing as how people were asking how that house that was strapped down managed during this event, at about 2:34 in this video, this person mentions it and goes on to claim that it seems to have worked "quite effectively."

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Do we have a meteorology general for weather happenings?

There's one about Severe Weather Outbreaks.

Also, Lieutenant Dan made it to international news

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/lieutenant-dan-uses-shocking-slur-in-video-after-daughter-warned-his-fans-to-stop-giving-him-money.202410/

 

[Pee Cola]

Probably late and gay, but I'm glad to hear that our Florida Men and Women (?) are safe. Hopefully none of you have too hard a road to recovery.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Rate me late if someone already pointed this out and I just missed it, but, seeing as how people were asking how that house that was strapped down managed during this event, at about 2:34 in this video, this person mentions it and goes on to claim that it seems to have worked "quite effectively."

Even though disney was not wrecked the apocalyptic sounding winds howling while people were in the hotels actually being recorded is some cool shit. Also the staff here seem a little less shitty than the higher ups because they made shit free for people who got stuck there in the storm which is a nice thing to hear about if true. The potential of what could have happened is very well shown by the damage that DID occur, though.

The mickey flag being the only flag that got destroyed in that last bit of info the guy showed is like some straight up anime symbolism shit.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

Rate me late if someone already pointed this out and I just missed it, but, seeing as how people were asking how that house that was strapped down managed during this event, at about 2:34 in this video, this person mentions it and goes on to claim that it seems to have worked "quite effectively."

I have seen some discourse with the roof strapped down thing, because the neighbors’ roofs looked fine.

There didn’t really seem to be anything to compare it to, damage wise, in the neighborhood.

 

[AllieKat]

Shout out to Duke Energy for beating the Tuesday estimate, my power and internet just came up. Time for some rest and relaxation.