Hurricane Dorian - Will it do anything or not?

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Hurricane Dorian..

  • Destroy Florida

    Votes: 12 17.9%
  • Will only hit east Florida

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • Will change track and hit south and west Florida

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • Will hit east Florida and South Carolina

    Votes: 8 11.9%
  • Will only hit South Carolina

    Votes: 5 7.5%
  • Will shit itself and do nothing

    Votes: 29 43.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 7 10.4%

  • Total voters
    67
  • Poll closed .
Hurricane Dorian pose a more worrying situation with the Port St. Lucie nuclear power plant. Will we get a Fukushima in America?
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/2...r-plant-prepared-hurricane-dorian/2164676001/

When 130- to 156-mph winds are in the forecast, a nuclear power plant may not come to mind as a safe place to be.

But you might be surprised, Jon Wentzel suggested.

“A nuclear power plant is built to withstand all sorts of natural or manmade disasters,” said Wentzel, vice president of communications at the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington.

“They are some of the most robust parts of the infrastructure in the United States.”

While Hurricane Dorian loomed far offshore Friday, the coastal St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant was arranging to cease operations.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires nuclear reactors to shut down in the presence of hurricane-force winds 74 mph — the minimum speed for a Category 1 storm — or stronger. Dorian threatened to pummel the Treasure Coast Labor Day weekend as a Category 4 storm.
 
It will fail to defeat President Trump.

That's what everyone not in the path of the storm wants to know; innit??!?
 


Ventusky has 5M+ waves hitting Port St Lucie
 
Hurricanes are usually nuisances. People way over-react and underprepare. Cat 4's and 5's are no jokes though. Usually don't get them too often though. Having grown up with Hurricanes, I can never understand why people pay so much for beachfront or lakeside properties 2x the price for 4x the insurance, damages, and danger. Straight scams.
 
At the very least, Florida has somewhat decent building codes after learning it's lesson from getting fucked by Andrew (so fwiw the state of fucking Florida is actually smarter than your average gorilla) so hopefully it won't get completely leveled.
 
There's video online of somebody's flooded backyard during the storm surge and high tide, wandering manatee munching on their lawn.
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https://www.facebook.com/wpbf25news/videos/421836542014248/ has a copy
WOAH! During high tide, a manatee swam into Corinne Hogan's backyard to eat s...-4218365420142...png
 
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Apparently the Bahamas have been essentially wiped out as far as infrastructure goes. From the looks of things, the US may have to stage an intervention *sigh*

 
I know I’m late, but has anyone else used this as an opportunity to make a Dorian Thorn reference yet? Lol. That’s all I could think of when I heard the name. Maybe I should be put away somewhere because of that.
 
There's a manatee and her calf trapped in a drainage pond or some shit because they wandered in during the storm.

Manatees seem like they're kinda dumb.
 
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