Hurricane Milton

A free round of cyber drinks to the fellow Kiwis getting through this.

Never been through a hurricane or tornado but plenty of years in Leafland arctic mean I’ve gone through a number of multi-day ground blizzards and a record breaking snow season or two.

Wouldn’t trade but it comes down to what you’re used to dealing with. Cold, windy snow? Sign me up. Lots of water in the dark? I’m bailing before I become a problem for someone else.

May your recovery period go as well and inexpensively as possible and may all your loved ones have done well.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
Not for the people who live in that neighborhood who get an extra foot of water rolling into their houses every time that fool drives by. Dumb shit like that will get you shot in a lot of neighborhoods.
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The water's just standing on the road because of a lack of proper drainage. If you look at the video a little closer, none of the yards are flooded. No one's getting an extra foot of water from his wake.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
Not for the people who live in that neighborhood who get an extra foot of water rolling into their houses every time that fool drives by. Dumb shit like that will get you shot in a lot of neighborhoods.
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Come on, quit being a sourpuss. I can tell from this post that you have never ever had any fun riding on an off-road recreational vehicle in your life.
 
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Steinercard said:
I know this will go down well so I have to ask. Two massive hurricanes in the space of a week? That's perfectly normal for America right? It's just global warming and stuff, right? Act of nature that happened just before an election and just after what could've been devastating strike action that would've crippled imports and exports for the entire country just before that election. Can't be helped, right? That's what some of you actually believe? For real?
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It's literally hurricane season
 
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Steinercard said:
I know this will go down well so I have to ask. Two massive hurricanes in the space of a week? That's perfectly normal for America right? It's just global warming and stuff, right? Act of nature that happened just before an election and just after what could've been devastating strike action that would've crippled imports and exports for the entire country just before that election. Can't be helped, right? That's what some of you actually believe? For real?
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Helene and Milton hit two weeks apart.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
Not for the people who live in that neighborhood who get an extra foot of water rolling into their houses every time that fool drives by. Dumb shit like that will get you shot in a lot of neighborhoods.
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Or you'll get a jar of piss thrown at you from at least one particular neighborhood.

(I'm sorry, this just made me think of a certain user who also lives in Florida.)
 
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Steinercard said:
I know this will go down well so I have to ask. Two massive hurricanes in the space of a week? That's perfectly normal for America right? It's just global warming and stuff, right? Act of nature that happened just before an election and just after what could've been devastating strike action that would've crippled imports and exports for the entire country just before that election. Can't be helped, right? That's what some of you actually believe? For real?
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It's normal. Both Irma and María struck just a couple of weeks apart in 2017.
 
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ATI Escapee said:
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.
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Can't agree more. People think things just go back to "normal" after a few months when the reality is much bleaker. In my area we get quakes and nado's often. I've seen entire towns just decay and become ghost towns after some of these events. People think it's homes that are the biggest issue because well, you don't want to die and people losing their homes often can't rebuild.

The thing is, people seem to overlook businesses going under which is absurd in my opinion. I'm not a corpo kind of guy, obviously homes being destroyed are terrible, but what's worse is when a business center that could be employing upwards several thousand employee's all together goes under. In my area there are towns where everyone and their mothers all work for only a few select businesses. I've seen the long term effects of when they go under and it's terrible. You can worry about rebuilding your home all day but when the company that put food on your table vanishes it doesn't matter if you rebuild, your livelyhood is gone entirely.

Some companies look at the risk assessment and say "Well we could rebuild here but we're better off taking the insurance money and closing down to move to another more promising location." The storm/disaster not only dissuades from rebuilding in location A, but incentivizes building somewhere else that might just be more profitable in general but they never made the jump out of convenience factors. The other location might make a projected 1.5% gain in profit but they won't do it because it's better to just keep operating in the location they know the profit factors for already, but when you've got to rebuild from the ground up anyway due to the storm? It's easier, and profitable for them to move elsewhere instead of rebuilding something that might be destroyed next year.
 
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This is not a nothingburger.
Was it not as bad as forecasted? Yes. Could it have been as bad as forecasted? Absolutely. Are the impacts still incredibly bad? Yes.
 
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Glad to see everyone's making it through this ok, in most cases anyways. My mom, family, and friends made it out ok and with no water damage or wreckage. Even my friend who lives in Sarasota is doing ok. I've just been told that there's a lot of uprooted trees and that tropicana field's canvas has fallen. My grandmother (and later mom when I talked to) told me that if I hadn't called she wouldn't have evacuated to our friend's house who was in a safer evac zone.

So a big thanks to everyone for keeping my family in your thoughts and compiling enough info to get me to take this seriously and call my loved ones.
 
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