My wife has a coworker who works remotely from the Tampa suburb he lives in, who was supposed to be in office for two weeks in New York. He left this weekend, cutting the trip in half, to take his pregnant wife and toddler back home so he can ‘protect the house’.
‘We’ve been through hurricanes before.’
Fucking idiot.
What’s he going to do? Shoot the hurricane?
To be fair he probably needed to go back and board up all the windows. He should have left after that though and there is no way I would take my pregnant wife and kids back to stay.
So that is what I figured too, but apparently they have an HOA crew that does it for the neighborhood, including people who are unable to assist for whatever reason. They definitely could have just not gone back.
That’s what I would assume too, but you never know.
Don’t threaten these people with a good time.
I shared this in another thread about Milton, but I just looked and it’s actually gotten worse since I shared it.
This is from The Weather Channel:
It was only a 12 foot maximum surge last night.
The average tsunami is less than 10 feet.
This is not tenable in the long term.
Also, this…
Avoid this area: Florida.
Yup, that checks out.
Meth prices are going to skyrocket. Thanks Obama
“Won’t keep us from rebuilding shit in the same place even though everything being destroyed is the perfect opportunity to get people to start a new life elsewhere…”
Hurricane Helene reached mountainous Western regions of North Carolina and Tennessee, where people hadn’t ever experienced a storm like this because hurricanes aren’t supposed to hit the mountains. That’s part of why it was so deadly, it hit places that aren’t prepared. You aren’t safe just because you aren’t near the ocean. Climate change is coming for us all.
Sure, but there are people living in places where it’s a guarantee that it will happen every year and they still keep rebuilding…
Where I live we had two floods with one year in-between them in 100 years zones and that was enough for the government to say “You ain’t getting any more money from us unless it’s to move elsewhere and if you do, we’re buying your house to destroy it.”
As you say, it’s coming for everyone, we need to act accordingly.
And keep building houses from what is essentially cardboard.
Fyi they build them out of cinder blocks and poured concrete, mostly. Florida house walls are incredibly strong. Problem is: the roofs are still generally wood and can get ripped off in the high wind.
Someone I saw on YouTube did a monolithic concrete dome instead and fared much better. That’s what I would do if I had the money for a custom build.
Still fucks up everything that’s inside though
When will this meme die
We’ll see about that… John’s Pass in Pinellas county was created about 130 years around from a major hurricane. It is entirely possible that significant portions of the most prized water front property in that area won’t be able to be built on or will take years of bulldozing of all those huge resorts and condos to make it possible to build.
Yea… we’d want to but can we get out of work?
Don’t worry, if you stay you’ll never work again.
…tempting
Get back to that grill, you lazy shirker!
Tampa residents without vehicles (or homes): “So we’re supposed to just die then?” (The answer is yes.)
Just take a waterproof sharpie and write your name and DoB on your arms before that. Just in case.
Then use the remaining sharpie ink and try and redirect the hurricane to crash harmlessly into Mar-a-Lago
