nicko31
Well-known member
Not great really. If you go on holiday in the hurricane season there's always a chance of disruption.
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[News] Hurricane Milton, Florida
- Thread starter Zeberdi
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schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
thedonkeycentrehalf
Moved back to wear the gloves (again)
- Jul 7, 2003
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I remember Sarasota got badly hit a few years ago and was unrecognisable for a while from the place I had visited a few years earlier. Hope your home survives and all your friends and neighbours (UK spelling!) are safe.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Would that be the holiday you sold them saying they would have a lovely time?
kevo
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- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,801
Not a soul in sight, sensibly so.
thedonkeycentrehalf
Moved back to wear the gloves (again)
- Jul 7, 2003
- 9,344
A few years ago there was a letter in one of the local papers from someone who I used to work with complaining about the disruption to his Florida holiday due to a hurricane when they had people sleeping at Orlando Airport for a few days.
The killer line was "I've been going to Florida for years" which made me wonder why he had booked a holiday in early September as he must have been aware of hurricane season after that many visits.
Marlton and Hove Albion
Active member
Sarasota's time was up. Last real event was 1921 and would only have been a few thousand people in and around. Ian came close in 2022 but whacked Ft Myers instead. This one is an apparent bulleye. I'm resolved to an achingly long journey of rebuilding.
Crawley Dingo
Political thread tourist.
- Mar 31, 2022
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My post went right over your head.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Wrong. I ignored your point.
Crawley Dingo
Political thread tourist.
- Mar 31, 2022
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But it was you who brought up politics and Trump in a weather thread. Trump derangement Syndrome.
Arthritic Toe
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They're really not as common as it seems. Yes, there are hurricanes every year of varying intensities, somewhere in the South-eastern US. Its only really the immediate area around the eye wall that experiences the devastating conditions in terms of wind and storm surge - and a wider area around it experiencing heavy rains and lesser winds. Tampa Bay for example hasn't seen a direct hit for more than 100 years. Hardly a common occurrence.
Insel affe
HellBilly
Top right, idiots or what
Insel affe
HellBilly
100 years is common in the grand scale of things, and it seems every couple of months there seems like some incoming hurricane or whatever, it just seems somewhere I would avoid, no amount of sunshine makes that pay off for the chance of our home being destroyed.
Arthritic Toe
Well-known member
I'm pretty sure wherever you live has a once in a hundred year chance of some freak event or other happening to it.
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,387
Not for mere humans. If I went there when I was one, I could go 99 more years without worrying about it...
Mad going mid September to late October though. I did early to mid September once and we had to get out of the pool for half hour a the storm was 4 miles away. Every other time perfect.
- Apr 5, 2014
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I remember when the summer floods happened in 2007. A preacher claimed it was wrath against same sex marriage. Only on the weekend I was sitting outside a gay bar in Brighton on a warm summer afternoon with a couple of friends whilst folk were rowing down streets in the north. The judgement clearly had some geographical issues.Noah's ark, anyone, for the climate change deniers?
I thought that God's Will was a good thing
Hang on....has Trump blamed Crooked Hilary yet?
Floods 4 Fags?
- Apr 5, 2014
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I think it was Floods for Ferrets
- Oct 17, 2008
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One of my online FIFA mates is in Tampa Bay, and has been evacuated to what he describes as a pop-up bed in an aircraft hanger some distance away, and been given MRE’s!!!