[News] Hurricane Milton, Florida

[nicko31]

That I do

Refusing to leave areas that are due to be hit
Moaning about being asked to move
Ignoring evac orders
Complaining to hotels they are shutting

Etc etc

People are likely to be homeless tomorrow, but they don't care about anything other than their holiday.

Not great really. If you go on holiday in the hurricane season there's always a chance of disruption.

 

[schmunk]

My mum is in her mid 70’s & is right on the path in a place called Largo.

Ma at Largo, in Florida?

Hope she's OK.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Reporting in from Sarasota (actually Ft Lauderdale where I arrived yesterday). Expecting to be homeless by this time tomorrow. Hoping for the best and power back on for the visit to St James Park. My contacts are a mix of wackos (riding it out) and cowards like me (getting out early). I survived the FishCane in 1987, and sad for Sarasota which has been a lovely place to live for the last 2 1/2 years. I do know it will take years to fully recover.

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]

That I do

Refusing to leave areas that are due to be hit
Moaning about being asked to move
Ignoring evac orders
Complaining to hotels they are shutting

Etc etc

People are likely to be homeless tomorrow, but they don't care about anything other than their holiday.

Would that be the holiday you sold them saying they would have a lovely time?

 

[kevo]

This will get interesting to watch. Amazing to see how quiet these places are (people wise). Looks like they have mostly taken the advice to evacuate.

Not a soul in sight, sensibly so.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

That I do

Refusing to leave areas that are due to be hit
Moaning about being asked to move
Ignoring evac orders
Complaining to hotels they are shutting

Etc etc

People are likely to be homeless tomorrow, but they don't care about anything other than their holiday.

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]

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.

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]

I have news for you. Breaching a dam with bombs will cause flooding, and sabotage is normal in wartime. It prevented power getting to the armament factories making weapons which would kill more people.

My post went right over your head.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My post went right over your head.

Wrong. I ignored your point.

 

[Crawley Dingo]

The problem is he and his wacky lackies can't help themselves

But it was you who brought up politics and Trump in a weather thread. Trump derangement Syndrome.

 

[AK74]

Natural selection ongoing in this livestream:

 

[Arthritic Toe]

I was obviously making light of the situation, but in all fairness why move, build or live somewhere like these areas when events like this are pretty much a common occurrence, surely you take this into account, buyer beware.

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]

Natural selection ongoing in this livestream:

Top right, idiots or what

 

[Insel affe]

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.

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]

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.

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]

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.

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.

 

[Eeyore]

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?

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.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

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 summers afternoon with a couple of friends whilst folk were rowing down streets in the north. The judgement clearly had some geographical issues.

Floods 4 Fags?

 

[Eeyore]

Floods 4 Fags?

I think it was Floods for Ferrets

 

[jcdenton08]

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!!!