Tampa Hurricane tiem!

BTW, found out my uncle got airlifted from Sanibel, and damn near died because of his lack of access to his medications.

But he's alive, for now. Waiting on a bed in the hospital (though I'm not sure he'll ever get one, as he's old, infirm, and barely clinging to life as it is).
 
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Jehannum said:
"HEY GUYS HOW DO I PULL A WIRE THROUGH THE WALL?"

:cue 4 pages of stupid arguing:
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make a glory hole

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HipHugHer said:
Sure is a good thing hurricanes aren't dangerous.

I used to have an electric chainsaw, it worked great. As long as the electricity did.

I had wrote a bunch more shit about dummies living in hurricane central then acting like it's some surprise when it happens and expecting everyone else to guard them against nature, etc. but I erased that shit 'cause I'm feeling particularly benevolent today. So much love and goodwill to all those affected.
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the thing about natural disasters is there's very little space in the US where you're not going to be at risk of experiencing at least one kind at some point. if it's not hurricanes, it's tornadoes, or wildfires, or earthquakes, or floods. and even if they wanted to relocate, most people don't have the ability to uproot their entire lives to move hundreds to thousands of miles away from their families and jobs just to gamble on a different type of disaster they don't know as well.
 
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august said:
the thing about natural disasters is there's very little space in the US where you're not going to be at risk of experiencing at least one kind at some point. if it's not hurricanes, it's tornadoes, or wildfires, or earthquakes, or floods. and even if they wanted to relocate, most people don't have the ability to uproot their entire lives to move hundreds to thousands of miles away from their families and jobs just to gamble on a different type of disaster they don't know as well.
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Winter is my local natural disaster
 
august said:
the thing about natural disasters is there's very little space in the US where you're not going to be at risk of experiencing at least one kind at some point. if it's not hurricanes, it's tornadoes, or wildfires, or earthquakes, or floods. and even if they wanted to relocate, most people don't have the ability to uproot their entire lives to move hundreds to thousands of miles away from their families and jobs just to gamble on a different type of disaster they don't know as well.
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most of the in-land east is safe from pretty much everything.
 
We get a baby earthquake here and there (I actually felt my first one ever a couple weeks ago) but I have yet to really experience any great natural disasters. Two times there’s been minor flooding places I lived. That’s the best I’ve got.
 
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Domon said:
most of the in-land east is safe from pretty much everything.
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August brings up a good point. This isn't Europe. Even tennesee has tornados. They aren't as bad as in the midwest but theyll still suck your roof off. Even NY has tornados now. Also the winter in the NE will kill you if you aren't used to it. I mean it's not a disaster but if you've never seen snow it gets dangerous fast.

It's pretty random and we've had two hundred years to adjust building practices which makes the impact a lot lesser. You also have to remember rural kentucky has no fucking jobs, even upstate NY is pretty thin on jobs. Most of our service economy is located in disaster prone areas.
 
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tre said:
Winter is my local natural disaster
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that's a good point, I forgot to include blizzards and ice storms.

there's also non-acute-disaster problems, like droughts, or living somewhere that gets too hot and/or too cold to where you can die without cooling or heating, respectively, and not being able to afford either.

and even if there does happen to be some magical stretch of country where the weather is truly perfect year-round, can it hold the entire country's population? would you want it to? would that influx of people cause new, seen or unforeseen problems to rival the problems they fled? who's going to pay for the relocation? who's going to subsidize the lost housing costs for those who can't sell because of this migration? who's going to pay the lost wages of those who cannot use their old job skills in this new weather-safe utopia? all of these are stupid questions bc this would & should never happen, but my point is that this shit can and does happen pretty much anywhere and there is no reasonable way to get everyone into the lowest risk zones.
 
weve seen a couple of hardcore cyclones
and that 26/7 rain that made most of the city into a swimming pool
 
august said:
the thing about natural disasters is there's very little space in the US where you're not going to be at risk of experiencing at least one kind at some point. if it's not hurricanes, it's tornadoes, or wildfires, or earthquakes, or floods. and even if they wanted to relocate, most people don't have the ability to uproot their entire lives to move hundreds to thousands of miles away from their families and jobs just to gamble on a different type of disaster they don't know as well.
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It's not that they need to flee from whatever natural disasters are likely to occur in their area, or live in some place where they don't occur, it's that they should be prepared for them and not act like it's some unexpected crisis that needs immediate federal intervention when they happen.

Growing up in rural Minnesota we had everything we needed to survive some blizzard of the century, cut off from outside resources for a long time.
Other places might experience different types of natural disasters but they too should be prepared for that.

Granted, if it's bad enough you might get caught short eventually but a week or 2 of inconvenience is shouldn't be a big deal.
Something that might test you a bit or make for a good story, sure, but not some crisis.
 
fly said:
Statistically, they are *still* a non-issue. You just aren't going to die that way. Just like school shootings.

Go ahead, @ me.
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I love you, McFly.
Got a real good head on your shoulders.
 
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