Earthbound64
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Better to not have an apartment to rent, obviously.
EDIT: Oops, what a lousy top-of-page post. Sorry.
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Florida Gov. Declares State Of Emergency Over Hurricane Irma (Up: clean-up begins)
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Better to not have an apartment to rent, obviously.
EDIT: Oops, what a lousy top-of-page post. Sorry.
TumblingHippo
Member
Tornado warnings going off every half an hour now in Brevard county. Gonna be a long night.
People are treating this like it's a fucking E3 press conference.
SyenceLabb
Member
So Rush Limbaugh was right all along?
Exactly. If it's less destructive than initially thought less people die and less homes are destroyed. People are acting like it's a bad thing that this thing is not as much of a beast as first thought. That being said it's still a very dangerous storm and it's got a long time left.
PositiveGamer
Member
We haven't been told what to think yet. It'll take a few days for his fat ass to fly back in and check his plantation.
shira
Member
yikes. Storm surge is fucking insane
"If cities aren't wiped out I'm calling bullshit on all this".
Shoddy work by those Chinese when they were engineering this hurricane.
TheLetdown
Member
Man, I feel like Florida is in a no win situation with hurricanes.
When it's the best case scenario, people use it as fodder to naysay scientists and meteorologists.
And when there's devastation, why weren't we prepared / that's what comes with living in the subtropics / etc?
When it's the best case scenario, people use it as fodder to naysay scientists and meteorologists.
And when there's devastation, why weren't we prepared / that's what comes with living in the subtropics / etc?
NihonTiger90
Member
Not a great harbinger for the rest of the Keys, if true. Plantation Key is further north and east from places like Marathon and Key West.
Miami dodged a freight train, and it's still going to be bad.
Imagine if this thing didn't hit Cuba, didn't weaken, and followed the initial path?
I mean, the parts of the Keys just got wiped out. And there's still major flooding, rain, wind, and structural damage even though Irma missed direct landfall.
You look at that and wipe your brow because you were lucky.
The_White_Rose
Member
Finally made it to Chicago this morning after evacuating. Neighbors are saying that power is out for our whole subdivision. Not sure about the damage yet. Hoping for the best.
IrishNinja
Member
any idea on how much is left for miami? ive a family member in need of help & looking to get on the road in the next hour or two
this statement is empirically never true
this statement is empirically never true
The idiots complaining that this was over hyped etc your moaning because the media gave out the correct warnings and asked people to evacuate!
I mean come on. The reporting got peoples attention and could very well have saved lives. You think it's only worth evacuating if your right in the eyewall and due to get smashed by 150mph winds? You are fucking lucky enough to live in a part of the world where you can evacuate. The poor people on Barbuda couldn't, nor the virgin islands, nor the Turks and Caicos etc. They are got blasted. The storm wasn't over hyped for them. It was a terrifying experience.
You should damn thankful that Irma is not the beast she once was.
I mean come on. The reporting got peoples attention and could very well have saved lives. You think it's only worth evacuating if your right in the eyewall and due to get smashed by 150mph winds? You are fucking lucky enough to live in a part of the world where you can evacuate. The poor people on Barbuda couldn't, nor the virgin islands, nor the Turks and Caicos etc. They are got blasted. The storm wasn't over hyped for them. It was a terrifying experience.
You should damn thankful that Irma is not the beast she once was.
nillapuddin
Member
power out
nillapuddin
Member
apparently jk power back
Lol this is a good point! Stop being angry at the weathermen, and be angry at the fuck asses buying out bottled water and selling it for $5 a pop. Along with your cold hearted Landlords/employers.
This does bring up an interesting point though, if your business is forced to close during a potential major disaster can you apply for funds? If the storm came here, then we were going to shut down but provide shelter to those in need (hotel) and allow the employees to stay and get paid for working while there. A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck here and while people who DO lose everything should be 1st priority (by a fucking country mile), is there anything people can do if they lose a week's worth of pay and thus cannot pay bills/rent? IMO Landlords should be more empathic and flexible, and job operators need to provide their employees with pay during a time like this but you know how shitty some people can be. With that said, it's still better to say you have a place to work and nobody in your town was killed than it is to lose everything... lives, land and shelter included.
Earthbound64
Banned
Disaster insurance.
TheLetdown
Member
Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling Irma "best case scenario" by any means.
I'm talking in larger context... seeing this Ann Coulter tweet, sentiments like that, and the many, many similar sentiments I've heard from decades of living here.
perfectchaos007
Member
Florida got hit with a bullet, but they dodged a bomb.
nillapuddin
Member
Fuck, powers out for good, see ya GAF. GG.
these are assholes with hot takes.
yes, rush was right bullocks all along
BahamutX83
Neo Member
North Florida residents please still be careful. These winds can still be dangerous to say nothing of possible tornadoes.
https://twitter.com/NWSTallahassee/status/907006087739662337
https://twitter.com/NWSTallahassee/status/907006087739662337
boredofcanada
Member
Even though the storm is heading towards Central Florida and Tampa right now. Come on dude. There are ways to get your rent paid. There aren't ways to get your life back.
BroggieDoge
Member
Holy shit here we go central fl gaf
Zombegoast
Member
Jim in the Weather Channel is in the worst possible spot.
He looks like a Rainbow Six operator right now.
Steeped in a Sea of Games
Member
Do you realize how close Florida came here? If Irma hadn't hit Cuba, it would have slammed into the state at unbelievable power and devastated the area. There was a whole 1 day between the hurricane hitting Cuba and then Florida. If they had waited that long and it hit at category 5, there would be body bags everywhere.
As has been stated, count your blessings, not cursing the people who are desperately trying to keep you safe. All those people who stayed behind claiming that they 'knew better' very well could have all been killed. They gambled with their life and the next time it might actually cost them. It's for those people who like to minimize catastrophe that harsh warnings have to be given out.
ElectricThunder
Member
The continual efforts of a dismissive stance towards ever-worsening environmental disasters while our infrastructure and such rots amid tremendous hubris just may be the doom of this country. Being divorced from the fact that nature can/will, in fact, kill and destroy the lot of us and our works is a hell of a conceit for a civilized society to adopt---so damn wrapped up in nonsense that the actual ancient omnipresent threat from without is left to the whims of capricious chaos is the height of foolishness.
I mean, hell, it takes less effort to wait and see than massively reach for some hollow narrative of invincibility like Coulter and her ilk.
I mean, hell, it takes less effort to wait and see than massively reach for some hollow narrative of invincibility like Coulter and her ilk.
MaulerX
Member
That is so sad. This thing hit Cuba as a Cat 5 and it stayed for a long time. If weren't for that it would have been Florida taking the Cat 5 hit. And look at all the damage it still did to FL and the rest that has yet to be assessed. This thing was every bit as dangerous as they said it was.
you are right, and this kind of talk is so toxic and disgusting while we are still going through a Cat 2 hurricane
boredofcanada
Member
You really think people were acting that way because of what Fox News says? Sorry dude but as soon as you say possible category 5 incoming, that's what people are gonna do, because they know what it's like to get hit by a disaster of this magnitude.
Ravensmash
Member
Are people ignoring the fact that this storm is still very much active?
Distrusting expert warnings because of a downgrade is crazy.
Distrusting expert warnings because of a downgrade is crazy.
But dude you couldn't know. Nobody could. There's a parallel universe where the hurricane was WORSE than they expected and all your preparations were worthwhile. It's impossible to predict accurately but it could just as easily be worse.
Audioboxer
Member
Any news from the keys? All the streams and contacts from there seemed to go out hours ago.
I think last word was pretty much everything was under water. One thing showed like 15 feet of water. One shelter on the keys had someone die overnight I guess of natural causes and they're kind of low on food unfortunately. So, it's not doing so well.
We will probably hear more by morning. If that CNN report was true, Key West was under water.
Audioboxer
Member
Yeah I briefly read that earlier. That storm surge looks like no joke. It was concerning enough boat guy was livestreaming as the eye approached, but the surge will have caused havoc in that marina. All cell towers seemed to go down at once which cut off all streams.