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Desubot wrote:Asides from the potential looting and general property destruction what would the point of waiting it out be though.
* Not being able to make it
* Having relatives who can't get away and trying to be there for them (especially if they have some sort of handicap)
* Not having the financial means to just go
If you are poor in such a situation and there's not government help then getting out might just not be an option and "waiting it out" might just be a brave facade you put on and hope for the best (because there's nothing else you can do).
I'm in the second category.
I have elderly handicapped relatives who can't evacuate.
My plan was to go to a shelter, but they are all full.
Thankfully, I was able for to acquire some plywood and have been busy boarding windows.
I live in a block home, so hopefully that will be enough.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
konst80hummel wrote: Apparently there is also a category 3 coming up called Jose. 950klm from little Antilles
I have heard that this second hurricane (Jose) is helping dissipate some of Irma's strength. Anyone have more info/thoughts on that?
Won't it just make it a double hurricane?
I don't know about hurricanes specifically, but in general 2 vortices rotating the same direction some distance apart will tend to dissipate each other in to a larger but much lower intensity structure. If they're brought close together rapidly so their cores can begin to coincide they'll tend to strengthen each other.
I know you've all been a bit shaken up since the election and that last year but, err, maybe y'all should just calm down a wee bit.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Desubot wrote:Asides from the potential looting and general property destruction what would the point of waiting it out be though.
* Not being able to make it
* Having relatives who can't get away and trying to be there for them (especially if they have some sort of handicap)
* Not having the financial means to just go
If you are poor in such a situation and there's not government help then getting out might just not be an option and "waiting it out" might just be a brave facade you put on and hope for the best (because there's nothing else you can do).
Desubot wrote:Asides from the potential looting and general property destruction what would the point of waiting it out be though.
* Not being able to make it
* Having relatives who can't get away and trying to be there for them (especially if they have some sort of handicap)
* Not having the financial means to just go
If you are poor in such a situation and there's not government help then getting out might just not be an option and "waiting it out" might just be a brave facade you put on and hope for the best (because there's nothing else you can do).
Desubot wrote:Asides from the potential looting and general property destruction what would the point of waiting it out be though.
* Not being able to make it
* Having relatives who can't get away and trying to be there for them (especially if they have some sort of handicap)
* Not having the financial means to just go
If you are poor in such a situation and there's not government help then getting out might just not be an option and "waiting it out" might just be a brave facade you put on and hope for the best (because there's nothing else you can do).
You'll also have people who believe they can ride it out. These days no one tends to underestimate disasters, it's always overestimated. Either because no one in charge of issuing warnings wants to be the fool who said it'd be fine and it turns out to be terrible or in the case of the media they have a vested interested in making everything sound as bad as possible.
Not saying that's the case here, I haven't followed it closely enough to make an educated guess, but I'm sure a lot of people don't have faith when they are told they should be scared.
Desubot wrote:Asides from the potential looting and general property destruction what would the point of waiting it out be though.
* Not being able to make it
* Having relatives who can't get away and trying to be there for them (especially if they have some sort of handicap)
* Not having the financial means to just go
If you are poor in such a situation and there's not government help then getting out might just not be an option and "waiting it out" might just be a brave facade you put on and hope for the best (because there's nothing else you can do).
You'll also have people who believe they can ride it out. These days no one tends to underestimate disasters, it's always overestimated. Either because no one in charge of issuing warnings wants to be the fool who said it'd be fine and it turns out to be terrible or in the case of the media they have a vested interested in making everything sound as bad as possible.
Not saying that's the case here, I haven't followed it closely enough to make an educated guess, but I'm sure a lot of people don't have faith when they are told they should be scared.
The last I read about government support is that they are right now understaffed and underfunded due to "policy changes" so there's not even enough people to warn the affected population in the USA.
You shouldn't be worried about the one bullet with your name on it, Boldric. You should be worried about the ones labelled "to whom it may concern"-from Blackadder goes Forth!
I saw a video on Facebook where the ocean/sea in the bahamas was just gone after the hurricane passed. Folks were just walking around where there used to be water and there were chained up bouys just laying on the ground. Would have been a great time to go drive around looking for pirate treasure.
That happened in Tampa Bay and some other locations as well. The pressure at the eye of the storm is so low, it's sucking the water out of the surrounding locations, and dragging it into the center.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Just don't hang around in the areas where water got sucked out of too long. It's gonna come rushing back.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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