Well shit. I’ll have to put up the shutters 1 week after taking them down.
My poor garden. All I can think of is all the fruit and veggies that are gonna get blown away
Maybe if they stopped voting for fucking Republicans and start fixing the climate they wouldn’t be all kinds of fucked as climate change causes insurance companies to say fuck these southern states.
Are you saying Democrats aren’t being lobbied?
Of course they are, it’s why they are using their weather control powers to cause all of these storms. Duh.
They’re clearing out the coast so they can more easily mine lithium.
This is legitimately a conspiracy theory being pushed and parroted by
fucking moronspeople who voted red
Demoncrats worship the same demons the Republicans do, Capitali$m with a capital $.
Exactly, they just use prettier words. Their boot is still pushing our necks down.
We have a choice between 2 main groups. One believes there’s a climate problem of human making. The other does not.
I understand that. I just also believe that they will ultimately do nothing about it in a meaningful way. I hope I’m wrong.
Okay there strawman bothsider.
Lol, ok. It’s not hard to look at their records.
Im from Florida and it’s so frustrating that we are always just 1 or 2 percent away from voting out these morons but we all have to suffer because the old people vote their shriveled asses off.
Hurricanes track:
Climate change is a bitch, huh, Republicans who’ve spent thirty years denying it? (My heart goes out to all the people in the southeast who actually didn’t spend decades denying its existence and hampering efforts to slow it.)
Please do not pretend climate change is any one groups responsibility.
You ever have a group project and a couple of the other kids refuse to do their part?
Wow that GOP rep that said democrats created the hurricane is going to have to start working overtime to sell the argument again. At some point the people in the red states must start to wonder why it’s so coincidental that the predictions from the left (science) keep coming true.
Well, at least their aim is much closer to Mar-a-Lago this time. Maybe the next major hurricane gets the direction right, and then the Democrats will dial it up to a cat5 or better! /s
You presume that that information reaches them and that they’re willing to consider it.
Even if the info doesn’t reach them, looks like the hurricane will.
Or they’ll march on the capital again and demand the weather machine controls.
FWIW, The Weather Channel says something slightly different:
Most of the new computer guidance suggests that a Category 3 hurricane will develop, though some models have a stronger storm than this. Residents should prepare as if a Category 4 or 5 hurricane is anticipated.
Those damn democrats and their weather control devices are trying tontake out Trump.
/s
Originally they thought that Helene would be a cat 3, too.
But the Democrats aim with the Hurricane machine proclaimed by MTG is getting better. Maybe the third try actually turns Mar-a-Lago into a pile of rubble.
I’m on the team running the weather machine this time. We are very excited for this run!
After gathering so much data from the last several storms, we finally have the power to call hurricanes and tornadoes exactly where we want them to go!
We’ll be feasting on the fetuses Boden personally hands us after this run, fellas!
Just gotta concentrate a bunch of gays in one place, and the hurricanes follow. It’s science!
I just put 3,000 Soros bucks into the Jade Helmet system with instructions to level the homes of any florida lemmygrad commenters in this post. You’re doing “there is no god”’s work, friend.
But then we would have to charge the hurricane with destruction of evidence.
Top Secret papers all over Florida!
I live on a 29’ cruising sailboat and I’m in SFla and I moved into a mangrove swamp / waterway last night to ride out in, same one that I just left for the last storm a week ago.
It’s been 10 days since the last storm that we saw 45+ knt winds in, and for 5 out of the last 10 days, at least here, it’s been raining and everything is WAY over-saturated.
This storm is going to seriously fuck some shit up.
Yo this guy is awesome, whole ass sailor
I know this isn’t a great thing to say due to housing costs, but I think you really need to find a different place to live than a boat because hurricanes are only going to get worse.
At least boats can move
And sink.
You can’t really be claiming that houses are no safer than boats in a hurricane.
Then why have we invented houseboats? It’s clearly the best of both worlds
You can when the boat is half way up the coast in the Chesapeake bay.
Exactly how fast do you think a sailboat someone lives on goes?
This is coming straight for me. FML
Stay safe.
It’s not climate change. There is no mention of climate change anywhere in Florida law.
This happened in 2005 as well, except with 3 hurricanes; Francis, Ivan, and Jeanne. I doubt climate change has gotten better since then.
It’s gotten WAY better. There is no longer any mention of climate change in Florida law. Ron DeathSentence solved climate change
as if you didn’t have enough reasons to get the fuck out of florida already. leaving that shithole state was the best thing i’ve ever done, not just for my mental health, but apparently physical safety also
My moving date was literally scheduled for this upcoming Friday… I pick up the u-haul on Tuesday, and my lease in Colorado starts on Tuesday of next week. This thing is trying to keep me here in hell.
Shit, it’s headed right for where I live.
You are living in one of the wrongest parts of the world then.
Not on purpose. Just because I can’t afford to leave.
Well, can you afford to stay, then?
Only by the skin of my teeth
Take your whiskeys wid u 2
Always. I store it in my stomach.
U will survive everywhere
Time to reconsider where you live.
It’s a lot harder than you think to leave
I know. But I’d do everything in my power to get out of there. This is only going to get worse. Stay safe.
The last time I tried to escape Florida, it took me 6 years, and I just barely made it out.
I’m already a year in this time, and I’m mostly trying not to kill myself.
I’m working on it
Run! Be safe but Run!
I need $4200 to ditch this place and get back nyc (my home), but I just can’t seem to get it together. This place is like a black hole.
What a specific number.
I’ve had the last year to work it out.
$3k for the first month and deposit on a place in Brooklyn I already have planned, and $1200 for the drive up (I need a U-Haul to move stuff). This includes my calculations for how much gas I would need and food I would eat on the trip up.
It’s a 16 -20 hour drive, and I plan to do it all in one shot.
Username related. Don’t wait until the last minute.
Here in Europe we don’t get such hurricanes, but we still build very sturdy houses. Why don’t people in these American areas do this too?
even cheapo plywood and cardboard houses cost a fortune so construction companies don’t build with stronger materials because no one would buy the house. that’s my armchair opinion at least.
Funny, though, that cheap sticks and cardboard houses like they are common in the US are a rarity here in Europe. Reinforced concrete basements are the norm here, and the rest of any halfway modern house (from the last 80+ years) is brick and mortar. My house has 30cm walls made from concrete blocks, and this is no outlier.
Yet
That’s a good question. We do, now. But most of us can’t buy a new house, so we live in an older house. We don’t have a stone quarry anywhere nearby, so no tradition of stone houses, more frame houses because it’s hot and there wasn’t air conditioning so we built ventilated lighter houses that were cooler in the summer, there are still a lot of them around.
Yes, home hardening is one factor and even here in Florida, the building codes have been updated and the state provides matching funds for making improvements to existing houses (you apply, it can take some years to get to the front of the line) we got storm windows this way, and we got a strong metal roof when we needed to replace the roof covering. It just takes a really long time to change out or update the stock of houses.
And also, even though it seems like houses are getting knocked down every 5 minutes, there are still houses in Tampa built around 1900, it’s not that common in most cities. I was born here, am over 50 and haven’t even had to evacuate yet, assume it’s coming eventually but is not a frequent event here. Last direct hit around 1925.
People are so flippant about “just move” but I was born here, have seen the city get better, love it, have a good job, most of our kids still live nearby, its really expensive to move anywhere and pretty nice here most of the time still, and as a climatologist told my kid when they asked, probably will be ok through their lifetime.
Be skeptical:
Without adaptation strategies, the following conditions will likely incur substantial social and economic costs:
- Flooding of streets, homes, businesses, hospitals, schools, emergency shelters, etc.,
- Shoreline and beach erosion,
- Impacts to the operations of coastal drainage systems,
- Impairment of coastal water supplies and coastal water treatment facilities and infrastructure, and
- Shifts in habitats and reduced ecosystem services. source
Might be worth it to get a second climatologist opinion.
Climaxologist?
Thanks for the in depth answer. I hadn’t thought of there being no easy stone mines.
I’m sad that I’m getting downvoted for simply trying to understand the current housing situation.
Stone houses? Are you thinking of castles?
In Europe most houses are made of brick and/or concrete, no need for a quarry anywhere nearby.
Also, the heavier the house the better it does when it’s hot. In hot places of Europe, traditional houses had very thick walls, small windows and are painted bright colors to reflect light (and heat).
We did indeed have a lot of brickyards many moons ago. And they required clay quarries which you can still see all over Europe.
Honestly my image was of some Italian village posted yesterday on Lemmy that looked like it was made of stone. Or Osgiliath.
I do also remember houses with thatched roofs in England though, those don’t seem like they would survive a storm.
Trump’s campaign includes making homes less sturdy so we can have a larger supply 🙃
They already allow cardboard sheathing
Maybe his childhood dream was living in a flying house.
Tbf Kamala is also campaigning on “more houses” and not “affordable quality houses”
They mostly don’t own anything. Either a rich person or a company owns where they live.
No need to hate on capitalistic America that much. My question is also relevant for companies and landlords that would build houses for other people to live in.
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Maybe one a month in the next few years, MAGA drill baby drill!!!
Gotta protect those gas stoves, oversized pickups, generally fucking everything up out of anger, and fighting culture wars instead of the class war keeping us all in the gutter.
