No doubt we'll have the number who refuse to leave their homes despite the danger.
It's the same with wild fires. They refuse then the rescue services come back to find their charred remains, or have an epiphany of the danger they are in and try to drive out, only to discover being surrounded by fire starves their vehicle of oxygen, and the rescuers find their charred remains in the remains of their charred vehicles.
Year on year Darwin awards are handed out to increasing numbers
Ahh the good old ignorant Brit
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-family-florida-disneyworld-hurricane-milton/
****!
@gwaelod - the biggest problem is that maths isn't sexy or interesting to many people. Stats even less so!
In this country we have people who brag "I don't do numbers me". FFS
So trying to explain why your 1-in a 100 year event is different to mine due to differences in methodology, data, time horizon, etc is a non-starter.
Hurricanes, well they're like buses, you wait all day then 3 come at once. They're taking liberties I tell ya
I'm all about the AEP.
@bruneep Seeing as Disneyworld is now apparently closed, I’m not sure what he’s going to do on his holiday.
anecdotally (from reddit) I'm reading that republican politocos repeatedly voted against supplying funding for hurricane aid, because that would be communist or something, and are now attacking the democrats for not giving aid, even though they (republicans) blocked the bill in the fist place..
I mean, what will it take to make people wake up and vote? How Is Trump still fairly close to Harris in the national polls/ it makes no sense...
Seeing as Disneyworld is now apparently closed, I’m not sure what he’s going to do on his holiday.
Practice his compo face for local rag when and if he gets home
That absolutely doesn’t mean it will only happen once in a hundred years, or if it happens today it must have happened a 100 years ago indeed there is no reason why it can’t happen multiple times in a few years or even multiple times in the same year
I realise most people know this on here…but I need to vent.
I hear you. I don’t think the news reports were even taking that approach to the statement. It was simply pure bullshit.
Was in Clearwater/ Naples/Everglades just after the 2022 one - Ian, everything was still only part open due to water damage.
With Milton, it'll be the fire you have to worry about
Seeing as Disneyworld is now apparently closed, I’m not sure what he’s going to do on his holiday.
Technically he can still go to "SeaWorld" and the wonderfully named "Typhoon Lagoon Water Park" and "Blizzard Beach Water Park".
They just won't be the nice safe Disney versions...
@joshvegas – don’t you like a TVaR?
I have just finished contributing to a report on Brechin post babe
There was a lot of debate about how to represent a lot of the number for something that will end up in the public domain.
It's so complicated writing to so many different levels.
watched the news earlier where a mother and daughter refusing to leave because God will protect them. Can’t argue with that one I guess
Reminds me of the old joke about a guy trapped by rising floodwaters, a boat comes by and the rescuers call for him to get on board.
"No thanks", he replies, "the Lord will protect me".
The floodwaters continue to ride until the guy is on his roof then a helicopter comes overhead and drops a line.
"It's OK", he replies, "the Lord will protect me".
The floodwaters continue to rise and the guy drowns. He arrives in Heaven and confronts God, questioning why he drowned.
God replies, "I sent you a boat and a helicopter you idiot, what more did you expect?!"
Twelvty usually works!
Channel 4 news mentioned that Trump is saying his usual BS about the situation in Florida but missed the actual segment. What has the dick head been saying in order to kill a few of his supporters off, anyone know?
willard
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Spoke with my mate earlier. Apparently it’s predicted to be “only” Cat 1 when it goes over his house. He’s staying because his car has a blown engine and he can’t evac his mother. His internet still works. He’s sending me memes.
Best wishes to your mate, that's a rough situation to be in. Hope he and his mother come through it safe and sound.
What has the dick head been saying in order to kill a few of his supporters off, anyone know?
Bigly storm. The biggliest. I know all about storms. I once shagged a storm.
Oh wait, that was a Stormy.
Couple of weeks from now he'll be in the daily wail whining about how their holiday was ruined and they couldnt go anywhere due to floods/winds/etc
@poopscoop There’s a real possibility a lot of his supporters won’t be able to vote, as all the election infrastructure is trashed.
@pk13 while the sea is definitely choppy at Key West, there seems to be plenty of people walking around there. It's around 250miles south of Tampa in a straight line so conditions there could be considerably better than where Milton is due to land.
ratherbeintobago
Full Member
@poopscoop There’s a real possibility a lot of his supporters won’t be able to vote, as all the election infrastructure is trashed.
I didn't think of that!
From what I’ve read this is getting close to the theoretical maximum wind speed which is alarming, and I hope everyone in Florida gets out safely.
Simply, it is the theoretical maximum based on the current sea temperature, if the sea keeps on getting warmer the theoretical limit goes up.
Why do they always give hurricanes nice friendly names? They should name them after infamous criminals.
I'm thinking characters out of watership down
Why do they always give hurricanes nice friendly names? They should name them after infamous criminals.
Yeah, someone already suggested Hurricane Don up there. 🙂
I'm thinking snooker players.
Plywood all you need is enough sheets to cover the doors and windows, 1/2 inch is best not 12mm European stuff, it's technical term is " Redneck shuttering" 100% hurricane and tornado proof with a 5 yard guarantee.
Note if your house/trailer moves more than 5 yards you get a refund on the plywood
Looking at flight radar the worst must be past now in Mexico, but then a big chunk f the Gulf of Mexico and Florida is completely empty apart from 1 aircraft !
https://www.omao.noaa.gov/aircraft-operations/noaa-hurricane-hunters
After seeing that clip from earlier, you wouldn’t get me flying that bugger through the centre of that thing
Also this is nuts. The out edge of the storm is causing tornados. This was only a steady 55mph ? why do police people need to sit there in cars being put at risk?
I do find myself thinking
- Darwinism will win out over 'faith' (aka stupidity)
- the hoisting by their own petard, when it's those same climate-change-deniers that vote for the climate-change-deniers-party (as Floridians do), will be the ones devastated, and in some cases killed, as a result of climate change. (If only it happened before they bred, Darwinism would be working. But if they've already bred and their offspring fled to sow the stupid gene more widely, then it's not).
mattyfez
Full Memberanecdotally (from reddit) I’m reading that republican politocos repeatedly voted against supplying funding for hurricane aid, because that would be communist or something, and are now attacking the democrats for not giving aid, even though they (republicans) blocked the bill in the fist place..
The logic is sound, it's just also evil- if a win for america is a win for the ruling party then a disaster for america is a disaster for the democrats. These people are praying for the biggest storm, the most deaths, the most damage. Treason but with extra words.
I’m thinking snooker players.
And boxers.
Who’d want to be a meteorologist in America, when the fascist Right want to kill you because you’re causing the hurricanes?
There’s currently a USAF Super Hercules sitting a couple of thousand feet above the NOAA P-3, I’m wondering if it’s there on a just-in- case basis…
^^ America is totally buggered and unfortunately social media makes it inevitable we will follow them.
^^ America is totally buggered and unfortunately social media makes it inevitable we will follow them.
I don't agree, but the US election will tell.. there's a lot of 'internet noise' from horrible people (elon musk) which is paid for and squewing the polls, I think, and hope.
I just don't understand how it's still 50/50 at the bookies
Why do they always give hurricanes nice friendly names? They should name them after infamous criminals.
Milton Johnson (born May 15, 1950), known as The Weekend Murderer, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who committed ten known murders in a series of murders that spanned over three months in Will County, Illinois.
There’s currently a USAF Super Hercules sitting a couple of thousand feet above the NOAA P-3, I’m wondering if it’s there on a just-in- case basis…
What's it gonna do, give freedom to some gators?
Milton Johnson (born May 15, 1950), known as The Weekend Murderer, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who committed ten known murders in a series of murders that spanned over three months in Will County, Illinois. He escaped on a Greyhound heading south and lived out his days working as a bartender at a Tampa holiday resort where he invented the Hurricane cocktail.
Embellished that for you.
There's a lot of murder in that paragraph but he was only part time.
There’s a lot of murder in that paragraph but he was only part time.
The zero hours contract killer?
