Vixen
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Nah. It's called autumn. Comes once a year. After summer.
Irma's Coming!
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Nah. It's called autumn. Comes once a year. After summer.
Beady
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Ham radio may operate on batteries, but still requires an antenna. If all those are down...
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newyorkguy
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It's not just the number of hurricanes it's also their characteristics and severity. Lest we forget, Harvey wasn't just an usually destructive hurricane, it was a historically destructive hurricane. Even the Washington Times agrees with that.
The scientific consensus is, climate change is underway, human activity is driving it and there will be some bad effects which we are already beginning to see.
The scientific consensus is, climate change is underway, human activity is driving it and there will be some bad effects which we are already beginning to see.
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C_Felix
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Which maps/sites do we prefer?
There's so many models out there...
There's so many models out there...
Belz...
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Not in Westeros it doesn't.
They got a helicopter to Barbuda and have some limited information. 90% of the housing destroyed, 1 fatality. That's all very preliminary.
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Vixen
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Looks like the Prime Minister of Barbuda has now arrived by helicopter and surveyed the scene.
Apparently 90% of buildings destroyed. One fatality reported.
It'll be great news of the majority of the 1,300 or so remaining residents survived.
He is said to be in tears, and saying, 'Total devastation', over and over again.
Ah, ninja-ed.
Fingers crossed.
Apparently 90% of buildings destroyed. One fatality reported.
It'll be great news of the majority of the 1,300 or so remaining residents survived.
He is said to be in tears, and saying, 'Total devastation', over and over again.
Ah, ninja-ed.
Fingers crossed.
Belz...
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That is one slow ninja.
NoahFence
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I prefer to go to the source. National Hurricane Center.
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Just went to the grocery store in SW Florida near the coast. Beef jerky, canned meat, and granola bars are cleaned out. Yogurt shelves are completely full, which I've never seen before. I mean, the storm won't be here for three days - nobody wants to eat yogurt for the next three days?
Beady
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Eat yogurt until the power goes out, granola after.
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We bought yogurt, eggs, grapes, and potato chips. I guess people don't consider potato chips a good emergency food as there was plenty left.
Oh, I forgot to mention the bananas were also gone.
Vixen
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Yoghurt is good. You can just about make it last forever by culturing a little every week. Potato crisps, not so good: too more-ish, you'll finish them straight away.
Grapes, super, but short shelf life. Have to consume quickly.
'Yes, we have no bananas'.
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Sure, but like I said if we do stay we need to eat for the next three days while we'll definitely have power.
All those bananas people bought will be brown by the time the hurricane gets here.
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We've decided to hunker down here in inland Palm Beach County. Tomorrow, we'll be hoarding water and looking to fill in some gaps - OTC meds, cell-phone chargers, etc. We're preparing for 5 days without power or safe water. After that ...
Foolmewunz
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So it tracked northwards, staying offshore from Puerto Rico and looks like the same for Hispaniola. This is good. I don't want to wish ill on anyone in Florida (well, there's that one guy, Florida Man, but he'll get his regardless), but Floridians are immensely better prepared than the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as history has taught us.
Irma? Is that a Jewish name? I think it's going to trash Mar-A-Lago.
Irma? Is that a Jewish name? I think it's going to trash Mar-A-Lago.
Foolmewunz
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Back in the post-Katrina era when everyone but everyone was sending out FlickR links to "devastation at our house due to Hurricane X", someone in the UK sent out one about the storm damage they suffered from a big one... It was a photo of a lawn chair blown over.
ETA: Actually, it was a picture of a lawn chair on its side. Could've been staged.
Been reading quite few reports and the like on social media and I'm struck by the number of comments asking god to protect them, keep them safe etc. (Don't read much directly on social media so this may be nothing unusual - just unusual for me to read it.)
I think many have their faith in the wrong place.
I think many have their faith in the wrong place.
tbh that's the British psyche, complain bitterly about minor things (but even if steps can be taken to ameliorate the situation, do nothing*) but when there is a genuine crisis, quietly and stoically get on with dealing with it.
* - for example complain about the food and service amongst yourselves but not to the waitron