Could this be true? BREAKING FOX News: FEMA crews in North Carolina are eating the pets.— Kyle Keegan (@realKyleKeegan) October 8, 2024
This storm reminds me of my time in the Tampa/St Pete area, 81' - '82...rough time personally, but I always thought the area was beautiful...I lived not far from this grand hotel... The Don CeSar ...and worked at the Hurricane Seafood Restaurant (!), just a few miles south of there... ...it's still there, right on the beach. It was a popular beach bar & restaurant back then, my job was making grouper and soft-shell crab sandwiches, shucking oysters, etc. Must be terrifying for the locals, hopefully most have left but there are sure to be plenty of people determined to ride it out. These places are Gulf facing, fully exposed and right in the path of this monster...they were already hit hard by Helene... The barrier islands from Pass-A-Grille to Johns Pass and Reddington Beach, suffered severely from Hurricane Helene's storm surge. https://t.co/OtwgBCWwLk— Florida Today (@Florida_Today) October 3, 2024 ...now they're bracing for "the storm of the century." Milton is forecast to bring a dangerous 15-20 feet of storm surge to Tampa Bay, Sarasota, and St. Petersburg, Florida. https://t.co/CcUiXVsXDq pic.twitter.com/aLcugWL0z8— AccuWeather (@accuweather) October 8, 2024
Funny story, when I landed there (Pass-A-Grille at the south end of St Pete Bch), after hitchhiking from Newport News, Va, I was using my last few dollars to do some laundry. Across the little street was a bar so I went in, had a few beers, met some friendly guys. When I went back to check on my laundry, I met a girl and told her how everyone was so friendly across the street, buying me beers, very warm, welcoming. She laughed and told me it was a gay bar...I had no idea. We struck up a dysfunctional relationship at that point and I later learned that this beach has a large LGBTQ community, I must've been a little naive.
That's a beautiful building, but lbh - it's not typical for Florida. I have seen before and after shots of West Palm after Ian and I am like... "and?" Also, as I said after Sandy destroyed parts of coastal NJ (that keep getting re-flooded over and over from much smaller storms), many of these places should not be rebuilt. It's a big enough country that we don't have to urbanize parts that have no future in a 22nd century climate.
That may be true, but ocean front property is always going to be most desirable. People love being right on the ocean.
I checked on Florida man and his story is a little heartbreaking… fast forward about 3 minutes into the video.. I was just watching this video pic.twitter.com/jUttIzuT14— CLIPS (@yourclipss) October 8, 2024
Florida man reminds me of Saint Martin after a massive hurricane blew through there in 2017. We were there in 2018 and small boats were still all piled up on top of each other, we had a cab driver tearfully tell us about a family member he lost because they tried to ride it out in a small boat…these boats get tossed all around like leaves in the wind…it’s madness to stick it out…Florida man must be ready to meet his maker.
The amount of people who tell me that if we only kicked all the "illegals" out of the country, there'd be more than enough money to put real Americans in hotels safe from all this. And I had two people tell me this is the Jews trying to kill Republicans so Dems can win. I stopped trying to correct them at this point. I'll still do my job to help everyone but I'm going to bite my damn tongue and beat up some undead in Dark Souls after.
I don't think "illegals" are housed in hotels. It's the same in the UK. I keep being told that immigrants have destroyed the NHS. The NHS was "ruined" among other things by the internal market, which moved decision making from doctors to accountants back in the 1980s, under-investment, low pay, an aging population and Brexit, which caused all the immigrants who were holding the system together to return to Europe. 6 of the 12 doctors in my parents' town retired and the junior doctors that would have replaced them have been in a pay dispute for the last ten twelve years. But it's all the immigrants' fault. Rant over.
I used to live on St Pete Beach near the Don Cesar for a few years. I watched the recording of USA-Portugal 2002 WC match at an Irish Pub. Funny story, Ireland was playing a group match and the TV was right next to the door. It was packed with Irishmen and they would give each other grief when someone walked in front of the TV. It was terrible placement to be honest. Then an Englishman walked through the door, stopped right in front of the TV, and asked if they were going to show the England game. The amount of $hit he received in those 20 seconds was glorious. I couldn't stop laughing. In retrospect it was an OK place to live. You could tell what time the bars closed by the people yelling. I am glad that I am a heavy sleeper. Also, there were always people trying to park in your driveway to avoid paying for parking. I called the tow truck multiple times when I lived there. It was also a place where someone threw things out the window when I was jogging on the sidewalk...twice. After writing that out, it was not a great place to live. Maybe just to visit. IIRC, the Don Cesar was where Al Capone spent part of his summers EDIT - I also met Frankie Hejduk there in 2003/2004. He had one of those stupid razr scooters. He seemed surprised and suspicious that I recognized him.
Its an overrated vacation destination too. Unless you have kids and money to burn. Otherwise, why? There might be uglier beaches in the world but can't say I've been to any worse.
They needed a special kind of sharpie to draw the maps... Trump: I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category Five hurricane. I don't know that I've ever even heard the term pic.twitter.com/8I6QsfoslG— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 9, 2024
Funny how all these people who do not believe in human-induced climate change are the same people that believe the weather can be controlled by.....humans.
I responded to my Floridaman friend with some stuff about non-linear equations, the butterfly effect, and being fascinated by how those intersect with chaos theory suggesting simultaneously that it is both possible and impossible. That seems to have ended the conversation.
He does seem to be declining rapidly. I wonder if he steps down before Christmas if Kamala wins. No need to waste 2 months when the situation provides the opportunity for Kamala to be POTUS soon after the election result comes in (the way it should be anyway).
But Fox is reporting all these folk are housed in 5* hotels in NYC while real Americans are living on the streets with no relief in sight! Which means it is absolutely true. Or so I'm told. Over and over.