4858

What frustrations me the most about it is… it’s been a month. So a month after all this happened, after people are living in the streets, in their cars, in parks… if they’re fortunate friends and family, a month after this happened this is the best we can do. We can’t find them anything better than this. They’re going to spend the winter in that?

They’re still creating an inventory of potential sites. This is moving like molasses.

Yes, this is absolutely better than the other options above, but this is the USA. How can we be a month out and here we are. Also, they keep excluding people who had insurance. Anyone who had value of your home insurance… they can’t do anything with that to find a place to live. The value of a 1960/70s metal trailer home will get them nothing. The replacement insurances should do it but those value only… even the insurance folks can be screwed when so many of the mobiles went up and now they can’t even get another one.

4859

Another tropical cyclone has formed, bet you can’t guess where it’s projected to hit:

4860

As a Florida resident, this hurricane season has confused the crap out of me.

4861

It’s been pretty fascinating watching the videos of some good meteorologists throughout this season. Essentially what keeps happening is these storms keep timing themselves perfectly right when a large area of high pressure moves over Florida, thus steering the storms around us. This storm for example, if it had moved over cuba one day early it would have ended up being sling shotted into central Florida. Instead it stalled and now once it starts moving north that high pressure over FL will steer it right into LA.

4862

Florida must be blessed.

4863

Sling shotted. Thats fun… WAIT. That’s ME.

You’re a funny guy.

4864

Do people say the word “blessed” a lot in Florida? I get that a lot here. It is some people’s favorite adjective, and they probably use it in every conversation.

4865

Do you mean ‘blessed’ or ‘bless ed’/ As in have a bless-ed day. Or, bless-ed be? I haven’t ever heard either here. But I have heard blessed in Michigan a lot. And strangely enough bless-ed in NYC. There a lot of Wiccans there, at least in certain neighborhoods.

4866

Either one. I think they’re the same word.

4867

Not really. One is a word used by Christians. The other is usually used by pagans.

4868

We do get quite a bit of “bless his/her heart” though.

4869

We or you buddy? :)

4870

I hear it! About other people!

grumbles

Lol

4871

:)

4872

Bless all y’all!

4873

Yikes.
Edit: From that thread, 235 mph winds are equivalent to an EF-5 tornado.

4874

2020 certainly doesn’t need another catastrophic event to its name. I can’t even imagine a storm like that.

4875

Wow. We had a windstorm about a couple months ago where gusts were recorded at110-120 MPH. I was without power for days and there was a ton of damage, I still see roofs being repaired today. I can’t even fathom the wind speeds they’re talking about, especially with how they math works. Those poor people are going to get flattened.

4876

2020, the year that keeps on giving:

4877

The good news is at least there’s a maximum.