Hurricane Irma

[Mocha]

Really? Fucking, really? so I can oversea this situation.

 

What in the hell, dear God, would you have done???

 

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Bitch, keep rolling your head around like that it's going to fall off.

 

@FreshFluff and @Good Grief let me explain since you guys probably haven't endured such a thing before.

 

The stuff you see on the news with houses completely obliterated were in the keys or near the shore. Even though there were lots of homes damaged, and the storm really was as bad as portrayed...they weren't all flattened out.

 

For the most part like I said, not all areas get the same amount of damage. The news is going to show you the hardest hit areas. People take that and conclude that ALL of Florida is now dilapidated and ALL of Texas got flooded. It's not like that.

 

My grandmother lived in Miami for 73 years, and had 2 homes in Miami when she died. They had tile roofs and storm shutters. That was it. Still standing til this day. Like the map I posted above, her older house built in the 60s endured dozens of tropical storms. But, they were not coastal homes. One sold for over $330,000. Quick. So...it's not like Florida isn't a hot real estate market or that homes can withstand a storm.

 

Growing up in Florida, every year we'd get "hurricane days". Kind of like snow days where you don't have to go to school. The wind blows, scares you a bit and some oak trees get uprooted, roofers make a ton of money and then it's back to business as usual until December when all the White folks from up north come flocking back down to escape the frigid winter.

 

Evacuating was what people from up north did. Once you live in Florida for awhile you realize evacuating everytime a storm brews is just wasting time and money. We're only at letter J with Jose and it's mid September. Every year there's hurricanes A thru Z. It's not the first or the last.

 

That said, Florida is already ridiculously overcrowded...so hurricanes seem to help atleast prevent it from becoming as congested as California.

[+ FreshFluff]

@Mocha

 

I understand your perspective. Maybe it's different after having lived there for a while. But I'd err on the side of evacuating too often especially when the government mandates it.

[Mocha]

@Mocha

 

I understand your perspective. Maybe it's different after having lived there for a while. But I'd err on the side of evacuating too often especially when the government mandates it.

 

Again, that's usually coastal and flood zones. Which are much fewer than it seems. I know several friends who didn't evacuate, only one did...and that's because he just moved there from Pennsylvania and didn't know any better.

 

People in Florida listened to the government, got on the roadways in droves...and then ended up stuck at crowded rest stops where cars were lined up to park in the grass because everything was taken. It was a goddamn CLOWN out there in Georgia. There was no parking, no hotels. People were stranded.

 

And thing is, people in Georgia don't like all those people from Florida coming up there. People in Georgia can be kinda rude to Floridians. It's like if New Yorkers all evacuated to go to Boston. Or vice versa.

[+ WilliamM]

I've never understood this attitude. First of all, if you can't protect it in advance (e.g with sandbags or tape), how much more can you do in realtime? Second, isn't it more important to escape with your life than to preserve property?

 

I understand having gone through several hurricanes in Massachusetts as a child in the 1950s We had many trees in our yards, which could have blocked a main road if the wind had knocked them over.

 

However the earlier comments about paying back Florida were strange. I hope it was just because of the storm. but I doubt it.

[bigvalboy]

The most dangerous person in a hurricane, is the guy who thinks he knows everything, and refuses to listen to authorities.

[tanman4u]

Well Goddamn it. Here I am in the face of the second Cat 5 in a couple of weeks. We dodged the first one as it stayed east and decimated St. Thomas, St. John, and the British Virgin Islands. We've been helping with carrying relief supplies there for the past week. Now it's Maria. 165 f'ing MPH and it'll get us tomorrow. Sheesh. Guys I haven't been on here much lately as we've been pretty damn busy operating in areas that don't have wifi right now. I just scanned through some of the posts that have come up since the last time I was here. Seems like a lot of animosity. If you'd looked at the utter devastation I have over the past couple of weeks, and will completely face again tomorrow as I hope for the best for some of the islands who have already been leveled, maybe you'd lighten up a bit. I've gotta be honest, I didn't even read the posts, just saw the general tone of them. If you have a roof over your head tonight, if you have electricity, if you have wifi, if you have cell phones, if you have food, and water, you're doing pretty damned well. At the moment I actually have all that too and I'm very thankful for it, but by the end of tomorrow a lot of that will have changed.

 

And by the way, if you happen to be with your favorite escort, or client, or boyfriend, or husband tonight, you're especially blessed. Have a toast to me. Thanks.

[+ oldNbusted]

Well Goddamn it. Here I am in the face of the second Cat 5 in a couple of weeks. We dodged the first one as it stayed east and decimated St. Thomas, St. John, and the British Virgin Islands. We've been helping with carrying relief supplies there for the past week. Now it's Maria. 165 f'ing MPH and it'll get us tomorrow. Sheesh. Guys I haven't been on here much lately as we've been pretty damn busy operating in areas that don't have wifi right now. I just scanned through some of the posts that have come up since the last time I was here. Seems like a lot of animosity. If you'd looked at the utter devastation I have over the past couple of weeks, and will completely face again tomorrow as I hope for the best for some of the islands who have already been leveled, maybe you'd lighten up a bit. I've gotta be honest, I didn't even read the posts, just saw the general tone of them. If you have a roof over your head tonight, if you have electricity, if you have wifi, if you have cell phones, if you have food, and water, you're doing pretty damned well. At the moment I actually have all that too and I'm very thankful for it, but by the end of tomorrow a lot of that will have changed.

 

And by the way, if you happen to be with your favorite escort, or client, or boyfriend, or husband tonight, you're especially blessed. Have a toast to me. Thanks.

 

 

Glad to hear you made it and wishing you the best in the upcoming. I don't think the animosity was towards anyone in your shoes...

[tanman4u]

I don't think the animosity was towards anyone in your shoes...

Oh I absolutely get that. Just the animosity in general here sometimes. Damn near everyone on here, myself included, is in better shape that the many people I've seen and dealt with over the past week+. Enjoy what you have while you have it, it can go away in a single burst of wind.

[bigvalboy]

Well Goddamn it. Here I am in the face of the second Cat 5 in a couple of weeks. We dodged the first one as it stayed east and decimated St. Thomas, St. John, and the British Virgin Islands. We've been helping with carrying relief supplies there for the past week. Now it's Maria. 165 f'ing MPH and it'll get us tomorrow. Sheesh. Guys I haven't been on here much lately as we've been pretty damn busy operating in areas that don't have wifi right now. I just scanned through some of the posts that have come up since the last time I was here. Seems like a lot of animosity. If you'd looked at the utter devastation I have over the past couple of weeks, and will completely face again tomorrow as I hope for the best for some of the islands who have already been leveled, maybe you'd lighten up a bit. I've gotta be honest, I didn't even read the posts, just saw the general tone of them. If you have a roof over your head tonight, if you have electricity, if you have wifi, if you have cell phones, if you have food, and water, you're doing pretty damned well. At the moment I actually have all that too and I'm very thankful for it, but by the end of tomorrow a lot of that will have changed.

 

And by the way, if you happen to be with your favorite escort, or client, or boyfriend, or husband tonight, you're especially blessed. Have a toast to me. Thanks.

 

 

This is absolutely fu*king unbelievable. These hurricanes seem to come up so fast. So much attention was aimed at the Keys and Florida that few people realize how bad St Thomas, St Martin, and Barbuda were decimated. And now it's starts all over again. I just can't imagine what you guys are going through. Our thoughts are with you and applaud your relief efforts. Be safe and we will all be thinking about you guys down there.