Florida in the sights of a "once in a century storm"

[BabylonSaints 5,359]

I live in Orlando  I'm not prepared for the hurricane yet, but I'm trying to get everything together.

[LateToCult 41,849]

44 minutes ago, Roughhouse Dandy said:

I'm a first responder so I'll probably be called into work 🥴

Stay safe to the best of your ability!

[PartySick 172,543]

The last model I saw has this bitch sitting directly over my house as a category 3 and I'll be getting off light compared to the west side of the state

I fear the Tampa/Fort Myers area is gonna be washed out completely

[Ladle Ghoulash 52,992]

16 hours ago, hoeslay said:

The money our country is using to fund a genocide could EASILY facilitate safety measures to keep our own people safe. Tragic. We should be setting up enforced shelters and preparing LARGE checks for affected individuals. It COULD be possible if that’s what our money was used for instead of bombing innocent people in a country on the other side of the world. 

Tell that to the GOP members of Congress who both blocked pro-active FEMA funding and refuse to reconvene Congress as these crises unfold to increase it. 

[PartySick 172,543]

47 minutes ago, Roughhouse Dandy said:

I'm a first responder so I'll probably be called into work 🥴

Woah, stay safe and thanks for serving the community

I love that these storms kinda bring the communities together a bit. All the boat owners docked here get special rates and priority booking at local hotels and the tall condos built along the water have people on the second, third, and fourth floors inviting their upstairs neighbors down to safer levels to ride the storm out.

Wish we could coordinate and coexist like this all the time

[PartySick 172,543]

Just now, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Tell that to the GOP members of Congress who both blocked pro-active FEMA funding and refuse to reconvene Congress as these crises unfold to increase it. 

Including a ton of Florida senators and congressmen who will be begging Biden and the federal government for money in a few days

[Ladle Ghoulash 52,992]

2 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Including a ton of Florida senators and congressmen who will be begging Biden and the federal government for money in a few days

While simultaneously blaming him (and Harris by extension) for the suffering of their constituents due to lack of adequate funding 🫠. American politics is painfully stupid sometimes istg 

[PartySick 172,543]

11 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

While simultaneously blaming him (and Harris by extension) for the suffering of their constituents due to lack of adequate funding 🫠. American politics is painfully stupid sometimes istg 

Oh yeah, FEMA funds are going to illegal aliens or whatever

What's super sad is that people like my Mexican step mother actually believe that

[StarstruckIllusion 53,565]

16 hours ago, Foxyy said:

Those two issues have nothing to do with one another.

Not until politicians try to do austerity and claim there’s no money left to help Americans when needed

[StarstruckIllusion 53,565]

Also the timing is crazy…

That region has dealt with enough after Helene. Florida’s future is becoming more and more unliveable with these ever intensifying and rapid hurricanes and future flooding. 

I really hope everyone gets out okay from the hurricane and no one loses their lives, especially any of you here.

It’s distressing to watch from afar but it’s nothing compared to actually living it

[AndiGaga 7,232]

When is it coming?

[PartySick 172,543]

3 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

Also the timing is crazy…

That region has dealt with enough after Helene. Florida’s future is becoming more and more unliveable with these ever intensifying and rapid hurricanes and future flooding. 

I really hope everyone gets out okay from the hurricane and no one loses their lives, especially any of you here.

It’s distressing to watch from afar but it’s nothing compared to actually living it

My coworker and I were actually talking about this earlier. It's been raining nonstop for like a whole week now, all day too, so all the retention ponds, lakes, and rivers are already full. And this storm is supposed to bring 15+ inches of rain and a record storm surge of around 12 feet or higher on the west coast

We might not need to wait for the ice caps to melt for Florida to drown, these hurricanes are gonna wipe us out first

3 minutes ago, AndiGaga said:

When is it coming?

Looks like Wednesday morning through Thursday is when it'll be over us

[Economy 52,854]

1 hour ago, Foxyy said:

Oh god  good luck!

I don't know how you all live in a state that gets hit by storms like this

In Japan its Tsunamis and Earthquakes, In Southern Europe & California its horrible forest fires every year and sometimes droughts... in the North its ice storms and snow storms (yes they kill too) 

 

U cant escape it. The Earth is filled with disasters in every area

[PartySick 172,543]

Y'all our governor is such a sh*t head

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/07/white-house-calls-offer-storm-support-cant-get-florida-governor-phone/

DeSantis is ignoring the vice president's calls

[artdoll 47,164]

1 hour ago, PartySick said:

Y'all our governor is such a sh*t head

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/07/white-house-calls-offer-storm-support-cant-get-florida-governor-phone/

DeSantis is ignoring the vice president's calls

welp

Let's just do what we did last time; blast rain on me until it's over.