You could tell him I have an internet/motorcycle site friend who lives and works and rides in NC. The small airport where he works and the hangers/planes were under 8 ft of water for over a day. He siad it's never flooded anywhere even close to that. The most the hangers ever had before that was 8 Inches of water!
No one is trivializing, it just wasn't the impact it was hyped to be. The tornados on the other hand were brutal and deadly. One street gone the other side of the road untouched. Tornados are strange beasts
In central FL majority of power outages was attributable to Duke energy taking all the money the state gave them to maintain and trim in utility easements and spent it on hookers and blow. Everything in orange county is dead trees next to power lines that wasn't trimmed. They have been called out on this before but the story got buried.
My hound dog just dropped about 11# of shit and peed 3 gallons. We're out trying to feed (coral) the fish so I don't run them over with the lawn mower.
Yeah, nothing to see here, just more over hyped bullshit. Fuck off and die you piece of shit! It peeled our roof like a banana at my building where I live, I spent 25 hours at work straight keeping our facility powered and open, spent 4 hours assessing damage and talking to insurance reps while waiting for Serve Pro, who didn’t show, stopped at our Bardmoor outpatient ED that closed as a precaution prior to the storm and were reopening, while on generator, now I back here, probably for another 24 hours. Largo Med Hospital had to evacuate, St Anthony’s Hospital in downtown St Pete lost all domestic water and nearly did, South Fl Baptist is still on generators, as am I at Morton Plant in Clearwater, so is St Joe’s in Tampa. One of my peer’s here has lived in Florida all his life and this is the worst he’s seen and he’s nearly my age. Sell you shit somewhere else, I’m not buying asshole.
While I would agree that TWC turned weather into news, and have a habit of overhyping everything, that doesn't mean the officials were wrong when they said if you stay you might die. Some did. The fact that it wasn't as bad as it could have been, is now somehow placed on the shoulders of the people who gave warning? Ok, tell me what the margin of error was for this storm. Please provide a percentage of risk between it hitting as a less damaging CAT3, and a catastrophic CAT4 or 5.
If I follow some individual's logic, I live in Wisconsin, and it's been beautiful here for days. Your pictures and experience must be fake news. Really sorry for your struggles.
The Weather Channel coverage is pretty ridiculous, but the forecast other than where it made landfall, was pretty spot on. It was always forecasted to lose intensity right before landfall and come ashore a Cat3 or 4. The track kept shifting south the last 36 hours, but other than that the National Hurricane Center forecasts were accurate. It's not like a 3 or 4 is a trivial storm, and I feel like those of us not there are still just learning the level of damage some of these areas sustained. We were fortunate this round up our way. I spoke with a friend further south that had major roof damage. Another friend in St. Pete had flood damage. The death toll surely is low because people took the warnings serious and got out of harms way. Staying on a barrier island at landfall was a suicide mission. This thing dumped 12-18 inches of rain, spawned several dozen tornadoes, recorded 100+ mph wind gusts, and had 12 feet of surge where the eye made landfall. Hardly "not living up to the hype."
Given how overhyped the media makes of every one of these storms out to be storms of the century...well yeah. Of course, you are taking it to the other extreme and making assumptions about classy... Did you know...hurricanes damage stuff...happens all the time. What I've seen so far is pretty typical. If you live down there, it is part of the life there (I have cousins near Clermont who've lived there since late 70s), plain and simple. You choose that. Have good insurance and deal with the aftermath. Make common sense decisions for your own safety (you ARE responsible for that after all), be prepared...be adults about things. Don't play the victim cards here... it's not being trivialized, just recognizing mother nature can be a bitch sometimes. Welcome to reality.
Roof damage and power out for about 22 hours here at our place in Wesley Chapel. Neighbor with wind meter hit 101mph behind a big tree line, so we definitely got some good winds. Lots of roof damage and not just shingles. A church a couple blocks from my house had the roof and trusses ripped off.
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Largest tornado outbreak in Florida history. 129 large tornados in 24 hours are the stats I’ve read. I’d say that the storm wasn’t overhyped in the least.
While I agree that most people that choose to live in FL, you should be taking this kind of possibility into consideration. I've got relatives in Boca that have lost their roof twice. While he didn't necessarily bitch about the damage, he did bitch about the insurance cost increase. He's got the money, so I'm not terribly sympathetic. Consider that not everyone who lives in FL necessarily chooses it. There are financial considerations, job considerations, family...etc. Have a friend who has a house in Sarasota that basically is only worth the lot cost, and he's too upside down to do anything else but muddle through. He'd love to get out. BTW, there's a tornado corridor near me that has gradually moved further north since when I was a kid. Should I move? Where to? What place can't experience some kind of disaster? Had 2 tornadoes within 1/4 mile of my house this summer. The pic below is my son's house, and that tree was almost 150 years old. How it didn't destroy the house, I don't know.
