ok. Well, it’s a Hurricane. They’re pretty bad. I’m on the other coast of Florida and expect to have to board up my house sometime next week.
Hurricanes are a big deal. I don’t know what causes them and whatnot, but seeing a suggestion that “they’re blowing it out of proportion” (pun intended) for conspiracy is just strange.
Does Weather Channel overstate things? Yes. They ALWAYS do.
Was my Gov. right to do mass evacuations? Yes he was.
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To him, it’s just another political point. To people living here, it’s “dying and/or losing my home really sucks”.
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Hurricanes are Bad.
Are you expecting us to be flattened like Haiti so you’re satisfied that it’s “bad enough”?
We have upgraded building codes that can go up to 3 and 4 now but they’re not foolproof, as Charlie and a few others proved, so they had to upgrade them again.
Everything’s a narrative until you experience it.
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The governors warnings are not out of proportion to the possible danger. The National Guard is necessary. This is not a ploy for funding to fight the Zita. This is not a ploy to increase awareness of global warming.
We’re trying to not become a disaster zone.
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If you stay outside during a hurricane, there’s a very good change that YOU WILL DIE. 3, 4, 5, doesn’t matter.
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During a cat three, Charlie uprooted a TREE at my friends house and plopped it right into their living room through the roof. If someone was in the living at that time, one of my family friends would be dead.
That was a cat 3. Not a 4. Not a 5. Not Andrew. Doesn’t have to be Andrew. Fuck Andrew.
You can’t say “Oh, they’re overblowing the severity”. It’s not even stupid. It’s practically criminal. If someone who is in one of those evacuation zones BELIEVES YOU, and stays home? They could die. This is just a fact.
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The claim is that everybody’s exaggerating about Matthew because: [x]
I’m saying they’re not.
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If a shanty beach town loses one person due to a hurricane, it’s a tragedy.
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The “worse-ness” of a hurricane is not the windspeed or the path. It’s the damage it causes to property and life and infrastructure.
There’s no acceptable loses. No “less than / greater than”.
You don’t _know_ what a hurricane will do. “Well, gee, it’s logically not as bad as Andrew, so we’ll just tell people “fewer of you have a chance to die and lose your homes”.
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I just made this. I’m in the red circle somewhere. That’s where Matthew is now. It was further south not that long ago. It may loop around again. These fuckers are huge. Forget the path. The little “circle of calm” in the middle isn’t even as big of a deal as the surrounding areas.
Those rainbands whip by over and over again. This suckers huge. They’re all huge. They’re not little lines you plot across the state. They ENGULF the state with winds and damage. It’s the swath of it. The width.
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Doesn’t matter Steven. Look, if Matthew “decided” to scrape the ENTIRE right hand coast while it went up Thing about that.
All those beach towns. Gone. How is this “better” than Andrew that went across what was mostly woods?
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Storms on the coast are worse because that’s where all the people are.
The ones that go across the state go through large areas of not-many-people living there.
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Plus, the hurricane that goes across the state usually lose strength during the process…. which *could* make it “better” but there’s another point to consider:
Sometimes, hurricanes get ‘stuck’ in a spot for a while and stop progressing. That’s when it REALLY gets bad.
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Oh they play it up, I agree with you on that point. But the Governor wasn’t playing it up. If this thing went just a mile ‘left’, it could’ve scrapped along expensive beach communities destroying an unthinkable amount of property damage and possible deaths.
I think we get hardened to “doom and gloom” so much that when something REALLY happens that *really is* that level of dramatic, people blow it off as “just another bit of drama”.
In the case of the Weather channel, that’s probably true. Weather channel always makes things over dramatic.
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So it seems we’re all in agreement:
a) Weather channel and places like it enjoy the drama BUT
b) The Governor was accurate in evacuating because yes, if you stay home during a Cat 4, there’s a chance that you will die. That’s not hyperbole, just statement of fact.
The points of contention are:
a) Big Governments [powers-that-be] hyping this up for upcoming Climate Change conference, making things sound worse than they are.
b) regular left/right points of contentions wrt climate change.
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