Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;<br>DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"

Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;
DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"

50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier

The spectacular part of the storm is abating. Now comes the grinding, miserable part of it.

There will be days of flooding, and it may take a long time for the water to drain away.

A commenter said that there are a lot of channels in flat Florida for floodwater to find its way the sea. But this article suggests it will take a while.

Much attention has focused on Hurricane Ian's storm surge flooding coastal areas of Florida, setting records in coastal areas like Fort Myers and Naples.
But the National Hurricane Center warned in an advisory Wednesday that "widespread, life-threatening catastrophic flash and urban flooding, with major to record flooding along rivers, is expected to continue across central Florida" -- damage that will last after the storm moves away.
...
The panhandle and Tampa Bay area's surface waterways are sloped, but Central Florida is flatter. Add to that the ground is already saturated at this point in the rainy season.
Threat level: Even when the rain ends, that doesn't mean the flooding will, Grimsley said.
What we're watching: Smaller, urban streams tend to "react and flood very quickly," but larger rivers take longer to build up and flood -- and then are equally slow to recede.
"The hurricane moves on here in the next day or two, hopefully," Grimsely said. But "flooding could continue for a week or more."

Gov. Ron DeSantis gives an update on Hurricane Ian: “The amount of water that’s been rising … is basically a 500-year flood event.”

pic.twitter.com/SFkSgpoEPV
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 29, 2022

Ron DeSantis talked about the storm and the clean-up effort that is being prepared, including 42,000 linemen ready to go in and repair phone and power lines, which he called "the biggest logistical effort in the history of the state."

He said this is "clearly" the most massive flood damage the state has ever sustained.

He thanked leaders in 26 states for sending support and materiel to help.

Florida seems as prepared as possible for this storm, though we can expect the vicious left to claim otherwise.

The sheriff of Lee County claims that there are fatalities "in the hundreds" and that this has been "confirmed." But in another statement, he says these fatalities are "likely."

Hoping he's wrong, but Lee County, Fla. Sheriff Carmine Marceno says it's "confirmed" there are "fatalities in the hundreds" #HurricaneIan pic.twitter.com/WtJCfWPwb4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 29, 2022

DeSantis says those deaths are not confirmed, and that what is being referred to are 911 calls about people in danger, but not necessarily in grave danger nor necessarily dead. He says there have only been two confirmed deaths and even those are not confirmed to be caused by the storm, though they're assumed to be.

Insane LIVE footage of storm surge near Ft. Myers, FL #IanHurricane #StaySafeFlorida 🙏 pic.twitter.com/RCbeQkz4v5
— Cristian PM (@TheCristianPM) September 29, 2022

We were in the eye wall of Cat. 4 #Hurricane #Ian for over 5 hours and the back side was the worst.
I haven't experienced anything close to this in over 30 years @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/wfEqcuEBAm
— Mike Seidel (@mikeseidel) September 29, 2022

Woah. Also in Naples - a downed power line explodes.

Sam Martinez took this video near Tin City. This is why it’s so dangerous to be out during a storm like this. #HurricaneIanupdate pic.twitter.com/oNKhGR2g0I
— Kyla Galer (@kylagaler) September 28, 2022

Got this from a friend in #Naples - just so sad. ⁦@ActionNewsJax⁩ #Ian pic.twitter.com/HtC0CtG228
— Jason Brewer (@JBrewerBoston25) September 28, 2022

Prayers for the Florida contingent of the Horde.

Meanwhile, the left is routing for deaths.

The View thinks that hurricane Ian is a direct result of Governor Desantis' stance on climate change.

"And now his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes." pic.twitter.com/PN5bkWtVkY
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 28, 2022

Tucker on Democrats politicizing Hurricane Ian: "Can you imagine lecturing people who are cowering in their houses trying not to get killed? How can I help the Democratic party in the middle of a humanitarian disaster? Most people don't think that way." pic.twitter.com/TmRUmf9rlF
— American Firebrand (@FirebrandPAC) September 29, 2022

The Blue Tick seal of quality:

Florida Man knows how to answer these repulsive leftwing nightghouls:

WATCH: Man in Florida holding anti-Biden flag as Hurricane Ian approaches pic.twitter.com/kw6dxIlqDQ
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 28, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

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1 This thing isn't over. The entire South Carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning.

Posted by: Bert G at September 29, 2022 12:02 PM (aCgRi)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

3 You can't call it a 500 year flood event because that shit didn't happen until AFTER the industrial revolution and climate change.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

4 I declare this post for the Kindom of King Harv!

*Sticks flag in ground*

Posted by: johnd01 at September 29, 2022 12:04 PM (uVQvU)

5 I swear, I hear about a once in a century hurricane every couple of years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

6 Yeah, they lack any gradient to facilitate drainage. Flooding will last a while.

Good week to be a gator.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:05 PM (L6gKs)

7 I think that all those canals they built so people could park their boats in their backyards made the flooding worse.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 29, 2022 12:05 PM (Y5qcH)

8 Hope the horde is safe

Posted by: Skip's phone at September 29, 2022 12:06 PM (/q/WO)

9 4 I declare this post for the Kindom of King Harv!

*Sticks flag in ground*
Posted by: johnd01 at September 29, 2022 12:04 PM (uVQvU)

Praise be to Harv! First of his name!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:06 PM (5r4XQ)

10 Gigantic sump pumps!

Posted by: runner at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (T+IcW)

11 WATCH: Man in Florida holding anti-Biden flag as Hurricane Ian approaches pic.twitter.com/kw6dxIlqDQ

- Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 28, 2022
Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

That's fucking EPIC.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

12 So DeSantis controls the weather ? Is there nothing he can't do ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (bs+z0)

13 Yeah I don't know if the flooding is deeper (as in higher waters) than in 500 years, but the storm was so wide that its affected a gigantic area.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (Ivdso)

14 This thing isn't over. The entire South Carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning.

Posted by: Bert G at September 29, 2022 12:02 PM (aCgRi)

This is a yuge storm, we're already getting winds up here, rain tonight/tomorrow.

Posted by: BignJames at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (AwYPR)

15 I suppose I can see riding out the storm, but riding out the recovery is going to take some stamina.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (dNNCD)

16 In lighter news, Jim Cantore got hit with a tree branch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

17 >>I think that all those canals they built so people could park their boats in their backyards made the flooding worse.

That is an eerie thought.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (L6gKs)

18 This thing isn't over. The entire South Carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning.
Posted by: Bert G at September 29, 2022 12:02 PM (aCgRi)

Lindsey Graham was overheard screaming for the Capitol Police to shoot it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (GYIa4)

19 50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier

We'll see about that.

Posted by: Luke Duke revving up his Charger at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (h5TKJ)

20 "But the National Hurricane Center warned in an advisory...."

That was your first mistake, NHC is in CYA mode right now. I have family in Tampa...nada. Yes, there is widespread flooding in Central Florida...so show it. All your examples are Naples or the SW coast.

I love the guy, but my boy DeSantis has an agenda...its called "maximizing the FEMA payout for FL".

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (pN0Zg)

21 I like the shop that had a sign that said "we're open until the letters blow off this sign".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (Ivdso)

22
The mudsucklingest part of storms is dealing with the aftermath. With Harvey the water reached neither the house or the kennel, but we were trapped for three days and once we got out there weren't any stores open. And we prepared well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (1Nxff)

23 50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier

Authorities finally reach Sanibel Island 14 days after Hurricane Ian and find residents thriving with no governmental interference.

Authorities are totally perplexed and unable to comprehend how it is possible.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (U14qJ)

24 This is a yuge storm, we're already getting winds up here, rain tonight/tomorrow.

Posted by: BignJames at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM

Yeah, wind's already picking up where I am. Tropical storm warning for my location.

Posted by: Bert G at September 29, 2022 12:08 PM (aCgRi)

25 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (bs+z0)

26 RIDERS ON THE STORM

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=W1hn1pF-ilQ

Posted by: THE DOORS at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (L6gKs)

27 So DeSantis controls the weather?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:07 PM (bs+z0)

DeSantis is a Joo?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (GYIa4)

28 Florida Man with the save!

lol

Posted by: SMH at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (A00u7)

29 I love the guy, but my boy DeSantis has an agenda...its called "maximizing the FEMA payout for FL".

Standard governor strategy, the state doesn't want to pay to fix its self, so they use the fed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (Ivdso)

30 If Biden flies into the storm area his diaper will get ripped off by the wind.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (eGTCV)

31 How many "once in a lifetime" storms can I have in one lifetime that still has decades to go? This will disappear from the news as soon as the leftist twats realize there's nothing they can blame on DeathSantis. FL will rebuild just like it always does after a major storm hits it. This is really a "dog bites man" story. Or a "male feminist rapes a comatose woman" story.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

32 The View could be useful as sandbags. Otherwise, not so much.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (sn5EN)

33 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street

Its always a shark, never a grouper or a marlin or a sunfish. Why is that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (Ivdso)

34 Love the guy with the Fuck Biden Flag. Can this be turned into Christmas Cards?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (v0xyy)

35 when it comes to this kind of thing, leftists always insist that history didn't start till the year after the last time this kind of thing happened.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (kFrCu)

36 Stephanie Abrams has been out walking the neighborhoods this am to show water in ditches and downed trees. She is truly loathsome. She and her cameraman walked up to a couple whose roof is gone and were trying to get the storm shutters off the door to go in and see what was left. She wanted to go in with them and the woman said no.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (MMsiV)

37 Arcing powerlines and exploding transformers constitute a lively and entertaining genre on YT.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (24fqN)

38 The left: pointing out that letting criminals directly leads to more crime is racist and pointing it out now just hurts the victims more.

Also the left: blaming Gov DeSantis, who has been in office for 3 years as governor, for hurricanes we claim are the result of American national policy for the last 60 years right as a hurricane is hitting makes perfect sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (ESjRY)

39 What about those neat bridge-truck things the Army has? Where you roll up to a busted bridge, and *FWOMNP*, you slap down a collapsible temporary bridge over it. That could work, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (/EuRN)

40 31 How many "once in a lifetime" storms can I have in one lifetime that still has decades to go? This will disappear from the news as soon as the leftist twats realize there's nothing they can blame on DeathSantis. FL will rebuild just like it always does after a major storm hits it. This is really a "dog bites man" story. Or a "male feminist rapes a comatose woman" story.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

Almost as much as we got the 'Perfect Storm' analogy around the time the movie came out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (5r4XQ)

41
Don't worry, Florida! Legions of progressive volunteers are on their way to help with the clean-up, restore power, rescue the trapped and comfort the traumatized.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (1Nxff)

42 You can have a 500 Year Flood, every year, for an entire decade.

It's just really unlikely.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (L6gKs)

43 Or 'Black Swan Event' was a thing for about a year. About anything and every pedestrian thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (5r4XQ)

44 I love the guy, but my boy DeSantis has an agenda...its called "maximizing the FEMA payout for FL".

Any governor in the country would do that.

Floridians pay Federal taxes - they deserve FEMA money.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (I2/tG)

45 Fun fact; gensets (generators) over 1250 kw have massive massive lead tones right now. Over two years.

The only type of facilities with gensets that big kinda need them.

When the entire east coast gets in line to order replacements that wait time is going to be insane.

I asked our engineer if you can daisy chain smaller ones and you can buy the switchgear is spendy.

Buy stock in switchgear manufacturing!

Posted by: TexasDan at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (0Pi6m)

46 Happening later in the year temperatures will be cooler.
If this had happened in July or August the heat would have created much more tragedy.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (gpmLW)

47 Lesley is an asshole. Plain and simple.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

48 Knowing Uncle Sam, they're probably called an "M1 Riparian Temporary Traversal System" or something....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (/EuRN)

49 >>>The View thinks that hurricane Ian is a direct result of Governor Desantis' stance on climate change.

Of course they do. Leftism is their religion, and opponents of leftism are irredeemable heretics. Ugly inside and out.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (yHsuS)

50 Stephanie Abrams peddles fear 24/7.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (dRuuV)

51 Give me a good Midwestern blizzard anytime over this hurricane shit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (NHejJ)

52 This morning, I checked in with my folks who are in Central Florida and, though without power, they and their house are currently safe. Later today and all day tomorrow, I'll be getting the wash 'n rinse treatment in SC.

On a separate note, I invite every leftist to kill xirself which is about the nicest thing I can say about that.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (DTX3h)

53 The left in 2006: Hurricanes are the direct responsibility of the president and only the president. Pointing out what state and local officials may or may not have done is racist, misogynist, and hate filled.

The left in 2022: Hurricanes are the direct responsibility of Republican governors and only Republican governors. Pointing out what federal officials may or may not have done is racist, misogynist, and hate filled.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (ESjRY)

54 Ron DeSantis talked about the storm and the clean-up effort that is being prepared, including 42,000 linemen ready to go in and repair phone and power lines, which he called "the biggest logistical effort in the history of the state." ... Florida seems as prepared as possible for this storm, though we can expect the vicious left to claim otherwise.
++++
And the ghouls in Washington and New York are sitting there, holding their collective breath, and hoping for a really large death toll and a month without power or water because they desperately want a major failure to hang on DeSantis and anyone like him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (t0OGg)

55 I suppose I can see riding out the storm, but riding out the recovery is going to take some stamina.
Posted by: t-bird

Rode out Hurricane Alicia in 83 on Galveston Island. Couldn't leave. By order of the Governor.
Incoming and aftermath.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (U14qJ)

56 Buy stock in switchgear manufacturing!
Posted by: TexasDan at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (0Pi6m)

I just had a conversation with a guy here at the site I am at. He said the same was true for forklifts as well (lead-acid battery ones.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (5r4XQ)

57 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street

Its always a shark, never a grouper or a marlin or a sunfish. Why is that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (Ivdso)

There are Bull sharks living in rivers in Florida (and much of the rest of the South) meaning it's much easier for one of them to swim around the floodwaters than for fish from the open ocean to find their way inland.

Posted by: Surfperch at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (/4vtq)

58 43 Or 'Black Swan Event' was a thing for about a year. About anything and every pedestrian thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (5r4XQ)

I saw an actual black swan that year, and didn't think anything of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (/EuRN)

59 You can't call it a 500 year flood event because that shit didn't happen until AFTER the industrial revolution and climate change.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:03 PM

Definition of "500 year flood event": "flood event of this magnitude has a 1 in 500 chance of happening in a given year", not "biggest flood in 500 years"

Posted by: Chuck C at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (xttsV)

60
Florida Man: The peak of human evolution.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (n+4am)

61 The Sanibel Island causeway is a perfect application for a Bailey bridge. Could have it up and running in a day or two.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (5yxuf)

62 Don't donate to the Red Cross whatever you do.. There are real charities that actually help like Samaritans purse

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (bs+z0)

63 "The entire South Carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning."

and inland in the hills/mountains, massive rains could wash some important things out.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (Cus5s)

64 Reeee! He said 500 year flood event, but there are ice cores and rock sediment layers which suggest FL had a bigger flood 397 years ago!!! Lies!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (R8uWY)

65
Definition of "500 year flood event": "flood event of this magnitude has a 1 in 500 chance of happening in a given year", not "biggest flood in 500 years"
Posted by: Chuck C at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (xttsV)

THAT DOESN'T FIT MY NARRATIVE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

66 25 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (bs+z0)

Sharks in the Everglades! Gators and sharks fight it out in the Battle of the Dinosaurs.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (sI15f)

67 Florida man with a fuck biden flag. Gotta love it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (VwHCD)

68 Yes, a lot of channels, but they feed into fewer and fewer channels until they get to the sea, and eventually they get overloaded, and that means flooding sooner or later.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (OUMaO)

69 > 50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier

So... retards, then?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (bW8dp)

70 We have more "historic" storms in terms of damage because we build more things in the historic paths of hurricanes/flood plains/etc

This is partly because we are wealthier, partly because of insurance, but mostly because of the way the government works

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (ESjRY)

71 Lesley Abravanel can EABOD. I hope that one day, she (he?) and Jimmy Kimmel and all the rest of them end up in some disaster with no help on the way while people gloat at them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (t0OGg)

72 The good news regarding Ian the Hurricane is I don't have to water my lawn.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (v0xyy)

73 Has the Cajun Navy arrived?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (gpmLW)

74 63 "The entire South Carolina coast is now under a hurricane warning."

and inland in the hills/mountains, massive rains could wash some important things out.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (Cus5s)

When I was last in SC and went to Mt Pleasant near Charleston, 1st thing I said was this place would get destroyed by a hurricane.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (Y5qcH)

75 70 We have more "historic" storms in terms of damage because we build more things in the historic paths of hurricanes/flood plains/etc

This is partly because we are wealthier, partly because of insurance, but mostly because of the way the government works
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (ESjRY)

And the cost to rebuild will be 12% higher than it would have been last year.... Inflation, ya know?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (oHd/0)

76 And Trump is trying to make this all about himself because Trump trump trump trump truuuuuuuump trump trump and OMG Trump can you believe trump trump trump????

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (R8uWY)

77 "Honey, I think the sump pump is not working."

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (g1EEm)

78 Ian hit Cuba first.

Was Gaia punishing communist Cuba as well as Republican Florida?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (LvTSG)

79 All you non-nooding illegitimates can relax. I nooded.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (a3Q+t)

80 Sharks in the Everglades! Gators and sharks fight it out in the Battle of the Dinosaurs.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (sI15f)

Sharknado 7!
Sharknado vs Gatornado

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (5r4XQ)

81 28 Florida Man with the save!

lol
Posted by: SMH at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (A00u7)

F L O R I D A M A N

We put the pri in primordial.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (MkuC5)

82 42 You can have a 500 Year Flood, every year, for an entire decade.

It's just really unlikely.
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM

True; Risk=Consequence X Frequency

or if you are trying to figure risk of a terrorist attack

Risk=Consequence X Frequency (where frequency is a function of Threat and Vulnerability).

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (pN0Zg)

83 Arcing powerlines and exploding transformers constitute a lively and entertaining genre on YT.

Definitely. The reverse is also nice - I subscribe to a Canadian lineman on there and it's super satisfying when he clicks in the breaker and an entire neighborhood lights up.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGrMX)

84 You can have a 500 Year Flood, every year, for an entire decade.

It's just really unlikely.
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (L6gKs)

THIS! A 500-year storm event has a 0.2% chance of being met or exceeded every single year. Unlikely to repeat year to year, but not impossible.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (OQcPl)

85 We will be interviewing Democrats daily until election day about how they can't find food for their children and how their children are drowning because of desantis.

Posted by: MSM ALL HANDS ON DECK at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (XRygQ)

86 Fiona hit the Dominican Republic.

Was that because Gaia was punishing the DR for its corruption in its government or for voting against becoming the 51st state?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (LvTSG)

87 Already getting windy at my house.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (gBvlU)

88 WATCH: Man in Florida holding anti-Biden flag as Hurricane Ian approaches pic.twitter.com/kw6dxIlqDQ

- Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 28, 2022
Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

That's fucking EPIC.
Posted by: Sponge

I hope everyone knows what the bottom line says...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (ItDxt)

89
She is truly loathsome. She and her cameraman walked up to a couple whose roof is gone and were trying to get the storm shutters off the door to go in and see what was left. She wanted to go in with them and the woman said no.

------

Media people are the worst. Shortly after I graduated HS, a gunman rampaged the school. Shot a couple of students, killed one, and raped several girls. This was in a little hillbilly town, so the big city news department had to send their helicopter, and I was watching their coverage.

After the SWAT team breached the school and the gunman killed himself, the reporterette says to the anchor "well, unfortunately, it looks like this is over."

Ratings, baby!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (oINRc)

90 49 >>>The View thinks that hurricane Ian is a direct result of Governor Desantis' stance on climate change.
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Do they believe in all of the Roman gods or just the one's that oppose Republicans?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (gpmLW)

91 77 "Honey, I think the sump pump is not working."
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (g1EEm)

Insom quote?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (5r4XQ)

92 53 The left in 2006: Hurricanes are the direct responsibility of the president and only the president. Pointing out what state and local officials may or may not have done is racist, misogynist, and hate filled.

The left in 2022: Hurricanes are the direct responsibility of Republican governors and only Republican governors. Pointing out what federal officials may or may not have done is racist, misogynist, and hate filled.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (ESjRY)

Anytime a disaster happens, the left looks at the responding chain of command until they find anyone with an "R" behind their name to blame for it.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (Rl7KJ)

93 85 We will be interviewing Democrats daily until election day about how they can't find food for their children and how their children are drowning because of desantis.
Posted by: MSM ALL HANDS ON DECK at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (XRygQ)

==========

*footnote: interviews recorded in 2006 in Louisiana*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (LvTSG)

94 Doing IT for a major hardware retailer long ago, I learned that folx commonly buy generators in anticipation of emergencies, then try to return them for refund apres le deluge.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (24fqN)

95
There are real charities that actually help like Samaritans purse
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (bs+z0)

___________

After Harvey, when we could get out, the first thing we did was load the car up with crates, blankets, buckets, leashes and dog food and took it down to the animal rescue sanctuary at the county fairgrounds. Man, that was a sad sight. They needed everything we gave them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (1Nxff)

96 The Sanibel Island causeway is a perfect application for a Bailey bridge. Could have it up and running in a day or two.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (5yxuf)
++++
Something like that seems likely. Or military portable bridges.

How many states are sending Guardsmen? It's usually a fair number. My state has them staged locally at Air Guard facilities until they can be deployed (which will happen as soon as they can get a flight plan).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (t0OGg)

97 How many "once in a lifetime" storms can I have in one lifetime that still has decades to go?

....

The model codes are actually changing the way these events are expressed from the xxx year designation to the percentage probability that a site would experience that magnitude in a given year.

If you look across all the types of storm events and discretize the occupied land area of the earth you get pretty decent chances that *somewhere* an event like this will occur each year.

When it's expressed as 500 year event our brains think holy cow that should never happen. It's better to understand it as the size of the thing on a scale like the Fujita tornado scale than a probabilistic term.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (eP/Mn)

98 Its always a shark, never a grouper or a marlin or a sunfish. Why is that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (Ivdso)

There are Bull sharks living in rivers in Florida (and much of the rest of the South) meaning it's much easier for one of them to swim around the floodwaters than for fish from the open ocean to find their way inland.
Posted by: Surfperch at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (/4vtq)

Sharkacane! What an idea! It'll be bigger than Sharknado!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (oHd/0)

99
The Sanibel Island causeway is a perfect application for a Bailey bridge. Could have it up and running in a day or two.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The causeway ought to be a relatively easy thing to fix.

The award winning Broward County engineering design firm that specializes in installing pancaking pedestrian bridges has proposed to erect and collapse three of four of them in that gap to create a base of rubble for the replacement roadway.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (pNxlR)

100 Those pictures are horrific. I kept thinking it looked like a tsunami but in a way worse because with a hurricane you also have wind.
They keep complaining about DeSantis but I don't recall seeing anyone on top of their house waiting to be rescued or cars stranded on the highway or terrible pictures of people crowded into shelters without food or water.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (Y+l9t)

101 Stephanie Abrams peddles fear 24/7.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (dRuuV)

There's too many Abrams on TV.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (bhRsz)

102 83 Arcing powerlines and exploding transformers constitute a lively and entertaining genre on YT.

Definitely. The reverse is also nice - I subscribe to a Canadian lineman on there and it's super satisfying when he clicks in the breaker and an entire neighborhood lights up.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGrMX)

I was watching a guy in Australia who clears drain pipes for a living. The Penetrator (yes, I know.) It IS oddly satisfying, but I stopped watching when I scheduled my colonoscopy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (5r4XQ)

103 Did anyone report flying sharks during this hurricane? Cuz, that would be some serious news.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (v0xyy)

104 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street

Its always a shark, never a grouper or a marlin or a sunfish. Why is that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (Ivdso)

Sharks like take-out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (KLPy8)

105 Fuck Biden Flag Man will be the victim of a no-knock raid by Ham and Eggers at zero dark thirty once the all clear is given.

Hide yo husbands, hide yo wives, hide yo chirruns, The FBI be raiding errbody up in here!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (bC9HI)

106 Is Dave ok? I think he is in FL.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (R8uWY)

107 When I was last in SC and went to Mt Pleasant near Charleston, 1st thing I said was this place would get destroyed by a hurricane.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (Y5qcH)

Uhh.

Posted by: Hugo at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (aX0CW)

108 Stephanie Abrams peddles fear 24/7.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yeah, fear she'll eat all the food so you'll starve and then she'll sit on you.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022 12:19 PM (OUMaO)

109 LOL its World of Warcraft Transmogs in real life!

https://tinyurl.com/4y8z35xm

These "digital fashion designers" are creating unique clothing that can only be used online and selling them for thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:19 PM (Ivdso)

110 The model codes are actually changing the way these events are expressed from the xxx year designation to the percentage probability that a site would experience that magnitude in a given year.
Posted by: TexasDan at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (eP/Mn)

Yep. On new FEMA FIRMs, the 100-year is called the 1%.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at September 29, 2022 12:19 PM (OQcPl)

111 Is Dave ok? I think he is in FL.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant!

...I mean, it kinda is there in his nic, after all. Kinda like a brand? Better than NYC's, anyway.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (OUMaO)

112 83 Arcing powerlines and exploding transformers constitute a lively and entertaining genre on YT.

Definitely. The reverse is also nice - I subscribe to a Canadian lineman on there and it's super satisfying when he clicks in the breaker and an entire neighborhood lights up.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGrMX)

Now do what happens if Lithium gets wet!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (oHd/0)

113 106 Is Dave ok? I think he is in FL.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (R8uWY)

Dave in Fla? I think he lives in North Dakota...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (5r4XQ)

114 Don't donate to the Red Cross whatever you do.. There are real charities that actually help like Samaritans purse

Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:13 PM (bs+z0)

After Katrina, I tried to donate a brand new 5kw gen to Red Cross, they wanted ca$h...same w/Sally Army. Gave it to a church group collecting relief supplies.

Posted by: BignJames at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (AwYPR)

115 First, the women on The View are some of the most ignorant idiots and it's sad that I actually have to endure seeing or hearing what they say without ever watching their fvckin show.

>33...lololol

Posted by: sidney at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (Uy/WF)

116 Insom quote?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Insom?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (g1EEm)

117 Damn, this is helping DeSantis look Presidential!

Curses!

Posted by: The Democrats! at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (I2/tG)

118 Stephanie Abrams peddles fear 24/7.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yeah, fear she'll eat all the food so you'll starve and then she'll sit on you.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022

That's Stacy Abrams. This shrieking harpy works for the Weather Channel.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (dRuuV)

119 107 When I was last in SC and went to Mt Pleasant near Charleston, 1st thing I said was this place would get destroyed by a hurricane.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 29, 2022 12:15 PM (Y5qcH)

Uhh.
Posted by: Hugo at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (aX0CW)

========

Hugo destroyed Isle of Palms. Mount Pleasant was significantly less developed at the time and didn't sustain too much damage.

Today it could be different. I live in Mt. Pleasant, but near the place's height. We're not evacuating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

120 104 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street

Its always a shark, never a grouper or a marlin or a sunfish. Why is that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (Ivdso)

Sharks like take-out.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (KLPy

/knock knock...

Candygram!

Posted by: Heard by Floridian at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (oHd/0)

121 Based on what I've seen, Red State governors best understand they are on their own when it comes to natural disasters. Biden avoding talking with DeSantis should be a warning.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (5pTK/)

122 109 LOL its World of Warcraft Transmogs in real life!

https://tinyurl.com/4y8z35xm

These "digital fashion designers" are creating unique clothing that can only be used online and selling them for thousands of dollars.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:19 PM (Ivdso)

Online doesn't sound like irl.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (VPWcH)

123 What about those neat bridge-truck things the Army has? Where you roll up to a busted bridge, and *FWOMNP*, you slap down a collapsible temporary bridge over it. That could work, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
___

M60 AVLB (Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge).

Posted by: SMH at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (A00u7)

124 "Floridians pay Federal taxes - they deserve FEMA money."

it is like emergency insurance, but they don't pay taxes in line with their risk. Stossel took the big payout for his storm damaged coastal home ... kinda does not make sense that those on the coast can skip the flood insurance, the guys inland will cover it.

But rebuilding infrastructure, sure, makes sense. The rest I guess is necessary ... but how much is graft? Probably half?

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (Cus5s)

125 Pecos Bill was actually from El Paso.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (R8uWY)

126 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (bs+z0)

Sharks in the Everglades! Gators and sharks fight it out in the Battle of the Dinosaurs.
Posted by: Miss Issippi

Don't forget the pythons!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (ItDxt)

127 500 year flood?

Pffft.... whatever.

Posted by: Noah at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (88xKn)

128 How many "once in a lifetime" storms can I have in one lifetime that still has decades to go?
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

I was in Biloxi, Mississippi for Camille. There have been more expensive storms (cuz the money is worth less) but nothing has beaten that yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (GYIa4)

129 I subscribe to a Canadian lineman

*sings*

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for al time
And the Canadian lineman's
Still eatin' pouti-i-i-ine!

Posted by: Zombie glen Campbell at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (KLPy8)

130 > How many states are sending Guardsmen?

Ours are mostly still busy helping out with the aftermath of the massive Bering Sea storm we had about a week ago.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (bW8dp)

131 The award winning Broward County engineering design firm that specializes in installing pancaking pedestrian bridges has proposed to erect and collapse three of four of them in that gap to create a base of rubble for the replacement roadway.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM

FIGG Bridge Group
motto: "Creating Bridges as Art"

Posted by: Chuck C at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (xttsV)

132 I think Florida Man has a brother that lives in Puyallup WA and drives a huge tricked-out Ford F-150 with monster tires and the same flag flying in the back.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (anj39)

133 >>Damn, this is helping DeSantis look Presidential!

Still. I want an idea of what the guy's Foreign Policy take is.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (L6gKs)

134 Online doesn't sound like irl.

yeah you're right. I was just thinking "not in a game".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (Ivdso)

135 Prayers up for our Florida hordlings.

Posted by: Hollywood at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (pxnjE)

136 The 500 year math works a bit different at least for wind because the max wind speed occurrence does not plot linearly.

So I'm not sure it's actually 0.2 percent chance but it's something like that.

Atc hazards website is fun. Plug in your address and poke around at what might happen to your hometown.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (YD19C)

137 Insom?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (g1EEm)

Insomniac. He is a beloved, long time commenter who took a break for his own sanity. He is also in florida. He checked in this morning to mention that it was 'a little windy' but he and his were fine. I immediately started a bit about Insom at the scene of various massive disasters and him making light of it like a chad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (5r4XQ)

138 We have more "historic" storms in terms of damage because we build more things in the historic paths of hurricanes/flood plains/etc

This is partly because we are wealthier, partly because of insurance, but mostly because of the way the government works
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:14 PM (ESjRY)

Seems very anti-Darwin-esque.

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (Ed8Zd)

139 125 Pecos Bill was actually from El Paso.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (R8uWY)

John Derbyshire is from Lincolnshire. (or something)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (/EuRN)

140 Has anyone heard from Jane Do'h?

Posted by: Infidel at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (+J0HH)

141 87 Already getting windy at my house.
Posted by: Quirky bookworm at September 29, 2022 12:16 PM (gBvlU)

Been blowing pretty good here since yesterday morning. I hope Ian is well off-shore when it goes by.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (MkuC5)

142 > That's Stacy Abrams. This shrieking harpy works for the Weather Channel.

Stacy would make an excellent dike against storm surge.

Dike, I said. Dike.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (bW8dp)

143 And David French is actually an asshole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (/EuRN)

144 It's a 500 year event, but all of these media network complex jackasses pull out the experts and tell you that they know what the fuck is going on.

They're stupid and they lie. Something, something, climate!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (z+OQR)

145 I read a story from Barbuda when they got hit with the big hurricane a few years ago.

Basically a guy and his cousin were in a relatively well built house. He was sleeping on the couch in the living room and he noticed that the ceiling had this weird light coming in the corner.

Then as he woke up more he realized it was because the wind was pull that corner of the ceiling up and the whole thing was going to come off shortly.

He got his cousin up as the roof ripped off and they basically had to crawl to a neighbor's house (which didn't lose its ceiling).

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (ESjRY)

146 Glad I had homeowners insurance.

Homeowners insurance: Oh, we don't cover that. You need flood insurance.
Flood insurance: That there is hurricane damage. You need hurricane insurance
Hurricane insurance: No, man. Act of God. Sorry.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (R8uWY)

147 That's Stacy Abrams. This shrieking harpy works for the Weather Channel.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Ah. I stopped watching them after they screwed me over on Christmas with family over some bullshit "apocalyptic winter storm" that wound up being a big pile of nothin'. Fuck them and the fiber optics the channel travels over.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (OUMaO)

148 Prayers

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (EGSGm)

149 Sucks that people play politics with natural disasters, but that's who we're living with.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (XvPQV)

150 Insom (earlier on the Art thread): I don't think the heavy stuff will come down for a while yet. We should play on thru.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (4I/2K)

151 73 Has the Cajun Navy arrived?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 29, 2022

Love those guys. When I was a merchant mariner I worked with a guy named "Hymee Bourgeois" (pronounced Booshwah). I figured he was a Mk1 Mod 0 Cajun who got his license "up through he hawsepipe (hawsepiper)" like me. So I asked him how he got his license. He said; "I went to Kings Point."

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (pN0Zg)

152 So I'm not sure it's actually 0.2 percent chance but it's something like that.

Atc hazards website is fun. Plug in your address and poke around at what might happen to your hometown.
Posted by: TexasDan at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (YD19C)

I don't know anything about wind speed, but for flooding, it's 0.2%.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (OQcPl)

153 Stephanie Abrams has been out walking the neighborhoods this am to show water in ditches and downed trees.
Posted by: Jen the original at September 29, 2022 12:10 PM (MMsiV)

I recall a photo of some reporter, Anderson Cooper maybe, standing in waist deep water talking about a storm and someone walked by and the water was only up to mid shin. Cooper was standing in a hole or something to make the scene more dramatic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (GYIa4)

154 149 Sucks that people play politics with natural disasters, but that's who we're living with.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (XvPQV)

Moral Equivalent of War was bad enough. Now we have the Moral Equivalent of Total War.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (/EuRN)

155 This just in, the same assholes virtual signaling a few weeks ago about how aghast they were that DeathSantis sent a couple dozen illegals to a self declared sanctuary city, that those were HUMAN BEINGS AND HOW DARE HE, now rooting for those red state rubes to die by the truckload.

Posted by: Ravenmother at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (lMOhx)

156 This is just so sad. The last hurricane that we had in Texas was Harvey and most of the damage happened days after with the flooding.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

157 My step sister lives in Cape Coral. She's on a second floor unit along the Citrus Canal. I sure hope she's ok.
Did anyone see that weather guy record that poor little gray kitten sitting on the bench with water all around it and he didn't try and save it. It was apparently swept away. Someone said it swam away before the water rose too far, but that's bullshit, cats won't do that until they have too.

Posted by: Jaimo at September 29, 2022 12:26 PM (DBrN4)

158 I recall a photo of some reporter, Anderson Cooper maybe, standing in waist deep water talking about a storm and someone walked by and the water was only up to mid shin. Cooper was standing in a hole or something to make the scene more dramatic.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (GYIa4)

That was Jesus. Rapture already happened. Saw that poofy dink standing in a hole and said, "You know what? Fuck this place."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:26 PM (/EuRN)

159 The award winning Broward County engineering design firm that specializes in installing pancaking pedestrian bridges has proposed to erect and collapse three of four of them in that gap to create a base of rubble for the replacement roadway.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (pNxlR)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2022 12:26 PM (5yxuf)

160 Remember when Sean Penn bought a john boat to "help out" with Katrina, but forgot to screw in the drain plug?

Comedy gold.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2022 12:26 PM (bW8dp)

161 The video of Naples' garage was what happened to a friend's home on LBI in Jersey when Sandy came thru except the H2O went up 8 of those stairs. She only had 12 to get to the first floor. She had a guy friend with her but said afterwards, F-this. She will leave next time.

Posted by: sidney at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (Uy/WF)

162
FIGG Bridge Group
motto: "Creating Bridges as Art"
Posted by: Chuck C at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (xttsV)

_________

Bridge building priorities

1. Stays up
1846. Artistic

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (1Nxff)

163 "50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier"

I can jump it.

Posted by: The General Lee at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (qH6FZ)

164 Still. I want an idea of what the guy's Foreign Policy take is.
---------------
If the FL ANG invaded Cuba would that do it for you?

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (v0xyy)

165 Moral Equivalent of War was bad enough. Now we have the Moral Equivalent of Total War.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (/EuRN)

Jah and it's less figurative and more literal every day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (XvPQV)

166 Biden flag guy is an American hero.

Also, is anyone surprised the hags from The View are rooting for deaths? And yet, we'd be the bad people is we gloated at Whoopi or Joy's demise.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (d2bW3)

167 Maybe Sean could bring a bucket of electricity for those EV owners who didn't have the range to evacuate

Posted by: Chicago Vota at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (ts6Zs)

168 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (bs+z0)

Sounds like the upside of all this is we get to see copperheads fighting sharks fighting water moccasins.

Three cold-blooded creatures enter!

Posted by: spindrift at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (h5TKJ)

169 I ran my home through that ATC website and they said winds could get as high as 115 mph!! Decent chance of flooding but not at where we live. The big flood a few decades ago but it didn't get as high as where we live. Got a foot or so of water in the basement.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (Ivdso)

170 163 "50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,
cutting off Sanibel Island from the mainland and
stranding anyone who did not evacuate earlier"

I can jump it.
----------------
Don't laugh, a Marine LAV crew did just that in Iraq. No shit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (v0xyy)

171 Sending prayers and thoughts for those in the storm's path. I know we all love much of what happens in Florida these days, but I can't imagine living there.

I was looking at a possible job in the area, but I'm thinking, yeah, no.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (YV6PJ)

172 1 Is Dave ok? I think he is in FL.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant!

...I mean, it kinda is there in his nic, after all. Kinda like a brand? Better than NYC's, anyway.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (OUMaO)
******
I've been wondering about Dave. Has anyone heard from him?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

173 >>I can jump it.
Posted by: The General Lee at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (qH6FZ)

Piker.

Posted by: Zombie Evel K at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (L6gKs)

174 Love those guys. When I was a merchant mariner I worked with a guy named "Hymee Bourgeois" (pronounced Booshwah). I figured he was a Mk1 Mod 0 Cajun who got his license "up through he hawsepipe (hawsepiper)" like me. So I asked him how he got his license. He said; "I went to Kings Point."
Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (pN0Zg)

*Snort*

Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (anj39)

175 124 "Floridians pay Federal taxes - they deserve FEMA money."

it is like emergency insurance, but they don't pay taxes in line with their risk....

You mad Bro? Florida Man might be smarter than you think.

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:28 PM (pN0Zg)

176 Has anyone heard from Jane Do'h?

Posted by: Infidel

Aren't they in Georgia?

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at September 29, 2022 12:29 PM (OUMaO)

177
I'd just be happy if we could get the moral equivalent of morality in gov't programs and actions.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 29, 2022 12:29 PM (KLPy8)

178 154 149 Sucks that people play politics with natural disasters, but that's who we're living with.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 29, 2022 12:24 PM (XvPQV)

Moral Equivalent of War was bad enough. Now we have the Moral Equivalent of Total War.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (/EuRN)

Yeah it's crazy how much more inhumane attitudes are. Petty wars for the ambitions of kings wasn't fun but this level of hatred wasn't there. Out with the scandal of the wars between the Christian princes, in with the scandal of the wars between the Christian* peoples.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:29 PM (VPWcH)

179 133 >>Damn, this is helping DeSantis look Presidential!

Still. I want an idea of what the guy's Foreign Policy take is.
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2022 12:22 PM (L6gKs)

Safe to say, he is more concerned with securing the sovereignty of America than helping some crazed inbred lunatics build a one world government.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 29, 2022 12:29 PM (sI15f)

180 Cooper was standing in a hole or something to make the scene more dramatic.

Like the reporter girl in a canoe that had people walk past her in the 4" water behind them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:29 PM (Ivdso)

181 This just in, the same assholes virtual signaling a few weeks ago about how aghast they were that DeathSantis sent a couple dozen illegals to a self declared sanctuary city, that those were HUMAN BEINGS AND HOW DARE HE, now rooting for those red state rubes to die by the truckload.
Posted by: Ravenmother at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (lMOhx)

I expect nothing less. They're mentally-defective amoral fucking pigs. I was hoping the new Venezuelans would start offing them in MV.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 12:29 PM (dRuuV)

182 There were a couple of days where the track was predicted to roll right over Ocala, so everyone around here battened down and got ready. Fortunately it passed across the state far enough south that we just got a bunch of rain and a little bit of wind. Where I am we didn't even lose power --kind of a surprise given that a big thunder storm will knock it out around here. The intertubes are down but our local cable company is craptacular. The southeast part of the county may have been hit harder but I have no way to check.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at September 29, 2022 12:30 PM (3dSQy)

183 151 73 Has the Cajun Navy arrived?

Yes, and has already set up a large Safe Site with other non-profits; received over 400 requests for help, and has already rescued dozens.

They're one group I routinely donate to. (Yes, bad form, don't end a sentence with a preposition.)

Posted by: Lola at September 29, 2022 12:30 PM (NIYa7)

184 121. Biden signed a disaster declaration for Florida several days before the storm hit so that FEMA could stage supplies etc ahead of time and several Federal agencies were directly working with DeSantis administration to coordinate efforts such as out of state linemen etc. The call from the President is mostly a formality, a courtesy given to assure assistance and highlight any bottlenecks. Biden cannot coordinate getting off a stage, his phone call was a meaningless news op meant to quiet criticism.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 29, 2022 12:30 PM (MMsiV)

185 This is a yuge storm, we're already getting winds up here, rain tonight/tomorrow.

--

Yes! I'm in the Reidville area right next to you. I'm surprised at the winds that are already kicking up.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 29, 2022 12:30 PM (sVtYq)

186 Also Insom in 1871 in the Windy City: Yeah, it got a little smoky out last night, nothing major. The sky glowed orange a little bit too. That's all. Heard a cow mooing,

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2022 12:30 PM (4I/2K)

187 158 I recall a photo of some reporter, Anderson Cooper maybe, standing in waist deep water talking about a storm and someone walked by and the water was only up to mid shin. Cooper was standing in a hole or something to make the scene more dramatic.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:25 PM (GYIa4)

That was Jesus. Rapture already happened. Saw that poofy dink standing in a hole and said, "You know what? Fuck this place."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:26 PM (/EuRN)

Reporter trying to "fight against wind" as people walk casually in the background. https://youtu.be/ZyrRCx8-fZk

Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:31 PM (aRLgQ)

188 Stephanie Abrams peddles fear 24/7.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (dRuuV)

There's too many Abrams on TV.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 29, 2022 12:18 PM (bhRsz)

We watched a CNN vid yesterday where some dumbass was out in the wind pretending to barely be able to stand while reporting. Camera was perfectly stable capturing it all. They're all FUD-peddling clowns.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:31 PM (yHsuS)

189 "but they don't pay taxes in line with their risk"
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:21 PM (Cus5s)

Yeah, I don't pay taxes in line with my risk. I guess an amount more than the median annual income or more is just not enough.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 29, 2022 12:31 PM (MkuC5)

190 Reporter; water waist deep in the middle of the street stabbed in the but by Sword Fish.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at September 29, 2022 12:31 PM (gpmLW)

191 By the way I am currently reading The Suriname Job by one of you rascals and its good stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:32 PM (Ivdso)

192 Cooper was standing in a hole or something to make the scene more dramatic.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Nope, he was in his usual posture... on his knees.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2022 12:32 PM (ItDxt)

193 Glad I had homeowners insurance.

Homeowners insurance: Oh, we don't cover that. You need flood insurance.
Flood insurance: That there is hurricane damage. You need hurricane insurance
Hurricane insurance: No, man. Act of God. Sorry.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:23 PM (R8uWY)

In my last house I lived next to a lake. When it rained really bad the lower section of the yard would flood to where I could canoe from my yard to the lake. I tried to get flood insurance, but they said I wasn't in a flood zone. I said really? Every time we get a tropical storm I got an old dude out back building a big ass boat and stuffing it full of animals, so WTF is your idea of a flood zone? I eventually was able to get it. Never needed it though thank god.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2022 12:32 PM (VwHCD)

194 The first thing I read when I went looking for Ian news articles was that Ian took out their electrical grid.

I'll be like "but of course" if/when Biden and the beltway send more relief $$ to Cuba than to Florida.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (3cGpq)

195 >>>Reporter; water waist deep in the middle of the street stabbed in the but by Sword Fish.

Posted by: Braenyard

Probably not her first time.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (d2bW3)

196 What do they mean by "the Surfside tragedy"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (J2vNu)

197 Without specifying the region the event applies to, "500 year event" means nothing.

If the region is the whole earth, then we should see one such event every 500 years. So it's a big deal.

If the region is the state of Florida, not so much. If the region is just the counties affected, even less so much.

There are 3,243 counties in the US. The probability that at least one of them has a 500 year event in any given year is 99.9%. That's assuming the events are independent, which they're not, but you get the idea: 500-year events happen regularly.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (g1EEm)

198 Sheesh poor writing. The first thing I read about Ian was that it took out CUBA's electrical grid.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (3cGpq)

199 Florida soils are pretty sandy (not everywhere but in a lot of areas, even inland). They drain fast.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 29, 2022 12:34 PM (aW5/6)

200 And here's Cooper whining about Trump Jr. ripping him for dramatizing a hurricane.

https://youtu.be/teDKB1sQgrE

Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:34 PM (aRLgQ)

201 196 What do they mean by "the Surfside tragedy"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Champlain Towers South collapse?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:34 PM (g1EEm)

202 Watching DeSantis on TV and it is clear to me that he is both punchy from lack of sleep, and it is clear that the reports he is getting are not as bad as he feared so there is a bit of relief showing.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2022 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

203 Talk about clairvoyant, Governor Ron evacuating new Florida arrivals to Martha’s Vineyard many days before Ian formed as a tropical cyclone.

Posted by: Paco Pacem at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (GstKi)

204 Who gives a crap about this 500-year thing? "Hey, that's a pretty big storm." "I know, right?" End of conversation. What in the yellow brick fuck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (/EuRN)

205
They're one group I routinely donate to. (Yes, bad form, don't end a sentence with a preposition.)
Posted by: Lola at September 29, 2022 12:30 PM (NIYa7)

Considering what you are doing, I'd say that was excellent form. Thanks for mentioning them - I was wondering how to help, and they sound like good people who do the right thing with donations.

Posted by: Moki at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (JrN/x)

206 The award winning Broward County engineering design firm that specializes in installing pancaking pedestrian bridges has proposed to erect and collapse three of four of them in that gap to create a base of rubble for the replacement roadway.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 29, 2022 12:17 PM (pNxlR)

All the other engineering firms said I was daft to install a replacement road but I did it all the same. It fell down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (GYIa4)

207 He still needs to be a bit grimmer, I think. People are dead after all, even if it is their own fault.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (yQpMk)

208 They're one group I routinely donate to. (Yes, bad form, don't end a sentence with a preposition.)
Posted by: Lola at September 29, 2022

***
That was a rule for Latin, not for English. Must I quote my famous remark?

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (J2vNu)

209 126 On the news last night I saw a picture of a shark swimming down the middle of a street...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 29, 2022 12:09 PM (bs+z0)

Sharks in the Everglades! Gators and sharks fight it out in the Battle of the Dinosaurs.
Posted by: Miss Issippi

Don't forget the pythons!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2022 12:21

And the Iguanas.

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (pN0Zg)

210 And the Today Show Canoe.

https://youtu.be/cgm3_jzcNm4

Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (aRLgQ)

211 it is clear that the reports he is getting are not as bad as he feared so there is a bit of relief showing.

I am guessing that the winds didn't do as much damage as feared but the flooding is going to be a bit lasting

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (Ivdso)

212
Meanwhile, 100 miles south in Cuba, electricity has been restored, damage has been cleared, and happy smiling people are enjoying free healthcare and Margaritas on the beach!

Posted by: Auspex at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (j4U/Z)

213
If the region is the state of Florida, not so much. If the region is just the counties affected, even less so much.

There are 3,243 counties in the US. The probability that at least one of them has a 500 year event in any given year is 99.9%. That's assuming the events are independent, which they're not, but you get the idea: 500-year events happen regularly.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (g1EEm)

Probably Florida but this is the sort of thing that tends to get modeled with a normal curve and those tend to be dramatically off on the tails.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (VPWcH)

214 Reporter; water waist deep in the middle of the street stabbed in the but by Sword Fish.

Posted by: Braenyard

This made me laugh out loud. Is it true? LOL

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (sI15f)

215 We watched a CNN vid yesterday where some dumbass was out in the wind pretending to barely be able to stand while reporting. Camera was perfectly stable capturing it all. They're all FUD-peddling clowns.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:31 PM (yHsuS)

I saw a couple of different reporters in empty parking lots, maybe 10 yards from where the cameras were sheltered, saying small debris including broken pieces of roofing tiles, was flying past them. I hope the dummies doing stunts like this get a big chunk of bonus pay.

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (AMIL/)

216 Dave in Fla to comment in 3...2...1...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

217 >>Damn, this is helping DeSantis look Presidential!

(What every leftist and media asshole is thinking right now)

Posted by: JoeF. at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (mR6Gs)

218 Casa Dave in Fla Update:

Ian did track directly over my house. Fortunately, by the time it got here it was down to a Cat 1, and by the time the rear of the eyewall came over the house (pretty much right now) it is down to a tropical storm.

I did a quick check this morning and I can find no damage anywhere. Roof looks fine. A few branches are down. All of the screens from the enclosure are intact (which is unusual, we usually lose those).

When I woke up at 6AM it was because the noise had gone away. So the eye moving over us actually woke me up.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (5p7BC)

219 We had a 500 year flood here in 2011, and again in 2019. Man, time flies when you're dealing with Cassandras!

Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (FJYfm)

220 Reporter; water waist deep in the middle of the street stabbed in the but by Sword Fish.

Posted by: Braenyard
*
Probably not her first time.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 29, 2022

***
Swordfish: "Hel-lo, bay-bee!!!"

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (J2vNu)

221 About 10 years ago when I watched the Wearher Channek to quickly get the weather, I had a thing for Stephanie Abrahms.

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (ep37o)

222 These "digital fashion designers" are creating unique clothing that can only be used online and selling them for thousands of dollars.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:19 PM (Ivdso)

That expression about a fool and his money has never been more apropos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (GYIa4)

223 And the Today Show Canoe.

https://youtu.be/cgm3_jzcNm4

Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:36 PM (aRLgQ)

Those never get old.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (yHsuS)

224 "it is like emergency insurance, but they don't pay taxes in line with their risk...."
You mad Bro? Florida Man might be smarter than you think. Posted by: Muthaucker

ha, no, but the comment was I pay taxes, I deserve free flood insurance for my home on the coast. That's not how "paying for insurance" works.

I'm rural, half mile lane ... getting electric here costs a little more, but they don't charge more. But I'm special so I really DO deserve it. (but because I'm special, not because I pay taxes) ... heh

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (Cus5s)

225 Wonder if there were any Democrat states who helped Florida during the hurricane?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (d2bW3)

226 And the Today Show Canoe.

That's what I was referring to yeah. Pathetic even for the Today Show

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (Ivdso)

227 Sheesh poor writing. The first thing I read about Ian was that it took out CUBA's electrical grid.
Posted by: PaleRider

One guy sneezed and too out the Cuban Electrical Grid.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (U14qJ)

228 219 We had a 500 year flood here in 2011, and again in 2019. Man, time flies when you're dealing with Cassandras!
Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (FJYfm)

==========

If one were a cynic, one could say that the models are intentionally wrong to make things seem worse than they are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

229 Perry Greene, who married the politician and far-right conspiracy theorist, is also asking to seal the divorce proceedings, “because the parties’ significant privacy interest in sealing the records outweighs the public’s minuscule interest in access to said records,” court documents show

Yeah. That seal will last 15 minutes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (R8uWY)

230 After Katrina, I tried to donate a brand new 5kw gen to Red Cross, they wanted ca$h...same w/Sally Army. Gave it to a church group collecting relief supplies.
Posted by: BignJames at September 29, 2022 12:20 PM (AwYPR)

Harder to get your 10% out of a generator.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (GYIa4)

231 They're one group I routinely donate to. (Yes, bad form, don't end a sentence with a preposition.)
Posted by: Lola

It took longer to apologize for your bad form than it would have taken to write "They're one group to whom I routinely donate."

But I hear you. The latter form sounds pompous. Is there a way to do it sans the pomposity?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (g1EEm)

232 11WATCH: Man in Florida holding anti-Biden flag as Hurricane Ian approaches pic.twitter.com/kw6dxIlqDQ

- Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 28, 2022
Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

Paging Francis Scott Key!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (a1ycR)

233 The Waffle House Index is used by FEMA and other emergency responders to gauge storm severity.

Posted by: Lola at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (NIYa7)

234 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (eyxn4)

235 The Democrat platform is; kill babies up until birth, flood cities with crime, undermine your civil rights, use government auspices to destroy political enemies, make everything unaffordable to increase our misery, destroy our industries, flood the country with illegal immigrants, sacrifice your children to their pederasty, corrupt your children's minds, and undermine the country with racist policies.

Why is anyone surprised they are wishing death on Floridians?

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (tDEa7)

236 "Dave in Fla to comment in 3...2...1..."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

We could say something like, "Charlie Crist has a good chance of beating DeSantis", that should bring him out.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (qH6FZ)

237 > The Waffle House Index is used by FEMA and other emergency responders to gauge storm severity.

I would like to know more.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (eyxn4)

238 Sounds like the upside of all this is we get to see copperheads fighting sharks fighting water moccasins.

Three cold-blooded creatures enter!
Posted by: spindrift at September 29, 2022 12:27 PM (h5TKJ)

Shark vs Mecha-Copperhead was the best of the franchise.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2022 12:41 PM (yQpMk)

239 Aaaand Dave's here.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 29, 2022 12:41 PM (qH6FZ)

240 So the eye moving over us actually woke me up.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Nice alarm you have there Dave.

Glad to hear you weathered the storm.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2022 12:41 PM (ItDxt)

241 Has Sean Penn launched or are Floridians beneath him? No Virtue Points for saving whitey.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:41 PM (v0xyy)

242 236 "Dave in Fla to comment in 3...2...1..."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

We could say something like, "Charlie Crist has a good chance of beating DeSantis", that should bring him out.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (qH6FZ)

There's no point in me voting in November. I'm in Pennsylvania

*looks left* *looks right*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (/EuRN)

243 44 I love the guy, but my boy DeSantis has an agenda...its called "maximizing the FEMA payout for FL".

Any governor in the country would do that.

Floridians pay Federal taxes - they deserve FEMA money.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 29, 2022 12:11 PM (I2/tG)

I hate this about the tax system. The Fedgov collects taxes from everybody and the politicians have to fight to bring a "fair share" back to their own subset of taxpayers. We should eliminate the middleman as far as possible.

Posted by: Emmie at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (6RgRK)

244 234 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk
Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (eyxn4)

Ewww... saw the story, one I read had NO MENTION he / she / it was a Trans.

Posted by: Heard by Floridian at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (oHd/0)

245 Probably Florida but this is the sort of thing that tends to get modeled with a normal curve and those tend to be dramatically off on the tails.
Posted by: Someguy's

That's one potential source of error. But more common when modeling financial timeseries. The insurance companies have a vested interest in modeling these things correctly. I don't know how FEMA generates their estimates - probably similar to what the insurance companies do.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (g1EEm)

246 > Reporter; water waist deep in the middle of the street stabbed in the but by Sword Fish.

Is this real? I googled "reporter swordfish" but got nothing.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (eyxn4)

247 >>>UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk

Posted by: bonhomme

It's the army. It'll likely get a promotion.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 29, 2022 12:43 PM (d2bW3)

248 On the flooding issue:

We have been having constant rain for the last 2 or 3 weeks, so the ground is saturated. The problem isn't the amount of rain Ian generated, but the fact that the aquifer is full.

Personally, I am good. I have wetlands behind me, but not enough rain to get up beyond the berm in the yard. I dug a trench yesterday to get the water from the pool deck to drain faster, and it worked very well. I'd need another foot of rain before I would need to worry.

But lower lying areas in flood zones are going to be flooded throughout the state. Not just in Ft. Myers.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 29, 2022 12:43 PM (5p7BC)

249 Aaaand Dave's here.
Posted by: lowandslow

Dave's not here, man.

Posted by: Tommy Chong at September 29, 2022 12:43 PM (U14qJ)

250 The Waffle House Index is used by FEMA and other emergency responders to gauge storm severity.

The amount of time it takes waffle house to get back in operation in a given area. They make it a priority to start serving food as quickly as possible in affected areas. Have stockpiled generators and fuel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:43 PM (R8uWY)

251 Reposting from earlier (so ace can see it if he wants)

Biden regime supporter National Review is doing victory laps over persuading the Regime to bomb the Nordstream pipeline.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ehe7fc

I guess they didn't get the same memo as our resident Soros trolls.

Posted by: Methos at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (kOpft)

252 The View thinks that hurricane Ian is a direct result of Governor Desantis' stance on climate change.

"And now his state is getting hit with one of the worst hurricanes."

*

It's neat how they don't believe in God, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (Y2MAM)

253 but the comment was I pay taxes, I deserve free flood insurance for my home on the coast. That's not how "paying for insurance" works.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (Cus5s)

Flood insurance isn't free. Duh.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (MkuC5)

254
I've been wondering about Dave. Has anyone heard from him?
Posted by: redridinghood

He was on the ONT saying things were OK.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (63Dwl)

255 219 We had a 500 year flood here in 2011, and again in 2019. Man, time flies when you're dealing with Cassandras!

Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (FJYfm)

About 350 years from now, we will have one good data point for a one-in-five hundred years weather event in most but not all locations in the lower 48 states. Much more will data needed to determine a fact-based 1-in-500 years event. Statistics!

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (AMIL/)

256 The Waffle House Index is used by FEMA and other emergency responders to gauge storm severity.

*

This is a true thing. Not a joke.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (Y2MAM)

257 244 234 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

that's just a dude with lip gloss on! come ON!

and married to a very unhappy looking Armenian lady doc. lol what a pair of jokers.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (w0NJk)

258 We should eliminate the middleman as far as possible.
Posted by: Emmie at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (6RgRK)

Government is just the name for the protection money we all have to pay together.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (/EuRN)

259 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk

Posted by: bonhomme

That's treason. Where's the summary execution?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (U14qJ)

260 How many "once in a lifetime" storms can I have in one lifetime that still has decades to go?
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 29, 2022
*
I was in Biloxi, Mississippi for Camille. There have been more expensive storms (cuz the money is worth less) but nothing has beaten that yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022

***
Camille missed us, but we had Betsy just 4 years before that which flattened and flooded the city, and then Katrina in '05. Funny how we got back to normal, schools open, etc., in less than a month in 1965, but it took months in 2005.

Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (J2vNu)

261 That's one potential source of error. But more common when modeling financial timeseries. The insurance companies have a vested interest in modeling these things correctly. I don't know how FEMA generates their estimates - probably similar to what the insurance companies do.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (g1EEm)

Uh, Insurance companies have to report to stock holders... and make them happy.

FEMA reports to Congresscritters... and will report what makes THEM happy.

Totes different goals, with different results.

Posted by: Romoe13 at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (oHd/0)

262 Jim Jones was nothing compared to the Klimate Kult.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (lTGtQ)

263 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk
Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (eyxn4)

Ewww... saw the story, one I read had NO MENTION he / she / it was a Trans.

Posted by: Heard by Floridian at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (oHd/0)

Wasn't Bradley Manning Army? I guess he was not tranny at the time, but this appears to be a trend where mentally ill folks are not trustworthy of clearance. Who could have predicted such?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (yHsuS)

264 When I woke up at 6AM it was because the noise had gone away. So the eye moving over us actually woke me up.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (5p7BC)
******
So glad you're ok!!!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (NpAcC)

265 245 Probably Florida but this is the sort of thing that tends to get modeled with a normal curve and those tend to be dramatically off on the tails.
Posted by: Someguy's

That's one potential source of error. But more common when modeling financial timeseries. The insurance companies have a vested interest in modeling these things correctly. I don't know how FEMA generates their estimates - probably similar to what the insurance companies do.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (g1EEm)

Insurance companies chronically underestimate risk(and this is part of finance anyways). One of the things taught in finance courses. It's why we have other backstops for them, they blow up now and then.

There just isn't a great method for accurately gauging tail risk, though variability in normal years seems to undersell the likelihood of extreme events.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:46 PM (VPWcH)

266 Wow, apparently only about 30 Waffle House locations in Florida are closed.

"Currently, more than 30 Waffle House locations in Florida are in the red zone. "

https://tinyurl.com/2maebrn3

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 29, 2022 12:46 PM (Y2MAM)

267 Floridians with nicely manicured lawns of St Augustine grass that are or soon will be inundated with rising flood waters will have a multi-year effort ahead of them to return the lawns to their pre-hurricane flooding fabulousness.

Happened here in Houston with Harvey floodwaters. The soil gets a lot of bad juju in it that takes time and sunshine to breakdown to minimal levels. All kinds of lawn eating pests, fungus, and disease gets triggered in the meantime.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 29, 2022 12:46 PM (4I/2K)

268 So the eye moving over us actually woke me up.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (5p7BC)

You were disturbed by the Meteorological Gaze!

Posted by: spindrift at September 29, 2022 12:46 PM (h5TKJ)

269 "...Most people don't think that way."

Well, at least 40 percent of the people do. It's frightening.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (ZCool)

270 If you're in the roofing business Florida is your oyster.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (v0xyy)

271 So the eye moving over us actually woke me up.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Nice alarm you have there Dave.

Glad to hear you weathered the storm.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 29, 2022 12:41 PM (ItDxt)

Yay!

Posted by: LASue at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (Ed8Zd)

272 Copperheads are a north FL and panhandle thing , central and south FL have honking great diamondbacks.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (3dSQy)

273 How many "once in a lifetime" storms can I have in one lifetime that still has decades to go?

*

We have one every year, don't we?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (Y2MAM)

274 That's treason. Where's the summary execution?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (U14qJ)

Summary?

"The State of yadda yadda does hereby decree, yadda yadda yadda, by the neck until dead, PRO-ceed."

(*fthwump*)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (/EuRN)

275 I've been wondering about Dave. Has anyone heard from him?
Posted by: redridinghood

He was on the ONT saying things were OK.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2022 12:44 PM (63Dwl)

Yeah. Dave in FL, Insom, a lady who goes by Goddess of the Classroom (IIRC). Any others?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:48 PM (yHsuS)

276 That's treason. Where's the summary execution?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM

I bet it will be plead down to an attempted HIPPA violation.

Posted by: Chuck C at September 29, 2022 12:48 PM (xttsV)

277 We had a 500 year flood here in 2011, and again in 2019. Man, time flies when you're dealing with Cassandras!
Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (FJYfm)

We had our 500 year flood in St Louis is 1993. Thank heavens Chris Columbus was here in 1493 to let everyone know about that one, or maybe we'd have thought '93 was a bazillion year flood.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2022 12:48 PM (YV6PJ)

278 If '500 year flood' doesn't mean 'a flood that only occurs once every few centuries,' it's a stupid name.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

279 Repost OT -

I just discovered QGIS, which is a open-source desktop geographic information system (GIS) application for making maps available free on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Here's a brief tutorial.

Make Maps in QGIS

https://youtu.be/850LCN0KcNM

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 29, 2022 12:49 PM (yHsuS)

280 I hope all the lineman crews have been issued their electric service trucks so they can fix all the climate damage.

Posted by: Don LeMon at September 29, 2022 12:49 PM (VDLxK)

281 Wow, apparently only about 30 Waffle House locations in Florida are closed.

"Currently, more than 30 Waffle House locations in Florida are in the red zone. "

https://tinyurl.com/2maebrn3
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 29, 2022 12:46 PM (Y2MAM)

It's Waffle House. If the grill still works, they're open.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (bhRsz)

282 That's treason. Where's the summary execution?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (U14qJ)

Why would Russia want Medical records? Unless there is psychological stuff in them...

Posted by: Romoe13 at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (oHd/0)

283 Fox showing video of a house on fire on Sanibel island. No one to put it out.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (hQvzR)

284 If you're in the roofing business Florida is your oyster.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 29, 2022 12:47 PM (v0xyy)

Assuming you can get material.

Posted by: BignJames at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (AwYPR)

285 278 If '500 year flood' doesn't mean 'a flood that only occurs once every few centuries,' it's a stupid name.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

It does but we likely estimate variability. It's not really a 500 year flood, maybe a 50 year one. We just have a bad predictive model.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (VPWcH)

286 *underestimate variability.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (VPWcH)

287 I'm a little worried about EveR. She is in Ft. Myers, but she is probably without power.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5p7BC)

288 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

289 Thank heavens Chris Columbus was here in 1493 to let everyone know about that one, or maybe we'd have thought '93 was a bazillion year flood

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE "500 YEAR FLOOD" MEANS "1 IN 500 CHANCE OF HAPPENING IN A GIVEN YEAR", NOT "500 YEARS BETWEEN FLOODS"

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (xttsV)

290

Rachel Dolezal has an Only Fans.

I guess we should be able to tell if she's a blonde white chick now...

I don't know if I wanna look.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5uVFH)

291 My grandparents' home (hit by Michael) needed both flood and wind insurance to be fully covered. It was hit by a 5 foot surge inland and then the roof was partially removed and the rain got in.

And right after the event, you had to show proof of residency to the NG in order to get into the area. No reporters/vultures allowed.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (wBpKf)

292 It's Waffle House. If the grill still works, they're open.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (bhRsz)

"I'll just drink the batter, man, come on, man, come onnnnnn!"

- hungover strung-out Floridian with the munchies

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (/EuRN)

293 The real emergency here is that Karen won't be able to quickly get her Bota Boxes. There will be hell to pay.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (ZCool)

294 It took longer to apologize for your bad form than it would have taken to write "They're one group to whom I routinely donate."

But I hear you. The latter form sounds pompous. Is there a way to do it sans the pomposity?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (g1EEm)

They're one group to whom I routinely donate, bitchez.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (GYIa4)

295 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk
Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (eyxn4)

Ewww... saw the story, one I read had NO MENTION he / she / it was a Trans.

Posted by: Heard by Floridian at September 29, 2022 12:42 PM (oHd/0)

A picture tells a thousand words

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (M+Lyo)

296 "Flood insurance isn't free. Duh." Posted by: CZ=FNG

I guess I was assuming a lot of the FEMA Bucks would go directly to many homeowners. (hence my example of Stossel saying that he got those big bucks ... like six figures iirc).

Katrina I think gave a lot of money to homeowners, so they could rebuild, all kinds of big money. So good, I had many friends that gutted their home and rebuilt ... got some big checks. Still sucked to be them for a couple years.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (Cus5s)

297 288 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

Now google Lithium, and water....

Posted by: Romoe13 at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (oHd/0)

298 234 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk
_________________________

He's not even trying! Slightly feminine looking haircut, earrings and lipstick, I've seen better attempts at looking like a women by frat dudes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (fs1hN)

299 So we are seeing a new version of the law of merited impossibility?

Old and Busted: It’s a complete absurdity to believe that Christians will suffer a single thing from the expansion of gay rights, and boy, do they deserve what they’re going to get

New Hotness: It’s a complete absurdity to believe that Biden would attack a Russian-German pipeline, and boy, did those NAZIs deserve what we gave them!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (ESjRY)

300 But I hear you. The latter form sounds pompous. Is there a way to do it sans the pomposity?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (g1EEm)
++++
I routinely donate to them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (t0OGg)

301 297 288 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

Now google Lithium, and water....
Posted by: Romoe13 at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (oHd/0)

=========

First I will put out this grease fire with some tap water.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (LvTSG)

302 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (T4tVD)

303 We had a 500 year flood here in 2011, and again in 2019. Man, time flies when you're dealing with Cassandras!
Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2022 12:38 PM (FJYfm)

Back a few decades ago, the Corps of Engineers built a levee system the next county over from mine on a channel where the Mississippi River backed up sometimes. A few years after that, a little town nearby that almost never flooded, had a disastrous flood. Then it had one again. And again. And again.

The Corps had initially told the residents they'd be safe from >90% of floods. So they started calling these "100-year-floods." Then they started calling them "500-year-floods." Finally, a few years ago they started buying out the homeowners and the town is like half the size it used to be.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (bhRsz)

304 290

Rachel Dolezal has an Only Fans.

I guess we should be able to tell if she's a blonde white chick now...

I don't know if I wanna look.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5uVFH)

Probably a tiled floor.

Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (aRLgQ)

305 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM

Where is our OG "electric vehicles are great" guy? I would expect him to be here to tell us how you can use the EV to power your house and to say that internal combustion engine cars burn all the time too.

Also, I'm waiting him to show up so I can go home. It's way after the end of my shift.

Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (xttsV)

306 I routinely donate to the Human Fund.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

307 "Probably Florida but this is the sort of thing that tends to get modeled with a normal curve and those tend to be dramatically off on the tails.
Posted by: Someguy's"

At their root, all models are Frequency X Consequence.

That's how I knew "climate change" was BS...no consequence or the consequence was BS.

It's also how I knew the covid vaccine was BS for most people...made sense for my 90 year-old mom...but not for me. Again, consequence.

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (pN0Zg)

308 Jim,
These lefty's say DeSantis is not the man for the job. Are they telling us his opponent in the last election.... That Crack Head Male Whore who sold himself in Motel 6 rooms for a fix WAS the "Man" for the job?

Posted by: BONES McCOY at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (z9V4B)

309 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No. It's Florida, not Africa.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (U14qJ)

310 ending a sentence in a preposition follows the separable-verb form of most germanic languages, where placing the pre-fixed prepositional particle of the separable verb at the end of the sentence is grammatically correct. It's a holdover from Aenglisc. Perfectly cromulent.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (/EuRN)

311 Car market is crashing. not a recession, though.

Shares of US auto dealers cratered today after CarMax’s Q2 reported catastrophic results which wildly missed estimates, sparking concern about the whole group. EPS of only 79c, almost half the $1.40 consensus estimate, shocked markets, while net sales of $8.14 billion also missed expectations. The stock lost a quarter of its value on Thursday.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (R8uWY)

312 I gotta say, when Sandy hit jersey in 2011 that was some unreal shit. Whole areas look like they were swept away by the hand of god. The houses didn't exist anymore, they just weren't there. The dirt wasn't even there because the land got reclaimed by the ocean and made new lagoons. Where I was we barely had rain. I actually had my windows open and was listening to wind high above the house. There were trees breaking all over, you could hear it, but no real rain, yet 35 miles south of me it was hell on earth. Weird how storms act.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (VwHCD)

313 But I hear you. The latter form sounds pompous. Is there a way to do it sans the pomposity?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:39 PM (g1EEm)
++++
I routinely donate to them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (t0OGg)

Hey man, do you speak jive ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (M+Lyo)

314 New Hotness: It’s a complete absurdity to believe that Biden would attack a Russian-German pipeline, and boy, did those NAZIs deserve what we gave them!
Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 12:53 PM (ESjRY)

I LOVE the expert analysis I'm seeing that the leaks in the pipelines will cause an environmental disaster because Natural Gas has a LOT of methane in it!!!!

Except that... there is no gas IN the pipelines, they were both not running.

Posted by: Romoe13 at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (oHd/0)

315 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?

Remember when Richard Hammoned crashed that electric supercar on Grand Tour? It lit on fire and burned. For a week straight. One cell would light up, then another, then another. They couldn't put it out.

If '500 year flood' doesn't mean 'a flood that only occurs once every few centuries,' it's a stupid name.

Weather people do this a lot. You know that percent chance of rain? It doesn't mean the chance. It means the percentage of area in a given location that is getting rain.

So if you have a 50% chance of rain, that means they are predicting that half the area is going to get rain.

Its all pretty misleading and poorly stated. But hey, meteorologists probably didn't do real great in the language portion of their education

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (Ivdso)

316 It does but we likely estimate variability. It's not really a 500 year flood, maybe a 50 year one. We just have a bad predictive model.
Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (VPWcH)

It's kinda like box office numbers: Avatar is highest grossing film of all time! Endgame surpasses Avatar!!

Yeah, when Gone With the Wind was in theaters, it cost a nickel to get in.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (YV6PJ)

317 285 278 If '500 year flood' doesn't mean 'a flood that only occurs once every few centuries,' it's a stupid name.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

It does but we likely estimate variability. It's not really a 500 year flood, maybe a 50 year one. We just have a bad predictive model.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (VPWcH)

Yet tens of millions of people in the US believe we are all certain to die within ten years or so due to effects of climate change. Effects and a time frame that are produced by un-verified models.

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (AMIL/)

318 Where is our OG "electric vehicles are great" guy? I would expect him to be here to tell us how you can use the EV to power your house and to say that internal combustion engine cars burn all the time too.

Also, I'm waiting him to show up so I can go home. It's way after the end of my shift.
Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy

Whoops!
COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER': YOUTUBER CLAIMS FORD'S ELECTRIC TRUCK CAN'T DO BASIC TRUCK THINGS

https://bit.ly/3E3aEkm

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (U14qJ)

319 Insurance companies chronically underestimate risk(and this is part of finance anyways).

Bad insurance companies. It's why there are prudential regulators. Which can also fail to do their job, to be sure. Finance is different from financial timeseries - price movements. There the normal distribution fails spectacularly, yet is still used.
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
It's why we have other backstops for them, they blow up now and then.
E.g. SuperCat reinsurance. A legitimate backstop. Offloading a tail risk too great onto someone with deeper pockets.
There just isn't a great method for accurately gauging tail risk
There are lots of methods.
variability in normal years seems to undersell the likelihood of extreme events.
By definition.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (g1EEm)

320 ending a sentence in a preposition follows the separable-verb form of most germanic languages, where placing the pre-fixed prepositional particle of the separable verb at the end of the sentence is grammatically correct. It's a holdover from Aenglisc. Perfectly cromulent.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (/EuRN)

Hey man, do you speak jive ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (M+Lyo)

321 311 Car market is crashing. not a recession, though.

Shares of US auto dealers cratered today after CarMax’s Q2 reported catastrophic results which wildly missed estimates, sparking concern about the whole group. EPS of only 79c, almost half the $1.40 consensus estimate, shocked markets, while net sales of $8.14 billion also missed expectations. The stock lost a quarter of its value on Thursday.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (R8uWY)

Important question for me. Does this mean good news for buying a new car in the near future?

Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (aRLgQ)

322 I would think that the lift created across a solar panel would send it into outer space

funny but not much on that

Posted by: REDACTED at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (us2H3)

323 No. It's Florida, not Africa.

Nobody blesses the rains down in Florida, even if it rains.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (Ivdso)

324 Think the rains will be enough to put out one EV fire?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No. It's Florida, not Africa.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (U14qJ)

Hey, don't put this on us!

Posted by: Toto at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (bhRsz)

325 Hey man, do you speak jive ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (M+Lyo)

haaaaaaaaa short-term call-back.

well played.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (/EuRN)

326 SisterA texts dock under foot of water, house dry, power out.

Posted by: DaveA at September 29, 2022 12:58 PM (FhXTo)

327 Has anyone un-confused Biden yet a Hurricane hit Florida and Ian is not some English Rock Singer from the 1960's.

You wait, The idiots on the view are going to argue we need to change the word "Hurricane" to something Gender Neutral because they have the IQ of a used Kamala Harris Tampon.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 29, 2022 12:58 PM (p3lya)

328 306 I routinely donate to the Human Fund.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at September 29, 2022 12:54 PM (LvTSG)
===

I like their motto; simple and straight forward. "Money for people."

Posted by: Augustine at September 29, 2022 12:58 PM (BDZWU)

329 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM (R8uWY)

If you try to order a Chevy right now, they will not even tell you what features it will have.

They say you have to look at the sticker, once delivered, due to supply line issues (thanks China and Joe!).

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2022 12:59 PM (oHd/0)

330 Any reports of cannibalism yet?

Posted by: Shep Smith at September 29, 2022 12:59 PM (VbI7r)

331 Odds that more people are killed in Chicongo over July 4th weekend than in the entire state of Florida due to Ian?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 29, 2022 12:59 PM (u4CEu)

332 COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER': YOUTUBER CLAIMS FORD'S ELECTRIC TRUCK CAN'T DO BASIC TRUCK THINGS

To sum up the video, Tyler bought a Ford Lightning 150, and drove 30 miles to a shop with an empty aluminum trailer to pick up a car. He had over 200 miles of alleged "range" on the truck, but it used up about 45 miles of range to get to the shop because of the drag of the trailer.

He loaded a Model A truck on the back and drove home, and it used up around 60 miles of range.

Basically, the reduction of range from any regular use is very heavy with weight (say, passengers, groceries in the back, etc) and the reduction caused by weight is so bad that it renders a pickup pretty worthless for its most basic job of carrying things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 01:00 PM (Ivdso)

333 296 "Flood insurance isn't free. Duh." Posted by: CZ=FNG

I guess I was assuming a lot of the FEMA Bucks would go directly to many homeowners. (hence my example of Stossel saying that he got those big bucks ... like six figures iirc).

Katrina I think gave a lot of money to homeowners, so they could rebuild, all kinds of big money. So good, I had many friends that gutted their home and rebuilt ... got some big checks. Still sucked to be them for a couple years.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 29, 2022 12:52 PM (Cus5s)

I won't dispute the system is rife with all kinds of corruption. That's for sure.

I guess the rub for me is it's just that I'm not good at it...

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 29, 2022 01:00 PM (MkuC5)

334 When the stupid train stopped to unload, Joy Behar asked for a boxcar full--and got it. At 75 she's too soon old and will never get smart.

Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at September 29, 2022 01:00 PM (K57hO)

335 Prayers for the Florida contingent of the Horde.

'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household'.

Posted by: artisanal ette at September 29, 2022 01:00 PM (+Wc1h)

336 If you use an electric truck like a car and not a truck it is a pretty ok car.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at September 29, 2022 01:00 PM (R8uWY)

337 I like their motto; simple and straight forward. "Money for people."
Posted by: Augustine at September 29, 2022 12:58 PM (BDZWU)
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Chicks for free.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 29, 2022 01:01 PM (9nXhD)

338 Hey, those EVs will come in handy in Florida after the storm because the gas stations are all closed....... Wait and see the idiots on the Green Energy crowd will make this stupid statement in less then 24 hours. Never mind the Electrical Grid in most of FL is down....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 29, 2022 01:01 PM (p3lya)

339
Rachel Dolezal has an Only Fans.

I guess we should be able to tell if she's a blonde white chick now...

I don't know if I wanna look.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5uVFH)

Her pics flew around the twats for a while. She's white. Still pretending she's black.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

340 "There just isn't a great method for accurately gauging tail risk"
There are lots of methods.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (g1EEm)

We don't have the observations for a Bayesian approach. It's precisely why we use a distribution calculated off of sample variability for the model. If you've got some genius method to get around the lack of observations there are plenty of orgs that would love to make use of it.

Posted by: Someguy's at September 29, 2022 01:01 PM (VPWcH)

341 Camille missed us, but we had Betsy just 4 years before that which flattened and flooded the city, and then Katrina in '05. Funny how we got back to normal, schools open, etc., in less than a month in 1965, but it took months in 2005.
Posted by: Zombie Winston Churchill at September 29, 2022 12:45 PM (J2vNu)

I was just a kid and we were in a shelter on the AF base. I vividly remember having to go to the restroom so we had to walk past the guard stationed at the doors to make sure no one left. The glass doors. On the hurricane shelter.

I recall looking out and seeing a car go by. Vertically. About 3 feet off the ground. Made an impression.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM (GYIa4)

342 UNEXPECTEDLY. The Army's Historic First Tranny Officer caught trying to pass the medical records of Ft Bragg senior officers to Russia.

https://bit.ly/3LSX4Sk
Posted by: bonhomme at September 29, 2022 12:40 PM (eyxn4)

There was an Annapolis couple (nuke engineers) that got caught in a sting trying to pass plans to a foreign govt. The article never said what govt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM (dRuuV)

343 If you use an electric truck like a car and not a truck it is a pretty ok car.

Which, let's be honest, most people do with a pickup. Most people buy a pickup because they like it not because they're going to be hauling stuff around. Its just a differently shaped car for Britnee in the suburbs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM (Ivdso)

344 Now google Lithium, and water....

The batteries are sealed. You can see videos on YT of people driving Teslas through mild floods while everyone else's engine ingests water and throws a rod. (Certain modern Chryslers put the air intake at the bottom of the radiator, which is just asking for trouble).

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM (ZGrMX)

345 "I bless the rains down in Florida"

https://is.gd/qUqivH

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM (g1EEm)

346 Rachel Dolezal has an Only Fans.

I guess we should be able to tell if she's a blonde white chick now...

I don't know if I wanna look.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 29, 2022 12:51 PM (5uVFH)

Chicken and waffles

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM (OgrpQ)

347 NOOD "I See Dead People"

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at September 29, 2022 01:03 PM (apjrS)

348 Important question for me. Does this mean good news for buying a new car in the near future?
Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (aRLgQ)

I'm seeing a lot of car giveaways. A write-off for a donation is one way to dump them.

Posted by: artisanal ette at September 29, 2022 01:03 PM (+Wc1h)

349 Rachel Dolezal has an Only Fans.

One thing I'll give Rachel, she's a lot more serious about the "pretend to be black" thing then Talcum X is.

If he went to OnlyFans I'm pretty sure he would, uh, come up short.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 29, 2022 01:03 PM (ESjRY)

350 Her pics flew around the twats for a while. She's white. Still pretending she's black.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought her twat flew around the pics

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (M+Lyo)

351 322 I would think that the lift created across a solar panel would send it into outer space.

Depends on the solar panel.

Expensive ones have wind diverters (I don't really know what those things are called but they are there).

Cheap ones don't.

And yes, the Tesla panels are righteous.

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (pN0Zg)

352 You can see videos on YT of people driving Teslas through mild floods

And you can see videos of Teslas sitting in a lot lighting on fire because of rain. It varies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (Ivdso)

353
IF ONLY WE'D BEEN ALLOWED TO SAY "GAY"!

-- Florida leftists

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (pNxlR)

354 Basically, the reduction of range from any regular use is very heavy with weight (say, passengers, groceries in the back, etc) and the reduction caused by weight is so bad that it renders a pickup pretty worthless for its most basic job of carrying things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 01:00 PM (Ivdso)

The cartoons of an EV towing a trailer loaded with a running gas-fueled generator that's powering the EV will not be cartoons in the not too distant future.

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (AMIL/)

355 Most people buy a pickup because they like it not because they're going to be hauling stuff around. Its just a differently shaped car for Britnee in the suburbs.

And then Karen in the city yells at Britnee for raping Gaia.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (ZGrMX)

356
So if you have a 50% chance of rain, that means they are predicting that half the area is going to get rain.

Its all pretty misleading and poorly stated. But hey, meteorologists probably didn't do real great in the language portion of their education
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 12:56 PM (Ivdso)

Fox 4 DFW weather guy (Looks like Tony Shalhoub) started stating it as "x percent coverage" for a while. I think it blew people's minds, so he just went back to "x percent chance."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

357 Her pics flew around the twats for a while. She's white. Still pretending she's black.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 29, 2022 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

Right, everyone knows she's white. The only question now is how kinky the merkin is.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2022 01:05 PM (YV6PJ)

358 When Noah found out he was to embrace a once in a lifetime flood, he girded his loins.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 29, 2022 01:05 PM (z+OQR)

359 May GOD Bless and Keep Florida.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2022 01:06 PM (/RDPd)

360 344 Now google Lithium, and water....

The batteries are sealed. You can see videos on YT of people driving Teslas through mild floods while everyone else's engine ingests water and throws a rod. (Certain modern Chryslers put the air intake at the bottom of the radiator, which is just asking for trouble).
Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 01:02 PM

Radiators cool the water, Intakes are for combustion.

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 01:06 PM (pN0Zg)

361 7 I think that all those canals they built so people could park their boats in their backyards made the flooding worse.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 29, 2022 12:05 PM (Y5qcH)

You think wrong.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at September 29, 2022 01:06 PM (12V5u)

362 If you've got some genius method to get around the lack of observations there are plenty of orgs that would love to make use of it.
Posted by: Someguy's

Well, it's not genius. Just a sufficiently constrained model.

I think you're equating tail events to unknown unknowns, which are unmodelable (cf Rumsfeld). But in this context they're known unknowns, which we can model.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 29, 2022 01:07 PM (g1EEm)

363 Important question for me. Does this mean good news for buying a new car in the near future?
Posted by: buzzion

Depends on whether or not deliveries have recovered. Also, look into factory direct ordering. It takes 4 to 6 weeks but, Ford did have a $1000 discount in April.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2022 01:07 PM (IyrhE)

364 Downtown St. Augustine (NE FL) waterfront is under a couple of feet of water. I'm about 5 miles inland and have 6 inches of standing water in the field around my place. No trees down at my place. Ex-wife's banana tree fell over in the wind last night.

Fortunately, September wasn't so heavy with the typical fall thunderstorms we had every day in August so the ground hasn't been saturated until last night. Currently wind is about 30 to 40 gusting here, with lots of frogs and birds croaking and chirping angrily, I assume because of the noise of the wind.

Ian is already downgraded to a tropical storm and will be further downgraded to a tropical depression by late tomorrow. It's now off the East coast of FL.

All safe in St. A. Just soggy and lost power for 2 hours in the middle of last night. Prayers up for the rest of the Florida Horde. I'm going to check in with Insomniac now. He's down in central FL near Disney, I think.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 29, 2022 01:08 PM (Gda1b)

365 Important question for me. Does this mean good news for buying a new car in the near future?
Posted by: buzzion at September 29, 2022 12:57 PM (aRLgQ)

Probably not. The whole chip thing is problematic, and sadly, most cars are rolling tablets. Between that and supply chain issues in general, they'll wind up raising prices to make up for their losses instead of lowering them for a long-term strategy. However on the local level, watch for any dealerships having a fire sale before going belly up. If shit heats up in Taiwan, all bets are off.

Traditionally, this was the best time of year to buy a car, used or new, as they made room for next year's models. Not sure we'll ever see that again. Boy, did I luck out grabbing mine during the lockdown panic of early 2020.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at September 29, 2022 01:08 PM (zB/T/)

366 Mad Joe is ranting and raving now, again telling Big Oil to not use Ian as an excuse to raise gas prices. Or else!

Posted by: Gref at September 29, 2022 01:08 PM (AMIL/)

367 I have to retain flood insurance on my place in West Virginia. It's about a half mile from the Ohio River and sits on the banks of a small, backwater tributary. There are US Army Corps of Engineer locks and a dam about 2 miles downstream.

In recorded history this location, at 80 feet above the mean water level of the Ohio has never flooded.

But the tables used by State Farm indicate I need flood insurance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 29, 2022 01:08 PM (BFigT)

368 231. I'm lucky when I get both a noun and verb in a thought/sentence & anyone gets the gist of it.

But I do always enjoy the superb writing of many with the great Horde.

Posted by: Lola at September 29, 2022 01:09 PM (NIYa7)

369 364 Downtown St. Augustine (NE FL) waterfront is under a couple of feet of water. I'm about 5 miles inland and have 6 inches of standing water in the field around my place. No trees down at my place. Ex-wife's banana tree fell over in the wind last night.

Fortunately, September wasn't so heavy with the typical fall thunderstorms we had every day in August so the ground hasn't been saturated until last night. Currently wind is about 30 to 40 gusting here, with lots of frogs and birds croaking and chirping angrily, I assume because of the noise of the wind.

Ian is already downgraded to a tropical storm and will be further downgraded to a tropical depression by late tomorrow. It's now off the East coast of FL.

All safe in St. A. Just soggy and lost power for 2 hours in the middle of last night. Prayers up for the rest of the Florida Horde. I'm going to check in with Insomniac now. He's down in central FL near Disney, I think.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 29, 2022 01:08 PM

St. Augustine (in the old part) floods on the reg from N'oreasters.

Posted by: Muthaucker at September 29, 2022 01:10 PM (pN0Zg)

370 Important question for me. Does this mean good news for buying a new car in the near future?

There's about to be a *lot* of insurance checks written to replace cars in Florida, so if buying a new car isn't good for you right now, prepare to wait.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 29, 2022 01:10 PM (ZGrMX)

371 312 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2022 12:55 PM

I evacuated from my apartment on Staten Island prior to Sandy hitting. I live a little more than a mile from the beach.
The houses on the water were severely damaged and some kids had lost their life when the surge hit.

The area I lived? Nothing. Did not even lose power.

Where as my brothers house in NJ (by Summit) where I had evacuated to, lost power for a few days.

Go figure.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 29, 2022 01:11 PM (qoLdL)

372 Nice to know Insom's okay. I checked with him yesterday and he was pretty sanguine about Ian. Guess he was right...at least for Tampa.

Posted by: creeper at September 29, 2022 01:11 PM (iEPLY)

373
Why would Russia want Medical records? Unless there is psychological stuff in them...
Posted by: Romoe13 at September 29, 2022 12:50 PM (oHd/0)

STD's, which the spouse would not know about. The subject would be a target for a honeypot scheme or blackmail.

Posted by: Moki at September 29, 2022 01:13 PM (JrN/x)

374 Probably not. The whole chip thing is problematic, and sadly, most cars are rolling tablets. Between that and supply chain issues in general, they'll wind up raising prices to make up for their losses instead of lowering them for a long-term strategy. However on the local level, watch for any dealerships having a fire sale before going belly up. If shit heats up in Taiwan, all bets are off.

Traditionally, this was the best time of year to buy a car, used or new, as they made room for next year's models. Not sure we'll ever see that again. Boy, did I luck out grabbing mine during the lockdown panic of early 2020.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at September 29, 2022 01:08 PM (zB/T/)
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My accident in 2019 that totaled my 2009 Accord turned out to be fortuitous in retrospect. I only have three or four more payments to make before my 2018 Accord is payed off.

A good friend of mine's car engine blew out and he bought a 2023 Hyundai Elantra. It was $31,000.

Posted by: Augustine at September 29, 2022 01:13 PM (BDZWU)

375 I have the USGS 500 year flood marker in my yard, right on the edge of my driveway. Since that is lower than even the bottom of my first floor I am pretty safe from flooding, I think.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2022 01:13 PM (yQpMk)

376 The cartoons of an EV towing a trailer loaded with a running gas-fueled generator that's powering the EV will not be cartoons in the not too distant future.

Its not just a cartoon you can literally buy a little streamlined gas generator to tow behind your EV. Thus killing its range.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 29, 2022 01:14 PM (Ivdso)

377 Belatedly commenting...

"Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"

Yeah, since we moved back to Oklahoma not quite thirty years ago, we've seen three "100 Year Flood" events.

Nature will never conform to our understandings.

We need a pipeline from the drowned South to the parched Midwest!

Posted by: mindful webworker - now we're in a drought at September 29, 2022 01:16 PM (3T6PD)

378 50 Stephanie Abrams peddles fear 24/7.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 29, 2022 12:12 PM (dRuuV)

At least she's got a great rack. All you get with Geraldo Cantore is the over the top drama.

No storm in history has ever been as bad as Cantore tries to make each one look

Posted by: kbdabear at September 29, 2022 01:16 PM (O/r0K)

379 Insomniac reports that he and his family are safe and not really any damage other than yard debris.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 29, 2022 01:18 PM (Gda1b)

380 FL wind and flood damage I've seen on video and pics doesn't add up to an epic hurricane. The hype on this is disgusting. Shame on all that participate in this kind of reporting.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at September 29, 2022 01:20 PM (BdMk6)

381 Carmine sounds like a woke Dem already fishing for assistance revenues. First impression.

Posted by: From That Time at September 29, 2022 01:25 PM (zHvpi)

382 50-65 feet of the Sanibel Causeway Bridge collapsed,

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We can fix that, give us a call.

Posted by: Florida International University at September 29, 2022 01:26 PM (raMfo)

383 St. Augustine (in the old part) floods on the reg from N'oreasters.

Posted by: Muthaucker

Just moved here in late July from Southern Hellifornia, so I'm learning the grounds.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 29, 2022 01:30 PM (Gda1b)

384 Rain has always caused more hurricane damage than the winds at my houses. 25" of rain will really sog the ground and weaken the grip the big trees have on the soil. I lost quite a few large trees tipping up during Sally and that wasn't that windy a storm.

Down at sealevel, storm surge is the danger.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2022 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

385 The drums have stopped!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2022 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

386 "The panhandle and Tampa Bay area's surface waterways are sloped, but Central Florida is flatter. Add to that the ground is already saturated at this point in the rainy season."

Well, that's what we have sinkholes along I-4 for.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at September 29, 2022 01:31 PM (WusEB)

387 Must be a nood.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 29, 2022 01:38 PM (Gda1b)

388 What do they mean by "the Surfside tragedy"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2022 12:33 PM (J2vNu)

Building collapse a year or so ago in Florida.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 29, 2022 02:29 PM (eoQWY)

389 Ok, comin here late and somebody probably mentioned it, but there's probably gonna be a spate of sinkholes following this. Florida is mostly limestone, and riddled with caves and tunnels like a swiss cheese. A whole bunch of water can erode that limestone and create instability which leads to sinkholes.
So, yeah.

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Posted by: Grace Hicks at September 30, 2022 09:03 AM (NYf0p)

391 168 "Sounds like the upside of all this is we get to see copperheads fighting sharks fighting water moccasins.

Three cold-blooded creatures enter!"

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Invasive Burmese Pythons at September 30, 2022 05:24 PM (YlQsV)

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Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"

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Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding;
DeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event"