Hurricane Florence

[Dug]

Hurricanes are not static systems. One should be glad it turned out to not be as bad as it could have been. It would also be wildly irresponsible for the media to not report on the condition of the storm until the last second just because it may downgrade.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

Hey, I am fine. I have time to type on MMOC while I am running to save my life and of my family members. Take care.

What person runs in a hurricane? Oh nevermind. You’re probably dead anyways or got knocked out and sent to Oz if you did this.

[Gothic Knight]

I surprised no one blames Russia for this Hurricane! Its oblivious their new weather making evil machine what responsible for it. /s

[Crissi]

Christ, its better to over prepare because it was initially beliveved to be stronger than it ended up being, than it is to be like 'only a 1 / 2, its cool, we be ok" and then end up with a severe disaster on your hands.

Fuck, wasnt Sandy a 2 and it still was nasty since the area it hit doesnt typically have hurricanes?

[Machismo]

What kind of science ignoring BS is this?

It's not really ignoring science, merely stating that wind is not necessarily the biggest problem with a hurricane. A Cat 5 is objectively more windy, but not necessarily more dangerous, overall. I've been hit directly by a super typhoon, but it blew on by, with only 4-6 inches of rain falling. Sure, the wind was impressive, but there wasn't much flooding.

[Rustedsaint]

As someone who lived in middle of Canada all my life Without ever having to experience a natural disaster.(we get the odd tornado but often don’t amount to anything.)
I kinda wanna visit these coastal cities and observe these storm from a safe distance

[noidentity]

I was curious how the storm was doing so I turned on the news last night to see endless coverage of how 3 of the cities in my state were on fire due to over-pressurization of the gas lines so I was a little out of the loop.

Radio this morning said FEMA was busy rescuing people from their roof tops.

[Machismo]

If you are told to evacuate, you should do so. If you don't, and bad things happen... do everyone a favor and die silently.

I know it sounds heartless, but I don't have sympathy for those who endanger emergency personnel because they wanted to be stubborn.

[Redwyrm]

It's not really ignoring science, merely stating that wind is not necessarily the biggest problem with a hurricane. A Cat 5 is objectively more windy, but not necessarily more dangerous, overall. I've been hit directly by a super typhoon, but it blew on by, with only 4-6 inches of rain falling. Sure, the wind was impressive, but there wasn't much flooding.

Thank you. Was getting tired of beating my head against that rock

[Silver Forte]

I live directly in the path and unless you're near a water source (lake, river), near the beach or downhill, it's not that big of a deal. There's been some wind damage obviously. The biggest issue is flooding damaging property which, again, if you're not in a trouble area for that, it's not too bad. The media is using words like "catastrophic" and "storm of the century" to create hysteria and get people whipped into a frenzy. Stores are bought out here, people are freaking out, traffic james, everything like that. You'd think it was Katrina all over again, but it's not. We might be without power, but I doubt for long.

[Eldar45]

I would ask everyone who says they've been through a Cat 2: Did you get hit by a rain band or the eye of the storm. There is a massive difference between a rain band and the storm surge and wind speed of the eye.


But yes, there is a massive difference between a Cat 1 and Cat 5. Unless I lived in a flood prone area I wouldn't evacuate for a Cat 1. Even a Cat 3 can do tornado-esque wind damage to the area around the eye. A Cat 5 can get up to F-5 tornado wind speeds.

[Citizen T]

Uh, no. I live in damn Kansas right now and Manhattan, KS (which is about 10 miles from me) just a couple of weeks ago got flooded by the remaining storms from a previous hurricane. That was a bad thunderstorm, but it caused a lot of damage. Peoples houses and cars were underwater. Businesses were destroyed and several people and animals/pets needed to be rescued.

Don’t be so ignorant.

And I currently live in desert where I see multiple flash floods every year. I still state that unless you're doing something relatively dumb, you're pretty safe.

The after affects are far more deadly than the storm itself. Having to travel back home just increases the odds of these after affects occurring to you.

This is from just last year:
https://weather.com/news/weather/vid...-in-new-mexico

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Cat 1 or Cat 5 doesn't matter. Irma went through Florida as a Cat 1 eventually but still managed to knock out power to a majority of the state for days if not weeks. I live in Orlando and was without power for seven days. Yeah, it wasn't destructive as it could have been but still as costly.

Loss of power just means evacuating is more dangerous as everyone comes back with no traffic signals. I'm just saying that running away is not necessarily needed or even better.

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Yeah...the kind of stuff you get from a hurricane / tropical storm is sliiiightly different from a normal thunderstorm. In addition to lasting a whole lot longer, they also tend to stall.

Harvey and Ike weren't exactly ok up here in DFW. We had a ton of issues and we're no where close to the coast. Flooding is still a huge danger, you just dont have to deal with the wind or the coastal surge.

Please dont underestimate hurricane impact. People in FEMA and other emergency departments hate these kind of statements.

I'm not underestimating anything. I've lived through hurricane affects both up close and inland. My statement was in response to someone else's snarky response that everyone should be running away. Running away doesn't necessarily help anything and can cause even further problems.

[Crissi]

Thing is , "staying" is often relatively dumb even if you're not in a flood plane, given that emergency services may need to come out and rescue you because power outages / fires / tree fell / wind damage.

Running away only causes further problems if you attempt to come back too soon. Listen to your emergency management and services, and you'll generally be fine. "But I've lived through stuff" is the bane of every emergency services existence and how you get emergency services risking their lives for stupid people.

[Uncle]

Some people in this thread find the way to make drama with each other, seriously...

Be grateful that Florence's power decreased, that's the most important, and stay safe of course.

[Shadowferal]

Seems to me it's all the water that will be the problem.

[Silver Forte]

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[Saucexorzski]

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That video is the perfect example of how US does news these days. I hope the camera guy doesnt get fired for his expert camera skills.

[Travis B]

Don't be so mean.

Maybe tell that to the guy who was spreading potentially dangerous misinformation?

[Saucexorzski]

If you're going to pretend, maybe try pretending to have some integrity.

The sad thing is that they really don't need to be making this shit up because there is some real danger on its way. The floodwaters are going to be very very bad.

It sounded pretty cold, but the official on the news conference just told people if they ignore the mandatory evacuation to please notify their legal next of kin because "we aren't coming to save you."

Well, i see you went to the same school as that reporter where its a fuckign ok to fake the severity of a disaster because reason.