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I'm posting this everywhere. Massive violent tornado outbreaks are happening right now, way ahead of the actual hurricane.
Free coverage from Ryan Hall Y'all on youtube. He's livestreaming for the foreseeable future with no ads.
LightningMaps is my favorite real time weather map site.
NOAA's National Hurricane Center is the gold standard and updates regularly.
No idea how tornadoes get downplayed, sometimes not even mentioned. After Hurricane Ivan, it was obvious, to this Okie anyway, where tornadoes hit. I think people just chalked that destruction up to general hurricane damage.
They don't leave long swaths of destruction like "normal" tornadoes. They touch down, tear maybe a couple of hundred meters and they get shredded by the winds. But there are a lot of them.
I saw a couple or three footballs fields of perfectly flattened forest, in spots all over the region. No, the hurricane winds didn't do that. You can still see these flat places from Michael's tornadoes (2018).
There was a billboard smashed to the ground by my house, walked up and touched it in wonder. Four heavy, steel I-beams twisted at the base and the sign flat to the ground. Like god reached down and gave it a twist. Hurricane winds alone cannot do that.
Spent 6 hours hammering Keystones and looking out the front and back porch screens. Fuck I was scared, first hurricane, and worst for me so far. All you hear is that tornado sound, freight trains. Horrifying when they hit at night because you can't tell if it's the "normal" wind or if a tornado is about to smash you flat.
People don't understand that even if your home is mostly safe, tornadoes pop all over and no home is withstanding a direct hit. And you won't, can't, see it coming.
I am terrified of tornadoes and I have never even seen one in person. So glad I live in the most likely place to die from a massive earthquake instead.
Lul fuck if you're not right. I'm in the same boat and at least I can pretend they built all the buildings here up tk code for earthquakes so we should be fine for the most part but I many if any building could survive a 9 or higher quake, that's foundation shifting territory.
And I've never experienced an earthquake. I've read that it's horrifying having the very ground move beneath you, and the sounds...
Guess it's like everything else in life, terrifying until you experience it, then, maybe not so bad.
First time I saw my poodle get a catheter...
"THEY DO THAT TO BOYS?!"
(Hurts like hell for 3 seconds, over. Very nice to lay in bed and piss yourself when your guts have been opened and you can't move.)
time for Christians to put up or shut up boys 🤞🤞 ride or die with white Jesus
I've got my AR-15 and am standing at the beach ready to defend my city from this thing. It isn't getting through me. - Florida Man
Unfortunately, there's now a large demographic to whom "If you stay, you're gonna die" will sound like a threat of violence by the libs, who want to remove Trump-voters from their homes and herd them into concentration camps.
I hate that we live in a timeline where that is plausible.
I guess if there are people genuinely stupid enough to refuse to evacuate for that reason, they're going to raise the average IQ a little bit with their unnecessary deaths.
Absolutely insane how they were projecting it to make landfall as a Category 3 initially, but then updated that to a Category 4.
worst storm in century
[X] doubt
Not because I'm discounting how catastrophic Milton is about to be, but because I'm not discounting how, due to climate change, storms in the next hundred years are going to continue to get even more so.
Worst storm in the century so far
That's sounds a bit dramatic, but it was professional meteorologists saying it, not politicians.
I think it's being hyped to get obstinate dipshits to run, which may be counter productive. We Floridians are no strangers to hurricanes and tend to bravado. When we hear, "Deadliest EVER!", we think, "Meh. We hear 'Run for your life!' every storm."
What I don't get is the idiots close to the shore, or any water, that stay. I'm 24 miles up, not too worried about hurricanes unless it's a direct hit with the eye wall to the west. Can't imagine flooding in this neighborhood. I'm almost at the highest point and water will quickly drain to the local creek, where you can see the highest water has ever cut channels. Worst case for me would be a tree dropped on the house. (I live in Milton but Milton is skipping us entirely, no rain or even cooler temps in the forecast.)