This thing is going to plow across the Florida peninsula from west to east. Tampa and Ft Myers are fucked. It went from nothing to a category 5 within 24 hours. Holy shit.
It’s so strange how all these completely random weather events keep happening and they keep increasing in frequency and intensity. Must be God trying to tell us something. Anybody else into tonic wine?
Bit idea: Convincing evangelicals that climate change has nothing to do with science and is actually God’s punishment for burning fossil fuels
The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.
...that means it's our own personal playground that we can fuck up as much as we want without any care of consequence or moral judgement!
Not to make the hurricane in Florida about my comfortable dumbass up here in the northeast but holy shit I thought I was immunized to getting mad when it comes to climate change.
I've been into climate science and trying to fight climate change since I was like 10 and wanted there to continue to be winter where I live. Went to college for an engineering degree with a minor in sustainable energy systems that included lots of climate research and policy investigation.
I thought I had the callouses to deal with chuds saying climate change isn't real and all that bulshit.
But now, 20 years later when everything has been prepgressing exactly like every climate scientist has said it would, we've totally skipped the "doing anything about it" phase and have moved to the blame game.
Watching Republicans try to blame fucking ANYBODY ELSE for the effects of climate change and then going even farther and just making up shit about NOAA, FEMA, and HARP and blaming fuck8ng anybody but themselves is going to give ma an aneurism.
Like it'd be none thing I'd they were just making shit uo, I get that. Bit the narrative is actually fining traction.
Like imagine if somebody came into your house, ripped out a perfectly funtional sprinkler system, dumped gasoline everywhere, told me I wanst allowed to take garbage out of my house, clean my lint traps, or clean crosote out of my chimney and then started a fore and locked all the doors from the outside.
And as I was banging on the windows rhe person, watching from outside with a smug smile on his face, said "I heard the person who built your house built it so that it would burn down completely on its own after 10 years."
And I fucking believed them.
Asking "is climate change real and manmade" and then dumping everybody who says no into a mass grave would be the greatest leap forward humanity has ever experienced.
The hurricane strengthened to category five because god is punishing us for not killing enough people in Palestine and Lebanon
My republican aunt who lives in FL posted a meme along the lines of “not another dollar in foreign aid until the hurricane damage is fixed.” Hurricanes about to get primaried in the midterms.
Everywhere around the gulf coast is going to be uninsurable within the next decade. This will be happening more and more frequently as time goes on.
I thought it was pretty fool hardy a month ago when I saw a bunch of news articles asking "is the 2024 hurricane season a dud?" Bro, there will be no more "dud" hurricane seasons, it's a matter of when we get smoked, not if.
Good. I really have run out of sympathy living in one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in the world electing governments that outlaw using the word climate change.
I understand there's lots of non dash there who are suffering unfairly, but the state is enthusiastically clear cutting mangroves, the naturally occurring thing that solves this problem, to build new developments in the path of Hurricanes.
Maybe Florida literally becoming uninhabitable within a person's lifetime as a direct result of their actions and beliefs will actually be an effective cautionary tale.
Either that or "the jews control the weather" will be annoffical part of the 2028 republican platform.
"is the 2024 hurricane season a dud?"
People who say this in late August/early September have no idea how the hurricane season works.
It's supposed to drop back down as it crosses the Gulf.🤞 Like to a 3 or something when it makes landfall, but that storm surge is gonna be something.
Looks like the 12z HAFS-B model was accurate. Wonder if it'll drop below 900mb in the next 24 hours like it does on the model, if so that area of Florida is gonna be super fucked.
Currently unable to evacuate in the Tampa area. Whenever we get internet back I'll make a post on here maybe with pictures and shit.
Also, the people on the gulf here: St Pete Beach, Madeira, Treasure Island.... they still have boats in their lawns from Helene. There just hasn't been time to clean them up yet. There is a huge pile of lawn debris in front of every house in the neighborhood I live in because there has been no pickup in two weeks (normal garbage was picked up). I might drag the completely full recycling bins into the laundry room late tonight as that will all be projectiles if I don't. Might dump the recycling bins in the big dumpster (which is super heavy) because they are full and they'll spill over and turn all the glass into projectiles and shit...
I'm sure I don't need to tell a fellow East Coast resident but please stay safe, it literally did just drop below 900mb and seems to be following the 12z HAFS-B model pretty closely which has maintaining the CAT 5 strength as it grows bigger throughout tomorrow.
Definitely bring the recycling bins inside if you can, that was always the worst part of post-hurricane cleanup growing up imo because my dad would just slap one of those carabiner tie-down straps over the lid and go
when I'd be like "hey shouldn't we drag those into the garage since you know...the garage has so much empty space....". Of course, it would be me who had to go chase the bin down and pick up all the glass/cans/wet cardboard/etc that had spilled out into everyone else's yard as soon as the sun started shining again. 
Have a go bag ready too - especially given where you are! Again, I'm sure this is all common sense to you given where you're located but the last thing you want to have to do is try to get your essentials/can't leave behind valuables together in the dark as the power goes out and there's water coming into your home.
Stay safe comrade!!! Worry not about the pictures or Hexbear until you're safe!
https://cyclonicwx.com/recon/mission/MILTON_NOAA2_1014A/
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=hafsb®ion=14L
thinking of that chart posted here at the very beginning of hurricane season that was explaining how storms get bigger and badder as the season progresses, but even at the very beginning (in July?), we were already at "worst storm of the year" strength, compared to previous years.
