If you live near or around sea level, especially in the Tampa Bay area, you can not survive the forecasted storm surge by accident. This is not a joke. I know you may have lived in Florida your whole life and been through dozens of hurricanes, but it only takes one you aren’t prepared for. As a result of having narrowly avoided multiple severe hurricane impacts over the past 100 years, the Tampa Bay area has been built up with little consideration for the fact that it eventually would be hit. The only regional trauma center is at sea level and on an island.
Do not play with your life.
Also do not accidentally dox yourself on this post
Remember though the CEO of Google said climate change can't be stopped so why not generate an AI waifu with 50 tits before the category 10 (new one we added) storm comes and kills you?
Can't wait till 2027 when the "Great White Spot" forms as a megahurricane that just squats over the gulf and lasts for the next 5 centuries.
Matt Iglesias was on to something. We need one billion
amerikkkas to whiten the surface of the earth and reflect heat back in to the sun.
The lives of the global population living at sea level is a small price to pay for our beloved shareholders
living at sea level
Helene reminds us that elevation isn't always a sure safe thing.
But what if enough data centers dumped enough carbon in the air and dried up enough groundwater to make an "AI" waifu with sufficient computing power that the prompted treat printed has a text blurb that says "nyaaaaaah here's the techno magic solution to climate change, senpai!"
spoiler
"You shouldn't have fucking built all those datacenters in the first place, computer touching dipshits. Baka."
The only regional trauma center is at sea level and on an island.
Stay safe out there everyone
I lived in Florida almost my entire life until 2 months ago
No, it’s not. The whole state should be doing a slow, permanent evacuation. It’s too hot, too wet, and the hurricanes are only getting worse. It’ll be getting wet bulb events every July and then wiped away by hurricanes every October.
No.
If it hasn't happened already then after this hurricane season there will not be a blade of grass that isn't zoned for flooding and in this state all flood zoned areas MUST be insured. And that insurance is expensive and rising. Some people pay more for flood insurance than for their actual mortgage.
Yes, Hurricane Ian caused $60 billion in insured losses and Florida's gross state product is $1.64 trillion (3.6 percent of GDP).
As natural disasters increase you'll probably see a lot of insurers pulling out and raising premiums even further, then government funding for reinsurance and possibly insurance only provided to properties that meet particular standards of natural disaster resistance.
My hometown has a mandatory evacuation order for manufactured homes and trailers for the whole county. Which is a significant portion of the population, including the house I grew up in.
I’ve seen them do evac orders for the towns nearest to the coast because of the storm surge, I’ve never seen something for the whole county just because of the wind.
I’ve said for years that I look forward to one day taking a boat to see the sunken ruins of my hometown, but I was expecting to do that in like 2060 not 2025
I'm in the Tampa area and same. I talked to a woman at the laundry mat tonight who is going to ride it out in her mobile home. Hope she is okay. I already have some people coming over to my place to ride it out who are in other lower flood zones.
Oh god I hope she’s safe. Thats terrifying. You also stay safe.
Also, don't assume that since projections are that the hurricane will degrade from a Cat 5 to a potential Cat 2 means that the damage won't be catastrophic still. When these storms slow down they also spread out and the storm surge increases considerably. This area is already saturated from the previous storm and rains, the capacity to handle another large storm surge has been greatly diminished.
For the same reasons, plenty of debris is already on the ground from the last storm, so wind blown debris will be a bigger threat since the cleanup process is still underway
I'm not sure if the Tampa area is also dealing with this, but over where I live, it's going to rain for 4 days in a row before the hurricane lands.
From talking to folks I know in NC they said the same thing, they had almost a week of constant rain that on it’s own would have been historic.
I’m basically just praying it hits south of Tampa. If it hits north, Tampa’s fuuuuuucked.
On the bright side, it could destroy most of the church of scientology's property.
Unfortunately, they will end up feeling the impact less than most based on the fact that they are a giant organization
I hope anyone here from Tampa and whatnot will stay safe. Not even going to attempt at being funny and fail as usual with this as I've seen the amount of water (let alone wind) do for damaging an area.
Naw I'm in the Tampa area... actually in the St Pete side towards the Gulf, so worse. Make the joke. Gallows humor is welcome.
Tampa General has a 15ft wall they put up. curious to see if that'll be enough with a head on collision this time.
2 in a row basically. Someone really angered Huracan. If there is a third, they may need to start offering up sacrifices to the the storm god. Maybe CEOs against climate change.
live on there out of spite alone.
