Hurricane Ian's effect on Florida voting

[Anonymous]

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I can't imagine what people like Abby were thinking and doing in the days leading up to Ian's contact with Florida. There were weather and news reports on tv, radio, internet, text communication, emails, and conversations with friends. You hear about an almost Category 5 hurricane with winds of 150 mph heading for Tampa, just 90 miles north of your home on the coast. You think you'll just hang around a beach area until someone orders you to evacuate?! 😳

People were swimming in the ocean, enjoying the weather. You can’t account for that.

You can't account for that kind of stupidity is exactly right.

[Anonymous]

this efin guy

[Anonymous]

Heckuva job

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this efin guy

What a clueless tweet.....This "resister" twitterer would likely have found fault with DeSantis had he NOT gone to St. Augustine.

Just a few of the many stories documenting the damage in St. Augustine:

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/10/01/davis-shores-residents-digging-out-as-st-augustine-begins-debris-pickup-after-ian/

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/weather/hurricane/st-augustine-davis-shores-couples-home-damaged-by-floodwaters-hurricane-ian/77-175da89c-0d1b-4b00-8cdf-ae44b7defea9

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/09/30/some-st-augustine-businesses-face-long-recovery-after-ian/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I can't imagine what people like Abby were thinking and doing in the days leading up to Ian's contact with Florida. There were weather and news reports on tv, radio, internet, text communication, emails, and conversations with friends. You hear about an almost Category 5 hurricane with winds of 150 mph heading for Tampa, just 90 miles north of your home on the coast. You think you'll just hang around a beach area until someone orders you to evacuate?! 😳

Completely agree. People are stupid.

That being said, since we know people are stupid, it's time to redesign the cone drawing. People see that shape and instead of correctly interpreting it as the probable path of the storm (hence why it grows wider with time), they interpret it as the actual storm path, with its wind extension! It's a VERY common mistake. They don't bother to read the fine print that hurricane-force winds can extend beyond the cone. The communications people at National Hurricane Center need to come up with a very clear depiction of the diameter of the hurricane-force winds, *all along the projected path*. This means they need to customize the width of the cone to each hurricane. Surely they can do this very, very minor adjustment!

And then it's up to local news media to plaster the updated projections in their respective counties.

I'm inland, in Orlando, but the local news didn't plaster this at all. The narrative locally here in Orlando was that a cold weather front was going to collide with this hurricane after it went over Cuba and it was going to slow it down to a Category One before making landfall. We were originally "bracing" for tropical storm like conditions, and that's not what we got....

Granted, I prepared for a hurricane, and a hurricane is what we got. So I did my own assessment, but seriously, the models here were Category One until the previous day when the narrative became "oh crap...."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this efin guy

What a clueless tweet.....This "resister" twitterer would likely have found fault with DeSantis had he NOT gone to St. Augustine.

Just a few of the many stories documenting the damage in St. Augustine:

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/10/01/davis-shores-residents-digging-out-as-st-augustine-begins-debris-pickup-after-ian/

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/weather/hurricane/st-augustine-davis-shores-couples-home-damaged-by-floodwaters-hurricane-ian/77-175da89c-0d1b-4b00-8cdf-ae44b7defea9

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/09/30/some-st-augustine-businesses-face-long-recovery-after-ian/

Yes of course there's damage in St A but it is NOTHING compared to what happened on the west coast.

But of course there's lit Ronnie D in his stupid campaign vest, still pretending he and his cronies didn't do anything wrong - while we still don't even know the body count yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this efin guy

What a clueless tweet.....This "resister" twitterer would likely have found fault with DeSantis had he NOT gone to St. Augustine.

Just a few of the many stories documenting the damage in St. Augustine:

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/10/01/davis-shores-residents-digging-out-as-st-augustine-begins-debris-pickup-after-ian/

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/weather/hurricane/st-augustine-davis-shores-couples-home-damaged-by-floodwaters-hurricane-ian/77-175da89c-0d1b-4b00-8cdf-ae44b7defea9

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/09/30/some-st-augustine-businesses-face-long-recovery-after-ian/

Yes of course there's damage in St A but it is NOTHING compared to what happened on the west coast.

But of course there's lit Ronnie D in his stupid campaign vest, still pretending he and his cronies didn't do anything wrong - while we still don't even know the body count yet.

Shall we post all the video of him making visits to Naples, North Port, Arcadia, Lee County, and other hard hit areas? Because he has been to all of these areas... and more.

And, are you suggesting that DeSantis not go to hurricane devastated areas until after all the missing are accounted for?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Good he should be gone. Maybe he can go join a militia and storm the Capitol. Vaccine are require for the CG and Military because it is part of the units readiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

One doesn’t discount the other. Great he rescued people and military has rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this efin guy

What a clueless tweet.....This "resister" twitterer would likely have found fault with DeSantis had he NOT gone to St. Augustine.

Just a few of the many stories documenting the damage in St. Augustine:

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/10/01/davis-shores-residents-digging-out-as-st-augustine-begins-debris-pickup-after-ian/

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/weather/hurricane/st-augustine-davis-shores-couples-home-damaged-by-floodwaters-hurricane-ian/77-175da89c-0d1b-4b00-8cdf-ae44b7defea9

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/09/30/some-st-augustine-businesses-face-long-recovery-after-ian/

Yes of course there's damage in St A but it is NOTHING compared to what happened on the west coast.

But of course there's lit Ronnie D in his stupid campaign vest, still pretending he and his cronies didn't do anything wrong - while we still don't even know the body count yet.

Shall we post all the video of him making visits to Naples, North Port, Arcadia, Lee County, and other hard hit areas? Because he has been to all of these areas... and more.

And, are you suggesting that DeSantis not go to hurricane devastated areas until after all the missing are accounted for?

Just saying he's doing a heckuva job, a heckuva job. That campaign vest is a real chef's kiss - shows you exactly where his priorities lie.

Speaking of a lie - Don't know if anyone here's read the Times's story on "Perla" the woman who was hired by lil Ronnie D to get on the plane from Texas to Massachusetts. She's a former spy, it turns out. Lots of juicy, question-raising details here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/02/us/migrants-marthas-vineyard-desantis-texas.html

In retrospect, perhaps that $$$$$ could have been used to help actual Floridians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Good he should be gone. Maybe he can go join a militia and storm the Capitol. Vaccine are require for the CG and Military because it is part of the units readiness.

Agree. I can promise you one thing the reason this guy isn’t getting vaccinated is his alliance to MAGA. That does not count for a adequate exemption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I can't imagine what people like Abby were thinking and doing in the days leading up to Ian's contact with Florida. There were weather and news reports on tv, radio, internet, text communication, emails, and conversations with friends. You hear about an almost Category 5 hurricane with winds of 150 mph heading for Tampa, just 90 miles north of your home on the coast. You think you'll just hang around a beach area until someone orders you to evacuate?! 😳

Completely agree. People are stupid.

That being said, since we know people are stupid, it's time to redesign the cone drawing. People see that shape and instead of correctly interpreting it as the probable path of the storm (hence why it grows wider with time), they interpret it as the actual storm path, with its wind extension! It's a VERY common mistake. They don't bother to read the fine print that hurricane-force winds can extend beyond the cone. The communications people at National Hurricane Center need to come up with a very clear depiction of the diameter of the hurricane-force winds, *all along the projected path*. This means they need to customize the width of the cone to each hurricane. Surely they can do this very, very minor adjustment!

And then it's up to local news media to plaster the updated projections in their respective counties.

I'm inland, in Orlando, but the local news didn't plaster this at all. The narrative locally here in Orlando was that a cold weather front was going to collide with this hurricane after it went over Cuba and it was going to slow it down to a Category One before making landfall. We were originally "bracing" for tropical storm like conditions, and that's not what we got....

Granted, I prepared for a hurricane, and a hurricane is what we got. So I did my own assessment, but seriously, the models here were Category One until the previous day when the narrative became "oh crap...."

Do people in Florida not know about NOAA? I don't know what local forecasters were saying in Florida, but sitting here in Virginia, we knew that this was going to be a bad hurricane, the only question being whether it would make landfall as Cat 4 or Cat 5. I follow Tropical Tidbits for details on tropical storms and hurricanes, explained in fairly plain language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Sure seems pretty fake. As of December 1 2021 Coast Guard personnel(including reserves) were required to have the covid vaccine as soon as operation allow. 94% were vaccines by Dec 2021. It’s almost a year ans this guy has not gotten a vaccine??? Lol sure.


The Coast Guard instead has ordered active-duty and reserve members "to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as operations allow, starting immediately," according to Kneen.

As of Nov. 19 -- the most recent data provided by the service, nearly 94% of Coasties had been fully vaccinated and an additional 1.4% had received at least one dose, meaning that roughly 2,000 members still need to start the series or get the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/12/01/no-deadline-no-problem-95-of-active-duty-coasties-have-received-covid-19-shot.html

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