Hurricane Idalia—Make it make sense

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Cat 2/ Cat 3? No way would I evacuate. We lived in a new home with up to code roof and windows. Zero flooding ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Cat 2/ Cat 3? No way would I evacuate. We lived in a new home with up to code roof and windows. Zero flooding ever.

Oh yes, the roof will keep rising water out.

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Anonymous wrote:Cat 2/ Cat 3? No way would I evacuate. We lived in a new home with up to code roof and windows. Zero flooding ever.

Oh yes, the roof will keep rising water out.

My darling - that comment shows how little you understand hurricanes. Wind is what you worry about with roofs. Wind blowing your roof off, or smashing your windows in. If you have a new build that's up to code, you worry about that less.

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Anonymous wrote:Cat 2/ Cat 3? No way would I evacuate. We lived in a new home with up to code roof and windows. Zero flooding ever.

Oh yes, the roof will keep rising water out.

My darling - that comment shows how little you understand hurricanes. Wind is what you worry about with roofs. Wind blowing your roof off, or smashing your windows in. If you have a new build that's up to code, you worry about that less.

If you get a storm surge, which happened this week, it's not about the roof.

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Anonymous wrote:Any news from the friend this morning?

Not the OP, but we have family in a mandatory evac zone and their kids are back in school today, road isn't even wet, they didn't lose power. NBD.

Again, a simple perusal of any trusted media shows that a lot of people were affected. Your response is very tone deaf.

It's not remotely tone deaf. In Tampa Bay, this turned out to be a very regular storm, and life is by and large back to normal. The storm hit really hard in the least populated part of the state. There will be people affected - but MOST people will not have been severely affected. Why is it tone deaf to acknowledge that? Why are you disaster porn addicts SO excited about things being horrible??

Storms are going to be worse! There will be more of them! It's going to be bad! We got very lucky this time! And people who live in Florida LIVE with all of this - and don't need you giving a lecture about how we should and shouldn't talk about it.

I don't even live in Florida and I understand why people don't evacuate. I can recall summers past where people did and they showed the traffic back ups, the gas station lines, etc and then it was just a storm. A lot of people can't uproot their lives and can't afford to evacuate each time so they use their best judgement. News programs just want to get more viewers so they hype it up to ridiculous levels of reporting during storms. They do here in DC and it's annoying.

Oh okay, I'm glad people don't evacuate when issued mandatory orders cuz you know you don't want traffic! It's no big deal if an emergency responder has to come get you is it? It's so interesting how so many people here turn into meteorologists and scientists when a storm approaches.

Have you ever returned to a home (days after the storm when the police allow you to return) that's soaking wet, getting mildew, no electricity, no water, and looters helping themselves to what they want? Many people decide they can't afford to deal with those outcomes and decide to tide out the storms. I'm not saying it's what I would do, but I can understand that line of thinking.

not evacuating, its not going to change the part about mildew and no electricity and stuff like that. Looting? I do understand there's a fear of that. I know at least in my county, the sheriff's department was pretty closely screening people they were letting back in yesterday but I don't know how that works everywhere.

If a window blows out or some other water intrusion, you might be able to make a repair if you were home.

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Anonymous wrote:Any news from the friend this morning?

Not the OP, but we have family in a mandatory evac zone and their kids are back in school today, road isn't even wet, they didn't lose power. NBD.

Again, a simple perusal of any trusted media shows that a lot of people were affected. Your response is very tone deaf.

It's not remotely tone deaf. In Tampa Bay, this turned out to be a very regular storm, and life is by and large back to normal. The storm hit really hard in the least populated part of the state. There will be people affected - but MOST people will not have been severely affected. Why is it tone deaf to acknowledge that? Why are you disaster porn addicts SO excited about things being horrible??

Storms are going to be worse! There will be more of them! It's going to be bad! We got very lucky this time! And people who live in Florida LIVE with all of this - and don't need you giving a lecture about how we should and shouldn't talk about it.

I don't even live in Florida and I understand why people don't evacuate. I can recall summers past where people did and they showed the traffic back ups, the gas station lines, etc and then it was just a storm. A lot of people can't uproot their lives and can't afford to evacuate each time so they use their best judgement. News programs just want to get more viewers so they hype it up to ridiculous levels of reporting during storms. They do here in DC and it's annoying.

Oh okay, I'm glad people don't evacuate when issued mandatory orders cuz you know you don't want traffic! It's no big deal if an emergency responder has to come get you is it? It's so interesting how so many people here turn into meteorologists and scientists when a storm approaches.

Have you ever returned to a home (days after the storm when the police allow you to return) that's soaking wet, getting mildew, no electricity, no water, and looters helping themselves to what they want? Many people decide they can't afford to deal with those outcomes and decide to tide out the storms. I'm not saying it's what I would do, but I can understand that line of thinking.

not evacuating, its not going to change the part about mildew and no electricity and stuff like that. Looting? I do understand there's a fear of that. I know at least in my county, the sheriff's department was pretty closely screening people they were letting back in yesterday but I don't know how that works everywhere.

If a window blows out or some other water intrusion, you might be able to make a repair if you were home.

My elderly parents learned the hard way; their house was fine with no damage, but they didn't have electricity for two weeks, and I couldn't come get them because most major roads were washed out. After living without fans or AC or cold food for weeks, they never talked about staying again. All their closets molded, because there was so much humidity and no AC.

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Anonymous wrote:Any news from the friend this morning?

Not the OP, but we have family in a mandatory evac zone and their kids are back in school today, road isn't even wet, they didn't lose power. NBD.

Again, a simple perusal of any trusted media shows that a lot of people were affected. Your response is very tone deaf.

It's not remotely tone deaf. In Tampa Bay, this turned out to be a very regular storm, and life is by and large back to normal. The storm hit really hard in the least populated part of the state. There will be people affected - but MOST people will not have been severely affected. Why is it tone deaf to acknowledge that? Why are you disaster porn addicts SO excited about things being horrible??

Storms are going to be worse! There will be more of them! It's going to be bad! We got very lucky this time! And people who live in Florida LIVE with all of this - and don't need you giving a lecture about how we should and shouldn't talk about it.

I don't even live in Florida and I understand why people don't evacuate. I can recall summers past where people did and they showed the traffic back ups, the gas station lines, etc and then it was just a storm. A lot of people can't uproot their lives and can't afford to evacuate each time so they use their best judgement. News programs just want to get more viewers so they hype it up to ridiculous levels of reporting during storms. They do here in DC and it's annoying.

Oh okay, I'm glad people don't evacuate when issued mandatory orders cuz you know you don't want traffic! It's no big deal if an emergency responder has to come get you is it? It's so interesting how so many people here turn into meteorologists and scientists when a storm approaches.

Have you ever returned to a home (days after the storm when the police allow you to return) that's soaking wet, getting mildew, no electricity, no water, and looters helping themselves to what they want? Many people decide they can't afford to deal with those outcomes and decide to tide out the storms. I'm not saying it's what I would do, but I can understand that line of thinking.

not evacuating, its not going to change the part about mildew and no electricity and stuff like that. Looting? I do understand there's a fear of that. I know at least in my county, the sheriff's department was pretty closely screening people they were letting back in yesterday but I don't know how that works everywhere.

If a window blows out or some other water intrusion, you might be able to make a repair if you were home.

Do you think this is a safe place for you and your children to be when this happens??? Think.