How does a Cat 4 Hurricane only kill three people?

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Florida lot of deaths also occur after the hurricane as well. Unstable conditions, people hurt trying to remove fallen trees, people running generators incorrectly.

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NY Times is reporting more than 50 killed now.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe it’s going to stay that low. Entire towns have been wiped out. They haven’t even been able to get to those people/their homes yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
NY Times is reporting more than 50 killed now.

Is that enough, OP?

[Anonymous]

This is unbelievable. The power of water.

[Anonymous]

Let’s not forget that Trump and Project 2025 want to defund and break up the National Weather Service, including hurricane warnings and alerts. So if you want to have to pay to find out if a hurricane is coming to your area, vote for Trump.

[Anonymous]

NYT reporting more than 60 now. Western NC needs our help. Many people are trapped in outlying areas of Asheville.

[Anonymous]

Why did Tennessee Governor Lee wait so long to declare an emergency?

[Anonymous]

Death toll is over 90 now.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously the number may sadly go up. But I am quite surprised that so many people can survive a storm of that strength. I imagine that like most other hurricanes, many of them didn't evacuate. What's the explanation?

And wasn't one death that has been reported from a sign falling? Not directly from the wind and rain from the actual hurricane.

You think the water has to rain directly into your lungs, or the wind has to directly crush your heart, for it to count as a hurricane death?

[Anonymous]

St Petersburg Times reported death toll up to 11 now in Tampa Bay area. All the dead were found in the mandatory evacuation zone.
One Tampa man died when a highway sign fell on his van. A woman died with water and an electrical problem in the house.
The rest mostly elderly drowned in their homes.
Very sad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are really blessed to live in a country where most people live in pretty well built homes and we have places like Lowe’s and Home Depot that sell plywood to cover windows and cities give out sand bags.

If it hit like this in someplace like Haiti, death toll would be much higher.

True, but not because of Home Depot or even building codes. If you are at home and there's 8 feet of storm surge in your house, you are in trouble regardless of what you nail to your windows. But because of the US government you have weather predictions, opportunity to evacuate, shelters to evacuate to, emergency services to fly you off a roof if possible, and public health to provide clean water so you don't die of disease while utilities are messed up. You may also have government backed flood insurance. These are services provided by tax dollars and the government workers everybody likes to dump on. And no, it still doesn't save everybody, but those services are the difference between here, and places with huge disaster death tolls.

Nobody complains about the Weather Service, and they are just a tiny drop in the budget. See who gets up in arms if you start talking about giving just 1% of HHS's budget to the NWS or even NPS.

Trump Administration's Cabinet complains.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-project-2025-says-about-the-national-weather-service-and-noaa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget that Trump and Project 2025 want to defund and break up the National Weather Service, including hurricane warnings and alerts. So if you want to have to pay to find out if a hurricane is coming to your area, vote for Trump.

I have family in the immediate area. The entire response including preparation before the storm has been bungled. I don't believe the mayor can even be bothered to get on the twice daily status briefings. If you like bungled disaster responses, vote Democrat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget that Trump and Project 2025 want to defund and break up the National Weather Service, including hurricane warnings and alerts. So if you want to have to pay to find out if a hurricane is coming to your area, vote for Trump.

I have family in the immediate area. The entire response including preparation before the storm has been bungled. I don't believe the mayor can even be bothered to get on the twice daily status briefings. If you like bungled disaster responses, vote Democrat.

Strange I don’t remember a Democratic president when Hurricane Katrina blew through

[Anonymous]

10 dead and 1000 unaccounted for in 1 county in NC.
https://wlos.com/news/local/live-updates-saturday-director-of-emergency-services-we-have-had-loss-of-life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s not forget that Trump and Project 2025 want to defund and break up the National Weather Service, including hurricane warnings and alerts. So if you want to have to pay to find out if a hurricane is coming to your area, vote for Trump.

I have family in the immediate area. The entire response including preparation before the storm has been bungled. I don't believe the mayor can even be bothered to get on the twice daily status briefings. If you like bungled disaster responses, vote Democrat.

What preparation are you expecting? They announced a clear evacuation zone days ahead of time, the storm followed pretty closely to predictions. What exactly will a MAYOR do in a Florida town?