Florida Hypocrites
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Anonymous
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My family all week:
Hurricane? We aren’t scared. Business as usual. Haha! Of course we aren’t leaving! HURRICANE PARTY!!! Trust us, we can handle a little hurricane. Dorian, we are laughing in your face! Are you scared when it snows? Well, we aren’t scared when there is a hurricane either. Crazy Yanks. No biggie. Family today: It’s coming straight for us! Pray! We love where You vacation but it’s not always a vacation! Turn, Dorian, TURN! Really worried about this hurricane. Pray for us. Why the cockiness? Y’all know you’re scared. |
Anonymous
| *we live where you vacation |
Anonymous
| I don't get too worried when I'm on a highway where everyone is driving 70 MPH, until one of them is headed straight for me. |
Anonymous
Only the hurricane was really always headed straight towards them. |
Anonymous
This. Dorian is hammering the Bahamas. Hopefully it will turn out to sea and spare Florida and the Carolinas. |
Anonymous
It was too far out to be of real concern, until now. |
Anonymous
But the hurricane was always a threat and always had the possibility of turning. So why be cocky? If you want to keep using that analogy, it’s more like saying a car is headed your way and it’s a mile out, but it might exit before it gets to you. |
Anonymous
I get it OP as I have family in FL as well. |
Anonymous
I live in Florida. Some of that cockiness is just bluster. Some of it is a way of dealing with the stress when you don't actually know what the hurricane is going to do. It is extremely stressful in the weeks/days leading up to a storm, when everyone is scrambling to stock up on water and supplies, and to track the storm minute by minute to see if it's likely to hit you. Some of it is (I think) a sort of magical power of words kind of thing - like praying You think if you say the right words, you can protect yourself from being hurt by the hurricane. And some of it is probability. It is extremely unlikely that any of us will be hit by a cat 4 or cat 5 storm. The news makes it seem as if we're all going to be blown off the earth. We like to counter that by reassuring people that we're fine. Then the storm path changes and seems more dire, and your feelings about it - and the way you talk about it - changes, too. Anyway, show some fcking empathy. |
Anonymous
| If the point of this thread is ok now white people are going to get hit or the chickens are coming home to roost just remember-two wrongs don't make a right. That's what the current administration would have you believe but it just ain't so. Two wrongs make two wrongs. Let's focus on the task at hand. |
Anonymous
Denial. They want to feel good/secure with their choices, but there is a reason people don't live where we vacation. Because many aspects of vacation areas are not that nice on an ongoing basis. I love New Orleans but my friends living there play it so casually, only to be very vocally relieved when the storms turn away. |
Anonymous
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WTF OP? What an absolutely horrible post. "Ha, I hope ya'll get hammered by this hurricane, that'll show you."
You are just evil. Worry about yourself and wonder what would possess you to post something like this instead of people facing a category 5 hurricane being scared or not. |
Anonymous
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I live in New England. To me it's the same as people who post about being prepared for blizzards and then freaking out when one happens
I think it's a bit of the "too cool for this" attitude, but when you're actually faced with it, it's scary. I went to college in a state where tornadoes happen, but the are usually small and don't cause a lot of damage. I used to do the "oh I'm not worried about it" "yay class is canceled, we have to go to tornado shelter. Who is bringing the box of wine??!". You know, 20 year old cocky BS. Well when we were faced with a large tornado heading right for us, I was freaking out. |
Anonymous
And the constant flooding. |
Anonymous
Is this how we're supposed to talk about DC if there's a terrorist attack? (Gd forbid.) Just wondering if you're writing us a script now for how to talk about everyone who has to deal with the catastrophes that attend to living in one place over another. |