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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

This.

Dorian is hammering the Bahamas. Hopefully it will turn out to sea and spare Florida and the Carolinas. [/quote]
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.

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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.[/quote]

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