Hurricane Milton

[Rigel]

Another big hurricane after Florida had already dealt with one less than two weeks ago. Cat 5! That used to mean something! If every damned hurricane is category five, then none of them are!

Anyway, I'm in Brevard County, and the eye of the storm might pass over us directly. Wish this richard-girl cartoon lover some luck please! o7

[Ad Bot]

[Ladios]

I guess there is some push for creating a "cat 6" with winds over 195mph but its hard to get people to change science opinions after they are stated conclusively by some white dudes. The whole category ranking is only like 50 years old, but things have kinda escalated quickly.

Stay safe if you can though.

[Clear Glass]

Don't worry I wont let Milton in, he's no match for Florida man.

[Refticus]

why do they always call these hurricanes something lame instead of something awesome like "scrambles the death dealer"?

[Conan]

bye tampa

[Rigel]

bye tampa

Bye Clearwater. It's next to Tampa and filled with Scientologists. Maybe Xenu's had enough of their stuff for once.

[Kelp]

the eye is going over me

cheers 

[Rigel]

the eye is going over me

cheers 

East coast, I hope? If you're west coast you need to loving leave bro

[Ceist]

hasn't even made landfall yet?

[Clear Glass]

hasn't even made landfall yet?

I'm guessing he meant he is in the path of the eye, not that it's going over right now.

[Unimproved]

why do they always call these hurricanes something lame instead of something awesome like "scrambles the death dealer"?

it made a weather man cry or something i think at this point you can bring in the greek god names

[Ceist]

poseidons fat rooster is making land fall

[Snaffle J. Bean]

if they named every hurricane "friend killer" there wouldn't be a single person staying behind and chancing it once the evacuation orders went out

[Rigel]

if they named every hurricane "friend killer" there wouldn't be a single person staying behind and chancing it once the evacuation orders went out

No, you'd get the usual stubborn idiots sticking around, but now they're trying to prove that they aren't friends, because the storm won't kill them.

It's getting real windy where I'm at on the east coast of Florida, but it stopped raining. That's good, because the ditches and cbrown towns were starting to get full. We might be able to make it through the night without major flooding.

[Rigel]

I made it through the storm okay! The rain was light, and there was no flooding. But there was some wind damage with trees coming down and landing on power lines or blowing transformers. The hurricane spawned many tornados that wrecked places far from the eye of the storm, like Fort Lauderdale. Tampa and the nearby islands are underwater.

My one casualty is this tree in my backyard. The wires at the top go to my house, it was dangerously close to landing on them!