Lets talk about hurricanes real quick.

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

October 07 2016 10:14 GMT

It's that time of year again and its probably on the weather channel across the country. A big bad ugly storm comes and blows down homes.

In a few days it will be over to most of you. But it won't be.

There will be flooding. There will be debris everywhere. People will have no homes. But the media coverage will be gone as fast as the hurricane, and with it the attention of the nation.

As deadly as a hurricane can be, the conditions afterwards are as life threatening but lack the attention grabbing excitement of the cane itself. The roads will be unusable. Power will be out. Trees will be down and houses will be severely damaged. Perishable goods will rot and emergency aid with food supplies will show up slowly, delayed by storm damage and flooding. But at that point everyones attention will have moved on.

Keep in mind that even when the storm passes the effects are felt long afterwards. Keep in mind the 250+ dead Haitians and devastation to their country. The national news certainly won't. Imagine the destruction to infrastructure, like roads, like power, and other essential cogs in modern life. They'll say the worst of it is over tomorrow but that makes little difference to those that will lose their homes, cars, or lives.

micronesia

United States24771 Posts

October 08 2016 00:58 GMT

Yeah I can relate to the message. Perhaps I didn't realize it until Hurricane Sandy struck my neighborhood a few years back. I lost power for like 10 days, couldn't get gas for my car, and didn't have it 1% as bad as many other people. The after-effects of that one are still being felt by millions.

DickMcFanny

Ireland1076 Posts

October 08 2016 01:27 GMT

Let's just thank god that Florida's governor will use this for good to boost his relentless crusade against climate change.

Oh, wait.

YokoKano

United States612 Posts

October 08 2016 15:03 GMT

Hurricanes fucking rule if you're a kid. When I was a kid the hurricane shot down one of the trees in my backyard above my dog house. We had a big white octagon dog house where the dog lived (and was inside during the hurricane). Actually I think the hurricane more than made up for itself in the billions of dollars of damage it did and the handful of human causalities because we got to run up and down the trunks of big fallen down trees. The whole neighborhood got together and we all made tons of money (like $10) cleaning up the rubbish and stuff that was strewn through everyone's yards. This latest hurricane is a real bumber though because now all these mofos are fleeing into our state from Florida. Damnit all I miss hurricane parties in high school and how great it all was when I was 5 years old?

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

October 11 2016 14:32 GMT

On October 09 2016 00:03 YokoKano wrote:
Hurricanes fucking rule if you're a kid. When I was a kid the hurricane shot down one of the trees in my backyard above my dog house. We had a big white octagon dog house where the dog lived (and was inside during the hurricane). Actually I think the hurricane more than made up for itself in the billions of dollars of damage it did and the handful of human causalities because we got to run up and down the trunks of big fallen down trees. The whole neighborhood got together and we all made tons of money (like $10) cleaning up the rubbish and stuff that was strewn through everyone's yards. This latest hurricane is a real bumber though because now all these mofos are fleeing into our state from Florida. Damnit all I miss hurricane parties in high school and how great it all was when I was 5 years old?

I was playing in the flood water of Hurricane Andrew before my parents realized what I was doing. We lived in a septic tank neighborhood and that water was filthy.

Brown outs, black outs, wind, rain; All that shit was just super cool to me as a kid.

Also as predicted the news has moved on.

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I've gone surfing next to this pier a hundred times. The Pit is just out of the shot and you can rent/buy boards there from tiny four footers to massive 9s. And the roads fuckin gone.

What are people going to do for the next 3-6 months? What are more than 500,000 people in the southeast gonna do this week with power still out. No school, hospitals are either burning generators or closed, supermarkets perishables are perishing. But all the attention is given to the cataclysm with the wind and rain.

So yeah that's us.

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May 20 2017 06:59 GMT

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fluidrone

France1478 Posts

May 21 2017 10:39 GMT

Fun title association "hurricanes / real quick"

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because you know, they are real sudden and quick duh!

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