2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Thread

[Jason]

 

[SaysWho?]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

 

Dude, why are you posting this in the Hurricane thread?  

[Jason]

48 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

Dude, why are you posting this in the Hurricane thread?  

 

Because good luck, everyone in the path of the hurricane, your president has more important matters on his mind. 

[Spork3245]

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

20 hours ago, Jason said:

 

So Mueller and the Democrats are working together to hurt republitards in the midterms is not collusion, or Trump issuing an order to Mueller and Democrats not to collude? 

[Jwheel86]

We're home, no power for up to 2 weeks. 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Jwheel86 said:

We're home, no power for up to 2 weeks. 

How is the house?

[SaysWho?]

The Atlantic's finally settling down. Two more months to go, so it's not over, but it's nice having things settle down for now.

[marioandsonic]

What's left of Florence will be dumping more rain in the Northeast for all of tomorrow.

[Jwheel86]

10 hours ago, sblfilms said:

How is the house?

Dry, few shingles gone and a tree down on the guest house but it didn't breach. Just ran the generator for 8 hours and it only used 4% of the 500 gallon tank so we're good for a few days but we heard the gas company trucks are out topping off tanks. On the drive home there was a massive convoy of utility trucks driving from Indiana driving into region. Current estimate is Friday. 

 

The yard is destroyed, about 40 trees down, house got surrounded by a foot of surge that brought in a ton of debris all the way up the driveway. Massive erosion on the beach and behind the bulkhead. Our rocks are scattered all over the place, my immediate neighbor completely lost their bulkhead (rip $50k). Our pool fence is completely gone. 

 

Worst areas are New Bern, Newport, and further south Wilmington. Local Base Commanders have been freed to just act so Camp Lejune and Cherry Point are sending out Marines and sheltering people. My area has had over 300 water rescues. Wilmington is the worst I think, every road in is cut off, and they've had over 500 rescues. Supplies are only able to get in by air. 

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Things are coming back faster than I thought though, a few gas stations are open and grocery stores are letting people in a few at a time. 

[Guest]

Glad to here you were in relatively good shape! 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

The remnants of Florence came through Richmond and dropped something like 7-8 tornadoes this afternoon. Completely unheard of for this area. Still in a tornado watch but damn that was scary.

[SaysWho?]

37 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

The remnants of Florence came through Richmond and dropped something like 7-8 tornadoes this afternoon. Completely unheard of for this area. Still in a tornado watch but damn that was scary.

 

 

[PaladinSolo]

 

 

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

 

 

Some of the aftermath. We never get shit like this

 

 

 

[Jwheel86]

There's some epic price gouging going on for tree removal. 

[RedSoxFan9]

 

[Zaku3]

1 hour ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

 

In my future socialist dictatorship definately sending the owner to my gulags.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Itt we pretend that finding accommodation that accepts pets during a mass evacuation situation is easy and/or affordable. Don't get me wrong, the 'owners' are probably a couple of fucks, but still. Sometimes it literally can't be helped.

[Jason]

6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Itt we pretend that finding accommodation that accepts pets during a mass evacuation situation is easy and/or affordable. Don't get me wrong, the 'owners' are probably a couple of fucks, but still. Sometimes it literally can't be helped.

 

Especially if you're being forced to choose between your pets and your kids. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Why on earth do they have 6 dogs to begin with?  They certainly don't appear to be in the breeding business.

[PaladinSolo]

10 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Itt we pretend that finding accommodation that accepts pets during a mass evacuation situation is easy and/or affordable. Don't get me wrong, the 'owners' are probably a couple of fucks, but still. Sometimes it literally can't be helped.

I'm sorry this is bullshit I'd sooner sleep on the street with my dogs than leave them to die. 

[Jason]

52 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Why on earth do they have 6 dogs to begin with?

 

I saw a Twitter comment about this that suggested that they could be hunting dogs.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

I saw a Twitter comment about this that suggested that they could be hunting dogs.

Right - now that I've seen the dogs in question, those are definitely hunting dogs.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 hour ago, PaladinSolo said:

I'm sorry this is bullshit I'd sooner sleep on the street with my dogs than leave them to die. 

Sleeping on the street is an option during a hurricane? Lol

[Jason]

1 hour ago, PaladinSolo said:

I'm sorry this is bullshit I'd sooner sleep on the street with my dogs than leave them to die. 

 

If it was just me and my dogs, sure, I'd definitely make that decision. But if I had to choose between my dogs and my kids? What an impossible situation to be in.

[PaladinSolo]

54 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Sleeping on the street is an option during a hurricane? Lol

If you left your dogs i'd assume you weren't where it was hitting.... Stop trying to make excuses for shitty humans, I also have kids, theres no way i'd ever leave my dogs behind to die.

[Kal-El814]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

If it was just me and my dogs, sure, I'd definitely make that decision. But if I had to choose between my dogs and my kids? What an impossible situation to be in.

I have a beagle, so I cannot abandoning ones beagle hard enough.

 

That said, surely letting the dogs loose and giving them a chance is a better option than leaving them caged up. But who knows, maybe they didn’t have time for even that.

[Jason]

30 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

That said, surely letting the dogs loose and giving them a chance is a better option than leaving them caged up. But who knows, maybe they didn’t have time for even that.

 

Yeah...this is a little more relevant to something faster-moving like the forest fires in places like California, but I feel like one possibility that people often overlook is that circumstances cut them off from being able to get back in time to save the pets.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

MY dog is going wherever I go. I don't even have to think about it.

[Jason]

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

All I'm saying is it is really easy to rush to judgement on this without looking at each individual case. Maybe they are terrible people. Maybe not. Who knows.

 

 

18 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

This is a very effective format and I expect other, more popular presidents in the future doing this.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

All I'm saying is it is really easy to rush to judgement on this without looking at each individual case. Maybe they are terrible people. Maybe not. Who knows.

 

Yeah, the assumption that these are terrible people who locked up their dogs to die in a hurricane is only one of many possible scenarios. Not sure why people leap to the worst of all scenarios.

 

As an example of something similar, a couple of my friends left their house during Harvey to go pick up some other friends who had to evacuate. Unbeknownst to them, the flood control authority decided to release water from some flood control reservoirs into their neighborhood which caused their home to flood. They couldn’t get to their home for 3 or 4 days until a boat was made available. Fortunately their animals were able to go upstairs and stay dry.

 

Natural disasters cary a high level of unpredictability, including in regards to flooding. We simply can’t know outside of the owners telling the story as to why the dogs ended up locked in the kennel while they left.

[Jwheel86]

<-- Eastern NC resident, people around here treat dogs, especially hunting dogs, like absolute shit. Almost every pet in my neighborhood was dumped on the side of the road originally. My neighbor was riding her bike miles from anything and found a box of kittens on the road.

 

[RedSoxFan9]