Times like these in which I'm glad I'm not in a position of power in the government or whatever.
Where the feck do you start when it's all over?
Where the feck do you start when it's all over?
The Hurricane Thread | Hurricane Rafael
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Tornado warning here
They have had contingency plans in place for decades.
It makes for an interesting day! You need mattresses and even a helmet for projectiles. Good luck mate!
I have an insanely dumb question but I'm just too curious not to ask it so here goes.
The population of alligators in Florida is roughly 1.25m.. what happens to them? Will they be like swept inland or something? Will they have a part to play in all this?
Good luck to all of the humans too of course.
The population of alligators in Florida is roughly 1.25m.. what happens to them? Will they be like swept inland or something? Will they have a part to play in all this?
Good luck to all of the humans too of course.
Wasn't there a good chance of it hitting Miami for like a week now though?
Yeah I saw a video clip earlier of cranes in Miami just rotating about like they were feathers. Very dangerous!
They are not immune to the effects and yes there will be pictures of people finding gators in flooded areas (but people already find them in pools, in their yard,etc) but it will not likely be a huge danger to most people in the aftermath.
They are already inland in places like the everglades. I used to live in the western part of Broward County (same county as Fort Lauderdale) and it wasn't uncommon to see gators on golf courses and in backyards. This is why most people have screened back yards/pools like below.
Considering there are hundreds of cranes in the area it generally takes a week or two to deconstruct all of them and they are not going to proceed with that sort of massive operation unless there is a high probability the storm will make a dead hit on Florida, which is very difficult to say a week or so out. It could hit FL, or it could go through Cuba and back into the gulf towards Texas or the like.
Found the clip of cranes spinning.
I get why they wouldn't want to have the cost/inconvenience, but when you're talking about a hundreds of foot tall object potentially being flung across the city, you'd think they'd go with better safe than sorry.
If the cranes are being "flung across the city" chances are really good that the city is already fecked by the winds and the cranes won't matter.
Thing I don't know is how often do these things collapse from hurricanes vs how often they are fine?
Certainly interesting. Can literally feel the pressure changes.
Love the comments.
Tbf they did a good job not tumbling down. It's cat 4 irma
They've just shown it on CNN. They recon that in some areas it's neck high.
I get she's made millions doing this sort of thing, but...
That was posted Sept 7th had Irma even reached Florida yet? Two seconds on google reveals it was a Powerade ad from the mid-2000's. Typical MoBeats
There was a post on reddit a few days ago showing a trampoline that had been blown into someone's back yard by Irma. Quickly called out as fake as Irma had not hit Florida yet.
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Certainly a lot of drama queens on CNN.And how can you be taken seriously if you are telling people to stay in doors when you are outside standing in a storm
Yeah but the river has flooded and is overflowing onto the streets.
This seems to becoming a trend:
They are extremely heavy and have great big holes in them for the wind to pass through. One crane failed, no need to panic
I was going to ask the same thing. So presumably that means it will be raining alligators from the sky somewhere in Florida later today! Would be an amazing photograph if anyone was able to catch it.
I presume many 1000s of alligators will get displaced from their natural habitat causing many problems in the next few days.
Lol
'Raining fish is not a common weather phenomenon'
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'So presumably it'll be raining alligators!'
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'So presumably it'll be raining alligators!'
Steve Irwin would have loved that shit.So all this water receding. Does anyone know if there is any danger of it rising very suddenly? Am thinking there will loads of people trying to get selfies and live streaming it.
I mean what kind of dumbass even thought it was a good idea to leave the cranes out when the hurricane warnings started coming in? How else does anyone expect this to end?
Why? Just why? Yachtsmen especially weekend sailors are among the biggest bunch of moronic twats ever. Lifeboats and their crews spend the majority of their time rescuing these idiots because of their own stupidity and ignorance. To be fair, that sea isn't that rough, but there was a hurricane forecast so what the feck were they thinking being out there in that plastic piece of shite?
They'll be cycling back home now.