Milton Cat 5

[mirkwood]

3 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

Well at least I’d never have to listen to you blab about Rush again. 

At least until I die.

[Just_A_Guy]

2 hours ago, LDSGator said:

@Just_A_Guy got into a fight with a waffle house cook one time. Dude can throw done when his eggs aren’t done correctly. 

Just like you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, sometimes you have to break a few line cooks to create one decent chef.

[Phoenix_person]

16 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:

Just like you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, sometimes you have to break a few line cooks to create one decent chef.

Too bad the Waffle House line cooks are unbreakable.

[mikbone]

Everyone in Florida still have internet?

Stay safe.

 

[LDSGator]

13 minutes ago, mikbone said:

Everyone in Florida still have internet?

Stay safe.

 

Still do here. It’s not even raining yet

[Carborendum]

13 hours ago, Phoenix_person said:

Too bad the Waffle House line cooks are unbreakable.

Oh, the cooks..

I thought you said, "Too bad the waffles are unbreakable."

[mikbone]

Must be raining now.

The news is off its rocker.

Unsurvivable seems quite the over reaction.

[LDSGator]

19 minutes ago, mikbone said:

Must be raining now.

It is, at least for us. 

 

19 minutes ago, mikbone said:

Unsurvivable seems quite the over reaction

Absolutely, 100% correct. When we scare people over every mouse, they won’t pay attention when the wolves come. The damage the media and doomsayers do is ridiculous.
 

[NeuroTypical]

24 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

The damage the media and doomsayers do is ridiculous.

The news tells me Gator is standing in front of his ruined house waist deep in water.  Poor guy must have checked out of reality to be so calm and delusional.  

[LDSGator]

2 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

The news tells me Gator is standing in front of his ruined house waist deep in water.  Poor guy must have checked out of reality to be so calm and delusional.  Literally me. 

literally me. 

Edited October 9, 2024 by LDSGator

[Just_A_Guy]

18 hours ago, Phoenix_person said:

Too bad the Waffle House line cooks are unbreakable.

They quail before the furor of my strongly-worded legal filings.

[LDSGator]

And it begins. 

[Phoenix_person]

6 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

And it begins. 

Looks like Sarasota's getting the worst of it so far. I have a buddy in Tampa posting videos from his porch. Lots of rain, but the wind doesn't seem too bad where he is.

[LDSGator]

55 minutes ago, Phoenix_person said:

Looks like Sarasota's getting the worst of it so far. I have a buddy in Tampa posting videos from his porch. Lots of rain, but the wind doesn't seem too bad where he is.

Downgraded again.

https://amp.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/2024/10/09/670649decf4b11615bcb7726-live.html

[mikbone]

1 hour ago, LDSGator said:

Downgraded again.

https://amp.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/2024/10/09/670649decf4b11615bcb7726-live.html

Glad to see you posting.

So many tornadoes spawned.

Hopefully it blows itself out real quick.

[LDSGator]

41 minutes ago, mikbone said:

Glad to see you posting.

So many tornadoes spawned.

Hopefully it blows itself out real quick.

Thanks bud. 

Edited October 10, 2024 by LDSGator

[JohnsonJones]

Looks like the Ray's Stadium had it's roof blown off and a crane fell on the News Building in Tampa.  Also looks to have another crane fall in St. Petersburg and various roofs torn off, waist level flooding in the predicted flood zones, and toppled trees with some minor damage to downtown buildings. Looks like a hit on Disney World but I have no idea how much damage was done.  Hopefully not much as I think I may be taking the grandkids there next Spring. 

Overall, from the news this morning it LOOKS like it didn't do half as much damage as many were expecting it too...which is good.  Hopefully that's what actually has happened and not just what it looks like from these early news after reports. 

[Phoenix_person]

My Tampa friend is okay, though some of his neighbors had considerable damage done to their homes.

[LDSGator]

13 minutes ago, Phoenix_person said:

My Tampa friend is okay, though some of his neighbors had considerable damage done to their homes.

We never even lost power here. Luck is a funny thing 

[NeuroTypical]

[mikbone]

54 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

Not sure if I trust this source.  Milton didn’t produce any electricity other than static electricity in the form of lightning.

It released a bunch of energy and produced a whole lot of undesirable work.

[NeuroTypical]

"Wind energy", from what I understand, is a meteorological term referencing the energy it takes to have bits of air moving around.  Doesn't have anything to do with electricity.  It might hasten or slow the rotation of the earth by a femtosecond or three.

 

[NeuroTypical]

lol it’s funny watching the politicians go at each other over the federal govt hurricane response.

 Harris and Desantis sniping at each other:

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) accused Vice President Harris of trying to insert herself into the Hurricane Milton cleanup effort after the two traded barbs this week about the storm.

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked DeSantis about his communication with the vice president after Harris accused him of playing political games by not taking her calls to discuss Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) accused Vice President Harris of trying to insert herself into the Hurricane Milton cleanup effort after the two traded barbs this week about the storm.

Biden taking the opportunity to attack Trump:

It’s called “The politics of personal destruction”.  Rush Limbaugh made a 30+ year radio career over pointing it out. The situation doesn’t matter, use it as an attempt to smear your opponent.  The 80s through 2000s were decent times for the right, we were happy to sit back and point out how the left did this and we never did. That changed, and now we do it as much as anybody. I’m sad to see that change.
 

But yeah, the left did it first, and the left continues to do it best. else remember the left reaction to President Bush during hurricane Katrina? Kind of the exact opposite to what they’re saying now, right?

[LDSGator]

2 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

lol it’s funny watching the politicians go at each other over the federal govt hurricane response.

 Harris and Desantis sniping at each other:

Biden taking the opportunity to attack Trump:

It’s called “The politics of personal destruction”.  Rush Limbaugh made a 30+ year radio career over pointing it out. The situation doesn’t matter, use it as an attempt to smear your opponent.  The 80s through 2000s were decent times for the right, we were happy to sit back and point out how the left did this and we never did. That changed, and now we do it as much as anybody. I’m sad to see that change.
 

But yeah, the left did it first, and the left continues to do it best. else remember the left reaction to President Bush during hurricane Katrina? Kind of the exact opposite to what they’re saying now, right?

The people who need gasoline, food, water and power don’t care at all about who is arguing with who, who started it, and all that drama. 

It reminds me of divorcing parents too into themselves to realize their kid has a problem with depression and drugs and is spiraling down the drain.  

Edited October 11, 2024 by LDSGator

[mikbone]

We are cancelling elective cases because one of the producers of sterile fluids was impacted by Milton.

Sometimes it feels like we are hanging on by a thread and that we have no support system.  Despite the political propaganda.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna174649

Edited October 11, 2024 by mikbone