You live in the Villages?!
Welp, current projections are not great. I’m about an hour east of Tampa. Thankfully the storm is moving quick and the sheer should help cut it up from becoming a cat 4/5
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Yikes, Florida. The whole state is on track to be totally uninsurable.
Nature is just delivering the Bugs Bunny plan to improve America.
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The Free Market and capitalism will take care of it, don’t worry. Folks there should have plenty of cash to cover the premium increases due to the fiscal responsibility of Florida government and their freedom-loving zero state income tax.
And, if it gets too expensive, they can just bootstrap on up to Missouri or something.
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If you meant the American Free Market where the richest people in Miami will fund politicians that cut their taxes and give them a bailout, then I agree.
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I really don’t see any way out of this, the climate disasters are only going to worsen from here and while I’m a very sweet summer child I don’t see any political appetite for perpetual bailouts.
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democracy in action, my friend
Disaster bailouts are freedom, trans sex changes are socialism. I feel like we have almost unlimited appetite for disaster bailouts, but maybe if a disaster hits one of them librul cities we’ll see that ethos change.
The smart folks I read on hurricanes said it would hit Cat 4 but shear would lower it before landfall.
BUT it seems to already have hit Cat 4. Hope the shear prediction still holds.
I suspect that the central bank will write bailout checks until it stops working, I doubt they stop because of any political pressure.
Yeah, this is the expectation. It’ll hit cat 4 today or tomorrow and then the sheer will eat it up before landfall as a3
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That’s the current worry, though, is it looks like it already accelerated to Cat 4, earlier than expected. This lists it as already nearing a Cat 5. Hopefully the shear can still knock it down to something manageable.
I think this one will skirt me from the west but largely will miss me. Putting up the shutters mainly to protect from windblown rain that can find its way through crevices around windows and doors. They do seem to be having a bit of trouble pinning down exactly where this is going to hit, and yeah, it’s just one of these after another, and it’s getting really old. Not to mention the ridiculous insurance premiums.
How exact do you think they need to be a few days out?
before Katrina hit in 2005, there were more than 450,000 people living in New Orleans. A year later, more than 200,000 of those were gone, and most never went back. The water receded, but it didn’t spit the city back out whole; the more times the flood comes, the less there is to go back to.
Up to Cat 5 now.
Pressure down to 925. For comparison, Katrina made landfall at 920 and it’s lowest was 902mb.
If only we could figure out why these storms are all intensifying so fast.
God works in mysterious ways.
Also his aim is bad. Maralago is further south and on the other side of the peninsula.
but why do the scientists keep getting it wrong?!?!?!
god looking at anything on twitter these days is just absolute pure vomit that makes me want to root for the hurricane 