Hoping any Tilders in central and northwest Florida are getting out of the way of this impending disaster. It's looking like Hurricane Milton will make landfall in Tampa Bay, which is one of the...
Hoping any Tilders in central and northwest Florida are getting out of the way of this impending disaster. It's looking like Hurricane Milton will make landfall in Tampa Bay, which is one of the most vulnerable places in the U.S. with respect to storm surge.
The Tampa area is still recovering from Hurricane Helene's storm surge. Hurricane Milton is likely to be much worse. More Atlantic storms are coming, with at least another seven weeks of hurricane season to go.
The Gulf of Mexico is running 4 °C warmer than expected for this time of year, and climate change is having predictable effects on storm intensification. Florida Gov. DeSantis is denying at full volume.
This storm looks to be a total disaster. I moved out of that area last year, but all of my friends and family are still there and none of them were able to evacuate far enough for my liking. The...
This storm looks to be a total disaster. I moved out of that area last year, but all of my friends and family are still there and none of them were able to evacuate far enough for my liking. The routes going north are few and apparently at a stand still and all the gas stations are out of gas. I don't have anything constructive to add other than I feel intense dread and weirdly guilty that I alone in my family am in relative safety.
My family evacuated for Irma back in 2017 and I can sympathize with the stress that it brings. Never faced so much traffic in my life. Took all evening and night to go a distance that normally...
My family evacuated for Irma back in 2017 and I can sympathize with the stress that it brings. Never faced so much traffic in my life. Took all evening and night to go a distance that normally takes like four hours tops.
As for your family, do they live somewhere close to the water? The storm surge is the really scary part of these storms. As long as they aren't within a few blocks of the ocean, or immediately next to a canal or something, then they should hopefully be safe. Still best to evacuate, of course, but sometimes you just can't convince someone to leave their home no matter what.
I have friends that waited until the middle of the night to leave last night. Traffic had cleared up a good bit. My boss left a message in Slack at 3:48 AM that they were heading north at the...
I have friends that waited until the middle of the night to leave last night. Traffic had cleared up a good bit. My boss left a message in Slack at 3:48 AM that they were heading north at the time.
I have a lot of friends and coworkers in St Pete; where I resided for many years until '21. Thankfully my family is inland. So long as the Alifia doesn't flood, they should be safe from water. Also they all have cinder block construction, so not too concerned by the likely Cat 3 winds they'll receive.
I was in downtown St Pete all last week for work and hung around for some weekend activities with friends. I watched the mood shift from a bit of shock in the aftermath of Helene to anxiety and dread for Milton.
The destruction already brought by Helene was wild. I spent 40 years in Florida. Nearly 25 in the Tampa Bay area, mostly in St Pete. I've certainly never seen it anything like that there. I have friends that lost their homes, vehicles, expensive collections of tools and equipment for their livelihood, furniture, and cherished belongings of sentimental value. It sucks. I'm hoping I don't get calls or texts about any of them losing their lives.
I've personally been scared of only two prior storms: Charlie and Irma. I would be fleeing from Milton for sure. I'm worried from 400+ miles north.
I hope anyone that is ordered to evacuate does so.
Mirror: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/commodities/2024/10/07/hurricane-milton-explodes-to-category-5-on-a-path-toward-florida/ (BNN Bloomberg is the official Bell Canada + Bloomberg...
Plugging the excellent blog www.theeyewall.com for anyone in the Caribbean, Gulf, or nearby areas. Or just anyone interested in keeping track of extreme weather events. They do a great job of...
Plugging the excellent blog www.theeyewall.com for anyone in the Caribbean, Gulf, or nearby areas. Or just anyone interested in keeping track of extreme weather events. They do a great job of explaining exactly what's happening in layman's terms and what that means for different soon-to-be-affected areas.
Milton as a storm is both A) near record-breaking in terms of how fast it developed, how far west it developed, and how intense it is, and B) the exact kind of storm that is becoming increasingly common as the Atlantic Ocean warms. Seems like every year now there's a record-breaking storm or two in the Caribbean, only question is where's it gonna hit.
If these storms are becoming more and more common, and more and more dangerous, we need stronger national and state policy to resettle people who are living in areas that are going to be flooded/destroyed. We also need more physical infrastructure to mitigate the effects of flooding, like water-absorbing swamplands instead of concrete wastelands, but that doesn't do anything about the wind.
There is plenty of land in this country. It is extremely easy to build housing when regressive NIMBY zoning laws are bypassed. If coastal Florida is truly becoming hurricane-central, and this is an annual recurrence, we should leave it for greener pastures. The loss of life from this hurricane sounds like it will be immense, and the loss of infrastructure is going to be costly. Those are tax dollars being spent on repairing roads and bridges that probably shouldn't exist instead of giving people public healthcare. Inefficient and bad for society.
Insurers are already (fairly) jacking up prices in flood-risky areas, which is an economic incentive to NOT LIVE IN FLOOD ZONES, but the government needs to work to provide more and better alternatives to living in places less subject to horrible natural disasters. Like more housing in the many temperate parts of the country that don't suffer this amount of damage on a regular basis.
I saw a meteorologist talking about how this is a near perfect storm - as it may be nearing the maximum strength allowed but the temperature of the water. Here's hoping everyone stays safe. I've...
I saw a meteorologist talking about how this is a near perfect storm - as it may be nearing the maximum strength allowed but the temperature of the water. Here's hoping everyone stays safe. I've still got family and friends in the Carolinas without power from Helene.
Usually storms develop out in the Atlantic and then pick up some extra speed when/if they reach the Gulf (due to its warm waters). Also it's so late in the season that the Gulf has had all summer...
Usually storms develop out in the Atlantic and then pick up some extra speed when/if they reach the Gulf (due to its warm waters). Also it's so late in the season that the Gulf has had all summer to heat up. And this storm developed entirely in the Gulf, so yeah I'd say that's pretty ideal conditions for building the strongest storm unfortunately.
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Hoping any Tilders in central and northwest Florida are getting out of the way of this impending disaster. It's looking like Hurricane Milton will make landfall in Tampa Bay, which is one of the most vulnerable places in the U.S. with respect to storm surge.
The Tampa area is still recovering from Hurricane Helene's storm surge. Hurricane Milton is likely to be much worse. More Atlantic storms are coming, with at least another seven weeks of hurricane season to go.
The Gulf of Mexico is running 4 °C warmer than expected for this time of year, and climate change is having predictable effects on storm intensification. Florida Gov. DeSantis is denying at full volume.
This storm looks to be a total disaster. I moved out of that area last year, but all of my friends and family are still there and none of them were able to evacuate far enough for my liking. The routes going north are few and apparently at a stand still and all the gas stations are out of gas. I don't have anything constructive to add other than I feel intense dread and weirdly guilty that I alone in my family am in relative safety.
My family evacuated for Irma back in 2017 and I can sympathize with the stress that it brings. Never faced so much traffic in my life. Took all evening and night to go a distance that normally takes like four hours tops.
As for your family, do they live somewhere close to the water? The storm surge is the really scary part of these storms. As long as they aren't within a few blocks of the ocean, or immediately next to a canal or something, then they should hopefully be safe. Still best to evacuate, of course, but sometimes you just can't convince someone to leave their home no matter what.
I have friends that waited until the middle of the night to leave last night. Traffic had cleared up a good bit. My boss left a message in Slack at 3:48 AM that they were heading north at the time.
I have a lot of friends and coworkers in St Pete; where I resided for many years until '21. Thankfully my family is inland. So long as the Alifia doesn't flood, they should be safe from water. Also they all have cinder block construction, so not too concerned by the likely Cat 3 winds they'll receive.
I was in downtown St Pete all last week for work and hung around for some weekend activities with friends. I watched the mood shift from a bit of shock in the aftermath of Helene to anxiety and dread for Milton.
The destruction already brought by Helene was wild. I spent 40 years in Florida. Nearly 25 in the Tampa Bay area, mostly in St Pete. I've certainly never seen it anything like that there. I have friends that lost their homes, vehicles, expensive collections of tools and equipment for their livelihood, furniture, and cherished belongings of sentimental value. It sucks. I'm hoping I don't get calls or texts about any of them losing their lives.
I've personally been scared of only two prior storms: Charlie and Irma. I would be fleeing from Milton for sure. I'm worried from 400+ miles north.
I hope anyone that is ordered to evacuate does so.
Mirror: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/commodities/2024/10/07/hurricane-milton-explodes-to-category-5-on-a-path-toward-florida/
(BNN Bloomberg is the official Bell Canada + Bloomberg partnership site and often has unpaywalled versions of Bloomberg articles)
Plugging the excellent blog www.theeyewall.com for anyone in the Caribbean, Gulf, or nearby areas. Or just anyone interested in keeping track of extreme weather events. They do a great job of explaining exactly what's happening in layman's terms and what that means for different soon-to-be-affected areas.
Milton as a storm is both A) near record-breaking in terms of how fast it developed, how far west it developed, and how intense it is, and B) the exact kind of storm that is becoming increasingly common as the Atlantic Ocean warms. Seems like every year now there's a record-breaking storm or two in the Caribbean, only question is where's it gonna hit.
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If these storms are becoming more and more common, and more and more dangerous, we need stronger national and state policy to resettle people who are living in areas that are going to be flooded/destroyed. We also need more physical infrastructure to mitigate the effects of flooding, like water-absorbing swamplands instead of concrete wastelands, but that doesn't do anything about the wind.
There is plenty of land in this country. It is extremely easy to build housing when regressive NIMBY zoning laws are bypassed. If coastal Florida is truly becoming hurricane-central, and this is an annual recurrence, we should leave it for greener pastures. The loss of life from this hurricane sounds like it will be immense, and the loss of infrastructure is going to be costly. Those are tax dollars being spent on repairing roads and bridges that probably shouldn't exist instead of giving people public healthcare. Inefficient and bad for society.
Insurers are already (fairly) jacking up prices in flood-risky areas, which is an economic incentive to NOT LIVE IN FLOOD ZONES, but the government needs to work to provide more and better alternatives to living in places less subject to horrible natural disasters. Like more housing in the many temperate parts of the country that don't suffer this amount of damage on a regular basis.
I saw a meteorologist talking about how this is a near perfect storm - as it may be nearing the maximum strength allowed but the temperature of the water. Here's hoping everyone stays safe. I've still got family and friends in the Carolinas without power from Helene.
Usually storms develop out in the Atlantic and then pick up some extra speed when/if they reach the Gulf (due to its warm waters). Also it's so late in the season that the Gulf has had all summer to heat up. And this storm developed entirely in the Gulf, so yeah I'd say that's pretty ideal conditions for building the strongest storm unfortunately.
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