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Edaw
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Thankfully it looks like it will peak and die down before landfall. Projected to hit Florida as Cat 3 and die down further.
Sanrith Descartes
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Yeah its looking like they project 125 sustained at landfall. Its gonna be a bitch but not an Armageddon strike. As always Storm surge will be the big assfucking in that area.
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Kiroy
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Borzak
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Fl removed all tolls to make it wasier to flee. I wonder if it some point they will open the interstates contra flow and have it all going outbound only. It's pretty rare. They did it pre Katrina in LA and they have places on the interstate that they can switch traffic over and have barricades there for it.
I left on I-55 after going some backroads and it was still contra flow and it was pretty open. The big issues was I-10 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge since it's mostly spillway and elevated with limited places to change the traffic. Kind of like a really long bridge.
I've talked to a number of people over the years that live nowhere near a hurricane zone and they fail to see even if traffic moved at 90mph there's only so many places you can put people that leave in that large of numbers. I was only in LA to pick up some computer stuff but people were trying to get hotels and they were all booked in Houston, far as Memphis and such and east it got hit worse than the New Orleans area.
Just the way it is. Since the dawn of man civilization has been near water. Same thing today a large percentage of the population in the US lives within an hour or two of a coast.
I left on I-55 after going some backroads and it was still contra flow and it was pretty open. The big issues was I-10 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge since it's mostly spillway and elevated with limited places to change the traffic. Kind of like a really long bridge.
I've talked to a number of people over the years that live nowhere near a hurricane zone and they fail to see even if traffic moved at 90mph there's only so many places you can put people that leave in that large of numbers. I was only in LA to pick up some computer stuff but people were trying to get hotels and they were all booked in Houston, far as Memphis and such and east it got hit worse than the New Orleans area.
Just the way it is. Since the dawn of man civilization has been near water. Same thing today a large percentage of the population in the US lives within an hour or two of a coast.
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ToeMissile
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I was talking with a friend over the weekend about where in the US you could move to have the lowest likelihood of getting hit with a natural disaster. Fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, ?
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LOL, here in MI we get fuck all. Rare tornado every 25 yrs? Warm 80F-90F summers but longer winters which have not been that bad recent years.
Gavinmad
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It's weird that you're at all comforted by the projections of people who originally said that Milton wasn't even going to exceed Cat 4 and is now one of the most intense hurricanes in recorded history.
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Cybsled
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Look at average home insurance rates vs. property values by state for your answer
Pretty much anywhere in the northern half of US for the most part - while most of those types of disasters can occur there, they tend to be rarer
Gravel
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Sucks, we went on our honeymoon there 20 years ago (1 month ago). It'll probably be wiped out.
Funny enough, we got hit by 2 hurricanes while we were there. Frances (cat 4) and Jeanne (cat 3). Although they were both indirect hits as they traveled the normal route across Florida from east to west.
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Gravel
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Was watching something during Helene and the guy brought up a good point. People balk at 125 mph winds on a hurricane for some reason, but that's an EF2 tornado. Which, yeah, shit's going to get fucked up.
Also, it was funny because when we were heading down for our honeymoon, we remember it being gridlocked going north. Smooth sailing southbound though, not a soul on the road.
Anyway, seems like HAARP left their lasers on a bit too long and this thing is going out of control. In a week we'll be swallowed whole by a Jupiter like hurricane that envelops the whole planet.
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