Hurricane Idalia pounds Florida as powerful category 3 hurricane =================

Nothing to see here, just "normal" Florida weather:-)

I only hope the insurance company I use dropped their relationship
with another company there. Otherwise, my rates will go up....

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On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:59:13 -0500
JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

Hurricane Idalia pounds Florida as powerful category 3 hurricane =================

Nothing to see here, just "normal" Florida weather:-)

I only hope the insurance company I use dropped their relationship
with another company there. Otherwise, my rates will go up....

As usual:

1. Media screaming "this could be unprecedented distructions!!!!!!!"
2. Fat locals refusing to leave (partly because always #1 time and time
again)
3. Inevitable, a few dead, and "oh I wish we had left" and "who's going
to come airlift us out of this situation we created for ourselves?"

America: take all the guardrails down and let's be rid of the stupid
once and for all. There was a storm coming, you decided to stay
behind. Good luck to you, motherfucker. For a nation proud of its
rugged individualism, we sure do call for help as soon as our pooch
gets screwed.

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On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:51:37 -0400, Retrograde <[email protected]>
wrote:

As usual:

1. Media screaming
2. Fat locals refusing to leave
3. Inevitable,

Yes, yes, Roman amphitheatres attracted them in...same old events such
as gladiator combats, venationes, and executions.

Thus, your news channels, etc., are using the electronic/print
versions of Roman amphitheatres

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On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:51:37 -0400, Retrograde <[email protected]>
wrote:

3. Inevitable, a few dead, and "oh I wish we had left"

'We Should Have Gotten Off the Island': Cedar Key Residents Survived
Idalia's Wrath
...
...
Hours after the waters of the Gulf of Mexico swept through her house,
Donna Knight emerged in a windbreaker and boots to try to get her
Chevy SUV to higher ground.

"It came through -- the whole ocean," she said, describing a night of
howling wind, frightening bangs and flying debris as Hurricane Idalia
blew through Cedar Key, a conglomeration of tiny islands connected by
bridges that juts three miles into the Gulf.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/cedar-key.html

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