Hurricane Irma

[pErvinalia]

Also, the restriction wasn't on any felon. It was just that if you had a warrant out for your arrest,

Here's what you said:

...violent felons are housed in a different area

[NineBerry]

I don't think that, in a cramped shelter, there would be any chance to do anything bad without being noticed.

[pErvinalia]

But what if there were Marxists in there?!!

[Animavore]

Good to know that in times of crisis rev and 42 will still be arguing with each other.

[Rum]

(Edit: In response to ErV's last)

Gathering together for mutual protection IS Marxist!!

[pErvinalia]

Good to know that in times of crisis rev and 42 will still be arguing with each other.

Only 42 could apologise for inhuman practices if he thought the US was being criticised..

[pErvinalia]

(Edit: In response to ErV's last)

Gathering together for mutual protection IS Marxist!!

True. Those who took shelter paid for by the state from the proceeds of theft (i.e. tax) should be deported back to the USSR!

[pErvinalia]

Good to know that in times of crisis rev and 42 will still be arguing with each other.

Do I need to remind everyone that I was actually the only one concerned about 42's safety? You were all like 'laklak this', 'laklak that'...

[Forty Two]

Good to know that in times of crisis rev and 42 will still be arguing with each other.

Only 42 could apologise for inhuman practices if he thought the US was being criticised..

I criticize the US all the time.

Checking to see if sex offenders and violent felons with warrants out for their arrest are going to be staying with vulnerable people at a shelter is not "inhuman."

[Animavore]

Good to know that in times of crisis rev and 42 will still be arguing with each other.

Only 42 could apologise for inhuman practices if he thought the US was being criticised..

Yeah, searching warrants bad taste, but Florida is authoritarian and draconian. I'm not even a bit surprised. I'm not surprised it turned out the way it did, either. After Miami practically becoming a war zone in the 80s.

[Animavore]

Good to know that in times of crisis rev and 42 will still be arguing with each other.

Do I need to remind everyone that I was actually the only one concerned about 42's safety? You were all like 'laklak this', 'laklak that'...

Not I!

I didn't give a shit about either of them.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

That was a joke.

[Forty Two]

Other than for the folks directly in the path when it made landfall in the Keys, Marco Island and Naples, most of the rest of Florida were not badly effected. There's a fair bit of power outage, but that's mostly inconvenience. Power is coming back on quickly. There are isolated criminal events, but that's rare, and overblown in the media.

This was a well-coordinated hurricane response. They evacuated huge numbers of people in an orderly fashion and relatively quickly. Most people were able to organize themselves and prepare so that they could weather it. And, the recovery effort is moving very quickly.

There will be some lessons learned for the next one, but for the most part, this was a very well-run disaster response.

[pErvinalia]

What I find interesting (and scary) is the latitudes that Atlantic hurricanes can occur at. Miami is around about the same latitude as Brisbane, yet we only get cyclones that far from the equator extremely rarely.

[Rum]

What I find interesting (and scary) is the latitudes that Atlantic hurricanes can occur at. Miami is around about the same latitude as Brisbane, yet we only get cyclones that far from the equator extremely rarely.

Hong Kong, where I lived as a kid is on roughly the same latitude as Miami and of course they get typhoons most years round about this time of the year, which are more or less the same phenomenon though they tend to be smaller and a little less destructive. The geography, heating of shallow seas and such I am sure play as big a factor in creating these deep low pressure bastards. Your area I guess doesn't have the same configuration - thus your cyclones are less intense.

[mistermack]

I don't see why they don't use land fill to provide raised areas where people can go to be safe when it floods.
Near where I live, there is the landfill site for Gloucester. It's amazing how high it's been banked up. Several stories high at least. The older parts have been finished off with topsoil, and sheep are grazing it. It looks quite nice, almost natural, apart from being evenly contoured. I believe it's positioned to help with the flooding from the Severn.

America produces plenty of rubbish. They could do something with it in flood prone areas.