Update (10/07): Hurricane Milton upgraded to Category 5, projected track indicates impact to Tampa Bay area

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

11 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

Stay safe @SaysWho?

 

And @Dre801!

[S3xB0t]

49 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

This hurricane is nearing the mathematical limit of what Earth's atmosphere over this ocean water can produce.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

57 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

From the FOX 35 Orlando meteorologist:

 

Jesus Christ

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The 15 foot storm surge currently predicted from this is going to be absolutely catastrophic.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I'm legitimately terrified for the population of the Tampa Bay area right now because there's still so much goddamned hot water in the Gulf for this thing to cross, even with the expected wind shearing as it approaches the peninsula. 

[Jason]

It's fine, DeSantis made global warming illegal in Florida. 

[TUFKAK]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

It's fine, DeSantis made global warming illegal in Florida. 

 

Maybe Cheetos can draw on a map again to change the storms trajectory.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Oh good lord my bil apparently lives in st Pete beach and thinks he’s gonna have a place to come back to. By Friday.
 

Florida transplant brain. Remembering the people I know from Ohio who moved down there it tracks for so many of them this is just a prime example

[Xbob42]

1 hour ago, S3xB0t said:

Hey that means our architecture will outpace and defeat hurricanes forever eventually!

[Ominous]

This could have been avoided if Florida voted for Gore.

[Air_Delivery]

2 minutes ago, Ominous said:

This could have been avoided if Florida voted for Gore.

Global warming is banned in Florida. Find a new slant libs.

[ThreePi]

56 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

 

Maybe Cheetos can draw on a map again to change the storms trajectory.

 

Better yet, when he shuts down the National Weather Service and NOAA we won't have all this scary news about hurricanes to distract us.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

@Commissar SFLUFAN if Biden were to call congress into session how much notice would he need to give them?

 

i could see him waiting until next week for a session the week after just due to Milton

[Keyser_Soze]

6 hours ago, Ominous said:

Being warm is overrated. Warm = bugs.

 

Warm = bugs in the midwest.

 

No bugs here when it's warm. You barely see moths, crane flies anymore. June bugs have been gone for years.

[Xbob42]

12 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Warm = bugs in the midwest.

 

No bugs here when it's warm. You barely see moths, crane flies anymore. June bugs have been gone for years.

Same. Very little of Summer bugs, although that's never really been a thing here.

[Brick]

I have a friend who went down to Disneyworld in Orlando with his family on vacation. They were supposed to go last year, but his brother got covid. Hope they stay safe. 

[outsida]

3 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

It’s nearly covering the Chicxulub crater. 

[Keyser_Soze]

1 hour ago, Xbob42 said:

Same. Very little of Summer bugs, although that's never really been a thing here.

 

Actually something that came to mind is a bug I've never seen in my life before, those walking sticks. You know, the bug that looks like a stick? I see them all over the place now. I've only ever seen them in Animal Crossing before.

 

In any case I hope @SaysWho? is safe and enjoys the new d1p side topic, "what bugs are near you"

[Air_Delivery]

The whole Southeastern seaboard is gonna be unlivable within the next 20 years.

[Fizzzzle]

6 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

The whole Southeastern seaboard is gonna be unlivable within the next 20 years.

Chicago gonna be the new Miami by 2050. Get that lakefront property now!

[SuperSpreader]

5 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

From the FOX 35 Orlando meteorologist:

 

Sounds bad bro

[5timechamp]

wonder what state and/or sporting event guys lime Desantis, MTG, and Lee will attend to be away from their immediate duties.. brought to you by some of the folks voting for a government shutdown even as this crap was looming large

[Comet]

3 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

Chicago gonna be the new Miami by 2050. Get that lakefront property now!

Joke’s on you, everyone has already been priced out of there for decades!

[Uaarkson]

Come to Flint and buy up some leadfront property

[Spork3245]

13 hours ago, Nokra said:

Jesus Christ, arm the nukes! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You laugh now but if Trump wins, he and elmo, king of the edge lords, will be prepping mini-nukes to do just this. On the bright side, maybe they’ll arm them with Intel inside!  ….

[Xbob42]

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

You laugh now but if Trump wins, he and elmo, king of the edge lords, will be prepping mini-nukes to do just this. On the bright side, maybe they’ll arm them with Intel inside!  ….

Elon demanding to do it himself, taking his bootleg real life Fat Man, straight from Fallout, 100% designed and hand built by Elon. They're circling the newly christened category 7 storm in a SpaceX helicopter, but a spray of water lands on the craft, immediately and catastrophically destroying all the electronics. As the chopper begins its freefall, Elon decides to be a hero and fire the nuke into the eye of the storm, the weapon promptly jams and blows up. A 200 foot tall golden statue of him is erected at Neo Twitter HQ in Washington DC. 

[Uaarkson]

1 minute ago, Xbob42 said:

Elon demanding to do it himself, taking his bootleg real life Fat Man, straight from Fallout, 100% designed and hand built by Elon. They're circling the newly christened category 7 storm in a SpaceX helicopter, but a spray of water lands on the craft, immediately and catastrophically destroying all the electronics. As the chopper begins its freefall, Elon decides to be a hero and fire the nuke into the eye of the storm, the weapon promptly jams and blows up. A 200 foot tall golden statue of him is erected at Neo Twitter HQ in Washington DC. 

The problem is that the arming device for the bomb is a Mad Katz controller

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

9 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

@Commissar SFLUFAN if Biden were to call congress into session how much notice would he need to give them?

 

i could see him waiting until next week for a session the week after just due to Milton

 

I honestly don't know the answer to that question - I've tried looking it up, but I can't find an actual timeframe.

[SaysWho?]

We've found out that our evac level is voluntary; A and B are the ones which are mandatory and by the coastline.  

 

I'm glad we're going to see wind shear increase as it moves northeast. I'm getting the last things inside today so they're not projectiles. Our impact windows are graded for 200mph winds, and we got extra nails down on the roof earlier this year for extra protection and an insurance discount. It's a good house.

 

Doesn't make this less anxiety-inducing.

[S3xB0t]

19 minutes ago, Uaarkson said:

The problem is that the arming device for the bomb is a Mad Katz controller

No no no this is E L O N M U S K we’re talking about…he would be using something cool and advanced. In this case, a repurposed Oculus that requires playing a Beatsaber-like minigame to enter the detonation codes. Oh yeah, and it has a half-mask adapter that continually sprays intranasal ketamine.

[Spork3245]

5 minutes ago, S3xB0t said:

No no no this is E L O N M U S K we’re talking about…he would be using something cool and advanced. In this case, a repurposed Oculus that requires playing a Beatsaber-like minigame to enter the detonation codes. Oh yeah, and it has a half-mask adapter that continually sprays intranasal ketamine.

 

Oculus? Like he'd touch something made by The Zuck

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The "good" news this morning is that the maximum sustained winds have dropped to 145 mph and barometric pressure has risen to 929 mb.

 

The bad news is that it's got a lot of pea soup-like Gulf water to cross.

[Brian]

Drop some ice cube in the gulf

[Uaarkson]

30 minutes ago, Brian said:

Drop some ice cube in the gulf