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Mettaricana wrote: »We got the eye wall 155mph i friggan live!!!!
newtinmpls wrote: »And apparently your internet is still working....
Congratulations, that was terrible.
150mph winds please nerf stam sorc and fix global warming.
Mettaricana wrote: »We got the eye wall 155mph i friggan live!!!!
Bodies are starting to wash ashore in Mexico Beach. Over 200 people are still missing...
If you were living in a mobile home - you'll be camping out for awhile because your home is now wreckage. It's pretty bad. Storm Surge was over 12 feet. I lived in that area for over 20 years and weathered dozens of hurricanes and never saw a storm surge even remotely close to that.
Ah a fellow Floridian.
Mettaricana wrote: »We got the eye wall 155mph i friggan live!!!!
Bouldercleave wrote: »Glad you are safe.
Now, how can we spin this so it's somehow ZoS fault?
Mettaricana wrote: »We got the eye wall 155mph i friggan live!!!!
Where were you? I evacuated north of I-10 and still got hit hard with the eye passing just to the west of me.
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
By south I meant South coast (FL, LA, TX). So all you're really offering is...sea food.
Just face it, if you live on/near the coast then you choose to live in an "ideal" climate wracked by natural disasters and rely on the rest of the country to subsidize your comfortable lifestyle through disaster aid, subsidized insurance and importing water & other resources.
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
By south I meant South coast (FL, LA, TX). So all you're really offering is...sea food.
Just face it, if you live on/near the coast then you choose to live in an "ideal" climate wracked by natural disasters and rely on the rest of the country to subsidize your comfortable lifestyle through disaster aid, subsidized insurance and importing water & other resources.
Cotton is also grown in places that can be affected by hurricanes lol...
I was hit by Ivan, for example, and I'm a few miles inland (Robertsdale, AL so still close to the coast)...we grow cotton here.
We also make other things (Florids produces a lot of fruit, just an FYI)
Point being, the west coast experiences wildfires and earthquakes constantly. The north has copious amounts of blizzards. The midwest has twisters. The southeast has cyclones and hurricanes.
Pluuus, we are all a part of the United States. You pay taxes to the state AND the federal government. It is the choice of the federal government what they do with federal taxes.
Just sayin', states aren't sovereign countries. They can do their own thing, but they ultimately answer to the federal government.
TL;DR "My tax dollars" argument means nothing because it is no longer your money, and if we shut down the Southeast then you'd be even more upset at the cost of T-shirts and oranges increasing 2-3x
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
By south I meant South coast (FL, LA, TX). So all you're really offering is...sea food.
Just face it, if you live on/near the coast then you choose to live in an "ideal" climate wracked by natural disasters and rely on the rest of the country to subsidize your comfortable lifestyle through disaster aid, subsidized insurance and importing water & other resources.
Cotton is also grown in places that can be affected by hurricanes lol...
I was hit by Ivan, for example, and I'm a few miles inland (Robertsdale, AL so still close to the coast)...we grow cotton here.
We also make other things (Florids produces a lot of fruit, just an FYI)
Point being, the west coast experiences wildfires and earthquakes constantly. The north has copious amounts of blizzards. The midwest has twisters. The southeast has cyclones and hurricanes.
Pluuus, we are all a part of the United States. You pay taxes to the state AND the federal government. It is the choice of the federal government what they do with federal taxes.
Just sayin', states aren't sovereign countries. They can do their own thing, but they ultimately answer to the federal government.
TL;DR "My tax dollars" argument means nothing because it is no longer your money, and if we shut down the Southeast then you'd be even more upset at the cost of T-shirts and oranges increasing 2-3x
Mettaricana wrote: »LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
By south I meant South coast (FL, LA, TX). So all you're really offering is...sea food.
Just face it, if you live on/near the coast then you choose to live in an "ideal" climate wracked by natural disasters and rely on the rest of the country to subsidize your comfortable lifestyle through disaster aid, subsidized insurance and importing water & other resources.
Cotton is also grown in places that can be affected by hurricanes lol...
I was hit by Ivan, for example, and I'm a few miles inland (Robertsdale, AL so still close to the coast)...we grow cotton here.
We also make other things (Florids produces a lot of fruit, just an FYI)
Point being, the west coast experiences wildfires and earthquakes constantly. The north has copious amounts of blizzards. The midwest has twisters. The southeast has cyclones and hurricanes.
Pluuus, we are all a part of the United States. You pay taxes to the state AND the federal government. It is the choice of the federal government what they do with federal taxes.
Just sayin', states aren't sovereign countries. They can do their own thing, but they ultimately answer to the federal government.
TL;DR "My tax dollars" argument means nothing because it is no longer your money, and if we shut down the Southeast then you'd be even more upset at the cost of T-shirts and oranges increasing 2-3x
I imagine if we shut down the areas of constant natural disaster, texas florida Mississippi and Louisiana etc he'd be even less happy when we all move to his state and take all the jobs and destroy all the land to make more homes to compensate the few million ppl needing to relocate.
Also i passed 15 cotton fields on my hurricane supply run here in florida weirdly they took the storm like a pro.
And i am originally from Massachusetts i will return to mass in a few ears because blizzards and snow are awesome not world destroying events like a thunderstorm that decides to get woke and angry in florida...
LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
By south I meant South coast (FL, LA, TX). So all you're really offering is...sea food.
Just face it, if you live on/near the coast then you choose to live in an "ideal" climate wracked by natural disasters and rely on the rest of the country to subsidize your comfortable lifestyle through disaster aid, subsidized insurance and importing water & other resources.
Cotton is also grown in places that can be affected by hurricanes lol...
I was hit by Ivan, for example, and I'm a few miles inland (Robertsdale, AL so still close to the coast)...we grow cotton here.
We also make other things (Florids produces a lot of fruit, just an FYI)
Point being, the west coast experiences wildfires and earthquakes constantly. The north has copious amounts of blizzards. The midwest has twisters. The southeast has cyclones and hurricanes.
Pluuus, we are all a part of the United States. You pay taxes to the state AND the federal government. It is the choice of the federal government what they do with federal taxes.
Just sayin', states aren't sovereign countries. They can do their own thing, but they ultimately answer to the federal government.
TL;DR "My tax dollars" argument means nothing because it is no longer your money, and if we shut down the Southeast then you'd be even more upset at the cost of T-shirts and oranges increasing 2-3x
You don't get that a government represents us, do you? Federal tax money is our money so yes it is partly my money; if you don't care what the federal government uses the money on then that's on you.
I couldn't care less if clothes cost x2 and fruit x3; in whose budget are these anything but a negligible expense?Mettaricana wrote: »LittlePinkDot wrote: »Im on the west coast, and every year in the news theres multiple hurricanes on the east coast and gulf. I always think to myself, why would anyone want to live there? Particularly within reach of a storm surge. The storms are just too frequent. Way more frequent than the earthquakes in the west.
Meanwhile us Midwesterners' tax money goes to paying for all the FEMA aid to the South, east coast and west coast. But by all means, keep building houses in places that get flooded out, draughted or burned down annually. But hey, it's warm all year!
I'm sure you'll appreciate the cost of cotton, seafood, and various other things skyrocketing then
By south I meant South coast (FL, LA, TX). So all you're really offering is...sea food.
Just face it, if you live on/near the coast then you choose to live in an "ideal" climate wracked by natural disasters and rely on the rest of the country to subsidize your comfortable lifestyle through disaster aid, subsidized insurance and importing water & other resources.
Cotton is also grown in places that can be affected by hurricanes lol...
I was hit by Ivan, for example, and I'm a few miles inland (Robertsdale, AL so still close to the coast)...we grow cotton here.
We also make other things (Florids produces a lot of fruit, just an FYI)
Point being, the west coast experiences wildfires and earthquakes constantly. The north has copious amounts of blizzards. The midwest has twisters. The southeast has cyclones and hurricanes.
Pluuus, we are all a part of the United States. You pay taxes to the state AND the federal government. It is the choice of the federal government what they do with federal taxes.
Just sayin', states aren't sovereign countries. They can do their own thing, but they ultimately answer to the federal government.
TL;DR "My tax dollars" argument means nothing because it is no longer your money, and if we shut down the Southeast then you'd be even more upset at the cost of T-shirts and oranges increasing 2-3x
I imagine if we shut down the areas of constant natural disaster, texas florida Mississippi and Louisiana etc he'd be even less happy when we all move to his state and take all the jobs and destroy all the land to make more homes to compensate the few million ppl needing to relocate.
Also i passed 15 cotton fields on my hurricane supply run here in florida weirdly they took the storm like a pro.
And i am originally from Massachusetts i will return to mass in a few ears because blizzards and snow are awesome not world destroying events like a thunderstorm that decides to get woke and angry in florida...
I'm not saying people can't live there, but that they shouldn't be subsidized by federal gov in things like flood insurance and disaster relief.