Hurricane Season

[JHDK]

Hurricane update btw/some minor wind and that's it. If we get any wind at all it will be today according to the news. Looks like (fingers still crossed) we will miss any of the real bad stuff.

Some scary videos coming out of the Bahamas.

 

[HecticArt]

The Bahamas are getting crushed. Hopefully it starts dying down soon.

 

[Channel98]

Okay, since the Hurricane thread has turned into a Disney Theme Park thread, I will ask if you all knew Walt Disney proposed building a five-story, indoor Riverfront Square theme park in St. Louis? The city did not want to spend $9,000,000 on the building and August Busch Jr. thought Walt was crazy for thinking the park could be successful without beer sales. (Memo to August Busch Jr.: It would have been.)

Walt Disney World in St. Louis? City said no to Mickey’s dome

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Decades before the city rejected paying millions for a new football stadium, St. Louis leaders rankled entrepreneur Walt Disney by refusing to pay the bulk of costs for a dom…

fox2now.com

Back on topic:

Hurricane Dorian leaves terrible damage and stranded residents in Bahamas as rescuers scramble to help

Hurricane Dorian is lashing the east coast of central Florida

Hurricane Dorian finally inches away from the northern Bahamas after lingering over them for days, leaving catastrophic damage and many people stranded in flooded buildings as it pounded the same areas over and over.

www.cnn.com

 

[Channel98]

Every time there's a hurricane, people say they "hunker down." Do they take special classes to learn how to hunker down – or is hunkering down a natural instinct?

20 dead in Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian pushes toward South Carolina

The Bahamian health minister said that the death toll from Dorian had risen from seven to 20 on the islands and that the number was expected to rise.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[HecticArt]

It's amazing that it's "only" 20 people. For as bad as the storm is, I was afraid the numbers would be much higher at first. Hopefully, it doesn't get much worse.

 

[Channel98]

On September 2, an 85-year-old North Carolina man fell off a ladder while he was boarding up his windows in advance of the hurricane and died of his injuries. There were also two hurricane-related deaths in Florida. Hmm, Florida. Did somebody mention Florida?

Florida man parks smart car in kitchen so it won't "blow away" in Hurricane Dorian

"We now know that we have one additional parking spot available," the man joked

www.cbsnews.com

 

[HecticArt]

On September 2, an 85-year-old North Carolina man fell off a ladder while he was boarding up his windows in advance of the hurricane and died of his injuries. There were also two hurricane-related deaths in Florida. Hmm, Florida. Did somebody mention Florida?

Florida man parks smart car in kitchen so it won't "blow away" in Hurricane Dorian

"We now know that we have one additional parking spot available," the man joked

www.cbsnews.com

OK........I'm thinking this is in the "funny but cool at the same time" category.

 

[scotchandcigar]

It's amazing that it's "only" 20 people. For as bad as the storm is, I was afraid the numbers would be much higher at first. Hopefully, it doesn't get much worse.

How many died in Alabama?

 

[Channel98]

There were four deaths in Alabama from Hurricane Danny in 1997. There have been no hurricane-related deaths in the state since that time, not even from Hurricane Katrina. Of course we could always take a black felt-tip pen and draw some stick figures on the Alabama map and call them victims of Hurricane Dorian. Would that be ethical?

 

[HecticArt]

Only if there are little black X's where their eyes should be.

 

[Channel98]

CNN just spoke by phone with a Bahamian who said groups of people who lost their homes to Hurricane Dorian are breaking in to undamaged homes and, so they'll have a place to live, forcing the residents out at gunpoint. Mob mentality has taken over.

 

[semipenguin]

 

[Channel98]

Exploding a nuclear weapon in the eye of a hurricane will have no effect other than to put tens of millions of people at risk of dying from radioactive fallout. No, I can't say that seems like a good idea. And what makes a death toll "official"? The official death toll from Dorian in the Bahamas is 43 – but the captain of a hospital ship has requested 1,000 body bags. It's like there's a government official somewhere whose attitude is, "I don't care how many dead bodies are on the ground. They're not officially dead until I say so! Until then, they don't count."

Hurricane Dorian survivors take stock as death toll rises in the Bahamas

In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the Bahamas is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis as survivors take stock of the aftermath.

www.sun-sentinel.com

 

[HecticArt]

I don't get why they are wanting to downplay the body count.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I don't get why they are wanting to downplay the body count.

To be officially dead they probably need to be identified. I suspect with the lack of infastructure that is going to be painfully slow. They always say they expect it to rise. That probably means they have body bags in their waiting room still to identify.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Looks like TEN has formed over the Atlantic. On path to Bahamas (as hurricane).

 

[Channel98]

The official death toll in the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian is 50. More than 1,300 people are missing. Nobody wants to say they're "missing and presumed dead." No, they're simply "missing." But look what Jeff Bezos is doing! He does have a heart!

Amazon begins its airlift of Hurricane Dorian relief supplies to the Bahamas

Amazon says it’s completed the first of two relief flights to the Bahamas, delivering tons of supplies earmarked for the victims of Hurricane Dorian. The first Amazon Air cargo plane… Read More

www.geekwire.com

 

[JHDK]

But look what Jeff Bezos is doing! He does have a heart!

His "relief supplies" are just the Amazon cargo planes flying by and dropping hundreds of thousands of Echo Dots, unwrapped and without parachutes, onto the surviving population.

 

[JHDK]

That was my joke but it reminds me of a sweet story about my dad.

After the Japanese got their asses bombed to nuclear shit and gave up, the guards at the concentration camp fled Indonesia. The surviving Dutchmen had nowhere to go so they, including my dad, just stayed in the liberated camps. So they were in their prison but not prisoners anymore. The US would do scheduled flyovers and drop crates of supplies. I still have a wool blanket he got from an allied drop which is pretty sweet. Anyway, at this point my father was 16 years old and 80 pounds so you can imagine the old man (who was actually the young teen at the time) wanted to grab a meal. In these crates we dropped was a whole bunch of cans of Spam. My dad loved it and so did everyone else...As shitty as spam is, it beats the hell out of dying or eating a rat. So he and everyone else ate a shitton of Spam and felt like kings. Well the Dutch wound up staying in the camps for a couple months. My dad told me that after about 6 weeks, he and these people who were literally nearly starved to death, started to get sick of the Spam and would always hope that we would drop something else.

Don't know If I told it the same way my dad would. He made it out to be a nice, somewhat funny story about how even when these people were all almost dead just a few weeks prior, they still all got sick of the food that helped save their lives.

 

[HecticArt]

All they needed was a beach and a swim-up bar, and the whole thing could have a cool movie plot.