Hurricane Season

scotchandcigar said:
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Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 2 storm and could be 'something that we haven't seen in our lifetime,' Tampa forecaster says | CNN

Hurricane Ian keeps getting stronger as it barrels toward Florida, prompting urgent evacuations and threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane.
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First, I hope no lives and not much property is lost due to the storm.

Second, I read this and roll my eyes.
"unprecedented rate of strengthening from tropical storm to powerful hurricane."

Like more than last year's big storm? More than the year before?? Recency bias choice of words there...
 
Aaron said:
First, I hope no lives and not much property is lost due to the storm.

Second, I read this and roll my eyes.
"unprecedented rate of strengthening from tropical storm to powerful hurricane."

Like more than last year's big storm? More than the year before?? Recency bias choice of words there...
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I think that is pretty common over that particular part of the Caribbean Sea.
 
As I mentioned, my Mother-in-law is staying with us. That means the TV blasting all day with news, so today it's the hurricane. I'm hearing a lot of "hunkering-down".
 
Naples mayor Teresa Heitmann just told CNN that the residents of her city have been instructed to "stay hunkered down." Wow. Is she smart or what?
 
I'd say that hunkering down is more than merely taking a position; it involves staying in place (which oddly is one of the antonyms). So I'll offer my suggestion that the opposite would be "flitting about".
 
Hurricane Season + Florida + Dumb Dodo. This story coul;d fit on each of those threads but I will post it here.

www.rawstory.com

Florida CEO called Hurricane Ian a 'nothingburger' hyped by the media -- and told employees to work through it

A Florida-based CEO told her employees that they should work through Hurricane Ian, as she believed it to be a "nothingburger" that was overhyped by the media.The Washington Post has obtained a video showing Joy Gendusa, the CEO of marketing firm PostcardMania, trying to convince her workers...
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Channel98 said:
Hurricane Season + Florida + Dumb Dodo. This story coul;d fit on each of those threads but I will post it here.

www.rawstory.com

Florida CEO called Hurricane Ian a 'nothingburger' hyped by the media -- and told employees to work through it

A Florida-based CEO told her employees that they should work through Hurricane Ian, as she believed it to be a "nothingburger" that was overhyped by the media.The Washington Post has obtained a video showing Joy Gendusa, the CEO of marketing firm PostcardMania, trying to convince her workers...
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There's no Joy in Mudville.
 
Speaking of nuts from Florida, I haven't heard anything from Koop since this hit. I don't think he was coastal but he would have been affected.
 
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