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  • Hurricane Idalia pounds Florida

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 12:59:13 2023
    Hurricane Idalia pounds Florida as powerful category 3 hurricane =================

    Nothing to see here, just "normal" Florida weather:-)

    I only hope the insurance company I use dropped their relationship
    with another company there. Otherwise, my rates will go up....

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Aug 30 16:51:37 2023
    On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:59:13 -0500
    JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Hurricane Idalia pounds Florida as powerful category 3 hurricane =================

    Nothing to see here, just "normal" Florida weather:-)

    I only hope the insurance company I use dropped their relationship
    with another company there. Otherwise, my rates will go up....


    As usual:

    1. Media screaming "this could be unprecedented distructions!!!!!!!"
    2. Fat locals refusing to leave (partly because always #1 time and time
    again)
    3. Inevitable, a few dead, and "oh I wish we had left" and "who's going
    to come airlift us out of this situation we created for ourselves?"

    America: take all the guardrails down and let's be rid of the stupid
    once and for all. There was a storm coming, you decided to stay
    behind. Good luck to you, motherfucker. For a nation proud of its
    rugged individualism, we sure do call for help as soon as our pooch
    gets screwed.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 18:22:25 2023
    On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:51:37 -0400, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com>
    wrote:

    As usual:

    1. Media screaming
    2. Fat locals refusing to leave
    3. Inevitable,

    Yes, yes, Roman amphitheatres attracted them in...same old events such
    as gladiator combats, venationes, and executions.

    Thus, your news channels, etc., are using the electronic/print
    versions of Roman amphitheatres

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 21:25:05 2023
    On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:51:37 -0400, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com>
    wrote:

    3. Inevitable, a few dead, and "oh I wish we had left"

    'We Should Have Gotten Off the Island': Cedar Key Residents Survived
    Idalia's Wrath
    ...
    ...
    Hours after the waters of the Gulf of Mexico swept through her house,
    Donna Knight emerged in a windbreaker and boots to try to get her
    Chevy SUV to higher ground.

    "It came through -- the whole ocean," she said, describing a night of
    howling wind, frightening bangs and flying debris as Hurricane Idalia
    blew through Cedar Key, a conglomeration of tiny islands connected by
    bridges that juts three miles into the Gulf.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/cedar-key.html

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