Milton rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane late Monday morning.
Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.
Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour wind speed intensification for a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are based on data since the satellite era began in the 1960s.)
Florida… Give him back his stapler, like right now.
Ok, I, I set the state on fire.
“Climate change isn’t real”
Don’t look up
Don’t hurricanes normally go the other way? I thought they normally blow towards the southwest?
Not since Democrats got behind the controls. /S
Hopefully it’ll take out that twat with the giant forehead
Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.
Someone had a word quota to fill.
Hurricanes don’t like it when you ban books. Prayin for you, florida man.
TBH a lot of whats about to happen to Florida in the coming months will be self inflicted because of their politics.
NOAA changed Milton’s heading on Hurricanes.gov to plead with people to listen to evacuation orders.
We’ll all be very happy to feel silly if this doesn’t go the way it looks like it’s going to go. But please for the love of humanity get out of the way of this thing.
Why evacuate? Just write your name, DoB, and SSN on our arms and legs, and use a waterproof sharpie for that. Just in case, you know?
I was listening to a live stream with a couple meteorologists explaining everything. they were fairly jovial and laid back seeming guys but at one point, one of them got a deadly serious tone to his voice and started talking about how this one can’t be rode out, can’t be survived.
My friend lives in Florida and has not, nor his words “will ever” evacuate for a “stupid hurricane.” I’ll give you one guess who he’s voting for.
That’s one way for Florida to go blue
The game I almost never lose!
oh fuck me. Well I lost a different game after typing that.
I just lost too…jerk!
Did you mean https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ? Your URL doesn’t seem to work.
That’s the same site yeah. Mine left an s off, I’ll go fix it.
I’m gonna tell myself that this is finally bad enough to spur widespread action on global warming as a way of feeling better about it and you can all preemptively shut up with your reality checks.
Tbh I’ve learned a lot about how thermal energy affects these storms and I gotta say, the only people who are gonna be living in Florida 20 years from now are people who live in submarines.
We ought to be executing oil company CEOs for treason.
Are you doing okay? I feel kind of the same way I think.
Currently in my house in Florida, where I am looks to be not on the direct path but not completely free. Hurricanes can move a lot, especially when they get on land and staet losing speed.
Once we evacuated 5 hours in a car with all our animals (at the time 2 big sweaty dogs) in a car that wasnt even the size of a minivan. We packed everything we needed just in case. Once we got inside the hotel we booked we took a ~2 hour nap and upon checking the storm again it had moved to come right to where the hotel is. We then had to drive 5 hours BACK home where we began.
Anyhoo, wish us luck! I don’t wanna evacuate with 4 cats and a large dog haha
Good luck to you and your family. I don’t know anyone in Florida, so I will be thinking of you as a proxy for all the people I am concerned for in the potential path of this hurricane.
I wish you luck trifling toad🤞 Escaping a situation with just people is difficult, with additional animals makes it so much more stressful. Especially cats since they have to be put in a crate and need a litter box etc.
Let’s go Milton
I guess their god doesn’t like florida. I wonder why?
On a more serious note I really hope all the decent people of florida the best of luck. To the rest I hope you only get thoughts and prayers.
Floridas gonna be the next Atlantis, a mysterious land that vanished under the ocean from which tales came of strange people comitting outragous deeds. Future historians will see the tales of the mighty ‘Florida Men’ and assume it was some kind of myth.
More like Doggerland a place having verifiably existed, and which would hold answers to what man’s primitive ancestors were doing, but which we don’t really go to look at, because studying shit that’s underwater is expensive and we’re not that interested.
Thanks…I’m trying to make the place suck less
confusing username but good luck!
In this world of self appointed warriors for good who seem to think the goal is to control others. Evil is the new good.
So is trump at Mar a Lego right now standing proudly on the front lawn for this? Is he staying there, “standing his ground” against the “climate hoax”?
Or is he hiding somewhere else safe, with an excuse, like a coward who’s actually afraid of climate change?
'Just turn the green energy wind turbines around and blow the hurricane away, or just shoot at it! ’
Trump: “Just nuke it!”
Well that’s on the East Coast so. Not really a big deal. But I know that’s not your point
Inshallah it will be a big deal on the East coast
Climate change is the biggest existential threat we face. One fan be afraid of hurricanes and also be dumb enough to not believe in climate change.
These are two equally obvious statements. The latter probably even more so.
There’s no need to try and out stupid them.
Good thing DeSantis won’t pick up the phone from Biden or Harris to start funding relief.
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Lol how does this garbage article get 30 upvotes? “An aide told me he refuses to take the call. Definitely.”
You prefer Kamala Harris to say it directly?
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I’m not the one making an assertion. I don’t have to prove a negative.
The person making a claim is responsible for providing evidence.
Name calling is not acceptable. I expect better from you in future conversations.
Your assertion is that Biden has not tried to contact DeSantis to offer help. You were provided with an article that says otherwise and dismissed it as false. What evidence do you hand that supports your claim that Biden has not attempted to contact DeSantis? Other Republican governors have said that Biden was quick to reach out in regards to Helene, so it’s hard to believe that he hasn’t tried to contact Florida.
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Good thing they removed climate change from being a thing discussed in the legislature. That should fix things.
Where’s the magic sharpie when you need it?
Anyone got a nuke? I have an idea.
I guess nuking Florida before the hurricane gets there would reduce the damage inflicted by the hurricane.
They forgot to make a law against it!
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SCOTUS should declare climate change unconstitutional.