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Boy you're lazy (https://bfy.tw/Tv5W)

it's actually the part where that wasn't even what the conversation was about, but anon below already pointed that out

friendo you are not gonna course-correct this after the scalding hot stupidity of Hurricanes Are Fine Actually

? i'm criticizing Hurricanes Are Fine Actually anon

i feel like part of the problem here is that there's a massive difference between a category 1 and a category 5 hurricane, and if you've been through a couple of category 1s it's easy to think that hurricanes are nbd.

like, i used to live in a place that would get hit by hurricanes every so often and a category 1 was "board up your windows and sandbag anywhere water might get in, make sure you've got enough food and water for a few days and then just hunker down and chill." no one ever evacuated for a category 1 and no one thought of it as being a huge deal because 99.9% of the time it wasn't and everything was fine.

a category 5, though? that shit is serious, it can flatten things. but if you've never been in one it's hard to comprehend just how big the difference is between a category 1 and a category 5 in terms of the sheer destructive power. category 1 is "you may lose some shingles," category 5 is "there goes the whole heckin' roof."

>but if you've never been in one it's hard to comprehend just how big the difference is between a category 1 and a category 5 in terms of the sheer destructive power.

direct hit EF2 tornado survivor and i feel the same way. you just don't get it until you've seen, for instance, tin roofing held down on a brick surface by hotdog sized steel rivets ripped completely off the building and crumpled like a piece of paper, trees totally uprooted, etc. it really makes you think about how fragile and soft the human body is and how easily nature could stomp you out like a bug.

ayrt and exactly, i can say with all honesty that the category 1 hurricanes i've been through were a whole lot of nothing other than wind and rain. you don't really comprehend that that wind can tear an entire building to pieces when the worst that happened in your neighborhood was a few old trees coming down and maybe someone losing a bunch of their shingles and the gas station awning getting kind of tilted.

that's exactly why so many people who have been through category 1 and 2 hurricanes before underestimate just how bad a category 4 or 5 can be. they think it's just going to be a little bit stronger and don't realize that it increases exponentially.

and it's so shocking because it's like... there have been multiple widely publicized, historic, horrifying 4s/5s in the past 20 years. like how can you be a contemporary of hurricane katrina and not know that. boggles the mind

it's not really something most people can conceptualize unless they've lived it. i can sit here and describe hunkering down through katrina watching actual cars get blown around like toys outside because i was young and dumb and too cocky to evacuate, but the sensations of it, that terrifying feeling of the entire building swaying around me, the impact from that crash in the unit above mine when a tree (not a branch, an entire uprooted tree) went through it... it all sounds like a shitty disaster movie for anyone who hasn't experienced it. no one really respects hurricanes until they live through one, imo.

Tornado anon and are you me
I still remember hunkering down and covering my head in case cinderblocks collapsed on it and listening to the building being ripped up and my atheist ass begging god for my life out loud around other people and my best friend not knowing if his brother was dead or alive lol

Pisses me off to see people take this shit lightly

i'm not sure BJR herself isn't actually in this thread, shitting it up with her uninformed womanchild takes

also, infrastructure matters. the snow storm in texas was disastrous largely because texas is not built for winter storms. had it hit quebec, it would have been much less of an event. conversely, even though not many hurricanes retain their power by the time they reach canada, we are not well-prepared for the ones that do. obviously we're still not in as much danger as someone who lives in florida might be, but to say that hurricanes are nbd is so incredibly stupid even if you live in the north of the continent. especially since they are becoming far more frequent and destructive everywhere.

+ 1 to this while adding that folks also forget about how much water a hurricane brings. There are entire towns that get evacuated because they can and will get flooded if the storm hits. People have gotten trapped in their own houses because their entire first floor gets consumed.

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