Catastrophic Destruction Leaving Hundreds Dead In Florida Hurricane Aftermath

I am in my early fifties from the New Orleans area and my grandparents talked about losing friends to hurricanes. One notable memory was they lost a percentage of their bridge card playing friends to a hurricane.

They respected these storms. My parents had paper with a grid on them and the radio would tell you were to mark the grid, so you knew where the storm was, people tracked them and talked about storms by name and what it was like.


I also remember going to the beach and large chunks of motels would be devastated and not rebuilt and they would say that was from storm so and so.

I think the Gulf Coast has a long history and appreciation for these storms.



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Oh, yes they do. You'll see.

Massive Stack-n-Packs going up everywhere.

Supposedly there were more in the past

The people of SW Florida should have heeded the warning of Hurricane Charley back in 2004 which was very powerful(though smaller in size than Ian) and which caused considerable damage and death in that area. When hurricanes get to a certain size and strength it is wise in most instances to bug out. I do realize though that there are many people who can't do this for one reason or another.

For the Earl Scheib price of ninety nine ninety f-i-i-i-ive this car can be yours!! ; )

If you don't have a family member looking for you you're not countable.

Why don't these people take their pricey boats to somewhere out of the storm's path? Avoid the traffic jams while you're at it.

Of the historical record available storms were just as frequent if not more and just as powerful. It goes back to the mid 1800's or so.

As a matter of fact it wasn't until Hurricane Andrew that a major hurricane hit extremely built up areas in Florida. Florida was way past due at that point.

Death toll so far 9. Not hundreds.

One star.

Congressman DeSantis explaining his January 2013 vote against Sandy relief: "This 'put it on the credit card mentality' is part of the reason we find ourselves nearly $17 trillion in debt," DeSantis said. I'm sure his sense of fiscal responsibility will kick in shortly...

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This tho, whoa

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Give to charities YES.

The worst stretch of land in the US (FL west coast) for major hurricane to come ashore and they were all warned almost a week in advance.

All the phuck-heads that downplayed it here on Monday/Tuesday should be perma-banned

Last Edited by Humanitarianlike on 09/29/2022 07:19 PM

We see so much more now than in the past, with everyone recording and posting online. It is such a visual, for me, to have seen all the posts of bays and the Gulf empty of water, and then to see where it all WENT. Terrifying for those people, really tragic.

This isn't downtown ft. myers, this is ft. myers beach, they're two different areas miles apart.

More likely they thought their deity would protect them.

"We're nice Christians. We pay our 10% (on gross income) god tax on time every month. We'll be okay."

They should have paid more than the bare minimum, maybe a little kickback bribery money.

I'm a Floridan, HARP much ...

i care more about saving a roach then a single muttmerikan

Ya think?

The rabid climate change dogs are already out en masse

2 yrs later still fuckin crickets on the vax (mostly)...clown town

I notice on the map I looked at, that right behind Ft. Myers Beach is a body of water named Hurricane Bay.

This is not the first time nor the last.

I'm in my 60's. I lived in New Orleans for Betsy and Camille. Those are the two worse ones I remember over that way. I have a very healthy respect and awareness of hurricaines. Andrew, Harvey, Rita, Katrina. I stay for 2 or low 3 but anything possible higher I buckle down the hatches then leave.

jjjjjjjjjjjjish lightning insurance scammers

Who? The people that don't live paycheck to paycheck?
Do the upper middle class and up think a society like this is sustainable? They couldn't think that, especially being smarter and more entitled than everyone else, right?

It looks like they can just plop them back in the water.
A little spit and polish and voila.

Heh.

that was extra aid, not FEMA (budgeted) aid

It's likely to be much higher but we will only be told maybe a dozen or so. Not the hundreds upon hundreds because the authorities told them not to try to evacuate. To just 'hunker' down which is stupid during a flood. So, yeah, the only reason they may have said that would be to prevent people drowning in their cars in gridlock. It's a terrible situation to be in. I saw images of boats up in trees so you know the water got very high. Must have been out of marine gas as well as regular gas.

NPR reports 1, fukn ONE confirmed fatality! Unbelievable!!

But then when you have a hundred homes (hypothetically) on an island who's home and all its inhabitants have been washed out to sea ... what's to count. Right!

Five star! for the display of human ignorance.

That’ll buff right out.