Weather Channel - Florence Edition

[Speaker to Animals]

If the private sector can prevent truckers from being in the passing lane, city council members from being bought out by developers fucking us all over, and get old slow pieces of shit to stop driving in the passing lane, then sign me the fuck up. I'll start getting Ayn Rand-ier than Austin Powers. If I was in charge I would make slowing down traffic in any way a felony and a capital crime to boot. Fuck slow drivers/truckers.

Agreed. Hitler invented mobile gas trucks for a reason.

[heydaralon]

Or the opposite, people on I-75 thinking it’s NASCAR.

If they crash and die off the road, thats fine with me. Just make sure the emergency vehicles don't block any lanes. One less Florida driver is the way I look at it.

All fun and games until you’re at the wrong place at the wrong time.

As long as these Dale Earnhardt folks make my death instantaneous by hitting me at 90 I will not complain. They might be doing me a favor tbh. Better than spending day after day working an 8 hour POS retail shift and getting stuck behind some geriatric fuck who thinks that 49 miles an hour in the left lane is acceptable on I4.

[heydaralon]

I believe that Thomas DeQuincey said that half of all human misery is a toothache. The other 3/4 is from traffic. I have taken years off my life punching my steering wheel and door handle screaming at Florida drivers.

[Kath]

It was biblical, fam.

Well, then. Congratulations on picking up the reason I created the OP.

From my list in the OP:

--Some reporter dude bracing himself against the wind - looked like he was having a hard time standing up. Cameraman sold him out, panned camera to a couple walking right behind him, casually walking without a care in the world.

The shitty reporting was my point. It in no way diminishes the severity of the flood.

[Speaker to Animals]

And I confirmed your original point before you began to lecture me on the kinds of hurricanes I have endured I don't know how many times growing up.

[HarryK]

I believe that Thomas DeQuincey said that half of all human misery is a toothache. The other 3/4 is from traffic. I have taken years off my life punching my steering wheel and door handle screaming at Florida drivers.

And yet you wonder why my exodus from “God’s little graveyard” is nearly complete.

[heydaralon]

I believe that Thomas DeQuincey said that half of all human misery is a toothache. The other 3/4 is from traffic. I have taken years off my life punching my steering wheel and door handle screaming at Florida drivers.

And yet you wonder why my exodus from “God’s little graveyard” is nearly complete.

Well, now I don't. You made me get angry about living where I do you ass.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Dude, get the FUCK out of Florida. That place is cancer for the mind, unless you're rich, and can afford to seal yourself off from the rest of the monkeys.

You can't make a living at retail, especially in a "right to work" state. Go north, young man.

[Kath]

And I confirmed your original point before you began to lecture me on the kinds of hurricanes I have endured I don't know how many times growing up.

Your being in more hurricanes than me is not in dispute. That said, I have a far better understanding of the science of hurricanes. This really isn't up for debate. You sound silly pretending to understand the science of hurricanes while displaying nothing more than a layman's understanding of them.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Not a lot of science involved here, but yes. Surge is wayyyyy more damaging than the wind.

Let's not forget the 3 WEEKS OF HYSTERIA OVER OMGZOORZZZZ NYC SUPERSTORM OF THE MILLENIUM (that just dumped a lot of water, and washed off the streets, with zero fatalities)