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Hurricane Ian
I hope ALL our members, their families and friends have safely evacuated from the path of this storm--- If not evacuated, I hope you are tucked in somewhere safe with all the supplies you need to get thru the next few days. As I write this the strong storm effects are just beginning to come ashore- Ian is a FULL Category 4 still with the possibility of becoming a Category 5 storm. Sep 28 22 08:08 am Link rfordphotos wrote: Wondering how many Floridians fleeing from the destruction and devastation of their homes would appreciate being scammed by their corrupt governor into boarding planes and buses taking them to shelter only to find they are being dumped somewhere far from home without warning or any preparation whatsoever, with the knowledge that the governor's political allies were profiting from their vulnerability and distress. Sep 28 22 10:15 am Link Floridians have been phoning the Governor's Office over the last few days, claiming to be Venezuelan and asking to be flown out... Or at least that's the joke making the rounds. But seriously, Floridians, stay safe. Sep 28 22 10:26 am Link I've been riding out hurricanes since I moved here in 1973. Yeah, it gets scary sometimes, other times it's just when will it be over. But, if Il Duce, I mean Gov. DeSantis, wants to fly me and my family somewhere on the state's dime, our bags are packed. We're having some wind and rain here in the middle of the state, but not too bad. The eye of the storm will be here in the morning and I expect wind and rain will pick up. I'm very glad we don't live on either coast. Where we live outside of Orlando, we're around 100 feet above sea level. REO Speedwagon: https://youtu.be/GVFgEBq0EKM Sep 28 22 06:18 pm Link rfordphotos wrote: Focuspuller wrote: Focuspuller, you're such a good-hearted soul. Sep 29 22 07:54 am Link Managing Light wrote: Yes, I am. Thank you. Sep 29 22 08:55 am Link Hey.... at least Desantis gave them a ride. the democrats make the children do the border journey by themselves. and maybe if the children are lucky.... the parents taped a HELP sign on the kids clothes! yay could be worse, Obama was putting them into cages. Oct 03 22 03:18 pm Link Tony From Syracuse wrote: Care to back any of that garbage up? Gawd, are you one of those people that aren't happy unless you are blaming other people for what you and 'you lot' did and have failed to do. Oct 03 22 03:39 pm Link Tony From Syracuse wrote: ".... at least Desantis gave them a ride." Oct 03 22 04:51 pm Link Tony From Syracuse wrote: Just about every other Republican (other than Tony) has gone to GREAT LENGTHS to avoid bringing up politics, DeSantis or hypocrisy, when it comes to this Florida Hurricane thread. Oct 03 22 05:33 pm Link rfordphotos wrote: I just got back from Pine Island/Sanibel, I was helping with the boats doing water rescues and ferrying supplies to the barrier islands . . . as bad as the images look on the airways, it doesn't come close to showing the level of devastation that Ian brought ashore . . . I was in Haiti after they were battered by multiple storms and in the Abacos after Dorian roared through, once again Mother Nature has shown her power and scope with overwhelming fury . . . let's all just try and keep the people that have been directly affected in our thoughts, it's gonna be a very long recovery! Oct 04 22 04:28 am Link excerpts: Florida has added nearly 3 million people since 2010. And the Fort Myers area, which was ravaged by Ian’s deadly storm surge, was recently named the sixth fastest-growing city in the country by the US Census Bureau. The population in the Fort Myers-Cape Coral metro area was around 444,000 in 2000, according to Census Bureau data. By 2021 it had ballooned to more than 787,000. Politics of rebuilding intensify as Florida's devastation is laid bare Southwest Florida’s population has “exploded in part because it’s the cheapest part of the state to live,” according to Jesse Keenan, a professor of sustainable real estate at Tulane University’s School of Architecture, who told CNN that “there has been a huge amount of growth in the past several decades.” Southwest Florida is attractive in large part because it has a good quality of life – it’s sunny, warm and relatively cheap. But something else is at play: In 2011, Florida’s Republican-controlled state legislature loosened decades-old state regulations meant to keep development in high-risk areas at a reasonable pace, or to discourage developers from building on low-lying wetlands, Keenan said. Around the same time, former Gov. Rick Scott and Republican lawmakers approved a state budget that got rid of the Department of Community Affairs, a state office regulating growth and development. “That opened the door for unrestrained development in ways that put people at a lot of risk, particularly flood risks,” Keenan said. The weakening of those regulations was cheered by Florida’s business community and real estate sector, which framed the move as supercharging economic growth. But that growth started happening in riskier areas that are more vulnerable to storms. “The bottom line is the state backed out and the counties were left to their own devices without any adult supervision,” said Keenan. “You build where the land’s cheap, and you sell that housing at a comparatively lower price. It was a race, and storms like this really force everybody to take a water break and reevaluate their lives in many ways.” Jeremy Porter, senior research fellow for the climate risk nonprofit First Street Foundation, also noted that hard-hit Cape Coral was built on a floodplain. “There’s a tremendous amount of risk,” Porter said. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/us/flori … index.html Oct 04 22 09:38 am Link |
