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If It’s Just Raining Like Cats ‘n’ Dogs, That’s a Win
Dorian is inbound. Bottled water is gone from the grocery stores. Gas lines are hours long, and every gas station I’ve seen today has a police patrol car stationed at it, probably to encourage civility. People are putting up shutters or boarding up their windows.
The problem with Dorian is that the cone covers a huge part of FL. Hey, man, don’t tell me you can predict “climate” 40 years out when you can’t even predict the path of a hurricane four days out.
We did our hurricane shop last night — which was the coolest hurricane shopping I’ve ever done. The lovely and talented Mrs. Mongo and I shacked up the list, pulled up the Publix app, and boom! Two hours later the driver showed up with our groceries. Who can do that in a socialist country? Well, maybe if you’re a Party bigwig.
To get out of harm’s way, we’d have to leave the state, so we’re going to ride this one out. Hopefully, we’ll be catching bands of winds and rain, but not suffer hurricane effects.
I wrung some fun posts out of Irma, but I have zero desire to work through that sort of devastation again. So Labor Day is going to be less a happy holiday, and more a hunker-down-and-pray kind of weekend. Too, we’re in our “cozy” house now (the lovely and talented Mrs. Mongo decreed that I have to say “cozy house,” not “tiny house”) so that’ll be fun.
The silver lining is that I’ve got a bit of a wee story I’ve been mind mapping for a couple of weeks without lifting a finger to actually, you know, write it. Maybe this’ll give me the time and motivation to post another story.
If I have internet. And electricity.
And a house.
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Lookin’ right now like the 305 might’ve dodged a bullet. But as I just told the lovely and talented Mrs. Mongo: Nobody knows anything, so let’s not pop the corks on the champagne just yet.
All I know is, it looks like I don’t have to put up storm shutters.
And in my mind, that’s as big a win as it gets.
I’ve heard of Social Justice, but Hurricane Justice?
That’s a bit far for me. Gotta stay near my cave. But if you get a bit closer to Detroit, especially the northern suburbs of Oakland County, I’m game.
Bummer. Probably the closest I’ll get is Sylvania, Ohio.
Our house did not have shutters when we bought it. Three years ago after Matthew, I looked into getting hurricane shutters. We wanted shutters on every window (hangar & 2-story house) and roll-down shutters for our lanai. The cost was $14,000+. I called our insurance company to see what kind of discount we could get with shutters. On our $3,000+ premium, we could get a whopping $65 reduction.
While I realize that “past performance does not predict future returns,” that was a pretty good indication that actuarially/historically, hurricane damage in this area is mainly roof damage. Our hurricane deductible is around $15K, so we would be paying $14K to protect us from something that probably won’t happen and still have to pay $15K towards a new roof. “It didn’t seem prudent.”
Anti-gouging activities on the part of government work to discourage certain types of preparedness.
A daring person might keep a garage full of gasoline and propane. If the worst does hit…
Point.
Not necessarily the hand/finger gesture I’d configure my flammables to make…
I just put in shutters this spring to compliment my whole house generator. Blow out a window and say goodbye to your roof. Not the shingles, the roof.
I want those.
I do that in reverse order. Fridge food goes first cuz it reaches room temp faster. We keep the grill easily accessible and roll it out as soon as the sky is clear.
I made ice packs out of gallon sized ziplocs to help keep the freezer cool longer and we’ll grill it all if the power goes out.
I also have sandwich sized ziploc ice packs to keep us cool.
They ain’t cheap, but really make it easy to get ready. No more climbing ladders…..
I figure the cost could be offset from the potential medical bill for falling off a damn ladder….
So we have heard from people like @spin.
OK, I want to stay with you! I’ll bring the booze.
Tracking as of 5 p.m. EDT has Dorian skirting the Atlantic coast all the way from Florida to Montauk Point, which means the coastal areas will see a lot of rain, but not the worst of the hurricane if the models are correct. Trump does have far more real estate property in the New York City area than in Florida, but for some reason, I just can’t see the same angry people on the left, wishing for a dead-on hit at Mar-A-Lago, tweeting out the same thing about wanting Dorian to not turn out to the North Atlantic and instead nail the Trump Links at Ferry Point, in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district, with Cat 4 rain and winds.
(Ever since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 was seen as helping Bill Clinton in his win over George H.W. Bush, angry progressives have developed an obsession with hoping major hurricanes strike Florida or other southern states where the wrong kinds of people live. The angry postings of 2019 simply mirror the calls back in 2004 by Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott for Gaia to smite the Gulf and southern Atlantic Coast states with her wrath).
They reveal over and over that they care nothing about people whatsoever. What about all the houses of regular people, not to mention all the deaths. Imagine if Republicans had tweeted wishing a hurricane would strike where Obama lived. I mean come ON.
The same people who were wishing destruction on Mar-A-Lago will be screaming about evil, uncaring Republicans if Dorian were to hit Martha’s Vineyard and take out Obama’s new multi-million dollar home.
Keep Gatorade on hand for same reason – but replacing salt and electrolytes –
The stupidest thing about this stuff is that these are people who just never grew up. They’re like a bunch of five-year-olds. They think they’re being so edgy, and so “Stickin it to The Man”! I mean grow UP.
That made me angry – to wish that a major hurricane would destroy someone’s property – they go to all lengths of hatred towards Trump – here’s a thought: Prayer and an act of mercy redirected the storm away from Florida by God’s hand. The act of mercy:
A week before Dorian was on the radar, Trump redirected FEMA money to the border crisis. There was outrage from the Left. The money redirected to the border was to relieve the humanitarian crisis, the children, the families, the border patrol – and using money that would have benefited him personally, had the storm been a direct hit. The Democrats won’t work with him on the border issue and shame on them – they are not humanitarian, in spite of what they claim. But he saw the need and filled it. Does God notice acts of mercy and respond in kind?
Yes, and their wording was always implying that he was misappropriating funds.
Two things I noted during the 11 years I lived in Boca:
Actually, empty shelves are what you get when business is brisk, and the staff plus in-store supply is right-sized. That is, the staff on hand during peak customer hours can only do very limited restocking and the total storage on site is always very limited. So, empty shelves are easy to find, until the next resupply truck(s) show up at the back of the business and the floor traffic slows enough for staff to get the shelves restocked.
I worked evenings and nights at a large commissary (military base grocery store) for a couple summers. Pay days would see not only active duty families but retirees with their pick-up trucks rolling in to stock up for the month. The shelve sections for the most successful products would be empty, despite day-shift efforts to do limited restocking. It took a squad of full-time stockers to move the next day’s full stockage out of the warehouse and onto the shelves. They overlapped with the graveyard shift janitorial team, which I joined the second year.
They are angry because it was used to increase the number of beds and facilities to house the illegals ( I refuse to call them “migrants”). They bitch and moan about the conditions in the facilities, then bitch and moan again when he tries to improve them. The only solution they won’t bitch and moan about is if he just turns them all loose into the interior, preferably with their voter registration cards in hand.
“We predict anthropogenic climate change” my sweet patootie.
I’ve been following the storm updates that are in the Wall Street Journal. This is the current (Sunday morning–the WSJ’s tracking map was last updated at 8 p.m. Saturday night, and this track is still considered a current prediction) picture they have of the track. I do not see how this will not slam Florida in a direct hit. Why do the forecasters think it will veer northward? I wonder if it has something to do with the continental shelf and shallow warm water.
No, it has to do with the High and Low pressure systems to the north of the storm. If there is a High pressure system moving into the area from the northwest, for example, that would tend to push the storm offshore. I watched a video someone posted a couple days ago explaining how they predict the path this way.
Okay. That makes sense.
Trump’s got a resort here in Charlotte. I ran my fastest half marathon ever there back in April of this year. Plenty of opportunity for thoughtful, caring progressives to wish destruction upon something Trumpian here in the Carolinas.
https://www.trumpnationalcharlotte.com/