OT: Irma evacuation
gammanu95
My casual drinking is your alcohol poisoning.
So which of you other poor bastards are not evacuating? For the record, I haven't either. I wanted to, but even on Wednesday the only hotel I could find was a La Quinta in Tallahassee, and I searched along I-75 all the way to Atlanta. La Quinta seems to be the motel of choice for crack whores and dirty pimps nationwide, but I booked the room. One of my employees evacuated with his family on Wednesday, and was barely past the Florida-Georgia line by the end of the day. By late yesterday. he only just reached the Georgia-Tennessee border. With the interstates that packed, I just said fuck it and cancelled the room. I have a well-built concrete block home, built to all the latest Florida hurricane standards. I have aluminum and lexan hurricane panels for the windows. The doors are all hurricane-rated. I installed shadow box fence, which is proven to help reduce the wind load experienced by a structure. I've got a generator and transfer switch hooked up to my main panel, window and room ACs, guns, provisions, two big dogs, and an ugly woman. Just kidding, my wife is not ugly, but I was thinking of that uptown rug store from Katrina.
Still I worry about a lot of other people. Many good people that I work with (i.e. customers and peer companies) and even for me were bankrupted and had their credit ruined in the housing crisis. The only single family housing they can get are mobile homes. Those are under mandatory evacuation in Lee County.
Well, hopefully we all come out this in one piece. God speed and good luck to all my fellow Florida strip club hounds.
Still I worry about a lot of other people. Many good people that I work with (i.e. customers and peer companies) and even for me were bankrupted and had their credit ruined in the housing crisis. The only single family housing they can get are mobile homes. Those are under mandatory evacuation in Lee County.
Well, hopefully we all come out this in one piece. God speed and good luck to all my fellow Florida strip club hounds.
Got something to say?
Start your own discussion
33 comments
Sounds like it my rip through Atlanta then Greenville SC and even the mountains of NC and TN
Fuck me
Please keep us posted on developments if you have the time after keeping yourselves safe. Best of luck to all. Stay dry !!
I suppose the good news is that the evacuation order is the least nefarious reason I've been kicked out of a hotel recently. :-)
Who knows, maybe aliens spoke to Noah via a telepathic broadcast and he thought it was God. The aliens might have known there were several asteroids on a collision course with the Earth's oceans and that the whole planet was going to have oceans moving around as a large Planet X came within the inner solar system.
Hell after watching hurricane videos all day I would be freaked out staying...I guess I would take my chances trying to flee to safety
God speed my friends...pay his love, piece, forgiveness, grace and rest be forever upon you guy's
Good luck. Hopefully the storms energy will be spread out over a wide area instead of refocusing on the center. It could grow stronger again though. 120 sustained now, could pop back to 145 or so with higher gusts.
On top of all that hurricane Jose will be sitting out there and who knows where it will go next week. Be safe. Just remember if it suddenly gets quiet, the storm might not be over. It might be the eye. Hundreds died in Florida many years ago going outside when the eye crossed over. Of course they didn't have constant tv updates back then. Maybe not even a weather service either.
I am even a little disappointed that it wasn't necessary to get a hotel for a few days on the east coast, so I could visit Tootsie's and check out the new Solid Gold.
I hope the other Florida mongers made out okay.
Except twentyfive. Fuck him.