• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s the Hurricane Surprise Season from now on.

    Think of all the good things it will get you! No more pesky “evacuation orders”. No more lost time in schools and businesses just because some scientist thought there is a cat 5 coming in and tells you to better stay at home!

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      You aren’t thinking fourth dimensionally.

      If we don’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.

      No such thing as a cat 5 hurricane. That’s just gonna be called a “Windy boy”.

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            US homes maybe more resistant in hurricane countries than elsewhere in the US, but storm intensities are on the rise, and conservatives are not known to be smart about resilience if it costs money “unnecessarily”.

            Being rather unprepared will add to the damages. What do people on the coast do when the hurricane comes? They screw boards over their windows. This alone has probably saved a lot of lives. Hurricane strength winds and shards is a nasty mix.

            It will get worse, with human lives getting more affected than before.

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                Covering windows doesn’t do that much. The big dangers are the wind ripping the roof off, large trees being blown onto the house, and floodwaters rising above the level of the ground floor. I think windows breaking is more of a concern with tornadoes.

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                if people aren’t evactuating they are going to get more deadly. On top of that increased frequency means less time for areas that are affected to recover before the next one hits. Florida could very well end up effectively uninhabitable due to how many of even “minor” ones they are getting.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      No more worries about rotting meat on the supermarket shelves because … no one’s gonna inspect it.