Hurricane Florence

The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel over-acting again; forward video ahead to 34 seconds



We've seen this before locally when he was covering the blizzard of 2015

 

Here's a great audio interview on autonomous mutual aid efforts for hurricane Florence, and great info on disaster relief in general: Into the Eye of the Storm

 

As bad as it sounds, I'm just glad it wasn't coming here. After Irma last year, someone else can take it. And besides, it ended up hitting land as a Category 1. If we get a Category 1 here in Florida...I mean I've seen regular non-hurricane-season rain that's more threatening.

 

We have lots of rain. Power went out several times, but came back on around 430pm and we haven’t lost it since.

I stayed at a freind’s house (mostly because still recovering from surgery), but will be heading back home today.

So glad it hit as a Cat 1. The coast of NC has damage and I can’t imagine if it was a 4!

Be safe!

 

Damn, the people walking (normal) behind him, made him look like a complete fool

 

It really does make him look like an idiot.

When he came to town to cover the Blizzard back in 2015 I thought his spill seemed a bit contrived, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

 

I think it hit the coast as a cat 2. The rain and wind have been never ending. Our lights flickered a split second or two, and I thought for sure we would be without power by now. Not complaining though.

 

I couldn't open the other video. I'll see if I can pull it up on YouTube

 

Ok, try this one 56 seconds into the video when Mike pulls his Stanislavski

 

I can't really argue against that one, that was obviously some horrible weather. I don't think he was over dramatic. Man, I do not miss being up north for that, not one bit.

 

Florence vs Mangkhut

As reported by a New Zealander with a cold

Forward to 2:35 for stuff you will give a shit about

 

These people in NC are screwed with this river flooding.

Florence is leaving heavy flooding in the Carolinas, with at least 7 dead - CNN

 

Yeah and with higher elevations forecast for 6 - 12 inches of rain in some spots today and tomorrow, all of that is just going to flow downstream within a few days and add to the problem

 

It wasn't a calling perse. I worked Katrina as a private inspection service contracted by FEMA. About 5 years later they approached qualified building inspectors to come work for them. Proposed all sorts of new approaches. New rules. New technologies. To lure us back into working the disasters. So I gave it a try. Learned the new rules etc.

It wasn't what they promised. The environment they wanted me to work in had been degraded. And they were slow to pay us.

Myself and many others said no thank you and left.

Myself and many others were offered a 30K bonus simply to go to PR. On top of better compensation once there. I don't know of any that took it. But I'm sure some did. I just didn't need the b/s it had become. And I make a living in other ways now.

I still hear from some I have trained. One in particular from N Dakota that I trained. She took Houston. Made more in 2 months there than she did in a year in her previous job.

It's kind if hard to make a living by looking forward to a disaster. It's not fun living and working in those disasters. It doesn't help when FEMA cuts back on those they depend on to do the job the way it's intended. This has supposedly been improved in the last 2 years. But I don't need the lifestyle any longer.

My hats go off to them all. They are going to be living in hotels in the Carolinas for about 4 months. Some have families etc. It's easy for them to get burned out.

 

Anderson Copper stooping the next level of stupidity.. CNN is FAKE NEWS!!

 

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lol..

 

Well, I take back everything I said. This storm was terrible, and if there's a mandatory evacuation, I would likely take it seriously after hearing about all the devastation here.

 

How dare you imply CNN doesn't portray reality!!!??!

 

Here's the reality.

All these old, crippled up people that didn't evacuate.

 

Last movement west at 2mph. Christ that is slow.