The Unlimited Atlantic Hurricane Season Fread

[Phox]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

We don't get hurricanes here.

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

If you can find a place in the WORLD that has all of the above, I will sell everything I own and move there immediately.

Phox,
Apparently has a deathwish.

[Kai]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

We don't get hurricanes here.

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

If you can find a place in the WORLD that has all of the above, I will sell everything I own and move there immediately.

Phox,
Apparently has a deathwish.

Japan?

[Phox]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

We don't get hurricanes here.

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

If you can find a place in the WORLD that has all of the above, I will sell everything I own and move there immediately.

Phox,
Apparently has a deathwish.

Japan?

Oooohhh... and they have a disproportionate amount of nuclear disasters as well.... could be fun...

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Allstate pulled out completely in 2004 following the triple strike. They refused to pay claims, packed up, and left. They are now no longer permitted to do any business within the state of Florida.

False. My mom worked for, retired from and has Allstate.

[Suu]

Allstate pulled out completely in 2004 following the triple strike. They refused to pay claims, packed up, and left. They are now no longer permitted to do any business within the state of Florida.

False. My mom worked for, retired from and has Allstate.

Then maybe it WASN'T them? I heard someone didn't come through and turned tail and ran. State Farm?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

State Farm played shit and kinda cut and run.
They bailed out of selling homeowners ins to people but still have auto and they jacked up the rates. There were a lot of smaller companies that decided they weren't gonna pay out and they ended up being sued and going under. They'd still be in business and profiting if they'd just payed out like they were supposed to.

The insurance situation here drives me fucking nuts. You want flooding to be covered it's a separate policy, they can drop you for no reason- like a bad storm is coming, they can claim your shit isn't covered, no matter how small it is, when it is clearly written in your policy.

It's a fucking scam. All of it.

[Phox]

State Farm played shit and kinda cut and run.
They bailed out of selling homeowners ins to people but still have auto and they jacked up the rates. There were a lot of smaller companies that decided they weren't gonna pay out and they ended up being sued and going under. They'd still be in business and profiting if they'd just payed out like they were supposed to.

The insurance situation here drives me fucking nuts. You want flooding to be covered it's a separate policy, they can drop you for no reason- like a bad storm is coming, they can claim your shit isn't covered, no matter how small it is, when it is clearly written in your policy.

It's a fucking scam. All of it.

So... you're saying that Florida is the place to start my volcano insurance company, because if a volcano suddenly develops, I can just say that they aren't covered and they will have no legal recourse? I like this plan.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Exactly!

Oh the money you could make

[Epimetheus]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

We don't get hurricanes here.

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

If you can find a place in the WORLD that has all of the above, I will sell everything I own and move there immediately.

Phox,
Apparently has a deathwish.

Japan?

Oooohhh... and they have a disproportionate amount of nuclear disasters as well.... could be fun...

Go where the action is, eh?
The amount of Weird there is 10 years ahead of u.s., too
Or, maybe not the quantity, but the quality.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Basically, Earth is a really shitty place to decide to live, and we should have thought of that before building here.

It was a buyer's market at the time. Also, lots of good-looking women.

[Phox]

Basically, Earth is a really shitty place to decide to live, and we should have thought of that before building here.

It was a buyer's market at the time. Also, lots of good-looking women.

True, true, and some of us, who may or may not be playing with a full deck, LIKE the adverse weather conditions. In fact, as I've been saying, the situation is actually quite tame. I mean, seriously. i want hurricanes one week, tornadoes the next, tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. Blizzards followed by 125 degree temperatures. All the while tennis ball sized hail! Throw in a little bit of nuclear fall out, wild fires, and massive chemical spills, and shit, boyee, we got us one hell of a fun time, yeah?

I mean, it's not like there are any superpredators out there. Dinosaurs, giant insects, parasitic extraterrestrial lifeforms.... gotta have something fun going on, right?

Phox,
Likes a challenge.

[Adios]

State Farm played shit and kinda cut and run.
They bailed out of selling homeowners ins to people but still have auto and they jacked up the rates. There were a lot of smaller companies that decided they weren't gonna pay out and they ended up being sued and going under. They'd still be in business and profiting if they'd just payed out like they were supposed to.

The insurance situation here drives me fucking nuts. You want flooding to be covered it's a separate policy, they can drop you for no reason- like a bad storm is coming, they can claim your shit isn't covered, no matter how small it is, when it is clearly written in your policy.

It's a fucking scam. All of it.

The only thing I miss about Florida is New Smyrna Beach.

Hawk,
got laid a LOT there as a kid.

[Triple Zero]

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

Basically, Earth is a really shitty place to decide to live, and we should have thought of that before building here.

You kind of skipped from "a location in the US" to the entire Earth, here. Not sure if that was intentional, because most of mid-northern Europe doesn't have all those natural nasties that you listed.

(We did kind of build most of our country on a floodplain, sort of. But that was quite intentional, not so much "OMG WTF is all this water suddenly doing here??/halp I'm drowning/my (wtf wooden) house is floating away/etc" but rather more like "Suck it, Nature, we're gonna build shit (from stone) right here below sea level AND we'll take that bit of sea right there and turn it into land just because we fucking CAN, so there." )

How did the native americans do it way back then? Did they get hurricaned, tornadoed, heatwaved, dried, frozen, earthquaked, flooded and erupted upon all the time as well?

oh BTW you forgot to mention the crazy big ass insects spiders and wildlife that's actually, you know, dangerous, instead of a bit of a nuisance and/or scared of humans like it's suppose to be.

[Adios]

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

Basically, Earth is a really shitty place to decide to live, and we should have thought of that before building here.

You kind of skipped from "a location in the US" to the entire Earth, here. Not sure if that was intentional, because most of mid-northern Europe doesn't have all those natural nasties that you listed.

(We did kind of build most of our country on a floodplain, sort of. But that was quite intentional, not so much "OMG WTF is all this water suddenly doing here??/halp I'm drowning/my (wtf wooden) house is floating away/etc" but rather more like "Suck it, Nature, we're gonna build shit (from stone) right here below sea level AND we'll take that bit of sea right there and turn it into land just because we fucking CAN, so there." )

How did the native americans do it way back then? Did they get hurricaned, tornadoed, heatwaved, dried, frozen, earthquaked, flooded and erupted upon all the time as well?

oh BTW you forgot to mention the crazy big ass insects spiders and wildlife that's actually, you know, dangerous, instead of a bit of a nuisance and/or scared of humans like it's suppose to be.

On this Day in Weather History...
In 1897, severe thunderstorms pummeled Southeast Iowa with large hail. The hail size was not reported, but hail drifts reached six feet deep 30 to 40 miles southwest of Cedar Rapids. In 1989, severe thunderstorms raked parts of Western Oklahoma with 2 inch diameter hail and 70 mph winds.

A 22-year-old Alaska woman said on Wednesday she punched a black bear in the face to save her small dog from being carried off and possibly eaten.

Juneau resident Brooke Collins said she hit the bear Sunday night to save the life of her dachshund, Fudge. She said she discovered the bear crouched down, clutching Fudge in its paws and biting the back of the dog's neck.

"It had her kind of like when they eat salmon," Collins said Wednesday. "I was freaking out. I was screaming at it. My dog was screaming. I ran up to it ... I just punched it right in the snout and it let go."
http://news.yahoo.com/alaska-woman-says-...58799.html

As you can see, we do not fear.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

Basically, Earth is a really shitty place to decide to live, and we should have thought of that before building here.

You kind of skipped from "a location in the US" to the entire Earth, here. Not sure if that was intentional, because most of mid-northern Europe doesn't have all those natural nasties that you listed.

(We did kind of build most of our country on a floodplain, sort of. But that was quite intentional, not so much "OMG WTF is all this water suddenly doing here??/halp I'm drowning/my (wtf wooden) house is floating away/etc" but rather more like "Suck it, Nature, we're gonna build shit (from stone) right here below sea level AND we'll take that bit of sea right there and turn it into land just because we fucking CAN, so there." )

How did the native americans do it way back then? Did they get hurricaned, tornadoed, heatwaved, dried, frozen, earthquaked, flooded and erupted upon all the time as well?

oh BTW you forgot to mention the crazy big ass insects spiders and wildlife that's actually, you know, dangerous, instead of a bit of a nuisance and/or scared of humans like it's suppose to be.

I guess so. However, earthquakes, at least, are not really all that deadly when you don't have tall buildings made out of heavy stuff. The rest, I think, can be attributed to the Native Americans being tough as hell.