DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024
Florida is about to get whacked with a second major hurricane in the past two weeks as the rapidly-developing Milton bears down on Tampa Bay. It’s expected to be the worst storm to hit that area since 1921. About 120,000 people lived there then; nearly 3 million live there now.
The only good thing about a natural disaster is that it pushes political news to the back burner – or it would in normal times. In our timeline it just give MAGA Men another platform for dickfuckery. For example, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refuses to take calls from the White House to talk about disaster response, claiming it would be political – as if what he’s doing isn’t.
The damage from Milton is expected to run into the hundreds of billions of dollars in Florida, where insurance will cover some of the damage for those who can afford its soaring cost. Helene’s trail of destruction in the Appalachians caused just as much damage, but it won’t affect insurance rates because almost none of it was insured.
The floor’s yours.
Obviously, the continuing destruction to florida isnt based on any scientific reasoning so it must be simply that god hates florida
They’re a lot slower on the pick-up than Noah was, for sure.
As anticipated the “storm of the century” has yet to hit Florida, and it’s hapless far right government remains in denial, as such they seek to blame it on everyone else. Climate change will do what common sense cannot in Florida, and capitalism fleeing the scene may well do the rest.
Will the last solvent homeowners’ insurance company serving Florida please turn out the lights?
I mean, when the lights finally came back on.