#stay safe Florida

[eeloomin8]

I think we should throw oil company ceos into a volcano. Won’t appease the weather but it’d be a nice treat for us.

[cowboygranta]

Hurricane Milton seen from space

[wolfspaw]

Pay attention to this storm and be prepared. Outer Bands take in a great distance as well. If you are told to evacuate…. evacuate. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.

[artemis-pendragon]

Okay so I'm not in the hurricane evacuation zone by any means but I do live in a horrendously natural disaster-prone region SO!! Here are the best tips I've gotten for surviving in a disaster zone.

1) Write your name and your emergency contact's phone number in DARK PERMANENT INK somewhere visible on your skin (wrist is good) so if you're unconscious or dead emergency response can ID you and get in contact with your family/friends

2) If you have any particular medical needs or conditions write that too!! Specific medications + doses, warning signs and symptoms to watch for, etc

3) During the disaster, if your circumstances change or may change soon, record a new voicemail message explaining these changes so anyone who calls you knows your most recent status and location. Whatever details you think might help!

4) Stock up on Rx meds before pharmacies close. Get some OTC meds too and make a watertight and portable first aid kit. If you're gonna be in flood conditions and your Rx bottles aren't fully sealed, wrap the lids with duct tape to make a tight seal. If you've got tampons and pads in the house, stuff those babies in there! Good for everything from periods, to bloody noses and open wounds in an emergency! Plus they're super absorbent and can be used to temporarily block up small spaces and cracks

5) If there's no bottled water left in stores buy the biggest and cheapest bottles of soda you can, dump them out, and fill them with fresh water. If you have sinks and bathtubs that aren't expected to flood, fill those bad boys up with fresh water, too. Store as much water as you can!!

6) Put all important documents such as Social Security cards, birth certificates, marriage certificates, or anything else you want to save into waterproof bags. Ziplock baggies double sealed with duct tape along the closed seams are great! Double bag if needed!

7) Special cool new thing I learned about hurricanes that I'm probably the last dumbass on earth to know but just in case I'm not: even if a hurricane makes landfall as a Cat 3, if it was a Cat 5 over the ocean on approach it will bring in Cat 5 surge. Downgrading the wind speed doesn't downgrade the flood potential

8) TAKE THE BACKROADS OUT OF MAJOR CITIES OH MY GOD PLS DONT GET STUCK ON THE FREEWAYS IT'S HELL

9) Last but not least, if you can't afford to evacuate or don't have a place to stay, some people under videos and posts tagged with current natural disasters are offering temporary places to crash for those in affected areas for free!! I've seen multiple cases now of people offering up their guest rooms or couches to evacuees and their pets in the last week that have worked out ❤️

If anyone else has more tips, and more experience with this type of disaster specifically, please add on!! Love you all and hope everyone stays safe 💕

[destielmemenews]

"Its dangerous eye and eyewall could come ashore anywhere from Cedar Key at the north to Naples at the south – including possibly in the Tampa or Ft. Myers areas.

It’s only been 10 days since Helene scoured Florida’s Gulf Coast with storm surge and slammed into the Big Bend as a Category 4. Now, officials are asking residents – still in recovery mode – to evacuate or prepare for another life-threatening storm."

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[mrlimesapper]

Florida people: As someone from the midwest who moved to Florida, please do not treat tornadoes like you do hurricanes.

You do not get advanced warning of tornadoes like you do hurricanes. You do not immediately get to know the power of a tornado either until scientists, after properly tracking it down, get the proper measurements. A tornado could be on the ground for a while before an official warning is sent out. And they are UNPREDICTABLE. Even the best storm chaser on the planet can't track what a tornado will do, and trust me he tried, and paid the price for it by eventually getting too close.

Keep track of the weather. A tornado watch means the chance of a tornado is likely. A tornado WARNING means there is a confirmed touchdown of a tornado in your area and you need to take action. In the case a tornado does show up, make sure to shelter in the lowest floor of whatever building you're in, preferably in a room without any windows. Cover yourself so debris does minimal harm. PLEASE do this if you get a tornado warning for your area, or if you hear something that sounds like a train outside, because that my friend is a tornado outside.

I've already seen plenty of people act stupid about it. Respect the f*cking storm.

[codewitch]

I pray that upon reaching Florida hurricane Milton condenses into a single ball five feet in diameter, a neutron star of raw hurricane energy, that makes a direct beeline to Ron Desantis and strikes him down before immediately evaporating. Amen.

[shubbzebubs]

Category 5 hurricane barreling right at me AND period cramps???? Transfer that shit to Wyald

[weird-fishes-i-reckon]

Is your power out? Here’s what you need to know about the restoration process:

Yes, your power being out is horrible, it’s dangerous especially if you are chronically ill, or live on well and septic and therefore don’t have access to water. Believe me, the scouting and linemen crews working on restoring your electricity know that. Most of us get into this field because we’ve been in a similar situation.

This is the daily process for your linemen and scouting crews: they wake up well before the sun even thinks of rising, they go to their designated operations center, they get debriefed on safety, and are then assigned tickets. Tickets are reports for power outages along the power grid. They are required to start with the ticket that has the most customers out, and then work their way down. Scouts finish at sundown, linemen keep working through the night if they can safely do so. They meet back up with their team, debrief, and then sleep and repeat.

This is the construction of your power grid system: you have transmission lines (those big pylons) that go to a substation. Each substation steps down the voltage and splits the electricity into circuits.

Each circuit leaves the substation as a backbone that covers a certain location. If the substation is the brain, then the backbone is exactly that. Each backbone has taps - which are like ribs - and they spread out, sometimes with taps of their own. The secondary wire will run from a transformer on the pole to your house. Each house is serviced by one secondary, whether it’s overhead or underground.

Yesterday I had a ticket with 1,107 customers affected. It was a problem with the backbone and because of that, everyone downstream didn’t have power. It’s almost like being paralyzed at a certain vertebrae. We fixed the backbone, but there were still people who had their power out because a tree fell on a tap or secondary. That adds time to the getting your power on. If we started with the tickets that only have one customer out, we could fix your pole or your wire, but the power might not come back on.

The people who are scouting are not allowed to and not able to tell you when your power will return. They figure out what caused the outage and then create a list of what the line crew needs to fix it. They can put in the notes if it’s urgent, like if your elderly mother is on a breathing apparatus or something, but that’s not a guarantee that you will be seen quickly.

Please keep your dogs leashed or behind a fence that will hold them back. If someone needs to be in your backyard, bring your dog inside. One of our guys got bit hard on the leg yesterday. That’s one less person able to work, the power will now take longer to come back on.

Yelling at the crews will not make them work faster.

In extra heavily affected areas, sometimes entire swaths of power infrastructure are completely obliterated. They will need to be entirely rebuilt from the ground up. This will take Even More time than usual to get power restored.

Electricity is dangerous. Your standard American outlet has 120 volts of electricity. Your standard neighborhood power line has 15 kilovolts (15000 volts) of electricity, backbones can have 25 kilovolts. Don’t. Touch. The. Wire. Always assume the wire is live (has electricity running through it). I have seen a squirrel instantly grilled because it was grounded while touching a live wire. Just don’t fucking do it.

If you’re walking in an area with power line damage and your feet feel hot or tingly all of a sudden, you’re not tripping, you’re feeling electrical currents. Back away.

Transmission lines run anywhere above 39 kilovolts. It can go up to 765 kilovolts. If transmission goes down, it will affect the whole substation and the people served by that substation. If you see dangling transmission wire or you see it on the ground or in the water (god forbid) stay FAR AWAY. DONT GET CLOSE. Report it IMMEDIATELY.

The crew has two jobs: restore the power, and come home at the end of the day. The second one is the most important. Our job alone is extremely dangerous, if we assess a situation or environment to be too dangerous to do our work, we will have to wait until the situation has improved. Active flooding is one of those situations.

If you are in an area that has experienced a lot of rain or flooding, your power might go out a lot during the next few months, even after it’s restored. Trees with shallow root systems like pines and water oaks will loose a lot of grip with the ground because of how disturbed the soil gets. You should stay aware of falling trees if you’re in an area with an abundance of trees that have shallow roots.

Please stay safe, please stay aware.

[rainmustfallts4]

so, a hurricane is hitting Florida right now and my entire complex is without power. In my area alone there's almost 4,000 people without power 😭 I have no idea when it will come back (and I'm hungry damn it.)

Hopefully my fellow floridians are staying safe!

My queue only goes until... the end of Friday, I think? Hopefully I'll be back before then but if not, that's why!

[modern-politics111]

From the no joke, official WH reddit account

Our Administration continues to work around the clock to make sure communities in Virginia have everything they need to recover and rebuild. So far, FEMA has approved over $1.3 million in assistance for more than 709 households. 

Our Administration will not leave until the job is done. We encourage survivors to apply for FEMA assistance, which can be done by: - Calling 1-800-621-3362 - Visiting DisasterAssistance.gov - Using the FEMA App

[wolfspaw]

[cobra-wives]

hectic week as of recent, and ANOTHER hurricane is hitting us. would like to let you all know i’m alive !

[klein-kariert]

God bless you all ♥️

[sincosma]

being an annoying loz fan and needing to get the physical copy of every game but you’re being hit by a hurricane the day echoes of wisdom comes out (tomorrow)

[moon-my-beloved]

I truly believe that you don’t have to be in an exact place to feel true fear. What is happening in Florida with hurricane Milton is such a serious and real thing and I don’t think people realize that this is actually so terrifying. Please stay safe.