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Milton strengthens to Category 5 hurricane
(abcnews.go.com)
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NOAA changed Milton's heading on Hurricanes.gov to plead with people to listen to evacuation orders.
We'll all be very happy to feel silly if this doesn't go the way it looks like it's going to go. But please for the love of humanity get out of the way of this thing.
My friend lives in Florida and has not, nor his words "will ever" evacuate for a "stupid hurricane." I'll give you one guess who he's voting for.
That's one way for Florida to go blue
The game I almost never lose!
oh fuck me. Well I lost a different game after typing that.
I just lost too....jerk!
I was listening to a live stream with a couple meteorologists explaining everything. they were fairly jovial and laid back seeming guys but at one point, one of them got a deadly serious tone to his voice and started talking about how this one can't be rode out, can't be survived.
I've lived in the Tampa Bay area my entire life, never evacuated before, and I left last night. Fuck Milton. Not worth riding this one out.
Why evacuate? Just write your name, DoB, and SSN on our arms and legs, and use a waterproof sharpie for that. Just in case, you know?
I mean I'd rather have you, not your pieces.
Did you mean https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ? Your URL doesn't seem to work.
That's the same site yeah. Mine left an s off, I'll go fix it.
i don't understand how to use this website. where do i click on to see who needs to get out
If your address has "FL" in it, you should evacuate.
that is quite a lot of people
I'm not sure NOA is responsible for evacuation orders, IIRC they advise state and local governments on who should evacuate and it's up to the local government to coordinate and reach out to their populations.
You need to go to FloridaDisaster.org
The evacuation orders look super random. I guess it depends on the politics of the county. Great
I need only three things:
Bonus: Prediction path it will take.
I was thinking this would be very easy to visualize. From such important data sources you'd expect more.