@E_DUB This is a little confusing, because it looks like the closest thing in the last 4 or 5 hrs to name calling is a broad statement about “MAGA clowns.” There are only about 9 posts (before your warning) in the last several hours, so I find it difficult to understand how anyone could have flagged 6 of them, unless by accident.
It’s your fellow tolerant users who can’t abide me responding to pjet about something that has nothing to do with them. Most likely while having me on “ignore”
They’re here to accuse other posters of drive by posting with an inability to defend their positions over something not directed at them.
New topic: anyone know how wide the circle of very intense weather will be when this thing hits the FL ?
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Depends on what you mean by “very intense weather.” Hurricane and tropical storm warnings apply from the tip of FL all the way up to Jacksonville.
Currently, tropical storm force winds reach out 140 miles from the storm center. The warnings indicate that most of central FL (Tampa, Daytona, Cape Canveral, Fort Myers, Orlando, etc) should expect sustained winds upwards of 70mph.
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Thanks. I know it will be fiercly
windy and raining with abandon. But l was more wondering about window-breaking or roof-removing type winds. I have a brother just north of Tampa who is luckily above any potential flooding.
But, with the storm now apparently heading toward the Sarasota area, l wonder how bad the winds will be on the north side of Tampa.
In any case, l guess he will find out soon …
In the link from my last post, about halfway down, is a map of the worst wind danger. Tampa is toward the north part of the highest peak winds, above 100mph. Just north of that, it drops down a little bit, but it’s still predicted be pretty damaging and destructive.
I am working Valdosta where they had 125 mph winds if I remember correctly. I am seeing some wind damage to roofing, but usually just small areas. Most of the damage in Valdosta is from the tall pine trees snapping and falling onto the houses.
Since the storm is supposed to hit as a Cat 3 (last I heard), I don’t expect there to be a lot of catastrophic wind damage to roof - as in lifting the whole roof and blowing it away.
Any house built since 2007 (and some as early as 2004/2005) were built to the Miami-Dade building code which is pretty good. I would worry more about water if near the coast, and pine trees which tend to snap about half-way up. Oak trees will do some damage, but they tend to fall a little slower since their roots spread out whereas most pines have a deep tap root.
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Ahh yes everyone else is the problem, it couldn’t be you. That’s par for the course.
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My in-laws live in a community where every house has a massive garage or RV port. My in-laws have the massive RV port but no RV at the moment, I just see that RV port turning into a massive parachute if it catches the wind right, and ripping off the house. How prevalent is that?
Looks similar to this but with a workshop on the open side.
Best of luck to all Floridians in the path today.
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FL Rep telling Harris to “do her job” and allocate FEMA funding just after - checks notes - voting against FEMA funding in Congress, which is, you know, her actual job.
https://x.com/repluna/status/1843474103157829998?s=46&t=Dzvp_awfmCUdsw9F_S4a0g
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Questions:
How does one flag a post?
@E_DUB Why should we have to put up with blatant lies, untruths and bullshit here? There’s enough in normal media already.
I have some horses outside of Ocala. How bad do we think it’s going to be there?
I flagged @E_DUB post yesterday as a joke and it was really easy. Flagging is available at the … [more] near the 
, edit, and reply button. You can test it out and flag my post. It’s kind of fun.
Do we have pink ink yet? I teased e_dub a little but it might not have been obvious.
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Even though I live here, I don’t work Florida very much (I prefer hail storms out west and don’t like working hurricanes) - so I haven’t seen those. I can see why they are popular for those with large RVs.
Yeah, that would make me nervous. There isn’t much anchoring them down on the one side.
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Latest update from the NHC has it making landfall around Bradenton/Sarasota as a Cat 4. If that forecast holds it looks like Tampa might get spared the worst of it as they will be on the weaker side of the storm.
The LR is already a shell of its former self following the big changes. I would guess traffic is down more than 50% on this forum. I still can’t log on as my original account and I’ve stopped hearing from their IT support about it. Over-moderation is not going to help.
That’s my biggest fear. They don’t have big trees in their neighborhood so that’s a relief but I have no idea what flooding could be like, they’re surrounded by a couple of “lakes” and of course it’s FL so no elevation to speak of.
It’s going to be a nerve wracking day until we hear back from them.
Yeah I don’t get the internal flagging thing. This is fight club. The doors are locked and the windows boarded up. The trolling issue is limited to a very small handful of posters and even that may be an overestimation. I can’t speak for anyone else but I find it useful to either do the work myself or read when others have dismantled the lie or rumor, or in some cases verify what’s being alleged. If it were a reversed ratio and we were unable to keep up with the fire hose of bullshit to the point where we just get swamped in disinformation and vulgarity, then yeah, I agree that would be detrimental to the spirit and function of this forum. But on the whole I think the philosophy of combatting bad speech with good speech plays out pretty well here.
If the final straw was me using the term MAGA clowns to describe shit posting from a MAGA poster, and I’ve taken the time to detail why it’s shit, I would hope that context would overrule the relatively mild language offense. But I appreciate the moderator’s job here and that they provide the platform for us to have these conversations.
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Over moderation is not the issue here.
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