President Biden warns of the potential devastating impacts of Hurricane Milton.
"Currently, Milton is a Category 3… but no one should be confused. It's still expected to be one of the most and worst destructive hurricanes to hit Florida in over a century." pic.twitter.com/odwzaNI3ok
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 9, 2024
The @WhiteHouse is launching a Reddit account. The goal: keeping the public informed on Hurricane Helen/Milton response, recovery & preparedness.
They will also be sharing info on state-based sub-Reddits, & larger sub-Reddits like r/politics, where they can correct misinfo
— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) October 8, 2024
Hurricane Milton weakens to a Category 3 Hurricane from Category 5 earlier today.
Similarly, Hurricane Katrina also peaked as a Category 5 before making landfall as a Category 3. pic.twitter.com/mSNEYs2sBB
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) October 9, 2024
Vice President Harris calls into @weatherchannel: “Sadly, there are some folks who during a moment of a crisis will be very predatory and start jacking up prices… To anybody who's thinking about jacking up those prices, know that we are monitoring. There will be a consequence… pic.twitter.com/hzczL3tVST
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 9, 2024
Mood reset!
Category 3 purricane.. pic.twitter.com/3rjDw7mBaG
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 8, 2024
Baud
uh oh.
Servers at Russian troll farms are going to overheat.
Auntie Anne
I vote for the purricane! It’s my kind of storm.
bbleh
OMG is that cat pic fer realz? That is … too perfect. (“Must … not … make … purr joke …”)
Chacal Charles Calthrop
I vote for the purricane too.
For anyone interested: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/10/hurricane-milton-barrels-toward-a-ferocious-nighttime-landfall-on-floridas-west-coast/
HumboldtBlue
Tampa’s main hospital and only trauma center is built on an island at sea level
rikyrah
Once upon a time, that Reddit account would have been a Twitter account.
But, since Apartheid Clyde bought it, it has gone to crap and can’t be trusted.
rikyrah
@HumboldtBlue:
I know that they put the Aqua Fence back up. I 🙏🏽🙏🏽that it holds.
TBone
Taylor Swift donated to hurricane relief $5 million today.
https://people.com/taylor-swift-makes-5-million-donation-for-hurricane-helene-and-milton-relief-8725997
Gloria DryGarden
Thanks for these links; I keep checking on any news about Milton. Absolutely fabulous that the White House has set up a communication Reddit to clarify what’s going on, and what is false. I have no experience with reddit, but I’ll have to learn.
Gloria DryGarden
OT
Delightful news article found while searching Google for news about Milton: Ohio Clark county is considering some felony charges about that misinformation harassment. Against JD Vance and his running mate citizen felon Trumplet.
https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/felony-charges-under-review-in-clark-county-against-donald-trump-and-jd-vance
TBone
In other feel-good news, Charlie Kirk is freaking out over the lack of enthusiasm among conservative Christians about voting in the upcoming election: “I hope they enjoy the gulags.”
I hope his disproportionate face head explodes when we win. Not linking, it’s on threads Right Wing Watch.
Hungry Joe
The Padres are going to finish off the Dodgers tonight — and I’ll be there: Some friends are season-ticket holders, and they snagged a playoff-game ticket for me. No idea where the seats are, but look for guy in wearing a Padres hat. I’ll wave.
Baud
@TBone:
Nice to hear about them freaking out for a change.
Liberal gulags are actually pretty nice. You get free health care.
suzanne
My fam got out of Sarasota, THX FSM!
Currently sitting in the international terminal at JFK, waiting to board. Already mailed in my ballot!
suzanne
@Baud: Taco trucks in every gulag, I think.
Baud
@suzanne:
Nice!
Gloria DryGarden
@Gloria DryGarden: It’s not as good as a potential storm surge at well-constructed hurricane -proof Mara Lago palace…
But just in case, I do hope he’s taken his remaining boxes of documents out from that locked closet they didn’t search (wtf, and it still sticks in my brain like a mental splinter) and that he’s put them higher up, I mean on the second or third floor. (Not higher up to the folks he aspires to impress)
Chet Murthy
@suzanne: maybe you’re satisfied with taco trucks. I’m still holding out for the fully automated luxury gay space communism.
HumboldtBlue
Podcast Hosts Laugh in Trump’s Face as He Struggles to Defend Rambling. Donald Trump tried to brush it off as a “weave.”
Gloria DryGarden
@TBone: they can stay home. Good. Thoughts and prayers.
I truly would love them not to vote. Admit defeat in advance. (Surrender Dorothy)
dmsilev
@TBone: FEMA had to cut the reeducation camp budget. It’s down to day camp with arts and crafts and the occasional field trip.
Jackie
@Hungry Joe:
Don’t forget your green balloon! And…. GO PADRES!!!
suzanne
@Chet Murthy: I’m not fancy. Taco trucks, drive-thru abortion clinics, and goat-worshipping chapels are all I need.
Starfish
@Chet Murthy: Does that come with lasers or not?
Baud
@Starfish:
How else are we going to control the weather?
frosty
@suzanne: Have a fun trip!!
Maxim
@Starfish: Laser-equipped taco trucks, I hope.
suzanne
@Baud: I guess that’s what the space lasers were for.
Baud
@suzanne:
You should move to Canada.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: 💙
MagdaInBlack
Listening Hal Sparks listen to Vance weasel word a total non-answer to a question about high capacity weapons as Hal calls him a total tit for his bs. How Vance can use so many words to say absolutely nothing is just stunning sometimes.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: here’s where he came this close to saying the N word. He’s just dying to say it.
https://x.com/KatiePhang/status/1844132283676336337
It is going to happen. He’s on tape saying it in the past, but this time it’ll be for his entire cult’s consumption.
Jackie
I absolutely LOVED Biden’s ripping into TCFG and MTG for spewing atrocities regarding Hurricanes Helene and Milton! He’s the NFLTOG POTUS!♥️
Anyone know if FAUX covered it?🤞🏻
TBone
@MagdaInBlack: I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and shit out more words of sense than he does.
Ken
@HumboldtBlue: “Weaving,” huh? I suppose Trump doesn’t call it “sundowning” because he’s white and those laws don’t apply to him, and “decompensation” because he gets the biggest compensation package ever.
Starfish
Tim Walz is going live on a World of Warcraft Twitch stream. Where is John Cole?
Baud
@Starfish:
Can’t accuse them of not going after younger voters. Hope it works.
suzanne
@Baud: What’s the taco situation in Canada? It’s terrible in PGH.
BR
https://newrepublic.com/post/186982/donald-trump-struggles-defend-rambling-podcast
Gloria DryGarden
FSM: looked it up
Field service management
Flying spaghetti monster
Finite state machine ( a math concept thingy, who knew? Some potential here, to play with words and the concept, find some metaphors and layers of meaning)
Female seeks male
First two are almost the same thing, no?
I’m in a silly state, up all night, sleep all day, it’s been weeks, months, and I keep trying to reset to normal hours, but it hasn’t worked yet. The acupuncturist tells me that early morning late night time is the time of grief/ lungs, which makes sense.
I wake up groggy. And anxious about the hurricane.
Geminid
@TBone: I thought Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point outfit had a GOTV operation. He should be talking about turning out Evangelicals instead of badmouthing them.
But I suspect Kirk’s running a GATM effort, as in Grab All The Money.
TBone
@suzanne: it’s terrible in central PA too. Our town taco truck folded up shop and hasn’t been back 😭
When I first discovered them here every Tuesday in a parking lot a few years ago, I danced around and hollered with joy, causing mirth to spread out into passing traffic.
No, Baud, that wasn’t the reason they left 😆
BR
@HumboldtBlue:
Oops I just posted the same link, didn’t see your comment.
Baud
@Gloria DryGarden:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Baud
@Geminid:
Pretty sure that describes all right wing operations.
TBone
@Geminid: I didn’t see the rest of his show or podcast or whateverthefuck it is he thinks he’s doing, so possibly he returned to his senses and stopped threatening his people. And then his pig sprouted wings and flew away 😆
GATM it is!
suzanne
@TBone: Having spent so many years in Phoenix and Tucson, I got so spoiled by having easy access to almost every kind of Mexican food I wanted.
Gloria DryGarden
@suzanne: Can I have my yurt/ hippy garden/ fire circle drumming and storytelling hang out place? We can be next to the abortion clinic, some of us older Ladies are healers and herbalists, happy to help.
TBone
@Baud: hubby’s Medicare continuously puts my (admittedly also free) ACA insurance plan to shame!
You are correct, sir!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Jackie: My husband is a Padres fan (grew up in SD) and I heard all about the epic game on Sunday, and the triumph last night. Go Padres!
TBone
@suzanne: great news!
mrmoshpotato
@BR: Did they also ask “What the fuck is wrong with you, you incoherent, stupid, racist, fascist shitatain?”
Sister Golden Bear
@TBone: If you can make to Pittsburgh, the #Calgorithm convoy of taco trucks is on its way for Saturday’s game against Pitt. However, as mandated by the People’s Republic of Berzerkely only vegan tofu tacos will be available.
TBone
@BR: thank FSM they’re helping him decompensate 😆❤️
Gloria DryGarden
@Baud: i surmised as much. I’m happy to read about alternative religion and imagined deities. Very pleasing.
suzanne
@Gloria DryGarden:
Sure. As long as I have coffee, I’m happy.
HumboldtBlue
TBone
@suzanne: we had Kennett Square – not merely the Mushroom Capitol of the World, it also sports all the best authentic Mexican food! I dearly, dearly miss it.
Chet Murthy
@Gloria DryGarden: I don’t know what that Wikipedia page says, but the FSM is the Deity of Atheists. His Paraphernalia is a colander, IIUC preferably metal not plastic, to be worn at all times, esp. for DMV photos.
ETA: and I must demur. He is exactly as imagined as the Great Sky Father.
Mousebumples
I’ve finished writing the messaging on my 300 Postcards to Swing States for Wisconsin, and I’m starting the addressing and stamping tonight.
Loved Kamala calling into the Weather Channel before!
TBone
@Sister Golden Bear: I don’t know if I could stand any more tofu than my mother served in the late 70s and early 80s 😆
TBone
@suzanne: is there room for my big cauldron? I have canoe paddles for stirring and other activities.
TBone
Ooh now I want to share a favorite meme of a goat with head and horns sticking into the car window:
Bupalos
Just to put a pin in how trash we are at understanding and fighting right-wing post-truth populists – as far as national media coverage, Trump has gone dark. No one asks him to go on record as this situation develops…not that he would if he was asked. He retains maximum flexibility to exploit whatever the outcome of this storm turns out to be. It may be that it comes in under expectations (the last wobble to the east, which should spare the most densely populated and vulnerable geography makes this likely) or it could exceed expectations. Whatever happens, Trump is left in a position to make hay.
When people say he’s just stupid, this is how you know that isn’t the whole story. An unskilled post-truth right-wing populist would stake out a position and make a bet. Which Trump made the mistake of doing with covid. A more skilled one knows there is no reason to do that, that the asset here is retaining the flexibility to exploit this storm in whatever direction proves profitable after the fact. A stupid opposition fails to notice that Trump is essentially gathering strength right now, by being left alone and retaining flexibility. He won’t say anything now, and will be saying “I told you so” in 48 hours. He may be saying “I told you not to listen to the corrupt authorities being hysterical and trying to trick you” or he may be saying “I told you things were going to be much worse than the corrupt authorities said, they don’t care about you…”
Apologies to anyone facing the reality of this storm. It is potentially offensive to be talking about the politics of this now. But post-truth right-wing populism makes everything dirty.
M31
@TBone: lol as the child of a hippy mom my experience made me say “tofu made by Asians is delicious, tofu made by hippies is gross”
I’m sure it’s better these days, but I’m still sticking with the Asians
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: is that in Scranton, PA today? Goddamn.
TBone
@M31: me too! I fell in love with my new dentist today, an Asian with a heavy accent. SO adorable, funny, smart, witty, and handsome! Don’t tell hubby 🤭
Gloria DryGarden
Great AP article about the disinformation/ hurricanes; Florida Republican congressmen calling it out. One is a former mayor and EMT firefighter, who knows disaster work.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/republicans-congress-hurricane-misinformation/index.html
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Bupalos: I wish this mattered, but in 2016, Trump insisted that he’d told everyone that the Iraq war was a bad idea, in spite of video evidence that he’d cheered it on at the time and no evidence that he’d ever criticized it anytime before he ran for President.
Scout211
@Gloria DryGarden: Check out the balloon-juice lexicon when you don’t understand a reference that long time jackals all seem to understand.
Gloria DryGarden
This is horrible to contemplate. If you’re right, I hope there’s a plan to counter it.
Swear words 400-510!
suzanne
@TBone: Last time I was in Kennett Square….. there was no authentic Mexican food to be found. I think there just isn’t a critical mass in PA yet. The parts of the country that used to be Mexico have it everywhere.
lowtechcyclist
@suzanne:
Glad to hear it! Sarasota and Bradenton are gonna get clobbered, from the looks of it. And I pray that there isn’t a single soul still on Longboat Key.
Happy travels to you and Mr. Suzanne, and a big thumbs-up for having already voted! I just got an email yesterday confirming that my ballot has been received.
Bupalos
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: Oh yes he’ll do it regardless. The point is to understand he’s going to do it, and gather ammunition yourself for the fight. Because the effectiveness of that maneuver in the end depends on what ammunition you have to fight it.
That he made the mistake of essentially ridiculing covid at the start, instead of throwing out 5 different potential conflicting explanations and narratives (like Putin would have) is probably why he’s not president right now.
Gloria DryGarden
Duplicate
Scout211
Tornadoes are all over the state ahead of the main part of Milton, many on the Eastern part of the state. Florida has broken a record for tornado warnings for the state today.
X video of the tornado in Wellington
ETA:
Gloria DryGarden
@Scout211: ok. I will.
Pardon my silliness.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@TBone: I walked by a fake grave headstone in someone’s yard yesterday that said “Here lies Amadeus Mozart, decomposing” Thought that was cute.
Gloria DryGarden
@Scout211: I was thinking about these tornadoes in Florida today. In the Midwest one goes to a basement, but I hardly think basements would be a safe place in a flood zone. Scary and intense.
suzanne
@lowtechcyclist: Yeah, Sarasota is going to just get nailed. They downsized last year to a single-story house, because they’re both getting older and my uncle’s health is failing. And it’s a little further away from the water than the last one. So fingers crossed that they have a house to go back to. They’re not at the age/condition when it’s easy to bounce back.
Chet Murthy
First COVID, now that tornado. They had ONE JOB. ONE JOB!
TBone
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: 😍
Halloween ghosts sign at dental office today: Quit ringing my doorbell! Where did all these little sheets come from? Boo!
Gloria DryGarden
Chet Murthy
you have added to my delight about this deity for atheists. It has a poetic silliness and charm that makes me bubble with mirth.
And, linguistically, it’s also handy to have a reference point. This way, everyone has their own “case manager”, even atheists.
It’s going to be my new way to make happy vibrations, when I need to stop thinking about all the concerning stuff.
That and delight over handsome witty actors or dentists that other people find and have crushes on, in their daily lives. Yummy.
I will now visualize FSM wearing his/ her metal colander. Oh! Yummy again. Oops.
Nukular Biskits
Good evenin’, y’all. I see you kiddos have been having fun.
It’s bad form to have a hurricane party if you’re not in the middle of hurricane.
All joking aside, hoping for the best down there in FL.
TBone
@Gloria DryGarden: 😄❤️💜
TBone
@Chet Murthy: the weather machine now under Dem control needs a few bugs worked out.
Darkrose
@Hungry Joe: This SF Giants fan is absolutely rooting for the Padres to a) BEAT LA! and b) win it all.
Kathleen
@Jackie: I loved the contempt on his face as he surveyed the braying jackals of the press. Pure NFLTG resting face.
Gloria DryGarden
@suzanne: I hope it goes well for them.
Captain C
@BR: If you’re an authoritarian, when they start laughing at you you’re done.
frosty
@Gloria DryGarden: There aren’t any basements in Florida. High water table, no frozen ground, no need for a deep foundation.
TBone
@suzanne: oh noes! I have friends in nearby West Grove and used to go to a little roadside (kind of a back road) stand with a window they served through. Dang it! Gone, gone, gone, I been gone too long 🎶 gone gone gone too long! The restaurants were a result of the population of mushroom farm helpers.
I had a lot of authentic Mexican in Galveston long ago too.
dww44
@Gloria DryGarden: the water table is too high in most of the state to even consider having a basement. Most every house in the interior is built on a slab.
BR
@Captain C:
Yeah I imagine he is going to be extra rant-y over the next day or two.
TBone
@Captain C: ❤️
Gloria DryGarden
@frosty: i was thinking that, that you would not want a basement with such a high water table. Doesn’t that mean you do need deep stabilizing pillars, though? I don’t know anything about construction.
These tornadoes, floods and hurricanes are rather pulling at the heart strings. So many people affected.
I guess I’m just saying, there nowhere to go, and it breaks my heart.
Gloria DryGarden
@dww44: it’s what I thought.
There’s no where to go. And tornadoes are somewhat terrifying. I can’t imagine how people are feeling, there.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Bupalos: true, very good point
SpaceUnit
I’m watching the live reporting of the storm on WFLA. A correspondent just said that transformers were blowing out left and right. That really surprised me.
I mean, sure, I figured the ones on the left would blow out. But not on the right.
geg6
@suzanne:
It’s true that it’s not easy to find good Mexican in the city in my experience but there is a very good taco truck here in Beaver County, a Mexican place at our mall that serves typical Mexican fare that is run by Mexican immigrants and they have great salsa and refried beans and a higher end place in Beaver that does all kinds of Mexican and Central American foods. It’s excellent. I’ve been to Mexico, Belize, Texas and California and all of these places stand up to places I went to when abroad. Our Hispanic population has been growing here. Probably because jobs are plenty and the cost of living is much lower than in Allegheny County.
Tony G
@HumboldtBlue: Damn. It’s not just DeSantis. Florida has been “governed” by grifters and buffoons for generations. The state of Florida is, in effect, a big swamp that’s been paved over, and it has been predictably hit by hurricanes every single year in late summer/early autumn for millennia. Yet, the state has been “developed” for decades as if hurricanes don’t exist. Generations of mismanagement that costs people lives.
karen marie
@TBone: It must be nice for Taylor to be a real billionaire, unlike Donald Trump who is so poor he can only run a gofundme grift.
Lily
From The Appeal, nonprofit news org whose “journalism exposes the harms of a criminal legal system entrenched in centuries of systemic racism.”
I get that they don’t publicly communicate prisoner moves beforehand. But by leaving it to the discretion of officials, mandatory doesn’t mean mandatory for incarcerated people. Inc. ones who haven’t been tried yet.
If Fla doesn’t have the $ or method or space or political will to accomplish this, it’s especially criminal to locate a prison in any zone with previously designated evacuation routes (= a known flood/hazard zone). (& new frequency of extreme weather all over means that’s not enough.) When private prison officials and states are protected from liability or prosecution, they don’t value lives or families in making decisions.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@TBone: That’s good too!
kalakal
And we have landfall. Siesta key, about 55 miles south of me 8:30
Baud
@kalakal:
How are things where you are?
kalakal
@Baud: Very wet and windy. Some pretty nasty gusts. Am amazed we still have power
karen marie
@HumboldtBlue: OMFG. I skipped around and listened to pieces of it. Did you know he got shot in the ear?
No one has ever seen a medical report.
“Everyone loves the China tariff.” Yeah, sure. Go ask random people on the street – hell, go ask Trump cult members – what the “China tariff” is. They won’t know.
I cannot wait until January 21st, or whatever the date is for Harris’s inauguration. I only hope I survive till then.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@suzanne: If you’ve got a dairy as part of the facilities, the chapel could become self-supporting, if you’ve got enough nanny goats.
lowtechcyclist
@Scout211:
So close, but yet so far.
suzanne
@Gloria DryGarden:
Naw. Houses will have a slab-on-grade foundation. Larger commercial buildings will get caissons (basically a large underground column that they drill out) or mat foundations.
I was looking up the improved framing hardware that they use for wood-frame houses. 12-gauge metal. Still doesn’t look strong enough to me.
Tony G
@TBone: Taylor Swift is an actual billionaire who sometimes donates some of her money. Unlike a certain phony billionaire who I could name.
dnfree
@Gloria DryGarden: Practitioners of the religion are called pastafarians for obvious reasons.
TBone
@Tony G: I could name more than one that Taylor puts to (what should be) shame.