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Another of those reddit live threads has started for irma. Figure that anyone that hasn't noticed yet might be interested.

It'd certainly deal with a lot of the country's problems, since it would mean having to murder somewhere over half the total stateside population just for weed related ones.

Might as well carpet bomb mexico into a smouldering wreck, you'd be killing less people than the number of folks in the US that have broke drug laws. C'mon folks, let's go genocide those cartels into nonexistence! Can't make an omelet without slaughtering tens of millions of unrelated civilians :V

Welp. Barbuda is straight fucked. Head honcho critter there is saying 60+% of the homes on the island are rubble. Seem to recall that "only" adds up to something under a thousand (total pop's like 1700?) folks that just had their most everything leveled, but. Yeah. Currently casualties aren't very high, though, last I saw mention.

I think a lot of the hate towards illegals is from the lack of tax funding from them, and government programs still somehow benefiting them.
That's mainly what the chatter is from my location is anyway, which is fairly moderate politically. I don't get some of the logic around my parts, but then again, I'm too apathetic to really strain myself about it.

Well... sure. Lotta' people buy that, 'tis true.

It's also fairly unfiltered bullshit, since undocumented folks still pay most taxes anyone else does and rarely even attempt to take advantage of gov't programs. What with the whole "may be deported" thing doing so involves, heh.

Common talking point for certain sorts of bigot, though, and enough of one it sometimes infects more reasonable people by sheer exposure.

Heh. Tall building helps with the surge, less so the wind.

Any case, bit of driving was done today picking up a few things. Looks like just about every store in 30-40 miles in either direction from my place are flat out of water. Asked at a nearby walmart, found out they've been getting 3-4 (or more) trucks of water a day since yesterday-ish, and generally selling out in less than thirty minutes. Kinda' impressive, since the store's a good hour or two inland.

... also gained a mild curiosity re: chef boy ardee's sales numbers. The two things I noticed that walmart just utterly out of were water and canned pasta. Plenty of dried stuff, even most other canned things still had like a good half to quarter shelf space filled, but the chef boy ardee and knockoff brand shelves were just straight up empty. Looks a lot like whoever owns 'em is making bank right about now.

He was anti-establishment and banged the same drums anti-government folks did, so yeah, more or less. He tapped both the let-it-all-die crowd and the incompetence/inexperience-is-a-virtue one to various degrees.

Any case clinton's not wrong. Sanders' cost the left the POTUS seat, and largely by being a shit of the primarily backstabbing variety. Buncha' things he could have (not) done that would have avoided pissing all over the dems he was ostensibly on the same side of during the middle of a major election, but hey, didn't happen that way. Not really much in the way of surprises in the face of it in his behaviors since, either.

That said, there's about a half dozen to a dozen other things that did, too, with any one of them probably having been enough to make the difference if things had fell the other way, including campaigning decisions made by clinton's campaign and the DNC. There was a buncha' shit going on last year, and there wasn't really a single cause so much as a lattice of straws settling down on the metaphorical camel's back. Not terribly surprising seeing dem politicians starting to throw some shade at bernie, though, considering he's been spending a fair amount of time in the last several months continuing to snipe at the DNC in general. Not that the bits being called some kind of throw down vitriol were exactly egregious or inaccurate, heh.

Never really sure how much credence should be given to most dems not wanting to throw in for the primary being because of some kind of misplaced kingmaking, though. Folks' opinion of hillary was pretty damn high fairly shortly before the main campaigning kicked off, and there really weren't too many people willing and interested in running last year. So far as candidates go it looked to all appearances like it was a fairly slim year. No real telling now.

Don't think the forum has the capability. Could take a screenshot, I guess.

Any case, yeah, along the gulf depends both on which way the storm goes, and exactly where they're at. Generally the further inland and further north you are in this state, the less likely that proverbial woodchipper is going to scrape across your particular bit of geodong.

Less likely is only less, though. Anything lower than the mid to west panhandle and anything that ends up in the thing's direct path (and remember, storms can hop over the state from gulf to atlantic or vice versa relatively easy) probably wants to go ahead and take a irma week vacation somewhere way the hell away, if at all possible. Worst case scenario there, you're out some cash and time (assuming you don't still get 'nadoed or floodsunk further inland regardless, anyway). Best case, you don't get pureed along with your neighborhood.

... 'course, it ain't possible for a lot of folks. Maybe go buy a used mattress or two (pretty good to hide under in whatever the deepest part of your residence is), enough boarding and tape to keep your windows from becoming impromptu room blenders, get the usual supplies (few days/week or two of drinking water, non-perishable food, containers to fill with water for non-drink stuff, etc.), do the usual the-sky-is-going-to-try-to-kill-me-worse-than-usual dance. Hunker down and hope, heh.

That's about right. It's around that from where I am to miami, and I'm less than an hour or two from the borders of either of the other two tristate area members.

E: Though that's with decent to fairly heavy traffic, not light. Still not jesus fuck flee from the giant flying whirligig of death levels of traffic, mind, but it doesn't take a terribly good day to make that kind of time. Or speeding at all, for that matter.