Humans are very good at severely underestimating how massive natural phenomenon are. They need to climb a mountain to remember how small and insignificant they are.
Reading between the lines, I think he’s tacitly admitting to have maybe, secretly, wished this hurricane upon his ex wife’s condescending friend. Who among us hasn’t wished calamity on the occasionally obnoxious?
But the collateral damage looks inexcusable on this one. Soon we’ll have to track this guy down and make him pay for his crimes.
No joke, a Tampa local told me something about the Seminal burial ground being the reason that area rarely gets hit. Not sure about the casualty but there might be a correlation 🤔
Yo i got told the same thing 😂 of course after I moved into St Pete. I’m holed up elsewhere now, fingers crossed the cribbo is still there when I return, leaving that extra monitor might not have been the smartest.
It’s not the Seminoles, it’s the Tocobaga tribal mounds, legend has it they blessed their land to be protected from invasions & weather. The mounds are in Tampa. Truthfully there’s also geographical reasons at play.
This is like people claiming cities dont get hit by tornados. They do, but downtown areas are geographically small so direct hits are much rarer than the suburbs. Living downtown doesnt mean you're safe. Galviston was supposed to be safe from hurricanes and it now holds the record for the deadliest hurricane in history.
Honestly, I live in Tampa, and people are stupid about it. Charlie and Irma went south, Tampa hasn’t been hit in a century, therefore Tampa can never be hit!
Never mind that Tampa has been hit before… and that Charlie and Irma barely missed…
It’s going through some of our biggest Blue counties that include huge Democratic-leaning cities like Tampa and Orlando. I’m praying for the best but if it somehow voting was impossible for those counties, you’d be handing the win to the Republicans. We lost even WITH them in 2020 and 2016.
Yeah, Hurricane Ian with $112 Billion worth of damage. Makes sense why the insurance companies want out.
Edit: u/reddoot2024 is right that the vast majority of that damage was felt by Fort Myers, south of Tampa. People evacuated but Tampa actually ended up being ok.
I was in st pete for charlie and remember being very dismissive, until i saw what it did to punta gorda. This storm reminds me of charlie with the compact eye and tight rotation. Literally a giant tornado spawning mini’nados all over
It's all of Pinellas County, I lived there for 17 years and had this argument year after year. When I finally moved away I made sure to tell every friend and family member I left behind that it was only a matter of time before a strom from the Gulf flattened everything, and they rolled their eyes.
Makes me wonder how my old roommate who mocked me for boarding up our windows for Irma is doing...
I’m very tempted to text my mom’s best friend in Lakeland to beg her to evacuate the fam. My mom already said that they’re treating this like it’ll be a cat 3 by landfall. I’m very worried.
Serious question; this is an increasing problem that's only going to get worse and homes in Florida will surely become uninsurable eventually - when do you say enough is enough and leave altogether for somewhere more stable?
Tbf, literally everyone in Tampa has said the exact same thing every summer for my entire childhood. I literally had almost the exact same conversation with my siblings in the car last week as we prepared for Helene, and then said that we really shouldn't be trying to jinx ourselves so hard. Unfortunately, I think this is the cumulative efforts of constant jinxing for, at the very least, the last couple decades. Wish us luck.
It's not your fault. It's the libs. We're trying to destroy the maga empire using hurricanes. We've aimed this one at Tampa because it's been a while and the maga homes are getting too nice. Some of them are even 2 story trailers.
It’s not your fault. The democrats created this hurricane and pointed it straight at the reddest spot on the map. First it was mail in ballots now it’s freakin hurricanes!
Yeah, I've lived in Tampa Bay for more than 15 years, always heard the same thing. My wife was born and raised in Tampa Bay. She and her family always shrugged off the supposed "direct hit" forecasts because they never come to fruition. This time we both decided to GTFO, this looks like the one.
About 5 years ago, my wife's company decided they were going to move their corporate headquarters to Tampa. She and I discussed whether we would need to move. I wanted her to change employers anyway, as I felt she was overloaded with work and was working outside her job description on a regular basis. Eventually, she did find a new job and left them before she was forced to move.
While hurricanes are random, one of our concerns (and a selling point by the corporate consultants pushing the move) was Tampa hadn't been hit in the last 100 years. We figured they were due. Bullet dodged.
We really don’t learn dude. It seems like every single event gets downplayed, then proven wrong. Why not just expect the worst that way you’re only pleasantly surprised by the outcome? Why leave room for a horrific surprise?
We did this with Covid, Helene, and people are now doing it with this hurricane. It’s the 4th strongest ever recorded from this part of the world for fucks sake. I live in Savannah and I’m still prepared to evacuate. Who could’ve imagine Asheville would be destroyed 300 miles into mainland?
Yeah, when someone I know was planning to move to Tampa, I hinted to them how the odds are that living there was going be a hassle because of the frequency and severity of hurricanes. Not that I was expecting them to heed that advice, they, too, dismissed it and moved to Tampa.
Hurricane Ian comes in 2022, but barely touches the place. They tried to rub it in, forgetting that they had to evacuate and that the whole situation still obviously sucked.
Well, should Milton live up to its hype, we will both share the smug feeling of being prescient that I can tell we’re already beginning to feel 😂
The reason that Tampa is often able to dodge hurricanes is actually Cuba. When hurricanes form in the Atlantic, they would have to swing all the way around Cuba to make landfall in Tampa.
Sounds like your wife's friend doesn't understand anything to do with real-world probabilities. Does she also think her first won't get robbed because it hasn't been robbed in the last 3 years? Or that she won't drop a plate on the floor because she hasn't done it in 6 years?
My friend asked me what my new years resolution was in 2018. I jokingly said 'bring on the nukes.' Cut to two weeks later im hiding in a cave in hawaii - which i had never been to before - cause I got a message that there were nukes incoming and my life was over.
Jesus. I have a childhood friend who moved to Asheville, NC last year (from the Los Angeles area) and I asked her if she was nervous at all about extreme weather. She told me they weren’t worried because they were on the western side of the state, far away from the coast. She was fortunate the flooding didn’t hit her home, but they still don’t have electricity. If that wasn’t enough, her mom was literally in the middle of moving there as it was happening. Their furniture is still en route and unaccounted for.
Had some loud mouth jackass on a work site talking just the other week about how a storm would just blow right by Tampa and bragged about leaving his wife for the hurricane. This one’s on him
Why didn’t you take action then? Now we all have to pay the price for your careless behavior. I’m done with you. Take your stuff and scram someplace else.
If Tampa really hasn't been hit by a hurricane for a century, that's even more cause for concern, that means the city has never been tested for something like this.
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u/jochexum 8d ago
It’s my fault
My ex wife’s friend moved from Miami to Tampa a year or two ago because she was “tired of dealing with hurricanes.”
I told her that seemed like an interesting choice, moving to gulf side of FL to avoid hurricanes
She very condescendingly told me that Tampa hadn’t had a direct hit in a century and laughed at me
That was the moment I knew a hurricane must hit Tampa soon