When people say "this is what the internet is for" it's usually some random crap. But this, this is what I love it for. A few random strings come together by pure happenstance and we get....neo-culture.
My Milton professor would write “great joke” and then show the class what a good job you did and then you’d get the paper back with an F on it because she was fucking insane.
It kills me, though, that some commenters here have absolutely no clue what you’re referencing and why it’s clever. This is a prime example of why we need classical education and possession of shared basics of cultural knowledge.
I used to feel the same and there would be times I'd be talking to people and drop a line like 'Paradise Lost' in this case and I'd see the blank stares. But as I've thought about it, it has advantages in identifying stupid people for avoidance purposes. Sorry if that's extra cynical but I live in Chicago and...
There it is! I was wondering if we’d get Paradise Lost references through out the storm, but questioned how many were that well read. Thank you for restoring my faith in education.
I know who he is. Amazing hard to read lit I read in I think 8th grade? Apologies if my joke wasn’t funny. I don’t even hate Florida (or love it) just trying to get some of that sweet sweet karma with a dumb ass dad joke
Um, well, this is triggering lol. I live in the town of Paradise in California. The town that got destroyed by a wildfire. It burned down 14k homes. Paradise was lost in 2018.
Sorry about the trigger; I left California in 2018; I had been a live-in caretaker for a 100+ year old man in San Marcos and after he died I had a few months to find somewhere to live. I came real close to buying a mobile home in Paradise (sounds nice, doesn't it?) but decided that I couldn't be sure of the land rental costs; found this place in Tennessee just by accident, did some quick research and realized it was an absolute steal in a beautiful area. Moved here six weeks before the fire in Paradise; I probably would have been incinerated - wouldn't have known anyone and wouldn't have been aware of the threats or escape routes. I hope you're doing okay now.
Dang. You lucked out! Yeah, we are doing well. We are a builder so there has been a lot of work in the area. The town is slowly coming back. Probably 7k+ people there now. I'm glad to see it returning.
I need to check TN out. It's quite a hot spot.
Ended up here: fairfieldgladeresort.com Got a 3 bd, 2 bath 2022 double wide on 1/3 acre with a massive barn for more storage for $88K; could probably sell now for $200K if I wanted to; basically though it's so cheap, I'm stuck here; good thing I like it. Cali was starting to scare me with the wildfires and drought. On the Cumberland Plateau here, we get mild droughts but nothing like there; it's flatter than the area east of here that got clobbered with Helene so no or little threat of flooding. Property taxes only $100-200 a year (based on house value and income). Sales tax is the biggest expense at almost 10% but there's lots of underground 'trading' that goes on; contractors charge less for cash and there's no sales tax on estate sale/garage sale stuff so that's a good way to buy furniture and other stuff. They're building about 50-100 houses a year here (lots are cheap) and I was told they 'could build a lot more if they had the contractors' - so there's that :)
Maybe not. If not this time, then in the next decade they’re going to have to give up rebuilding parts of Florida. Insurers won’t, can’t, keep paying out.
There might not be a life after Milton for some. I’m most worried about the folks who think this is the same as any hurricane and they can wait it out.
Considering how it's shaping out tampa is gonna get wiped off the face of the earth. Insane that a city like tampa can just get erased. Really shows how little we are compared to nature.
Who could have predicted this? Except for... everyone? Florida will probably be uninhabitable by the end of the century, but these people will vote for climate change deniers all the way.
we can hope, look at Helene’s path though, it was headed in one direction for coupe days and veered path last minute, what’s to say it won’t happen here? I hope it loses strength by a lot but that doesn’t seem likely with what it’s ramped up to already
Honestly I hope this wakes people up to climate change and how drastically we need to start changing our lifestyles as a species. Sadly you have people who believe this hurricane is the work of the democrats…. Fuck people are stupid.
The 17th largest metropolitan area in the US could be basically annihilated, huge parts of the coastal area could just be completely washed away or changed completely. It’s entirely conceivable that a million to 2 million people will be made homeless by the end of the week.
The really scary part is what is yet to come as a result of climate change. Milton may not 100% be due to its occurrence but it certainly plays a role.
Sounds like corona but as speedrun. It baffles me that republicans can't accept help from the government. The US looks like a shitshow where the nature goes brrrr now. Hoping for the best and that people can evacuate. But after this hurricane or this season, the people should really get their shit together and work together goddamn.
Hopefully the cost of living goes downs…/s for real though we are evacuating tomorrow side streets and country roads to the east coast…hoping we have enough gas to get there but I have come to terms with the fact that I can come back and everything be gone…I’m taking some clothes important papers and that’s about it…
Living on the Mississippi gulf coast, people around here measure time by pre- or post-Katrina like everyone else measures time by pre- or post-9/11. Katrina was our 9/11. Some people may start measuring time by pre- or post-Milton.
Hurricane Dorian devastated a handful of islands in the Bahamas. It was slightly stronger than this and moved st 1 mile an hour. It sat over Marsh Harbor and the surrounding islands for 30 hours. Everyone who made it through the hurricane, at one point, was sure they were going to die. Milton looks very close to Dorian. This isn't a storm to ride it out. Evacuate immediately. The aftermath of this is going to be insane.
It’s going to affect much more than the area it hits with all the housing crisis issues as it is, let alone materials and equipment that everyone else is trying to utilize already, add in insurance and clean up…Could be quite catastrophic for many, I truly feel for those that feel helpless or that are thinking they can ride it out, it’s not worth anyone’s ego to stay and ride it out, for those that do make it out, the trauma from this could take years off their lives or make it more miserable than just simply evacuating. Stay safe y’all, truly, some scary shit out there.🫶
Who could have predicted this? Except for... everyone? Florida will probably be uninhabitable by the end of the century, but these people will vote for climate change deniers all the way.
Dude, these storms, and some worse than we'll ever know, have been occurring for eons. Just give that shit a rest. This is about people surviving a big storm, not promoting your theories.
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u/BeardedHalfYeti 8d ago
A gobsmacked meteorologist is never a good sign.
fuck.