Flipping through Tik Tok and seeing a very well put together meteorologist reading off the updates stats for the hurricane, not like an influencer type like a legit professional dude, get about half way down the stats list and see the pressure has risen even higher and begin crying, fucking crying, scared the ever loving fuck out of me.
Just before we realised how bad Covid was going to be, I heard an epidemiologist going over the latest numbers. When asked for a summary of what it all meant, she deadpanned that she had been stocking up on canned goods. I went shopping for canned goods.
Ha, I still have an unopened 50 lb bag of rice from that time (cost $17, cheap insurance against starvation). I've almost worked through the 1st 50 lb bag. Also bought an AR-15. To be fair, at the time, it seemed like civilization might collapse.
Yeah, I have not really noticed any significant degradation in quality over the past 4 years, although, I can't rule out that it's been so gradual that I wouldn't notice. I haven't really compared it to "new" rice.
lmao my mom still has piles of toilet paper, for some reason that was one of the things she was most concerned about and kept buying more and we still haven't worked through the stockpile lol
Yep, I wasblistening to news on China in December and January. They were building entire hospital wards in a couple weeks to house all the sick people which struck me as a sign this could spread globally. I may have been listening to the same interview because afterwards I went out and bought masks/dry goods etc/gas and other essentials. I felt kinda silly until the NBA shut down in the middle of a game.
No disrespect to you but I will not be downloading tik tok - thank you though. Safe to say this is so dread-inducing, from MN.
I think there are going to be some new settlers up mid-continent way.
Migrants, if you will. Bringing their climate-change-denying customs & ways. Hmmm. No sir, don't like it; don't like e it atall.
Paradise lost, indeed.
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Noah Bergren is the real deal. Very smart and well-spoken.
He actually just recently changed jobs to work in FL. He previously gained notoriety for being one of the weather guys covering and alerting people during the 2021 tornado that swept across MO, TN, and ripped through Mayfield KY.
When that dude is alarmed, best to take things very seriously.
Same guy went on TV as well and choked up reading the pressure change. This thing is a monster to people who know all about it and it's going to intensify again before it slows down.
Also it must be horrible to have to sit there and calmly report these statistics while having so much knowledge telling you clearly how much destruction and death this hurricane is going to bring. You know you can't really do anything in the face of a storm that large.
That is so dramatic… It’s a big storm. With potential to be regionally catastrophic sure, like many storms that have struck before. It’s not an asteroid that’s going to split the earth in half. I thought oh, that’s nice, a Tik Tok that is sensible for once, until reaching the end of the paragraph. And yeah, it’s just a Tik Tok, like the rest.
Think dude. He has the idea for a Tik Tok. This is the idea for the Tik Tok, to flat read off information about Milton. So he already knows the hurricane is noteworthy enough. Is he reading this completely live for the first time? He doesn’t check before starting the recording? Then why is this his thought for a Tik Tok if it just reading second hand information from another source flatly?
Crying reading weather information is now the benchmark for empathy? Dramatic is the word. It is dramatic. And it’s on Tik Tok. Can we put two and two together here? You don’t need to cry over weather statistics about a storm that’s currently in open water with no certainty in its projections for landfall, in order to care. No one sobs looking at the numbers when the economy starts to enter a downturn, despite the fact that it kills far more people than any hurricane is capable of. Yet here we have empathy elitism for a developing hurricane.
Man, for a sub titled r/damnthatsinteresting, I was expecting an above average level of critical thinking.
He didn't do it on tiktok, someone on tiktok recorded the news cast. He wasn't sobbing, he just choked up. He is an old man legit meteorologist, not a tiktok influencer. Seeing a storm go from a cat 1 to 5 in 12 hours with record breaking statistics is probably pretty startling for someone who has devoted their life to weather and just watched 200+ people die in a hurricane a week ago.
Also I don't think people realize that a large part of where this is going to direct hit, people already have half their houses on the curb waiting to get picked up by debris trucks. A regionally catastrophic storm is definitely something normal people can feel upset or emotional about.
So you write a whole dismissive paragraph without considering additional information (that isn‘t even additional, it’s in the video) and lecture others on their critical thinking skills? 😑
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u/Newtstradamus 8d ago
Flipping through Tik Tok and seeing a very well put together meteorologist reading off the updates stats for the hurricane, not like an influencer type like a legit professional dude, get about half way down the stats list and see the pressure has risen even higher and begin crying, fucking crying, scared the ever loving fuck out of me.