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Fact: The United States of America was never hit by a hurricane BEFORE the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Checkmate, bigots!

Mother Nature is a fickle bitch.

I don’t get it…

Peeps are wondering why that house is relatively unscathed. That's in Fort Meyers right where Ian came ashore.

Maybe my vision isn’t good but it looks like all the houses in that row are fine and the circled one looks weird like it’s been chopped up. I dunno.

Most of the houses in that row appear to have relatively little damage aside from the single one that is completely gone.

The big house on the beach, I think, stands out to people because it's darker in color and bigger. It also seems fine, and the "cut up" stuff looks like architectural choices.

FYI, there's no conspiracy thinking here. Just peeps marveling at why some homes get wrecked while others right next to it appear to survive. I see the same types of images every time a tornado rolls through a neighborhood.

More storms crossing the country.

A tornado touched down kind sorta near me during the last line of storms, but no sirens. It was one of those ones they discovered happened after the fact.

I wonder if Troy survived the floods and snow?

Catt's probably going to get some rain in a few days.

This looks to be missing my in-law's place in Naples, but hitting the area that got drilled last year.

Milton is getting Helene's sloppy seconds on America's wang.

Brutal. Helene just got done fucking that place up and here comes Milton. At least it's not heading to the Carolinas as well.

My in laws are evacuating Naples.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 8:55 am At least it's not heading to the Carolinas as well.

Seriously.

Looks like Tampa-St Pete's getting it this time. That big bay can surge, hope it works out.

My mom moved to Ocala last year, just north of Orlando. So she's having fun.

Look, right wing wackos, be reasonable, if there was a party in power who had direct control of the weather, like to fucking POSEIDON levels of conjuring storms and rain, and the other party didn't, why would you vote for the inferior party?

Demi-gods 2024.

I thought it was the jews.

Cool and terrifying graphic.

Was reading the other day about some ships coming across the Atlantic in the mid 1600's, up in New England. And how now and then they end up in a massive storm the likes of which they'd never seen in Europe. They had no idea what a hurricane was, and they had no way to predict their arrival.

Interesting to contemplate. Hurricane coming out of fucking nowhere.

They were piecing together 400 year old hurricane paths from ships logs, and old accounts of bad weather in random towns.

Florida about to majorly wish they didn't scare off their large migrant workforce good at landscaping and clearing debris.

Ok, so it's not a hurricane, but still pretty crazy. . .

The ice storm in northern Michigan is no joke. Our place is without power, so I came up to try to save the pipes! Getting down to 18 tonight.

The trip up was uneventful as the roads were clear and dry. For the last hour of the trip, every tree is still coated in a thick layer of ice. TONS of trees were down. Pushed just far enough off the road so they aren't impeding traffic.

Then I pulled on to the road our house was on. A tree was still blocking half the road. As I swerve to go around it, I see two power lines laying across the road. Since another car had just pulled out of the road, I figured it was OK to drive over them. Plus, there's NO power anywhere up here. So more evidence it was safe.

I pull onto our driveway and it's blocked all the way up to the house with debris. About 50 yards of driveway. I don't own a chainsaw. But, I do have a drill! So using a 3/4 inch bit, I'm drilling holes in 5 inch thick branches/trunks until I can break them and pull them out if the way. Luckily, there were only about 4 like that. The rest was movable with no "cutting" needed. There was an 8 inch tree across one section, but turns out it was dead so it was pretty light.

I make it far enough up the driveway to get the truck close enough for the portable generator to get power in there to the elctric heaters I bought on the way up. Sitting in a 45 degree house right now. But ssssllllooooowwwly warming up. It was 39 when I got here.

It occurred to me that ice storms are probably the most beautifully destructive events in nature. Looking down into a valley of "glass trees" stretching to the horizon is quiet cool.

Whoa, be safe man. Ice storms are no joke. We've had a couple down here, and well, you know how well prepared the South is for any winter weather...

I have to admit, I had no idea this was going on just north. Hell, this morning my back window had a bit of frost on it and I was confused because it's been so warm.

So, 16 days later and we finally have power up north.

Daytime up there was quite surreal. Trees down. Power poles snapped in half with transformers sitting on the ground next to them. At least 4 times, I had to drive over power lines laying across the road. Some roads in to town were nearly completely blocked. Many of the pine trees up there shed their lower branches as they try to grow taller than their neighbor to get to the sun. So it's just a tall, empty trunk that spreads out with branches and needles at the top. Load that top up with an inch of ice, and the tree doesn't fall, it snaps in half. It was crazy looking out in areas and seeing mostly empty trunks, not trees. I took a brazilian pictures to try to capture what happened, but they just don't do it justice.

The two power lines I had to drive over repeatedly. They look like railroad tracks, but those are power lines.
The pole about 3 poles down from our house:
This is a normal residential 2 lane road. Residents on the road cleared it out enough to make it passable. And that was common up there. People were pretty much on their own to dig themselves out.
Here's a drone shot the DNR took of an area of trees losing their tops:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AVNsGghnM/