Apparently an earlier post I wrote gave him agita and left a rather boorish comment. I felt it was my duty to reply to his concerns:
Trying to determine if:
a) you’re upset that you put up your shutters and your neighbors didn’t and it turns out they were probably right.
I made the safety decision and if it turns out they need to be used or not, I don’t care. I never doubt any decision I ever made when oriented over safety. It is dumb and dangerous to think just because the last time or times it was not needed, I do not have to worry about it anymore and forget about it. It is the same principle of Concealed Carry: I carry every day in case I need it and hoping I never do.
Now, You must have interpreted that I hate the idea of people making shitty decisions because they have bad information with your weird idea I am mad because they may not suffer injury for their action or rather inaction. I am guessing you don’t read the blog often enough as where I keep insisting not to trust the press or media people from a politician or group interpreting any new piece of legislation but to always go straight to the source material.
b) the storm didn’t track right into Florida as originally predicted and destroy billions and billions of dollars of property that would send your home insurance rates soaring from the high level they already are and give you reason to write more posts whining about something.
I am going to give you a piece of advice which is going to sound contradictory: The best way to predict future behavior is to examine past behavior. I know it is usually directed at humans and my post was against the Scientific Fortune Tellers, but when you have evidence of a hurricane moving west for several days and you do not watch a change of behavior, you kinda say “You know? I may better get my crap ready.” Wishful thinking is not a valid strategy.
One thing I found interesting: you mention loss of property and raise in insurance rates. Does that mean you don’t give much of a shit about the people? I just found that intriguing.
c) watching a Cat 5 storm hovering 170 miles away from your house just isn’t close enough to thank God you have power, food and shelter while people try to sleep under the stars in Abaco because everything else is gone.
You posted this some hours ago and since then, Dorian has not moved but slowly and continuously west. We still do not know where is going and it may finally go North and away from the Florida coast, or go North an play God’s Roomba on the Florida coast or continue West and destroy everything between the Ocean and the Gulf in Latitude 26N. Oh yes, there are predictions and models telling us it will turn North, but these are done by the same scientific fortune tellers that had to change every single forecast with Dorian for over week now because the reality of Dorian (posted in the picture above) went contrary on them.
You’re effing moaning about them not nailing the forecast so you had a chance to try out your new battery rig?
I tested the battery rig several days ago. It is what normal people do. They do not wait to need it to know if it works. It is the same thing I did with my generator, and the camping gas stove and all the lamps and flashlights. I even check the food & water supplies and that the first aid/trauma bags were properly stocked. I wish I’d be shocked you do not know those thing, but I would lie, I kind expected it as you would not have asked such a dumb question if being prepared was part of your ethos. I am very glad you could learn yet another thing in this blog.
JFC, man. WTF is wrong with you?
I suffer from intolerance to idiots, which is the the reason I had to chug Benadryl when I read your comment.
Huh. I mostly read that post as a kind-of lament that you didn’t have the permanent mount shutter system.
Don’t sweat the petty stuff, and don’t pet the sweaty stuff… 🙂
Trolls gonna troll.
Many many years ago, I was living in Maryland (ugh). A snow storm came through. Having moved to MD from MI, I wasn’t the least be concerned. On the other hand my wife went into panic mode, as a new mother we absolutely had to have two more gallons of Milk.
So I put on my jacket, walked the mile to the store, pushed the same cop in the same car out of snow drifts three times, bought the milk and came home.
No big deal. The next time snow was coming through I headed out to the store to pick up two gals of Milk to stave off the walk to fetch.
Oh my freaking goodness. The store was stripped bare. It looked like a horde of locus(sp) had come through. No TP, No bottled water, no bread, no milk. I think they were buying beans just because.
I learned that day that there is a set of people that panic at the thought of an outage and do nothing prior to that moment when it becomes “Oh S***” moment.
I turned around and went home, there was nothing I needed. It was a trip to get extra to make wife happy.
Those self same people that are panic buying will turn on you in a moment and accuse you of “hording” because you bought those same things weeks before.
Your unhappy commenter read your post and read emotions into it. Your neighbors will either not need the shutters or they will. If they don’t need them, no skin off your nose. If they do need them, you can bet they will be part of the noisy mass demanding a share of your “good fortune”. Today you can shake your head and say “WTF are they thinking”. And he reads that as hate.
Do your thing, it is the right away.
Someone took the absolutely wrong lesson away with them when they read ‘The Grasshopper and The Ant,’ didn’t they?
He is flipping the entire post around. It isn’t that we are upset that the storm didn’t wreck Florida. We are upset that the NHC totally dropped the ball with this storm, which cost the taxpayers of this state and the entire country millions.
We spent millions on satellites and aircraft so they could get everything about this storm wrong, and then we also spent millions in wrecking the final weekend of tourism (Florida’s number one economic driver). Even now, they are still wrong. As I write this, the storm has weakened FAR below where they predicted, and it looks like it will be further west than predicted.
After they gave up on predicting a Florida landfall, they proceeded to predict a Carolina one, and it appears like it may not hit the US at all.
If we did away with the NHC, the storms would still do what they do, but we wouldn’t have to pay someone to generate incorrect warnings. Let the local TV weatherman do it. He can be wrong for no cost to taxpayers. It’s hard to see how we would be worse off.