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I was reading the preparations being made in Florida for Dorian’s wrath and I came across this:

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

To help residents and emergency personnel stay connected in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, Comcast has announced it is opening its network of almost 200,000 Xfinity WiFi hotspots throughout Florida to anyone who needs them, including non-Xfinity customers, free of charge.

Not complaining about Xfinity’s gracious offering, but a reminder that many of those now open hotspots are in private business and homes. I am just wondering if the owners know that and accept it. And also how secure that access to a WiFi router in a home can be.

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.

A little.  Saw the original meme in Social Media and stole the idea so I could use the full pic from the NWS:

When they think they will be unopposed because they think the “victim” is unarmed.
And also a reasonable application of the famous quote “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”

“If we can keep the eye (of hurricane Dorian) from landing…”

Keep? You can’t fucking predict and you are trying to say you have superpowers and stop the monster?

Dear Weather Forecasters: Eff and You.

Dorian has been a huge ball of suck and fail for the National Hurricane service. This storm has been incorrectly handled for the past week. Tuesday the forecast was that Dorian would be a strong tropical storm landfalling near Fort Lauderdale. By Friday, it was to have max winds of 130 mph. Saturday morning they were forecasting winds of 150, and then 155. The actual winds are over 185 mph.

24 hour checklist complete

Divemedic is so right it should frighten you.  You turn on the TV right now and you can hear them almost swearing on a stack of Bibles that Dorian will turn north anytime now and spare us from evil as it just cruises up the Florida coast. If you have lived in Florida long enough, you already dismissed their bullshit and either fled or are already bunkered up because you know we are gonna get hit.

On Wednesday they were predicting it would land somewhere around Titusville but as of today, it is aiming for West Palm Beach and that is a miss of 149 miles according to Google maps.

Landing in WPB puts me barely outside the hurricane force winds which thankfully only extend 45 miles out from the center of the eye. We are gonna get full blown Tropical Storm winds, but that is something we have done before including weak Category ones without shutters up.

And I have to add this: I am being hopefully positive that Dorian does not decide to turn south or the shitload of people that are gonna get rammed in Miami-Dade will be amazing if the parties and lack of shutters is indicating. I stepped outside and out of the 9 houses I could see, only three had shutters of some sort. They probably heard the good news on Thursday and it would tun north and they just gave up on readiness. Besides, it is Labor Day Weekend! As in the election, they may suddenly realize shit was not what was promised and end up as a good episoe of Rescue 911: The Miami Hurricane.

Fingers crossed and for my Floridian Bloggers and readers, best of luck and see you when this is over.