lostshieldandhammer:

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myotpisgay:

y’all please evacuate don’t be stubborn

As a Floridian who’s been through this a million times, listen to me. A category 3 hit us before and we were out of power for two weeks and Florida cities are literally BUILT for hurricanes. This is a category 4, almost 5. Houses on the upper east coast aren’t hurricane proofed like they are here.

PLEASE evacuate your family and pets.

To be clear: Category 5 means that the house is just gone, completely flattened, and I mean that that would happen just because the wind alone is that strong.

The debris from it doing this to other people’s houses?

And trees?

And rain?

Gtfo while you can, in whatever way you possibly can. If some rich asshole starts buying all the resources like during Harvey, where they probably left a ton of people stranded?

<.< I’m not encouraging anything, but you can probably find a DIY guillotine video on YouTube. 45 cut FEMA’s budget, and I am honestly terrified that this one will make it look like Katrina wasn’t that bad by comparison.

Another Floridian who went through Andrew.

Pay attention to what Ron White said: “It’s not… *THAT* the wind is blowin’… it’s… *WHAT* the wind… is blowin’.” 

If you are so damn arrogant, so damn foolhardy, that you honest-to-God believe that somehow you will magically survive Cat4 winds (you will likely not), you will CERTAINLY not survive what those Cat4 winds are shuffling through the air. Which is things like, oh, CARS. Ever been in a car accident??

Did you know that it isn’t just wind and rain in a hurricane? They spin off tornadoes, too!

You know you can’t go into an attic in Florida, because the wind and tornadoes will tear off the roof during a storm. You can’t go into basements because they flood. And during a strong Cat4 or any Cat5, no part of that building is expected to remain standing. 

SO.

PLEASE GET THE FUCK OUT. TAKE THE ANIMALS, TAKE THE KIDS, AND GO. IF YOUR ADULT SELF WILL NOT SURVIVE, YOUR CAT WILL ALSO NOT SURVIVE. TAKE THE ANIMALS. 

I have lived through two Cat 5′s and 3 Cat 3′s. When they say get out, the mean GET OUT. Stop being stubborn/stupid/brave whatever you think it is. Leave the damn city. Go inland. Do not stay there. My family has done this only because, the first Cat 5 we lived through, we didn’t have enough warnings and when we finally decided to leave, he couldn’t because the tunnels taking us to the mainland had already been closed. We had to ride it out. Not fun. No electricity for 3 weeks. No clean water for 6 weeks. It was ridiculous. So get the hell out when you’re told to do so. It’s not worth dying to just say you lived through one or got pictures/videos.