I have very good friends that used to live in Kansas but have been down there for 25 years now. They are the same way, they just ride it out. They are in Lakeland, though. It's more inland, though, closer to the middle of the state.
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:-) asks the admitted Marxist......
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Look at this douchenozzle.
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Looks like Tampa is going to avoid their worst case scenario as it trends southward.
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My wife and I have thought of moving to Florida. Yeah, you have the occasional hurricane that you have to deal with but it's a tropical paradise, and I absolutely hate Kansas winters. I can handle the heat and humidity. Hell, we have that in Kansas, sometimes (many times) the temp is higher here in July/August than in Florida. And yeah, Florida humidity and sun is worse but it's not like it is that much better here.

That being said, I will admit that hurricanes like this one make me think that maybe I'm better not ever moving to Florida. :-) One of my best buds from Kansas moved there 25 years ago. They live in Lakeland and usually don't have much to deal with. But there have been 2 or 3 over those years that were pretty bad. I'm definitely praying for them.
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Just have a back up spot to retreat to...maybe it's Hilton Head, SC or something else.
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Thank god it getting wrapped up in some dry air
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Says the guy that called me a racist slur and doesn't even understand that it's a slur because he has commie brain.
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There's just no escaping it in Florida and IMO that's probably the biggest factor in deciding to move there.

I snowbirded there a couple winters ago and thought humidity wouldn't be nearly the issue that it is in the summer months, but it's still inescapable. Leave anything out to dry (dishes, clothes you don't want to tumble dry, etc) and it'll still be wet 3 days later. Windows were left closed all winter with the A/C or heat on in an attempt to keep humidity below 90% and be able to use covers in bed without cold humidity sweats, etc. I'd go to the gym and would condensate on equipment, leaving snail trails before I even got the the point of sweating (which is basically impossible to do anyway). Not nearly as big of a deal if you're right on the coast with a breeze, which might also be something to consider when it comes to being a tourist in FL versus living there.

At least in KC/MO, you get fairly routine cooldowns and the humidity drops to reasonable levels and you can open windows for a day or two at a time... and you don’t feel sricky and humidity 24/7.

Similar to Phoenix... it's one thing to say it gets hot in KC, too, but you don't know if you'll like it until you step outside at 10pm and it's still 95⁰, knowing you won't see <90⁰ for 3 months straight, 24/7.
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https://theatln.tc/kyWsw7AN

Zoë Schlanger: “As Hurricane Milton exploded from a Category 1 storm into a Category 5 storm over the course of 12 hours yesterday, climate scientists and meteorologists were stunned. NBC6’s John Morales, a veteran TV meteorologist in South Florida, choked up on air while describing how quickly and dramatically the storm had intensified. To most people, a drop in pressure of 50 millibars means nothing; a weatherman understands, as Morales said mid-broadcast, that ‘this is just horrific.’ Florida is still cleaning up from Helene; this storm is spinning much faster, and it’s more compact and organized.

“In a way, Milton is exactly the type of storm that scientists have been warning could happen; Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, called it shocking but not surprising. ‘One of the things we know is that, in a warmer world, the most intense storms are more intense,’ he told me. Milton might have been a significant hurricane regardless, but every aspect of the storm that could have been dialed up has been.

“A hurricane forms from multiple variables, and in Milton, the variables have come together to form a nightmare. The storm is gaining considerable energy thanks to high sea-surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, which is far hotter than usual. And that energy translates into higher wind speeds. Milton is also taking up moisture from the very humid atmosphere, which, as a rule, can hold 7 percent more water vapor for every degree-Celsius increase in temperature. Plus, the air is highly unstable and can therefore rise more easily, which allows the hurricane to form and maintain its shape. And thanks to La Niña, there isn’t much wind shear—the wind’s speed and direction are fairly uniform at different elevations—‘so the storm can stay nice and vertically stacked,’ Kim Wood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Arizona, told me. ‘All of that combined is making the storm more efficient at using the energy available.’ In other words, the storm very efficiently became a major danger …”

“Milton is also a very compact storm with a highly symmetrical, circular core, Wood said. In contrast, Helene’s core took longer to coalesce, and the storm stayed more spread out. Wind speeds inside Milton picked up by about 90 miles an hour in a single day, intensifying faster than any other storm on record besides Hurricanes Wilma in 2005 and Felix in 2007. Climate scientists have worried for a while now that climate change could produce storms that intensify faster and reach higher peak intensities, given an extra boost by climate change. Milton is doing just that.”
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Andrew rapidly intensified and made landfall as a Cat 5… 32 years ago.

Explain that, “unprecedented” hysteria crowd.
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I follow both but prefer Denis.
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Make sure you get a spare bedroom for me & the Mrs.
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Why can't someone just pull the power plug on the "weather machine?"
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Really of no worry I would think. They aren't very aggressive. Looks like about 2 or 3 people a year die from alligators. Around 10 die from brain eating amoeba. I'd be more worried about that.
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