General Tropical Storm/Hurricane Dorian

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Sheepdog

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It's crazy to think what the damage would have been like if the way the hurricane just hovered over the Bahamas happened in Miami instead.
 
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It's crazy to think what the damage would have been like if the way the hurricane just hovered over the Bahamas happened in Miami instead.
Less damage to homes and buildings because we have stricter building codes. Older buildings would be in trouble but anything built in the last 25 years would still be intact.
 

Rambo John J

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Jan 17, 2015
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100mph is about the highest wind I have felt
can't imagine anything more than that
 

jason73

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National Hurricane Center

looks like tropical depression EIGHT is forming and tropical storm ferdinand is off the coast of mexico as well as hurricane juiliette in the pacific but it is supposed to peter out before it reaches hawaii
 

Sheepdog

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Dec 1, 2015
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Less damage to homes and buildings because we have stricter building codes. Older buildings would be in trouble but anything built in the last 25 years would still be intact.
I know less about Hurricanes than sexual intercourse, but a quick google search leaves me to doubt that you could have that level of supreme confidence that the buildings would withstand the 2nd biggest storm ever deciding to casually take a shit on basically the same spot for 9 hours. The speed of the hurricane surely changes the dynamic a lot.

Anyway, change Miami to some other city in the US without the strong building codes and the point stands.
 
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I know less about Hurricanes than sexual intercourse, but a quick google search leaves me to doubt that you could have that level of supreme confidence that the buildings would withstand the 2nd biggest storm ever deciding to casually take a shit on basically the same spot for 9 hours. The speed of the hurricane surely changes the dynamic a lot.

Anyway, change Miami to some other city in the US without the strong building codes and the point stands.
We have stringent building codes because of past hurricanes that have destroyed us.

You ever hear about the Burmese python problem in the Florida Everglades?

Yeah a hurricane (Andrew, 1992) destroying a snake breeding facility in southern Miami Dade county actually caused that. It wasn't caused by irresponsible owners who let their overgrown pet snakes go.

I can't speak for other U.S. cities, but I would imagine most in hurricane zones have better building standards than the Bahamas, a country where the average GDP per capita is about half that of the U.S.
 

Chief

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You ever hear about the Burmese python problem in the Florida Everglades?

Yeah a hurricane (Andrew, 1992) destroying a snake breeding facility in southern Miami Dade county actually caused that. It wasn't caused by irresponsible owners who let their overgrown pet snakes go.
Interesting. Always thought it was irresponsible pet owners.