The state of Florida braces for Hurricane Milton, Panthers still scheduled to play tonight

[Community]

It's more recognizeable when they're current for sure. But after a while, the name by date and location(s) makes more sense.

If I say "hurricane Fran" most people would probably not be able to picture anything. But if I said hurricane -cape verde- August 23rd, 1996.

You know the time and place.

It's like teaching our grandkids about ice storm 98 - north east of north America... Rather than calling it ice storm Steve.

Or take the may 2022 Canadian derecho. If it was just called derecho Bob...years later, people won't know when it happened or where or why it's called that.

To each their own, but if it was called ice storm Steve when it happened I'm sure people that were impacted/near would remember it by that name.

I'll remember Hurricane Katrina my whole life, but I didn't the date until I looked it up recently. Given there was multiple large hurricanes that year, it's easier than remembering the dates of each.

Hope all are safe and/or evacuated.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

I would assume the NHL has made, or is currently making some sort of a backup plan if Tampa can't play their next X amount of home games at Amalie. Any suitable locations or will they just postpone?

Likely places like Houston and KC

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

Just my anecdotal experience from 40 years of living in Florida, but gusts are infrequent. They increase in frequency as you get closer to the center, think shotgun pellets once fired. 100 miles away we'd get gusts about once every 10 minutes or so. Just before we encountered the center we had gusts like every 30 seconds.

By gusts I mean a sudden rapid increase in the wind, for Ian 100 miles away gusts could take it from calm to 30mph. Right before the eye hit gusts took us from 70mph sustained 100mph+ and were ripping fully grown oak trees out of the ground.

Yeah, the gusts are horrific. I remember sitting through hurricane Wilma. The wind gusts are extremely intense. They did the most damage. Thankfully for where I was, another hurricane that hit directly down here (Andrew) missed our area by a small margin. But that must have been hell on earth with those type of wind gusts.

 

[StreetHawk]

Invest in the Midwest. Population is going to have to move somewhere.

Certain midwest locations get tornadoes.

I would assume the NHL has made, or is currently making some sort of a backup plan if Tampa can't play their next X amount of home games at Amalie. Any suitable locations or will they just postpone?

TB has a 3 game homestand starting Sat. Too many games to tack onto the end of the season if there is either damage to the arena or people aren’t allowed to return to the city. They’d need to play somewhere. And close as teams would likely play the panthers while in Fla to face TB.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

People are welcome to come to Canada and wait it out. It's not cold yet and you can watch the leaves change

I'm f***ing shocked by the amount of tourism some places in Canada get just for people see the f***ing leaves.

Stay safe and hopefully your houses and personal property isn't damaged too badly, or even better not at all !

I mean, we in Canada modified the weather to target Miami for winning too many cups recently and we're going to shut your water off, eh !

So, don't do it again, OK, buddy ?

Guy, I'm not even joking this time. I'll drop you faster than a double double with a Boston Cream on a crisp January morning!

 

[Rschmitz]

So many tornadoes on the ground already, this is crazy

 

[Rubi]

I have friends (husband & wife and two young kids) who moved to Tampa from Calgary in May. I have to wonder if they are rethinking their decision.