RangerDoggo
The Devils have a culture of failure
Not Disney World, though! The hotels are closed, but not the park itself.
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The Waffle House one is great and so true.
Down here in Florida there’s also the Jim Canatore (I think I’m remembering it right) theory where if you see this weatherman show up in your town it’s an “on s**t”
Moment because he’s essentially a storm chaser who goes to the exact area that’s going to get pummeled.
My parents in Plam Beach are getting wind but not too much rain. Of course their roof sprung a small leak two days ago that they can’t get fixed until after this passes.
Working Emergency Dispatch today and tomorrow for hurricane Ian and things are already getting rough down there from what i can hear
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There’s an empty garbage can rolling around outside on the street.
If I had to guess it’s probably the assholes that moved in about 6 months ago, who I fell in love with the night they moved in at about 3:00 AM and were courteous enough to put their flashers on (which came right through my bedroom window) for about an hour as they parked their truck on the side of the road, just in case one of the zero cars that come down this street at 3:00 AM might not have noticed them when they didn’t drive by.
If I had to guess it’s probably the assholes that moved in about 6 months ago, who I fell in love with the night they moved in at about 3:00 AM and were courteous enough to put their flashers on (which came right through my bedroom window) for about an hour as they parked their truck on the side of the road, just in case one of the zero cars that come down this street at 3:00 AM might not have noticed them when they didn’t drive by.
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No, I haven't heard anything. But I talked to another guy that seems to thinks he and 3 other guys trailered their boats inland yesterday afternoon.
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The hurricanes down here have been known to actually scare many Jersey-ites and other non-natives out of Florida and either back where they came from or somewhere a little more landlocked.
And insurance premiums are awfully high here, I still pay considerably less, if not only even half of what a decent 1 bedroom apartment goes for here a year/month with only having to pay property tax and insurance, as I bought this in cash back when the market was super cheap. I think I only paid like $150k-something (I'd have to look at the deed lol), but apparently Zillow has me worth $524k right now.
It was a little Golden Girls-y looking when I first came, which I've done a bit to make it a little less Golden Girls-y looking. What I mean by Golden Girls looking is the living room and kitchen were a bit 80's looking (it was built in 1979) like their house. And some of the carpeting in the back and on the porch is the original. I also have a pool, which was basically a must for me if I was buying and it had to be my own pool and not a shared community one.
All in all, I'm very happy with my purchase and I'm very happy and thankful to have gotten to come here to live at 35 and not 65. My move was in the works for about 15-20 years, since I was a teenager. That's why I worked A LOT of hours and commuted stupid miles working in a carpenters union and lived at home for a lot of my under-35 life. I'm so glad I don't have to do that work anymore either, as I would be falling apart by now. I took that money and ran and now have a much more lower paying, but also lower manual job now. It's all I need.
So I don't mind paying thousands a year in homeowners insurance. My house is almost the entirety of my net worth. If I'm ever in the market for another vehicle and have to make car payments and take a loan again, I might be a bit annoyed with the homeowners insurance premium prices.
I do still get the tiniest bit of freaked out when a hurricane comes up or a tropical storm with hurricane potential.
Right before I moved out of Jersey in 2011, we had a storm hit Jersey like two weeks before I left and it made landfall near Atlantic City. I think it was Irene? It was probably the weekend before Labor Day weekend. I was worried for my family on Long Beach Island. It wound up not being too bad, but then they had Sandy the next year, which I was already down here for that.
this is just ft myers beach - so its an area im very familiar with - my parents lived right over the bridge for 10 years, my aunt has (or had) a house right down the street from these photos , and my brother and his fiance are both FD/EMS for Ft Myers - the pictures from this storm are already very reminiscent of my experiences with Sandy, and I'm sure there a plenty more photos of devastation to come
RangerDoggo
The Devils have a culture of failure
My supervisor’s dad lives in Orlando and they just lost power. Apparently a lot of people didn’t evacuate. As I put it to my coworkers, people don’t think they’re going to get punched in the face until they actually get punched in the face.
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I can't blame people for not evacuating Orlando though. It's quite a bit inland and more often than not you're safer in Orlando than most every other larger city in Florida (other than maybe Tallahassee), as pretty much every other city is either on the Gulf, Atlantic or close enough (Tampa).
I'm not saying Orlando is completely safe, nowhere in Florida is, but it's generally been safer there than places like Tampa/St Pete (Gulf), Sarasota/Bradenton (Gulf), Fort Myers/Cape Coral (Gulf), Naples (Gulf), Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach (Atlantic), Treasure Coast (Atlantic), Space Coast (Atlantic), Daytona Beach (Atlantic), St Augustine/Jacksonville (Atlantic) and then you got the panhandle and the Keys both near coast line.
Typically, by the time a storm gets to Orlando, they've usually weakened after somewhere on the coast took the massive hit.
Lots of people on the coast in both Tampa/St Pete area, as well as Daytona Beach and even Jacksonville area actually evacuate to Orlando.
working in dispatch - I can track the path of the hurricane based on the quantity of calls coming in through a specific city, jacksonville seems to be going through it now in terms of power outages
njdevils1982
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non partisan post
today is the day for truth and reconciliation in canada
a "stat" holiday it seems
i find it shameful that government employees have the day off WITH PAY.
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today is the day for truth and reconciliation in canada
a "stat" holiday it seems
i find it shameful that government employees have the day off WITH PAY.
/rant
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I have a contractor from Vancouver working in my group and he took today off for the holiday.
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Took me over 15 years but I finally got to see Sunny Day Real Estate live tonight.
Emo music forever.
Emo music forever.
None Shall Pass
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Eh. I've worked in the public sector for the entirety of my adult working life. We all sacrifice making more money in the private sector for better benefits, including the occasional odd paid holiday day off.
njdevils1982
Hell Toupée!!!
in light of the past treatment of kids at the residential schools the government should'nt treated to the bonus of a paid day off. it's akin to giving yourself a pat on the back
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Fair enough, and I don't even pretend to know the horrors of what the Canadian government did to those kids. I'm only vaguely aware of it.
With Columbus Day now, at least we're trying the whole Native American heritage day thing instead.
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Its 23PM and my flight to NY takes off tomorrow at 1 PM.
What a great timing to pick up a cold... My left ear feels clogged and cant open it. No way i can fly to the US tomorrow. Google says differences in cabin air pressure can be extremely painful, not risking of being on a brink of suicide for 9 hours.
Bums me out so hard right now, gotta wait at least 5 days i reckon before i dare to rebook flights. Luckily my company is paying the flights as ill be working for them in the US, so dont need to worry about the economics of this hassle.
What a great timing to pick up a cold... My left ear feels clogged and cant open it. No way i can fly to the US tomorrow. Google says differences in cabin air pressure can be extremely painful, not risking of being on a brink of suicide for 9 hours.
Bums me out so hard right now, gotta wait at least 5 days i reckon before i dare to rebook flights. Luckily my company is paying the flights as ill be working for them in the US, so dont need to worry about the economics of this hassle.
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