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manimal

Lifer
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I was in Florida in the 90's. I saw a lot of street gangs.

I wonder if they are still there?

:hmm:

They drive nice cars now. Back then gangs were on the street because they had nowhere else to go. Now they have nice apartments and houses and lots of SUV's
 

VulgarDisplay

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Apr 3, 2009
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I take it no one complaining about heat and hurricanes lives in the Midwest. It's just as hot and humid in the Midwest during the summer and we get tornadoes that arguably do more damage than the average hurricane. If you live on the coast of Florida you at least get a breeze off the water that provides relief. Good luck with that in the Midwest.
 

Tequila

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Oct 24, 1999
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You could probably build a traditional home and make it aerodynamic, but you still have to worry about cars and semi trucks crashing on it. It becomes a luck thing. Sometimes you see a single house somehow unaffected and the rest of the neighborhood is obliterated. Tornadoes tend to do that more than hurricanes as they're more localized. Hurricanes just level entire cities.

Now that's what I call a cpu fan!
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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The media sometimes exaggerates stuff but I don't know how one could exaggerate a hurricane. When you see the damage, it's hard to imagine how it could be exaggerated. The pictures and videos are real. At least, I don't think they'd go as far as actually using CGI just to make people think it's worse than it is.

How in the world can you build a home to survive that? Unless your home is entirely poured concrete 4 foot thick walls full of rebar with no windows and mostly underground it's probably not surviving a hurricane, and it will look like this:

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If you're lucky and it's a smaller hurricane, you'll just get flooding.

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Also have to watch for flying air conditioners. Mice make terrible pilots at 300MPH. :biggrin:

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You could probably build a traditional home and make it aerodynamic, but you still have to worry about cars and semi trucks crashing on it. It becomes a luck thing. Sometimes you see a single house somehow unaffected and the rest of the neighborhood is obliterated. Tornadoes tend to do that more than hurricanes as they're more localized. Hurricanes just level entire cities.

You live in Canadia?
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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florida should really be three different states. The north part should be called drive through really fastistan. The middle should be called methistan. The south should be called miamistan.


Also florida was much better in the 80s. Sleepy and quiet.

You have no clue bro.
 

MongGrel

Lifer
Dec 3, 2013
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I don't do drugs, I do drink mich ultra though.

You must have the absolutely most boring life.

I am betting you have fucked less than 5 women in your life.

I am betting that is going to really piss you off now.

like that.