Thing was, I was looking out at the end of the porch at the screen door!.OTOH, if you did survive you would have one hellofa story to tell and it would only have cost you 1 pair of underwear
Are you reading something different than what I wrote? I didn't claim anywhere that the media were faking these pictures. My claim is that the media is overhyping things to imply utter and complete destruction by focusing on trailer parks. What do you not understand about that?
Maybe you forgot already, but you were the one dissing your neighbors earlier in this thread for making poor decisions about their housing choices and didn't want to allow them in your place.
Suddenly now you are all about the elderly and downtrodden?
Damn FIVR that is pretty awesome that you have a house on Big Pine Key. I've only driven through it but I've been right by it at Bahia Honda a few times and love hanging out on the south west beach there. Marathon is my favorite spot in the keys though. That's pretty crazy that you could have gotten that you got water front property in the keys for $400k, let alone could have built it for $200k.
Isn't the land value crazy high there? I wouldn't expect to see trailers in the same neighborhood as your house...
It is not meaningless to me at all. I have people here that have evacuated from the Keys from some of the hardest hit areas. Seeing that kind of hype from the media does nothing but stress them even further than they are already. It's completely unnecessary bullshit. The truth doesn't need to be stretched further than it is. The true damage is more than bad enough.you sound bitter over something that is both meaningless to you and is, in fact, done in service of people. I don't get it.
Oh please. It has nothing to do with the people who live in trailer parks. It has everything to do with media hype and their imagery bombast.You're saying people in trailer parks aren't reality. You're saying they don't mater, they aren't real people. The destruction isn't real when the people aren't real.
Fuck off.
It's not actually satellite imagery, it's from cameras mounted on recon aircraft that are flying from @1000 to 5000 ft.Updated satellite imagery of the keys after Irma, still missing a little bit though.
https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/irma/index.html?fref=gc&dti=170060086888423
Yeah, you don't get it either. Congrats. Join the other morons.The problem is that your post screams of elitism... that you couldn't be asked to give the slightest shit about the peons in the trailer park. The fact that you don't get it (and still don't seem to get it) means it's pretty deeply ingrained in your psyche. For everyone living in that trailer park, that's their neighborhood... their entire neighborhood was destroyed, but in your mind that's not news worthy because it's "just a trailer park".
Shame on you
Don't bother replying, there's nothing you can say that won't just be digging a bigger hole for yourself.
I said nothing, zero, nada, nil, zip about trailer people. What I said is that the MEDIA is using those images as hype, as clickbait. They are the ones being insensitive.There is a difference between the views I might express arguing with people in P&N and how I interact with others in real life. Mostly those expressions are rhetorical devices intended to impart emotion or to argue a point.
I also think it's OK for me to 'diss' my neighbors when they do objectively stupid things which I then have to save them from (i.e. refusing to evacuate despite Cat 5 hurricane headed for their house). I believe I earned that right by opening up my house to them.
The views you expressed were quite ignorant and insensitive because you appear to consider trailer people as "not real people". I may have 'dissed' my neighbors but I didn't say they weren't humans or were fake. That's why people are on your case. They are "real"... as real as you or I. They're just poor.
Hey everyone, 1st I'd like to thank all of you who were rooting for me during this terrible event, it really meant a lot to me. I got power back yesterday and my internet went down Tuesday PM so I couldn't log in. 150,000 still without power in Volusia county alone so color me surprised when it popped up last night. I had just came from the garage with a pot of boiling water to clean my skillet for taco's when I realized the light above the sink was on!. Now for the ugly part, the tree/roof /porch situation, I managed to tie a rope to the limb that had penetrated the roof the cut it off and extracted it. I then tarped off the hole(s) and used roofing nails to secure it. Still waiting to hear back from my insurance Co who I contacted via email Tuesday, I can't handle removal of this brute since I only have an electric chain-saw that is incapable of this size job. Then I'd have to figure out how to handle the logs and get them too the front of the house. All this is beyond what my 60yr old body is capable of doing even if I had the proper equipment. Here is a pic of the tree and the roof penetration, (which has been removed), any thought's/input's/idea's??.
Oh please. It has nothing to do with the people who live in trailer parks. It has everything to do with media hype and their imagery bombast.
Don't reach so hard to be such a douche. I know you're better than that.
I pointed out that the media were focusing on images of destroyed trailer parks. Duh! What is going to take the most damage in high winds? I didn't ever say it wasn't real damage. If you think so, feel free to post where I said that.I know you called destroyed trailers not real damage. That's exactly what you said. destroyed homes are not real destruction because look at all of those other, bigger, not-poor homes that survived!
we know what you said. stop being a shit.
Yeah, I don't know why they never returned my calls. I called them again based on your confirmation that they were OK in Douglasville. I got a live person who said he was actually in Texas. Eventually we discussed the hurricanes and he said his vacation home was in Rockport (on the Gulf coast near Houston) and the eye of Harvey passed right over them (it didn't pass over Houston) and his place was destroyed. He hadn't seen it yet, only photos taken by neighbors. He figured it wasn't such a bad thing, they were planning to remodel anyway! Maybe they'll get FEMA assistance, is my thinking?Douglasville is about 20 miles west of Atlanta. Nobody in Atlanta is worried about the hurricane. We're concerned for the people in Florida but Atlanta is way too far up north for us to be concerned other than some stronger than normal winds and rain that might come our way because of the hurricane. If Omega Research is not returning your call, I can guarantee you it's not because of the any potential threat from the hurricane.
I pointed out that the media were focusing on images of destroyed trailer parks. Duh! What is going to take the most damage in high winds? I didn't ever say it wasn't real damage. If you think so, feel free to post where I said that.
btw, how many of you are hosting Key West evacuees and understand how they are feeling?
You? I don't think so. So fuck off and stop being such a douche.
No idea how they were caught.
Nice of them to warning flag the load. You'd think they would have thought the rest of their little venture out a bit more though.No idea how they were caught.
The flag is supposed to be red...idiots.Nice of them to warning flag the load. You'd think they would have thought the rest of their little venture out a bit more though.
Duh, somebody called the pole-ice. I bet they get off with a light sentence.No idea how they were caught.
I think he must have been concerned about "driver's arm" and skin cancer.The shirtless guy with the sleeve.