I can’t back that up @GaiusBaltar. It’s said around heard as fact and repeated by me but may well be bs. We ARE depopulating last I checked, though.
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Growing up in Memphis I constantly heard about our city depopulating too, but when I checked the figures over the last 30 years the population was steadily increasing 
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Yes it astounds me that these storms don’t drive more people away. How did we not have a mass migration in 2004 and 2005?
There were 4 storms in 6 weeks in 2004.
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And then they move to the Carolinas and stay.
Which is the beginning of said thesis I’ve been working on.
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Not necessarily “mass” migration, but we got a significant increase in long term residents who fled from Katrina. I remember a few of them enrolling in my school. I think I was a junior at the time.
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That was LA, not FL. No one left FL because of Katrina, it was a minor footnote in hurricane history here.
Of course, LA was all about the flooding, like Ian and now Helene. The actual storm winds have done relatively little damage since Andrew in 1992.
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It’s a “rinse, lather, repeat” phenomenon. People leave the Northeast for FL for cheaper rents and mortgages and then when those get too high they then move to Georgia and North Carolina and then eventually that real estate gets inflated……
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If FEMA calls for us…I don’t know that we have much to offer. We are kind of tapped out. It often feels like a drop in the bucket of an olympic size pool anyway…we take out a few patients but the need always far outweighs the capacity. I don’t envy those in the path or even the outskirts of this storm…as the wind field expands upon landfall…I can’t imagine. Well…I can…
Be safe down there ya’ll…
You are always welcome up here @Magnum50 or @JediMaster or @jross if ya’ll need a place to retreat to. After being a week without power I’m back on the grid… 
The beers are once again cold.
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Good luck Florida Men!
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My favorite place to look at the GOES imagery…click the mesoscale floater section to zoom in on the storm. Also switch it to IR if its dark. Impressive looking storm again after the eyewall replacement cycle… I like to change the frames setting to 200 then speed the replay up with the right arrow button a few clicks…
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Stay safe, guys!
I feel for the folks living on the west coast of Florida, especially those inhabitants in the path of the storm surge. At lunch today, there was discussion of the lack of fuel there and people not having the option to evacuate. I don’t wish that on anyone, no matter their reason for being there.
One of my cousins has connections in Ashville. Without going into detail, unfortunately the death toll will be much higher than has been reported so far.
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From the predicted path of the storm, and intensity, it reminds me of what the Cylons did to Florida in Battlestar Galactica.
Even here in Jacksonville, Florida (outside the cone) everyone is panic buying…
Id’ be flabbergasted if that didn’t happen. People.
When Michael mowed this place over (168 MPH util the wind tower gizmo blew over - been 6 years already, wow) Tango Papa was gone, like, nadda, a week out. Crazy.
However, the bright side: I built my wife an indoor ‘privy’ == got LOTS of husband points for that one (I had my own outdoor ‘place’).
Anyway, I guess I grew up with these things. Camille was the first one I recall, we lived just east of there.
The US seems to be natural disaster prone when I look back on it all; tornadoes, earth quakes, blizzards & ice storms (those really suck). New Mexico, Arizona not so much (not enough water actually).
The town I live in now was wiped out, completely, by a hurricane ~100 years-ish ago, and just prior to that (or just after that) yellow fever I think it says in the local history books did a number on it too.
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Yeah, WTF is it with toilet paper. Even the hint of a minor disaster here and the first thing that the stores run out of is TP. Not bottled water, not non-perishable food… Effing TP.
I don’t understand people.
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Yes! I know right.
I think, and feel free to call BS 
but there’s a chart/scale somewhere that delineates us from the beasts - TP is on that line (yeah, I know we Americans aren’t much above it : ) but still.
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All those zombie apocalypse novels were right. That and booze.
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I think it because we have the whole continent to call home basically. Europe gets the same amount of natural diasters, but it’s wildfires in one country, blizzards in another.
Yep, even if the pantry is bare and the water is shut off, having TP means that a little bit of society is left.
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Every bit counts. I’m sure the small yacht captains had the same thoughts when they were sailing to Dunkirk in 1940.
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