Even the tornado in the UP near Ironwood was strong tha this hurrican't!

>east coast
>florida

uhh...do I need to point that out?

this shit is a natural occurrence in certain areas, and very rare in other areas. Its only natural for people to freak out if they have never seen a hurricane/earthquake before, and its only natural to shrug it off if you get them all the time.

>>14623349

Bullshit. There are no forest fires where I live but if I saw 4 trees on fire I wouldn't be shitting my sense. Common sense prevails.

>>14623400
*or shitting my self. I'm too tired to be posting

>10th grade
>Hurricane Rita hits Texas
>Cat 2
>FUCK YEAH I'M GONNA GO RIDE MY BIKE IN THAT SHIT

Was pretty fun

protip: california is used to quakes cause they get them often, florida is used to hurricanes cause they get them often

they're both pretty rare on the east coast

>>14623474
OR eastcoast likes to exaggerate every situation

>Florida gets a category 1 hurricane
>finally, some much needed rain
wat

>>14623492
We'll see, I think you may be right but who knows. Weather is unpredictable. But if it's anything like they say it is it could affect up to 80 million people

"Lesser" earthquakes are more of a problem on the East Coast not because the East Coast has no idea what they feel like (okay, maybe that's the problem with more moronic sections of it), but because our buildings aren't built with earthquakes in mind. Places like California and Japan laugh at the panic because their buildings are designed with withstand serious shaking (and hey look at that the overwhelming majority of Japanese buildings did just that in the face of their monster earthquake this year). Ours aren't. It takes a lot less to knock our shit over than it does theirs. Because it makes no financial sense to add extra protection against natural disasters that will happen almost never.

And it's not like no one else in the country doesn't have shit they flip out over. Two feet of snow here will get school a two hour delay if they're lucky. Two snowflakes in most of the south will have five plows called out to deal with them as every school within a 25 mile radius of the flakes gets closed for the day.

>Not a single fuck was given
Everyone I know is making fun of the weather here on the east coast, I might run in it later.

>snow in the south

O FUCK END OF DA WORLD LORDY LORDY

>snow in the north

o well i will just have to leave for work a little earlier

The only reason I'm worried about the storm is that it can bring another foot of rain to already wet soil. The floods could get bad around the Brandywine near my house, but I'm up on a hill.

I have absolutely no worry about wind damage at this point, unless a dying tree falls on a power line, I'm probably not going to lose power.

rain and wind aren't a sport.
This wouldn't even be news if America learnt lessons and prepared for this shit with proper drainage systems and houses not made from fucking wood.