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I worked from home for nearly 3 years, loved it for the first 2 years but finally the rarely interacting face to face with people got to me. And then it was only upon returning to meatspace that I realized something I'd been missing: face-to-face networking is HUGELY TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT to your entire life and you should never ever WFH if you can't also make a ton of time for doing meaningful social things with other people (like volunteer work). Knowing people, and having people like you, is just so important to everything. It's by far the most important thing you do at college even if you're studying in a technical field. Beyond just needing the formal qualification of a degree, realistically almost everything you learn in college you could just as easily learn on your own at the public library--the people you develop relationships with is where all the value comes from. Took me till I was past 30 to really appreciate this, god do I wish I understood this when I was 20.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Bolded my favorite part of this great post. I love that HOH can acknowledge that some people like one thing, other people like another. Most people extrapolate from their own experiences and can't imagine that other people might view things differently. Sounds like some of that milqtoaste "South Park" Liberal Truth Is in The MiddLe crap to me!
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I have a friend in Florida that seems more exasperated with the hurricane and evacuations than anything else. Must be a Floridian thing.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I have a friend in Florida that seems more exasperated with the hurricane and evacuations than anything else. Must be a Floridian thing. Our office here is more annoyed at the old thing than worried about it. I'm kinda in the same boat
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I have a friend in Florida that seems more exasperated with the hurricane and evacuations than anything else. Must be a Floridian thing. Hurricane parties are pretty fun though. v--- sniped so hard 
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Sep 5, 2017 21:14
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I have a friend in Florida that seems more exasperated with the hurricane and evacuations than anything else. Must be a Floridian thing. It's definitely a Florida thing. I just made a joke last week that "I don't get out of bed for anything less then a Category 3." That being said, storms this strong are no joke and people regularly under-prepare and act incredibly dumb. Hurricane parties are a real thing. Lots of people just use it for an excuse to get hosed up. ^^^  ^^^^
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Sep 5, 2017 21:16
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Wouldn't it suck to be stuck at home for several days without power? Why not head up to Disney World for a few days while that gets sorted out? Or am I just not at all in touch with how this works.
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You realize that a hurricane qualifies as a Big loving Deal right?
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Hi, I'm in central florida and this one definitely qualifies as a big loving deal. Miami is expected to get hit by at least a CAT4 if not a CAT5 hurricane. That is VERY BAD. After Miami it's looking like it might wander right up the middle of Florida all the way into Georgia. Even here in Central Florida it's looking like it will still be at least a CAT3 hurricane if not worse. So yes, this one as of right now is a big loving deal. This is how big this loving storm is right now 
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Sep 5, 2017 21:38
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I am admittedly ignorant to the severity of hurricane preparations and the consequences of them hitting land. Like, I have an idea what happens, but I've never actually seen or had to live through it. I'm much more used to tornadoes and the entire province being on fire.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:49
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I live in Upstate South Carolina but there's always an influx of evacuees that come up from the coast whenever a hurricane hits. Heck even if the hurricane is weakened following landfall, we still have to deal with a lot of flooding.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:54
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I am admittedly ignorant to the severity of hurricane preparations and the consequences of them hitting land. Like, I have an idea what happens, but I've never actually seen or had to live through it. I'm much more used to tornadoes and the entire province being on fire. Irma is the equivalent of an EF4 tornado at the moment. So a tornado usually moves pretty fast right, now imagine that EF4 tornado sitting over you for hours
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Sep 5, 2017 21:56
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Also, it brings a metric dickton of water with it, basically the hurricane heard you like the ocean, so it brings it to you, because why live next to it, when you can be in it.
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I've been through a couple nasty hurricanes. Even if you're not in a flood prone area, the wind can do some serious damage. I'm also a fan of over preparing for things like this. Even if you won't flood and your structure will be safe you have be be prepared for several days, possibly a week or more of no electricity and the possibility of losing your water supply.
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MF_James posted:Also, it brings a metric dickton of water with it, basically the hurricane heard you like the ocean, so it brings it to you, because why live next to it, when you can be in it. This probably made me laugh harder than it should have. Also, it's not that the wind is blowing; it's what the wind is blowing.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:00
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*landlockedness intensified*
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ChubbyThePhat posted:This probably made me laugh harder than it should have. Yeah, tornadoes are dangerous, but the poo poo they carry around is what really escalates the danger. (I assume hurricanes are the same) My buddy is out doing repair for his father down in Ottawa IL (got hit with a tornado a few months back), the apartment building they own? It had 2 roofs, except the second one was sticking through the original roof up-side-down and at a 45 degree angle and it was originally from a building half a block down.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:03
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Also losing power in the South suuuuucks this time of year. The humidity is brutal, temperatures are regularly near 100, and if it's that hot during the day it's usually ~85 at night. Imagine that poo poo with no power or running water.
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Sep 5, 2017 22:06
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MF_James posted:Also, it brings a metric dickton of water with it, basically the hurricane heard you like the ocean, so it brings it to you, because why live next to it, when you can be in it. I don't know why this made me laugh but it did
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MF_James posted:Also, it brings a metric dickton of water with it, basically the hurricane heard you like the ocean, so it brings it to you, because why live next to it, when you can be in it. Is a metric dickton more or less than a metric fuckton?
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Sep 5, 2017 23:26
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Is a metric dickton more or less than a metric fuckton? Registering Metric Dickton as a parachute account...
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Sep 5, 2017 23:28
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Methanar posted:*landlockedness intensified* Nah, West Coast is where it is at. Only thing we have to worry about is earthquakes, fires, and the occasional volcano. Edit: In fact, it is raining ash today.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:33
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This thread is really making me appreciate Arizona. gently caress tornadoes and double gently caress hurricanes.
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Can we all just pretend I posted hypothetically "cool" screencaps from the movies Volcano or Dante's Inferno? Thanks.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:42
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I have an idea for the next discovery channel series, Battles of Nature, first episode would be Hurricane VS Tornado, who wins? No one.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:43
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Considering hurricanes regularly spawn tornadoes, I am going to go with hurricanes winning. Next questions?
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Is a metric dickton more or less than a metric fuckton? A fuckton is 10 dicktons
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TheFace posted:This thread is really making me appreciate Arizona. gently caress tornadoes and double gently caress hurricanes. *dies of thirst*
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Alaska doesn't have hurricanes or tornados. But you may freeze your balls off, or have a bear encounter while grocery shopping
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The Fool posted:Alaska doesn't have hurricanes or tornados. aww that was just a little cub
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Internet Explorer posted:Also losing power in the South suuuuucks this time of year. The humidity is brutal, temperatures are regularly near 100, and if it's that hot during the day it's usually ~85 at night. Imagine that poo poo with no power or running water. A major impetus for me leaving Louisiana for Oregon was a hurricane that knocked out my power for three weeks in August, in the middle of a stretch of 100 degree days.
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mattfl posted:Hi, I'm in central florida and this one definitely qualifies as a big loving deal. I remember being really annoyed as a kid in central florida that I had to help bring in all the stuff not literally bolted down and having to use my parents shower because the bathtub was (bleached then) filled with water for drinking. I once missed that a cat3 apparently passed straight over our town. I just thought it was raining really hard and dark out for several days in a row.
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My wife wants to move so we can be near the ocean but I'll settle for the middle of a corn field for safety.
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People like to poo poo on Delaware for being Delaware but I like it because natural disasters don't happen here very often. All of the beach, not so much of the hurricanes and assorted storm poo poo.
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TheFace posted:This thread is really making me appreciate Arizona. gently caress tornadoes and double gently caress hurricanes. It's 103 right now, and this is a cool evening.
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Wisconsin ain't so bad if you can get past negative double digits and a foot of snow. But that's been pretty rare in the last few years.
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:People like to poo poo on Delaware for being Delaware but I like it because natural disasters don't happen here very often. All of the beach, not so much of the hurricanes and assorted storm poo poo. Delaware smells worse than Houston though.
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Internet Explorer posted:Can we all just pretend I posted hypothetically "cool" screencaps from the movies Volcano or Dante's Inferno? Thanks. 
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Vulture Culture posted:Dante's Peak? Yeah, Dante's Peak Inferno.
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GreenNight posted:Wisconsin ain't so bad if you can get past negative double digits and a foot of snow. But that's been pretty rare in the last few years. Get a snowmobile and everywhere snowy is fun again. I love cold and feet of snow - beats the hell out of hot and hurricaney. PS - stay safe Floridians
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