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people need to know that they should not gently caress around with the ocean. tourists drown all the time in hawaii because they assume the large waves at beaches they should not be swimming at that will pile drive their faces into the sand are just pretty props and it is like a fake resort pool instead of one of the most powerful forces in nature.
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Stereotype posted:people need to know that they should not gently caress around with the ocean. tourists drown all the time in hawaii because they assume the large waves at beaches they should not be swimming at that will pile drive their faces into the sand are just pretty props and it is like a fake resort pool instead of one of the most powerful forces in nature. I’ve spent all my life in Rhode Island and there’s never not a summer where some idiot tourists don’t go out on the break walls when the tide is high and rough to get an awesome selfie for their Instagram and end up getting slammed and drag across the rocks. You can set your clock to it. It’s either that or “The locals are babies how bad could ‘undertow’ really be?”
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SorePotato posted:Got to be insurance cash ins Just like leaving those cranes locked down instead of free-wheelin'
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dew worm posted:https://twitter.com/louisaguirre/status/1575908410973122560?s=46&t=AUKXboWJ8iNL0YuJg_XM9w holy gently caress miami is so doomed. Norton posted:does anyone know a site that might have a nice chart to show the ultimate path and intensity of hurricane ian? im trying to search and all I can find is forecasts. Wikipedia will when it's all said and done
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Oct 1, 2022 01:58
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I’ve spent all my life in Rhode Island and there’s never not a summer where some idiot tourists don’t go out on the break walls when the tide is high and rough to get an awesome self and end up getting slammed and drag across the rocks. You can set your clock to it. I got knocked off a jetty by a wave and subsequent waves slammed me into the rocks several times before I was able to scramble up. I was an 18 yr old idiot and I was surf fishing by myself at night. It could have gone way worse but as it was my legs were super cut up from barnacles and rocks. I was pretty much covered in blood from the waist down and lost a shoe. I couldn't manage riding my bike home so I walked the bike part way and ran into a school friend on the way. She rode me on the bike handlebars back into town and dropped me off with her dad. Because we were on a coral atoll any cut can get infected super bad so her dad (who was the police chief) had me lay down in his bathtub and scrubbed each and every cut with a toothbrush and alcohol. It was the first time in my life I went through the other side of pain and into the detached calm. I still have a bunch of scars from it. So be careful around the ocean kids.
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The people likely to heed that message are not the ones who need it most unfortunately
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tourists in hawaii die hiking all the time too. like they don't understand that the 2ft wide ridge with thousand foot drops on either side is dangerous or something. all those trees growing out the side of the cliff and far below them seem soft i guess, also it's too beautiful to be dangerous. hawaii is an exceptionally dangerous place but everyone thinks it's all coconuts and mai tais and exotic women shaking their hips in grass skirts with flowers in their hair. lots of helicopter crashes too, at least one a year if not more
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Stereotype posted:tourists in hawaii die hiking all the time too. like they don't understand that the 2ft wide ridge with thousand foot drops on either side is dangerous or something. all those trees growing out the side of the cliff and far below them seem soft i guess, also it's too beautiful to be dangerous. hawaii is an exceptionally dangerous place but everyone thinks it's all coconuts and mai tais and exotic women shaking their hips in grass skirts with flowers in their hair. i did a helicopter over the volcano there in like 1989 or 1990 and poo poo was like flying up from the lava and bonking the bottom of the helicopter and the family was freakin a bit out
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Real hurthling! posted:i did a helicopter over the volcano there in like 1989 or 1990 and poo poo was like flying up from the lava and bonking the bottom of the helicopter and the family was freakin a bit out i'll always regret not going to big island and taking a helicopter tour of kilauea when it destroyed lelani estates. a geologist friend did it and the pictures were amazing, and it looked so cool.
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I’ve spent all my life in Rhode Island and there’s never not a summer where some idiot tourists don’t go out on the break walls when the tide is high and rough to get an awesome selfie for their Instagram and end up getting slammed and drag across the rocks. You can set your clock to it. It’s either that or “The locals are babies how bad could ‘undertow’ really be?” As someone who lived on the Atlantic (admittedly the other side of it)... yeah.. In my 20ies I went out swimming in the ocean, like I did almost every day. It was a nice day, sunny, low waves, but then a sudden inrush of cold water caused a massive undertow that almost dragged me out to sea - on a nice sunny calm day. And I was an excellent swimmer back then, and yet it cost me every last bit of strength I had and then some extra to make it back to the beach. Almost threw up from the effort... After this incident I basically refuse to go into any open body of water further than my feet can touch. Lesson learned respect earned. People are loving idiots VomitOnLino has issued a correction as of 02:38 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Australia has a whole TV show, Bondi Rescue, which mostly shows tourists needing to be rescued by lifeguards from the water here lol https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxEct2HUBYj_mt4t7qR9UYg
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Real hurthling! posted:croc get anybody? Not at Bondi, but there's sharks around crocs are all up in the Top End
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I love the ocean and love being near it. One of my favorite things is getting fresh as can be seafood, clamming, and winter walks near the water cause there’s nothing like it but it’s also like loving a fickle and assholish ancient Greek god. I have no misgivings it would gently caress me up on a whim
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Oceans are indeed loving terrifying and I don't know how people are so casual about them. Also, kinda relieved to hear I won't be subsidizing *all* of the flood claims: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-thousands-florida-homes-lie-flood-risk-areas-not-recognized-f-rcna50002 (Which is a very  thing to say but, seriously, why keep building there?)
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Stereotype posted:tourists in hawaii die hiking all the time too. like they don't understand that the 2ft wide ridge with thousand foot drops on either side is dangerous or something. all those trees growing out the side of the cliff and far below them seem soft i guess, also it's too beautiful to be dangerous. hawaii is an exceptionally dangerous place but everyone thinks it's all coconuts and mai tais and exotic women shaking their hips in grass skirts with flowers in their hair. People have very, very weird expectations when it comes to hiking and I actually stopped taking inexperienced people out on hikes with me for exactly this reason. Some people get this idea that's like "we're on the trail so everything we do here is safe" and it somehow overrides basic survival instincts. I had a friend almost go off a ~150 foot cliff while he was with me because he wouldn't stop loving around at the ledge.
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I take a lot of people hiking/camping for the first time and the funniest poo poo is the dudes who feel the need to bring a massive knife, a hatchet, and then a backup knife and two flashlights along with multiple sugary drinks and snacks for a two hour day hike. I take nothing a hike that short, empty hands and no pack or water, which causes them to lose their minds. Two hours is not really that long you just get a tiny bit dehydrated, you'll be fine. Pryor on Fire has issued a correction as of 04:55 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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skooma512 posted:My parents were like during a wildfire. The fire line got within 200 meters of the house and they still wouldn't just get the gently caress in the car. Their plan if they absolutely had to evacuate was to sit in the car in a parking lot as physically close as possible to the house. There was no plan that day other than stay in/around the house. Thankfully Calfire formed a good line and the winds were pretty calm that day. when i was a kid my school bus dropped us off in our neighborhood which had grass fires all throughout the mile or so and one house burned to the ground i never understood that poo poo e: like, actively burning - smoke and fire Evil_Greven has issued a correction as of 05:17 on Oct 1, 2022 |
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Marzzle posted:weedchat is an improvement over floridamanbloodlust chat decarbed == eat, non-decarbed == dab. usually dissolve the decarbed into cooking oil at a ratio of like 5g/30ml, makes a bottle of pure fire, my buddy and I take 2-3ml at a time but normal people might not want to do that Pryor on Fire posted:
not even.... weed?  I try to always have water against the 2hr hike that turns into six hrs somehow, or some dehydrated person on a trail. plus weed.
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the great lakes delight in killing people and it is amazing how many idiots will wander down to the shore in a storm. for real from november to like, may, you should assume that every great lake actively wants you dead and act accordingly and yet
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Cabbages and Kings posted:I try to always have water against the 2hr hike that turns into six hrs somehow, or some dehydrated person on a trail. plus weed. Been hiking more days than not for many decades, I have never needed to render first aid or give water to a random person on the trail before. Can't think of a time I've ever needed a knife once either. Basically everything you learn from boy scouts is useless dead weight.
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I’ve spent all my life in Rhode Island and there’s never not a summer where some idiot tourists don’t go out on the break walls when the tide is high and rough to get an awesome selfie for their Instagram and end up getting slammed and drag across the rocks. You can set your clock to it. It’s either that or “The locals are babies how bad could ‘undertow’ really be?” I moved to Providence last year and I got the impression immediately over the summer that, yeah, it has always been like this here lol (if that makes sense)
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Stereotype posted:people need to know that they should not gently caress around with the ocean. tourists drown all the time in hawaii because they assume the large waves at beaches they should not be swimming at that will pile drive their faces into the sand are just pretty props and it is like a fake resort pool instead of one of the most powerful forces in nature. In San Juan PR, there is a beautiful stretch of beach right in the most popular tourist area (condado) that is lined with famous and fancy hotels. That beach also happens to be a death trap, with bad breaks and notorious rip tides. Tourists drown there on a regular basis, but you wouldn't know it from how they show off the area. the hotel and tourism industry does a good job keeping the deaths on the DL. They posted a few signs (away from the shore itself) proclaiming that you shouldn't swim there, but of course the hotels put out beach chairs and do nothing to stop anyone from going in. No lifeguards, either, although there have been enough deaths that they're recently warming up to the idea of finding a few ( except that lifeguards shouldn't be at a beach that you're not supposed to swim in...) The other big idea is for *someone* to pay to construct an artificial reef to disrupt the rip currents, and also to stop the continuous erosion that has been eating away st the $$$ properties for years. Meanwhile, it's business as usual and the locals know to stay away
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drat y'all. jellyfish alone were enough for me to swear off the ocean forever when I was a kid. idk why some of you needed so much convincing
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Leroy Diplowski posted:I got knocked off a jetty by a wave and subsequent waves slammed me into the rocks several times before I was able to scramble up. I was an 18 yr old idiot and I was surf fishing by myself at night. It could have gone way worse but as it was my legs were super cut up from barnacles and rocks. I was pretty much covered in blood from the waist down and lost a shoe. wow that’s a crazy story. I can’t imagine how painful that was coral atoll? just curious what country was this
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the coral here is afree. But yeah, you never forget the first time the ocean tries to kill you. When I was 18, my 8 year old sister drifted a little too far out on a boogie board so I rolled my eyes and swam out to pull her back in. I get there and when I try to put my feet down, whoops, it's at least a foot over my head. I start swimming and towing her back in, quickly realizing it's a lot rougher out there than I thought. It ends up taking me like 20 minutes to get her back on dry sand, and I walk up and into the house, fall down on the bed, and don't wake up for 4 hours. 25 loving years ago this happened and I haven't been past my waist in the Atlantic since.
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Ages posted:https://twitter.com/Res6cueOfficial/status/1576025505132089345?s=20&t=I66qaaa5nmCwLuijBZUm1g That track through Puerto Rico....
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smoobles posted:It'll be a direct hit on Tampa I asked several different friends in the tampa/st pete area if they were safe and got 4 separate and individual forms of "Tampa is always fine" so Ian is probably just reinforcing this Floridaman myth that Tampa Is Protected which will make an eventual hit there way worse
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I eat healthy and exercise so that I can live long enough to see Tampa destroyed by a direct hit from a Category 5 hurricane
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Oh I didn't see your post that it was your mom nvm
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Norton posted:does anyone know a site that might have a nice chart to show the ultimate path and intensity of hurricane ian? im trying to search and all I can find is forecasts. Grab a Sharpie, be the map of your dreams!
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Bilirubin posted:Grab a Sharpie, be the map of your dreams! Alabama completely wiped out by first-ever Cat 6 hurricane
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Pryor on Fire posted:Been hiking more days than not for many decades, I have never needed to render first aid or give water to a random person on the trail before. Can't think of a time I've ever needed a knife once either. I did a day-long hike once and a long cycle trip another time where I didn't bring enough water. I wasn't in actual danger, but it spooked me so much that I overcompensated for several years. After noticing that I usually end up emptying most of the water I take with me I've started to become better at packing what I need. I still always take a single bottle of water, a protein bar or two and a small first aid kit on even the shortest hikes. And I carry bicycle repair tools on my bike always, those I have actually had to use twice this year alone.
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Oh wow you went hiking for a night and didn't use a knife, that's crazy. Knives are for survival. You pack survival gear in the event you find yourself in a survival situation. Mostly no one finds themselves in a real survival situation by choice so it's just uh risk assessment and management. A knife isn't the highest on the list though since as humans we long ago discovered sharp rocks cut things. It's still very very useful to have. Highest on the list by far is a lighter. Flint and matches both struggle in wet and windy conditions, far more than a standard Bic would. It's a good idea to stash like a half dozen lighters in various bags and pockets. The more the merrier. Paracord is your next most important tool, its uses are almost unlimited. Then I would say knife and headlamp after that. Shovel next. And so on. A sleeping bag or other means of staying warm or sheltered would be a godsend but its obviously not practical to try to keep around. I keep all this stuff in my purse save the shovel so I'm ready to survive 30 days longer than average at a moment's notice.
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