If you need to evacuate hurricane Florence or you are staying put
Pick a town now and let hotels know you are evacuating from Florence. This works for every problematic hurricane. It usually doesn’t matter how many indoor pets you have, it just depends on the hotel. Most hotel brands will accept more than 2 dogs and cats for hurricane evacuees.
If you have horses and cows and you are on the outskirts, remember the last cat 3 that hit florida to the carolinas? A mass death of farm animals died from flooding and wind. Help them get to higher ground and better land by asking farms in out of evacuation zones to let you use their land to keep your animals.
Hurricane Florence is a CAT 4 by the time it reaches not land, but the warm waters off our coast. It will only gain more energy the longer it stays on the water. There is always a possibility for a CAT 4 to experience CAT 5 symptoms like wind, rain, and surging without becoming a CAT 5. If you are staying put, stay put in your house where the walls are strongest. Make sure you are near the safest bathroom in case of inner storm tornado activity or structure failure. Keep all leashes on you and pets near you. If you have pets that will hide, block off their access to their hiding places. Keep their stuff just as accessible as you will your stuff.
BUY WATER NOW. BUY HURRICANE FOOD NOW. BUY BATTERIES. GET A FLASHLIGHT. DO ALL OF THIS NOW. If you are in a possible flood zone and have a small enough raft that will fit out windows, KEEP IT ON THE HIGHEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE. If you are in an apartment complex in a flood zone, you need to leave. No acceptions.
Park your cars somewhere with cameras like a bank parking lot. They’ll be safer if you have trees near your home. If you have a boat in your driveway, MOVE IT AWAY.
If you have the ability, slice trees near your place that have you worried.
KEEP ALL DOORS SHUT TO BEDROOMS. If a window breaks, the pressure won’t change the rest of the house this way.
Take your pets outside on a leash when you feel it is safe enough for all of you. The eye of the storm is good for this but that can be a days worth of rain and wind. The wind isn’t always constant. Keep an eye on it and get them down there on leashes as soon as you hear it stop. You will hear the wind coming back before you see it or feel it. Be close to a door when you do this.
If you have access to a radio, use it. Put it on a station for weather. It’ll warn you of possible tornadoes in the area. A safe key though is anyone in yellow-red-purple on the radar, is in tornado alley. Keep a close eye on the sky. Don’t go to sleep.
I’m serious about shopping now. The stores will run out of food today or yesterday. Get enough water for everyone. Get bandaids too.
Get a full tank of gas too. It will run out quickly and take the gas stations days to come back. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to get an extra gallon of gas if you are leaving the area as you will find this on your way out too.
Good luck and stay away from the sea and the miles of where storm surge could occur. If you are on the coast but inland on a marsh, the surge and flooding will affect you. And they will affect you even more during high tide. The marsh can absorb a ton, but it can’t absorb this much.
Fill your bathtubs for extra water and to flush toilets. Freeze water to keep food cool. Document EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOUSE to claim for insurance if necessary. Take all important documents and keep them with you in water proof bags.
If you trust your dishwasher, put items you love in it. It’s not fully waterproof as plumbing, once backed up, will enter through the hose at the back. But if you don’t mind that and would rather be able to keep things you love with you, store them in there. You can even do jewelry in jars with lids without them floating away if you are worried about that. If you have a safe, USE IT AND ABUSE IT.
Remember, hurricanes also mean people will come in and loot! So while you are gearing up to leave, keep this in mind for objects you are leaving behind.
UPDATE 9/11/18 SOUTH CAROLINA HAS NOW PUT THEIR PRICE GOUGING DURING EVAC LAW IN EFFECT. IF YOU FIND A HOTEL, GAS STATION OR FLIGHT DURING THE EVAC IN SC THAT IS STILL TAKING ADVANTAGE, YOU NEED TO FOLLOW UP WITH A COMPLAINT AFTER THE STORM TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. NOON IS THE OFFICIAL MANDATORY EVAC FOR ABC OF COASTAL PROPERTIES IN SC. CHECK YOUR LOCATION AND WHERE YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE EVAC ZONES. NC HAD A MANDATORY EVAC STARTING AT 7 AM.
SOUTH CAROLINA HAS LIFTED THE MANDATORY FOR JASPER AND BEAUFORT AND COLOTIN. EDISTO IS STILL UNDER THE MANDATORY EVAC.
ROADS LEADING OUT OF COASTAL SC BOTH DIRECTIONS: i-26 beginning at I-526 all the way to I-77 for charleston, Route 501 for myrtle, HW 278 and 21 near beufort.
BRIDGES BETWEEN GEORGETOWN AND PAWLEYS WILL NOT BE CLOSED. I DO NOT RECOMMEND GOING OVER OR DRIVING AT ALL DURING THE HURRICANE.
IN THE PATH: NUCLEAR PLANTS, POWER PLANTS, ANIMAL WASTE STORAGE. When this strikes, everyone needs to be on the look out. When you come back, you still need extra gas as it may be difficult getting gas at home and in the location you are staying. You need to watch the power lines that are leaning over roads, watch for trees that haven’t fallen but might, BE CAREFUL COMING HOME AFTER. DONT PUSH YOUR CAR THROUGH A PUDDLE THAT YOU DONT KNOW THE DEPTH OF. DONT GO OVER SMALL BRIDGES IF IT ALREADY SHOWS DAMAGE. IT IS WISE TO JUST STAY PUT WHERE YOU ARE FOR A BIT UNTIL YOU GET A GO AHEAD OR EVEN A COUPLE DAYS TO LET ALL THE POPULATION GO BACK. Grab some cash. Eat good food. Don’t worry about things till you get back. BUY FOOD FOR YOUR TRIP BACK AND FOR YOUR HOME. You have no idea when shopping markets will be back up and running fully till you are home and it’s too late to grab food.
AS OF 3:45 9/11 HF AS UPPED ITS WINGSPAN AND METEOROLOGIST ARE EXPECTING IT TO GET STRONGER BEFORE FULLY LANDING.
a white european, materializing out of nowhere: actually i’m not from america so i don’t get this. can someone explain this? race is actually a US-centric concept. it was invented in the US. i need you to break this down for me because here in europe we don’t judge people by race.
When I was still in high school I went into the girls toilets one morning before classes started. I could hear this girl crying from one of the cubicles. When I asked her what was wrong she said to me “I just started my period. I don’t know what to do!” I asked her what she meant and she said “My mum can’t afford them. She said if this ever happened I have to go home right away” When I gave her one of the pads from my bag she literally hugged me so tight. she was sobbing while saying to me "Now I can stay at school thank you" That hit me so hard. I gave her my lunch money so she could buy her own. My cheese toastie means nothing to me at this point if I can give this one girl something she needs. Sanitary Products are not a luxury item. Period poverty is real. I’m so proud of my wee country right now.💙
This needs to be International, starting YESTERDAY.
Why is this only Scotland?!? Like kudos to them for being the only country that respects the female body
The problem about this is that Scotland can’t afford to sustain this, they have some of the lowest taxes in the UK and only about 5 million people. The free uni and other cheaper products they have is because they borrow a lot of money from england.
@why-do-I-even-try-miffy Absolutely utter bollocks. Stop spreading misinformation. Scotland is a net contributor to the UK treasury year after year.
Don’t know where you’re pulling ‘cheaper products’ from but free tuition is paid for by the people of Scotland in tax revenue.
Lowest rates for those most vulnerable. Scotland operates as progressive rate of tax, those that can afford to pay more in tax, pay more in tax. What’s the point in taxing those who struggle to pay the most into the ground? This is basic common sense shit.
The fact you see it as ‘borrow money from England’ goes to show you know absolutely fuck all about how the UK is run. Please educate yourself for the good of those around you.
I agree, all men should learn about women’s sexuality by reading My Immortal.
Hi friend! Foz here. Just a couple of points:
– I’ve specified good fanfiction in literally the first tweet. While this is, obviously, a value judgement wherein YMMV, My Immortal is famous for being arguably the most terrible fanfic ever written, and is therefore demonstrably not what I’m talking about. Similarly, I’ve seen other responses to this post bring up 50 Shades, which, despite its popularity in mainstream circles, is pretty much universally regarded as being not just terrible fanfic, but an excruciatingly bad and dangerously inaccurate portrayal of BDSM that romanticises abuse. So no: these are not the droids you’re looking for.
– Here’s the thing, though: you already knew that. The decision to respond to this post with a flippant reference to a fic that’s notorious precisely because of its poor quality is exactly why I used up precious Twitter characters to specify good fanfic, even though I shouldn’t have had to. Every mode of artistic expression is composed of good, bad and mediocre works, but when it comes to genres that are traditionally viewed as less worthy or literary – like fanfiction, or romance – we have a reflexive tendency to conflate the bad with the whole, such that the good is implied to be either exceptional or nonexistant. I specified that I’m talking about good fanfiction, not because I think such fics are an exalted minority, but to pre-emptively combat the assertion that they are, and then you’ve gone and made it anyway. So, thanks for that.
– But while we’re on the subject of quality, let’s make a very important distinction. Though fanfic is a largely unmediated medium, it’s not bad; it’s amateur, in the very literal, dictionary-definition sense of engaging or engaged in without payment; non-professional. While there’s a stereotype that lots of ficwriters are teenage girls – which, why is that always wielded as an insult? oh right, misogyny, carry on – a lot of us are, in fact, grown-ass adults of varying genders, some of whom also happen to write professionally in other contexts; like me, for instance. I’ve read fanfics that are unquestionably as good as, if not better than, many professionally published works I’ve read, some I’ve simply enjoyed or felt meh about, and others where I’ve mounted up on my Nopetopus and ridden off into the sunset after the first paragraph. It’s a grab bag, is what I’m saying, but if you think that’s an inherently different spectrum of enjoyment over quality than applies to any other medium, then I’d politely invite you to reconsider the matter.
– In conclusion: fanfic might not be your bag, but it has its own culture of editing, collaboration, publication, criticism and dissemination, its own conventions and subversions of same, its own extensive history and trope awareness, and, yes, its near-unique status as a medium invested in female sexual desire. That doesn’t mean there aren’t other things straight dudes can do to learn the mystical ways of What Women Want like, oh, say, talking to them, always bearing in mind that women are not a goddamn hivemind, but given that there are a frightening number of guys out there whose first or primary exposure to any type of porn is whatever degrading mainstream het they can scrouge up for free without virusing the hell out of their PCs, then yeah: I’m gonna go out on a fucking limb and suggest they maybe balance it out with some fanfic.
This might be the best summary of the power of fan fiction and its inherent lessons about women’s sexuality that I’ve ever seen.
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