You are an idiot, Key West is in Florida and it was 5 there. But it isn't really the size of the hurricane's penis, but how big of a load it sprinkles into your face...
Hurricane Irma Headed Straight For ET
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You are an idiot, Key West is in Florida and it was 5 there. But it isn't really the size of the hurricane's penis, but how big of a load it sprinkles into your face...
Just went through that baby in Jupiter Island, very very nasty, best wishes Baron.
Cat 4, but destroyed it, Cuba north coast took Cat 5.
Hey, nothing wrong with a little heads up on the underlying you're trading! (Oranges) hehe.
This storm wasn't that big of a deal. As we know if something happens in the US it's a "horrible disaster" but if the same thing happens elsewhere it's just...news, quickly forgotten.
Streets nearby here (Manila) are flooded worse than Florida but this doesn't even make the news.
I guess the news channels made a fortune here though, a bit of drama, a lot of ad revenue - good stuff.
Streets nearby here (Manila) are flooded worse than Florida but this doesn't even make the news.
I guess the news channels made a fortune here though, a bit of drama, a lot of ad revenue - good stuff.
Nasty. Surprising though how many cardboard houses seem to be built in Southern USA. The area is regulary hit with hurricanes but lots of folks still live in utterly fragile accomodation, every hurricane in the US we get similar pictures and I have a hard time figuring out why they still build like this.
HK and Shenzhen are regularly hit with typhoons but overall seem to get away fine (Still Macau and Zuhai suffered a couple of weeks ago, where I stay it was a little better, had twice fallen trees and branches next to my car upon waking up over the last month but they spared it - so far), and as D08 mentioned The Philippines get serious damage every year, in human lives as well, but I suspect the infrastructure there is much worse than in HK, SZ or Southern USA.
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Like Luis said, most of the houses are built poorly. Notice that none of the well built skyscrapers came down. We are still talking pretty much only about property damage which is bad but not life ending, especially in a first world country. The deaths in US credited to the storm were traffic accidents, which I find strange.
Here's a picture of Manila from today, this I believe didn't even get a mention in any international news (note that I'm saying international news). Not saying it should but compared to the crazy bombardment about Florida, it seems strangely disproportionate.
Infrastructure here is often better than the US in that for most people it's concrete, meaning it won't just blow away like cardboard. Construction quality can be poor but the use of proper materials makes up for it. Roofs do fly away but they're typically easily repaired. I've witnessed a couple of typhoons here, one of them serious - branches are flying and trees come down but I've yet to see residential houses fall down. Ironically one of the roofs on a big shopping mall collapsed while the shacks built by squatters survived completely intact!