just an IT nerd that fucked their mainframe.
Actually, that explains it. You fucked up the weather factory's mainframe; that's why hurricane season this year has been as schizo as your posts. If you hadn't fucked it up, we would be having normal weather, but no, you had to go and push that system update despite the warning message, didn't you? Now, one by one, each state in the US will be erased from the Earth by a massive freak hurricane caused by the weather factory mainframe going haywire.
Good job fucking up everything, schizo.
I have some question for you Kiwis who are less retarded and schizo.
I'm trying to understand what kind of damage we can expect, and how it will be different from the damage Helene caused to Appalachia. In Appalachia, the ground was already soaked and loose from previous rains, and it seems most of the damage was caused by landslides and rivers flooding over their banks. All that water moving downhill eroded the ground, cut away roads, scraped buildings from their foundations, and buried things under tons of mud.
How does this compare to storm surge? Will storm surge similarly rip buildings from their foundations, or will buildings just take the usual standing water damage (e.g. shorted electrics, mold and rot in the frame and drywall, rusted fittings, soaked furniture, etc)?
How big of a danger are the winds? I understand that Florida has some extra requirements to its building codes because of the danger of hurricane-force winds, but hurricanes usually don't make landfall at full category 5 strength do they? Are buildings really going to hold up to that much wind from a direct hit?
If buildings aren't blown away or torn apart by the wind directly, there's still the danger of flying debris, right? So the hurricane could pick up trees, cars, Ralph if it picked him in Mexico, and just slam them into a house. At that point, with the building structure compromised, could the winds then start tearing the house apart in little chunks, and using those pieces-of-house to smash apart other houses?
Houses, which are usually wood-framed, being torn apart by the hurricane makes sense, but how much danger are Tampa's commercial building in? Commercial buildings are usually made of concrete, cinderblocks, or concrete and steel. The Wells Fargo Center isn't really going to care if some of its windows are smashed out by flying cars is it? The hurricane would have to at least throw Ralph into it, right?