2024 Tropical Weather Thread

bclemms said

Everyone makes fun of preppers. What most don't realize is how quickly everything you know can disappear. Of course I'm more sensitive to it than most since I see it first hand often but "it will never happen to me" syndrome is real.

I should put together a basic prepper pack that includes a few low voltage lights a lithium generator and solar charger, starlink mini, led lights, food and water to last 14 days. I could do it all for $2k and be prepared for a whole lot.

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A prepper pack like that would be amazing.

I'm no expert but I've learned a lot from those who grew up in this area and living through Katrina and being glued to The Weather Channel from June 1 to November 1. I watched that video because it was a real person first-hand account. But as I'm watching it, I'm also taking note of the "mistakes" they and, frankly, many others who weren't locals around them made.

For one thing, they knew a storm was coming to an area they were driving to ... but then made a lot of assumptions about where it was going and where it wasn't going and kept going. They said it themselves, We thought it was going to hit Florida and then dissipate.

Better part of valor would have been to monitor the storm for themselves -- like literally everyone here does -- and take note of the likely track and then hang back a night till they knew it really had cleared the area they were traveling to before proceeding basically right into the path. By then, they would have known that they shouldn't proceed and they'd be high and dry and somewhere with all the infrastructure in place and then made a new plan. Frankly, I never would have done what they did.