Godwin's Thread

[Tokitoki]

The waves hitting the sliding glass door gets a "nope. nope. nope." from me.

[Xno Kappa]

The waves hitting the sliding glass door gets a "nope. nope. nope." from me.

For real. Did a double take when I noticed that.

[Tokitoki]

We were talking about this kind of stuff at work on Thursday at lunch when they were tracking the storm coming in.

I said something along the lines of "I don't know why people live in Florida year round." And people started arguing with me that Florida weather was better than the northeast. I'd take snow over hurricanes and 100+ deg days with high humidity any day. Not that we don't get hot, humid days in the NE, but they're fewer. I haven't seen a roof collapse from snow/ice before, but I've seen pictures of roofs flying through the air before.

[Demosthenes]

We were talking about this kind of stuff at work on Thursday at lunch when they were tracking the storm coming in.

I said something along the lines of "I don't know why people live in Florida year round." And people started arguing with me that Florida weather was better than the northeast. I'd take snow over hurricanes and 100+ deg days with high humidity any day. Not that we don't get hot, humid days in the NE, but they're fewer. I haven't seen a roof collapse from snow/ice before, but I've seen pictures of roofs flying through the air before.

I'll take that heat over snow any day.

[Tokitoki]

Yeah, I'm the opposite. I love the snow and cold weather.

[Dimmauk]

I'll take that heat over snow any day.

I agree. I'll take my droughts over hurricanes, earthquakes and blizzards

[Gredival]

There's a difference between having to deal with the heat and humidity and dealing with that PLUS hurricanes.

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[Demosthenes]

I mean we were getting hurricanes in NY too.

[BaneTheBrawler]

you can build to render snow and cold largely irrelevant to daily life. most cities here have skywalks/subways (not trains) so that you can get around without going outside at all, and if you do have to it's mostly just short trips to/from your car. the longest you'd be forced to be outside is if you stupidly parked somewhere far from where you needed to be, or if you're removing snow from your driveway. in either case, proper attire and moderate forethought will render it manageable. likewise, you can build infrastructure to handle extreme cold and snow.

you cant build to render a hurricane nonthreatening. you can build to hopefully not be destroyed, but no matter what you do it's a huge disruption and always causes wide scale damage. there's no managing a hurricane.

[Andalusian girls]

alternatively you guys could just live in perfect Mediterranean climates with neither snow nor hurricanes and year-round temps of 85-65

[Andalusian girls]

it is currently 76 degrees with 0% chance of precipitation 64% humidity and a few light fluffy clouds rolling through the sky and i'm having a hard time deciding if i should lunch on the beach or lunch at an outdoor cafe

[BaneTheBrawler]

are earthquakes covered by homeowners insurance?

[Tokitoki]

Re: NY hurricanes

Not nearly as often as they hit FL. Maybe every 5 years or so we get a bad one?

[Xno Kappa]

You also could’ve said “I don’t know why people live in Florida...” and ended it with just that.

[Xno Kappa]

Besides sandy, I don’t remember a single significant hurricane in my lifetime hitting nyc.

[Tokitoki]

I mean, I can get why they go there in winter.

You're outside hurricane season, it's cold and snowy in the NE, you're old.

But I agree, I wouldn't live in Florida.

[Gredival]

are earthquakes covered by homeowners insurance?

Usually need separate coverage

Also AG living bourge on the coast. Inland it's been 95+ all summer

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[Tokitoki]

Floyd flooded my area back in the early 2000s?

And the name Irene rings a bell too.

[Xno Kappa]

I remember the dope ass blizzard of 96(?) that gave us like a week off from school. Fun times.

[Tokitoki]

Irene was the first and only time Albany had to declare a Tropical Storm warning because they're supposedly outside the range for a tropical storm to hit.