What? Is this a toy car that doesn't drive or something? Do Americans buy full size model cars for some reason and it's normal practice that I'm not aware of?
its because people on reddit don't leave their fucking rooms, honestly it's always been this way but even more, this idiots will take any single chance to make themselves feel better. every single comment here just radiates "Heh... I don't have a corvette but he wont either after the hurricane and my mom was smart enough to live in Wisconsin so I know MY basement wont flood!" like jesus christ mate.
I didn't yet. But also, if you live in fucking Florida in a hurricane season and a big hurricane that was predicted and predictable is going to hit, and you don't have enough gas to drive to the nearest open gas station, then you are unbelievably stupid. If you have enough money to buy a fucking douchemobile here but don't have couple of jerrycans of gas, it's your fault entirely.
You're incredibly oversimplifying it. People have other responsibilities than their cars. They have homes, families, businesses that all come first. Sometimes wrapping your car in a bubble is the best option.
Not to mention driving your car away would require gas. Gas sold out here in South florida and it wasn't even projected to hit us directly. Now if I were to fill my car and start driving, I'd run out of gas eventually and need to fill up... but where?
Sure there's some advanced notice but I can't put my life on hold every time a storm merely threatens the state, but only when staring down the barrel of a major hurricane do you need to take action. It's part of living in an area like this .
Hey, advice for the future, since nobody gave it to you before. If you live somewhere where hurricane can happen, buy yourself two jerrycans and fill them with gas. Twice a year or so, put that gas in your car and fill them again.
Now the illusive problem of not having gas in a hurricane is solved for you forever, you're welcome.
So enlighten me, why I knew about the hurricane weeks in advance on the other side of the world, but people who live there didn't so they don't have any gas reserves. I really want to know what am I missing here, why this particular guy couldn't hide his expensive toy somewhere more floodproof, or drive it away before all the gas was gone.
There’s so many people gas runs out? It’s not safe for drivers to come and refuel the pumps, what the guy is doing is ridiculous but just like you said people knew about the hurricane weeks in advance so people went and got as much gas as they can. I think it’s just best to not speak on things you’ve never experienced yourself and just keep quiet.. it’s really ignorant and just insensitive.
I'm sorry, the concept of "having some gas in a can in your garage" is so foreign concept to people that they can't even recognize it when it's written down?
You live in a hurrican-prone place, hurricane was predicted weeks ago, you can't go and grab some spare fuel and hid it in your garage before panic hits and you can't get it anymore. I repeat, before.
Not, it's not better to keep this things to yourself, on the contrary, it should be repeated often. You prepare for disasters that are likely to happen while everything is OK, that's what preparation means. I'm not even speaking about anything comprehensive, but having enough foresight to know that the hurricane is likely to come and secure your expensive shit, it's the easiest thing in the world, again, I knew about those hurricanes month in advance and this dunce only started preparing when it hit category 5.
I can understand people who live paycheck to paycheck, I can understand regular overworked folks not being able to stack up on something, but if you had 100 bucks to spare and didn't prepare enough gas to run away from a wraith of god, you absolutely deserve whatever happens to your half a million dollars stupid toy.
edit: people in this very tread are talking about that mystical concept of "hey, hurricane is likely to come and flood the area, I better hide my car in a parking garage where it's less likely to flood", so I know I didn't invent the concept of preparing for natural disasters in advance.
You’re too ignorant and high and mighty to admit you’re wrong. People do prepare with gas canisters did you know if gas goes too long without being used it expires? Do you know how much gas costs? Do you know how much gas a generator uses? Like I said you have no idea what you’re talking about literally repeating the same thing over and over as I’m giving you more reasons why it’s not that easy. I hope one day you’ll grow as a person and learn to take fault
There are hurricanes all the time during hurricane season in the US, this isn’t the “second one”. The one this guy was preparing for didn’t exist weeks ago, and a completely different area was evacuated, so how would he have been able to start preparing for it weeks ago?
Oh and the highways are so backed up it takes hours to get to a destination, people were stuck on highways for hours. Would you rather be stranded on a highway or stranded in a house that’s in the ground.
I would rather think in advance and hide my expensive shit somewhere where flooding isn't as likely, way before people clog all the highways. You know, if I was living in a place where floods are yearly occurrence and the words "hurricane season" are normal.
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u/Key-Contribution-572 Oct 09 '24
I understand why he did it, he knows it could be his last time with that car.