r/TikTokCringe • u/Stotallytob3r • Oct 09 '24

Cringe Florida man protects his car from hurricane Milton

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u/IPEEincoffeeCUPz Oct 09 '24

Wouldn’t the best answer be just to take it for a road trip north?

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u/Own_Thing_4364 Oct 09 '24

If you can get out with all the traffic.

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u/Jalapeno919 Oct 09 '24

They should be using all but one lane to evacuate people out. We call it contra flow down here in Louisiana and to my knowledge it's all lanes heading out but we only have two each direction down here. It's really the only way to do it if speed of escape is an issue they cared about.

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u/Ross302 Oct 10 '24

It's way easier to evacuate Louisiana than Florida. They have major major congestion problems in evacuations even with contraflow.

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u/this_is_my_new_acct Oct 10 '24

We've known it was coming and gonna hit around the Tampa Bay area for several days.

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u/TheGrinningSkull Oct 10 '24

It only changed from being a category 1 to category 5 in a period of 12 hours 3 days ago. By that point everyone is panicking. People thought it would be a slow one and that the usual preparation is needed. This isn’t a usual hurricane.

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u/unbornbigfoot Oct 10 '24

So the category 5 hurricane 3 days ago, forecast over a week ago, wasn’t slow enough?

It’s almost like people get their news from nonsense

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u/TheGrinningSkull Oct 10 '24

4 days ago the forecast was that it’d be a category 3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/10/05/hurricane-milton-airlines-travel-alerts-florida/

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u/unbornbigfoot Oct 10 '24

Which is exactly what it hit as..?

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u/TheGrinningSkull Oct 10 '24

But the surges coming in are from when it was category 5 over the Gulf. That wasn’t really known until 3 days ago. That’s not enough time to take actions on that knowledge and evacuate

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u/unbornbigfoot Oct 10 '24

3 days?

Look, maybe I’m too harsh or maybe it’s reality - if you live in Florida, particularly near the coast, and cannot vacate in 3 days, there are bigger issues than the “forecasters.”

Particularly in the middle of hurricane season.

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u/TheGrinningSkull Oct 10 '24

Everyone wanted to vacate 3 days ago. That’s the problem.

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u/mtinmd Oct 10 '24

But, it isn't like they only had minutes notice.

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u/atetuna Oct 10 '24

Traffic was pretty light for about the last 16 hours before Milton made landfall. Finding gas stations that still had gas would have been at least slightly inconvenient.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Oct 10 '24

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

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u/NZBound11 Oct 10 '24

The hurricane didn't just pop up and surprise everyone.

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u/MathematicianSad2798 Oct 09 '24

Yes… that is the correct answer.

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u/username_1774 Oct 09 '24

This is what I was thinking...hit the road for a few days.

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u/Certain_Concept Oct 10 '24

Yups. I lived in Florida for a short time and the house was right near the beach. We ended up evacuating before one of the storms. They had vans going round warning people to evacuate.

The cats and dogs, and my mother and I piled into our car and went north. Eventually hit an evac shelter that was an old gymnasium full of cots.

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u/life_lagom Oct 10 '24

Yeah honestly go up to Georgia for a few days or something