'A hurricane of this size has never struck Florida before': Category 4 Matthew bears down

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More than 2 million people have been urged to flee their homes as Hurricane Matthew, now a Category 4 hurricane, approached Florida on Thursday evening. The storm threatened to pound the southeastern coast of the United States with a fire hose of high winds, storm surges and heavy rains.

“This is serious,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said at a press conference Thursday. "If you need to evacuate and you haven't, evacuate. This storm will kill you. Time is running out.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-hurricane-matthew-20161006-snap-story.html
 
First they had to deal with Jose Fernandez's death... and now this. Not a good couple of months for Florida.
 
My grandpa along with an uncle and his family evacuated the area. Hopefully the storm just passes by without damaging their homes. Time will tell.
 
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It should be illegal to build houses out of wood in Florida...I hope families are safe and damage is minimal ....just seems those stick frame homes blow apart all the time....typhoons hit our home in eastern Taiwan every year but all the buildings are thick brick and concrete with flood plugs in the drains and big drain pipes...had wooden slats that protected the windows with metal brackets..GLOBAL WARMING is causing these monster storms
 
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riverman said:
It should be illegal to build houses out of wood in Florida...I hope families are safe and damage is minimal ....just seems those stick frame homes blow apart all the time....typhoons hit our home in eastern Taiwan every year but all the buildings are thick brick and concrete with flood plugs in the drains and big drain pipes...had wooden slats that protected the windows with metal brackets..GLOBAL WARMING is causes these monster storms
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Typical liberal! Always wanting the government to have a rule for something! ;) :cheers:
 
blue32 said:
Typical liberal! Always wanting the government to have a rule for something! ;) :cheers:
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nah...just an old typhoon experienced vet....I didn't invent this shit....it's why Japanese houses have floors that are two feet off the ground from the door...you can drain your house without damage by pulling a plug 2 inches in diameter under your front door
 
Damn, that thing is just going to sit over Jacksonville for a day and a half.

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I was there for last hurricane a month ago. Glad I am not there for this one.
 
At the rate the hurricane is moving I've calculated that it will reach Oregon in 214 days.
 
I have a bunch of friends I work with that live in Orlando......they've had their senses knocked down and a garage. Man, it's bad enough they have to live in a fucking swamp.
 
so basically it wasn't as bad as everyone was saying it was going to be?
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...for-a-hospital-in-haiti-that-was-never-built/

Did the Clinton Foundation raise ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for a hospital in Haiti that was never built?

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The Clinton family’s charitable work in Haiti has been a mix of success, disappointment and controversy. As our Washington Post colleagues reported, some Clinton-backed projects didn’t come through, such as a $2 million housing expo for thousands of new housing units. The Government Accountability Office found poor planning and unsustainable outcomes for taxpayer-funded projects through USAID, such as a $170 million power plant and port for the Caracol Industrial Park, which the Clinton Foundation promoted.

Hillary Clinton’s younger brother had connections to a mining project in Haiti, raising suspicions among Haitians about the Clintons’ motives. Luxury hotel projects paid by the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund promised construction jobs — but for Haitians, it represented another disconnect between Clinton-backed efforts and the realities of one of the poorest countries struggling to rebuild after one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the Western Hemisphere.

There’s real frustration among Haitians over failures in progress promised to them, not just by the Clintons but from the international community at large. In 2015, Haitian activists protested outside the Clinton Foundation in New York, claiming the Clintons mismanaged hundreds of millions in taxpayer money through the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission.
 
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-email-213110

The Clintons’ Haiti Screw-Up, As Told By Hillary’s Emails

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As the latest release of Hillary Clinton’s personal emails by the U.S. State Department Monday revealed, that perception was not an accident. “We waged a very successful campaign against the negative stories concerning our involvement in Haiti,” Judith McHale, the under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, wrote on February 26, 2010. A few weeks before, the public affairs chief had emailed newspaper quotations praising U.S. efforts in Haiti to Secretary Clinton with the note “Our Posts at work.” Clinton applauded. “That’s the result of your leadership and a new model of engagement w our own people,” she replied. “Onward!”
 
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