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Morons & Idiots

Tampa Mayor:  “If you don’t leave now, you’re gonna die!”

One-legged yacht owner:  “Fuck you, and fuck Milton.”

As much as I want to rebuke this idiot, I just can’t help laughing.  If you were offered odds that he has some form of illegal stuff on his boat (drugs, moonshine, hand grenades, unregistered machine guns, etc.), would you take the bet?

Update:  He made it! 

But his boat didn’t.

10 comments

  1. I’m in Orlando, and it’s not bad here, so far. Supposed to miss the worst.

    Watching Ryan Hall Y’all, and they’re showing some footage of a seriously large and scary tornado on the east coast right now.

    The guy in the boat? Just insane.

    The damned hurricane hasn’t even made landfall yet.

  3. My take is a bit different and completely rational. The old boy has one thing in the world, his boat and he lives on it.

    In his view, what is the point of living if he does not have a home (boat)? Riding it out he might even have a chance to toss out more anchor if needed. Leave it at anchor somewhere and run inland, he might well end up with nothing at all when the storm passes.

    In his shoe(s) I might well do the same. Just hope he has the thing well battened down so that no water enters the hull.

  4. Well he is in Tampa Bay, so he is on the north side of the eye. The winds will be blowing east to west there blowing all the water out to sea so his biggest problem will be that he will have no water beneath him or that he will be hit by fly debris or crushed by a bigger boat. He has a reasonable change of survival and if he does we will never hear about it.

    That said, it looks like the storm is headed directly at my Late Father’s waterfront house on Casey Key. ( Vennis Fla ), It sits about 6 feet above sea level directly on the beach looking out onto the gulf and was built 50 years ago before the requirements that they be built on stilts to be more hurricane resistant. It’s likely doomed. 30 years I witnessed a waterspout come ashore about 1/2 mile down the beach. Completely removed all the vegetation around the house, stripped the roof off a 2 story concrete home, when we got there water was pouring out the 2nd floor where the windows had been.

  5. I’ve had word that the panhandle is also severely affected.

    Best of luck to everyone affected.

  6. The simplest answer is to tell him good luck, hope you do well, and there ain’t gonna be any first responders or rescues, you are truly on your own. If he accepts those odds, it’s his life. Same as if they tried to force me to evac my house – which has outlasted more than a few hurricanes too. Just leave me be and don’t worry, I won’t be calling for any help.

  7. There was a news story a few years ago, about a difficult rescue the Coast Guard made during a hurricane.
    A couple of young ladies chartered a sailboat and captain for a cruise. Caught in the storm the captain advised them to ride it out and retired to his bunk, with a bottle of scotch. The ladies were in a panic and called for rescue.
    The unmanned boat was recovered undamaged after the storm passed.

  8. It seems landfall was at Siesta Key (just south of Sarasota), so my old fishing haunt on Longboat may have been spared the worst of the storm-surge; and it came ashore as a Cat-3.
    All in all, I’m comfortable being nice and safe in the NV out-back with only an occasional ripple in the soil from a CA earthquake.

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