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?
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.
YAIIT Harry R. Truman (not the politician.)
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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.