The Atlantic Hates Everyone! - Hurricane megathread

[Computer Lab]

Oh, this is why my friends were trying to calculate how many bullets would be needed to mess with the airflow of a hurricane.
That conversation makes much more sense now.

[Torrocca]

Oh, this is why my friends were trying to calculate how many bullets would be needed to mess with the airflow of a hurricane.
That conversation makes much more sense now.

... What numbers did they come up with?

[Corrian]

Hurricane Irma has had landfall a 2nd time in Florida as a category 3 right at Naples.

[Valrifell]

Oh, this is why my friends were trying to calculate how many bullets would be needed to mess with the airflow of a hurricane.
That conversation makes much more sense now.

... What numbers did they come up with?

Given that the Tsar Bomba wouldn't have enough energy to significantly disrupt the airflow of a hurricane, I'd say a lot.

[Torrocca]

... What numbers did they come up with?

Given that the Tsar Bomba wouldn't have enough energy to significantly disrupt the airflow of a hurricane, I'd say a lot.

Now I'm just imagining a bunch of backwater, Redneck-type scientists calculating the exact number and bringing out their friends and all their guns to combat Irma.

[Computer Lab]

Oh, this is why my friends were trying to calculate how many bullets would be needed to mess with the airflow of a hurricane.
That conversation makes much more sense now.

... What numbers did they come up with?

They gave up when they realized that bullets are explicitly designed to avoid being affected by air flows which leads to bullets not affecting air flow much.
I could try and actually calculate it, but unlike them, I am not a physics major.

[-Hurricane Irma-]

Given that the Tsar Bomba wouldn't have enough energy to significantly disrupt the airflow of a hurricane, I'd say a lot.

Now I'm just imagining a bunch of backwater, Redneck-type scientists calculating the exact number and bringing out their friends and all their guns to combat Irma.

I'd kick their asses.

[Genivaria]

So this picture has been making rounds on FB, if this is true I think someone is about to be sued.

Found only one source for it.

Florida Pizza Hut Threatens to Punish Workers Fleeing Irma

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Wait, what? Shooting at a hurricane?! The stupid burns. Is this even real?

[Neanderthaland]

Wait, what? Shooting at a hurricane?! The stupid burns. Is this even real?

Of course it is. Because Florida.

I'm sure downed trees and debris will a problem, but most of the mess is going to be beer cans and shotgun shells.

[Vassenor]

So this picture has been making rounds on FB, if this is true I think someone is about to be sued.

(Image)

Found only one source for it.

Florida Pizza Hut Threatens to Punish Workers Fleeing Irma

Florida's a Right To Work state, isn't it?

[Genivaria]

So this picture has been making rounds on FB, if this is true I think someone is about to be sued.

(Image)

Found only one source for it.

Florida Pizza Hut Threatens to Punish Workers Fleeing Irma

Florida's a Right To Work state, isn't it?

Correct.

[Vassenor]

Florida's a Right To Work state, isn't it?

Correct.

So yeah, there's nothing really stopping employers doing crap like this then.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Correct.

So yeah, there's nothing really stopping employers doing crap like this then.

I believe "Right to Work" only has to do with not having to join unions to work, not whether or not an employer can fire you for whatever reason. I think "At Will" is the what that is instead.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

So this picture has been making rounds on FB, if this is true I think someone is about to be sued.

(Image)

Found only one source for it.

Florida Pizza Hut Threatens to Punish Workers Fleeing Irma

Is that for real? If so then that's incredibly shitty for someone to practically have their employees risk their lives to come into work during a fucking hurricane. It's not like anyone's ordering a pizza during a hurricane.

[Genivaria]

So this picture has been making rounds on FB, if this is true I think someone is about to be sued.

(Image)

Found only one source for it.

Florida Pizza Hut Threatens to Punish Workers Fleeing Irma

Is that for real? If so then that's incredibly shitty for someone to practically have their employees risk their lives to come into work during a fucking hurricane. It's not like anyone's ordering a pizza during a hurricane.

As I said I only have the one source, if you find another feel free to post it and I'll edit it in.

[Geilinor]

Wait, what? Shooting at a hurricane?! The stupid burns. Is this even real?

Of course it is. Because Florida.

I'm sure downed trees and debris will a problem, but most of the mess is going to be beer cans and shotgun shells.

Even Texas didn't try to shoot their hurricane.

[Risottia]

... What numbers did they come up with?

Given that the Tsar Bomba wouldn't have enough energy to significantly disrupt the airflow of a hurricane, I'd say a lot.

But if we threw a Tsar Bomba at Irma, she would really earn her "Nuclear Hurricane" moniker.

[Genivaria]

Of course it is. Because Florida.

I'm sure downed trees and debris will a problem, but most of the mess is going to be beer cans and shotgun shells.

Even Texas didn't try to shoot their hurricane.

Wow I get to use this.

[Victorious Decepticons]

So this picture has been making rounds on FB, if this is true I think someone is about to be sued.

(Image)

Found only one source for it.

Florida Pizza Hut Threatens to Punish Workers Fleeing Irma

Is that for real? If so then that's incredibly shitty for someone to practically have their employees risk their lives to come into work during a fucking hurricane. It's not like anyone's ordering a pizza during a hurricane.

Other than the note that you can't milk an evacuation into several extra days off beforehand, I'm not seeing much there. That said, their claim that "documentation will be issued" is immediately ire-inducing. So what if they do! Who's going to be scared of that!!? It's a Pizza Hut.. They can issue away. If the manager likes you, he'll ignore it. If he doesn't, he'll find a way to get rid of you even if there isn't any documentation at all.

And, having done pizza delivery - Just before the storm hits, they were surely BOMBED in orders from jerks who want all of the comforts of hot food without having to go get it. In Michigan, a blizzard caused that effect quite regularly. Then, during the storm, orders slow down, but do keep trickling in.

Being the only pizza joint left open in a storm is easy money...for owners who don't care if the entire staff gets killed trying to deliver their crap. For drivers, the fact that "storm customers" are generally lousy tippers means that you don't do it the next time, documentation be damned.

[Victores]

Until about a generation ago, all hurricanes had female names. Many women protested that this practice was sexist, so the policy changed to alternate between female and male names.

Actually, some of the very earliest hurricane names were male: they were named after politicians that the author didn't like, so he could accuse them of "wandering aimlessly" and such (he also did some after his girlfriends).

reddit?

[Thermodolia]

Well where I work, I work in the metro Atlanta area btw, has ordered a mandatory evacuations of all guests. That was fun

[Zanera]

It's called land.

No seriously land slows down hurricanes, when they are out in open ocean they tend to move at 15 mph

So what you're telling me is that, once a hurricane makes landfall, I can literally outrun it?

You have to stop for food, drink, the shits, the pisses, the rests, and the sleeps. Since you're running all the time that means a lot of eats and drinks. If you're out-of-shape then a lot of rests. You're probably much less efficient than a hurricane.

This is why we're going to get replaced by robots.

[Thermodolia]

So what you're telling me is that, once a hurricane makes landfall, I can literally outrun it?

You have to stop for food, drink, the shits, the pisses, the rests, and the sleeps. Since you're running all the time that means a lot of eats and drinks. If you're out-of-shape then a lot of rests. You're probably much less efficient than a hurricane.

This is why we're going to get replaced by robots.

We are getting replaced by robots because we can't outrun hurricanes, sounds fair

[Zanera]

You have to stop for food, drink, the shits, the pisses, the rests, and the sleeps. Since you're running all the time that means a lot of eats and drinks. If you're out-of-shape then a lot of rests. You're probably much less efficient than a hurricane.

This is why we're going to get replaced by robots.

We are getting replaced by robots because we can't outrun hurricanes, sounds fair

Well would you think a robot would outrun a hurricane, or a human would outrun a hurricane?