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WagnerPaiva said:
COKTOE said:
You made it. I'm glad. You might have unfriended me, but I'm not holding a grudge. I've moved on. Finally found a good gluten-free bread. Taking a ventriloquism class. Got that surgery done. Lengthening AND widening. Things are pretty, pretty, good.

Please post your ventriloquism exploits on youtube

My dummy is incredibly racist. I'll have to figure out a way to tone things down before I upload anything.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

COKTOE said:
WagnerPaiva said:

Please post your ventriloquism exploits on youtube

My dummy is incredibly racist. I'll have to figure out a way to tone things down before I upload anything.

Is he also a holocaust denier?



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

Still can't get back to my apartment, it looks like the St. John's river swallowed it for a while there and it will take days for the water to drain. Here's footage of my street... it would seem leaving was wise heh

Good news is the buildings and windows look intact, so odds are that most of the stuff I stored waaay up off the ground will be ok. There will certainly be significant water damage, though.

*Edit* I suppose in retrospect moving to a street named "River Road" was a poor idea; it really earned the name :p



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Johnw1104 said:

Still can't get back to my apartment, it looks like the St. John's river swallowed it for a while there and it will take days for the water to drain. Here's footage of my street... it would seem leaving was wise heh

Good news is the buildings and windows look intact, so odds are that most of the stuff I stored waaay up off the ground will be ok. There will certainly be significant water damage, though.

*Edit* I suppose in retrospect moving to a street named "River Road" was a poor idea; it really earned the name :p

Yep, living too low near the sea or rivers is always risky. Although when bad luck is strong you aren't safe even up the hills, last year in my region a cold air downburst caused a perfect storm making more damages than tornadoes (that here are rarely strong, and never as strong as on wide plains), the cold air was poured like from a giant bucket over the sea and the air wave when it reached the coast bounced and climbed the hills taking roofs off, felling trees and doing other damages even quite up and far away from the sea on a large area.



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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Johnw1104 said:

Still can't get back to my apartment, it looks like the St. John's river swallowed it for a while there and it will take days for the water to drain. Here's footage of my street... it would seem leaving was wise heh

Good news is the buildings and windows look intact, so odds are that most of the stuff I stored waaay up off the ground will be ok. There will certainly be significant water damage, though.

*Edit* I suppose in retrospect moving to a street named "River Road" was a poor idea; it really earned the name :p

Yep, living too low near the sea or rivers is always risky. Although when bad luck is strong you aren't safe even up the hills, last year in my region a cold air downburst caused a perfect storm making more damages than tornadoes (that here are rarely strong, and never as strong as on wide plains), the cold air was poured like from a giant bucket over the sea and the air wave when it reached the coast bounced and climbed the hills taking roofs off, felling trees and doing other damages even quite up and far away from the sea on a large area.

This has been a rather recent issue in this part of Jacksonville, though. The San Marco community is ancient and hadn't suffered flooding like this in over a century, but now it has flooded two years in a row. I think I'll be moving inland; thankfully I was only renting, so I'm not stuck like a lot of other unfortunate people.



Here's some more pics from my neighborhood:

 

It could have been a lot worse as the damage is almost all flooding. We didn't actually experience much in the way of wind, but a confluence of terrible factors caused Jacksonville to flood worse than it has in living memory:

-A pressure front from the north had caused rains ahead of time, meaning Jacksonville was saturated before the storm even arrived
-September tends to be the worst time of year as far as the moon's affect on the tides is concerned
-The outer band of Irma that did hit Jacksonville turned out to be much more severe than expected
-Hurricane Jose has been pushing water in the Atlantic westward, with Jacksonville sitting right at the crux between Georgia and Florida, causing a bottleneck of sorts
-The St John's River, meanwhile, is a rather rare north-flowing river that flows upwards through Jacksonville and smacks right into all of the water being pushed inland by the aforementioned factors.

The end result is that a community which was barely hit by Irma wound up getting hit worse than most of the Florida coast that was directly in its path. It may take weeks for the water to actually drain (I still can't access my apartment), not because it's deep but rather as it simply has nowhere to go.

It's rather sad, as I feel like I may have to move... for over a hundred years it's been about the most beautiful spot in Jacksonville, but over the past three hurricane seasons we've had a near miss, an extremely near miss with almost disasterous flooding, and now a full-blown flood disaster. It seems like the river is reclaiming the coast, and the beaches have been pummeled as well.



WagnerPaiva said:
COKTOE said:

My dummy is incredibly racist. I'll have to figure out a way to tone things down before I upload anything.

Is he also a holocaust denier?

Oh my yes. That's one of his least offensive character traits.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

AbbathTheGrim said:

Bad news! I survived. Bad grass never dies!

Nah, I am fortunate to be here considering all the people that died due to this fucking hurricane and those still in danger.

Power came yesterday but it was all very hectic and couldn't find the spare time to post up until this very moment.

I want to thank all of you that shared some level of concern for my safety and even those who just came here to crack a joke, fuck political correctness.

Water service has not returned yet, but damage was minal.

The "worst thing" that happened to my home though, this whatever-the-fuck it was appeared inside our swimming pool the following day:

 

 

Fuck dude.  Again?



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.