Kinda Wish I Was in Austin...
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Having done a lot of tornado and hurricane cleanup/rebuilding I can say most tornado's damage tend to be worse. Hurricanes weaken once on shore. Tornados of course don't. I've seen tornado's all over the country they can happen anywhere - even in the mountains where people don't think they will.
this one is a tornado from Alabama I helped with cleanup and re-building.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Having done a lot of tornado and hurricane cleanup/rebuilding I can say most tornado's damage tend to be worse. Hurricanes weaken once on shore. Tornados of course don't. I've seen tornado's all over the country they can happen anywhere - even in the mountains where people don't think they will.
It really depends on where the hurricane hits. Florida is so hurricane prone that everything is built to withstand it. The rest of the Southeast gets much worse damage from weaker storms. Category 3 and 4 hurricanes aren't uncommon to make landfall in FL. The damage is bad, but when a storm like that makes landfall in a gulf state that doessn't have a history of hurricanes its catastrophic.
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I've had a tornado start to form in my back yard in New York (near @Minion-Queen now.) One of my best friends in high school had a tornado pick up the barn across the street from his house and carry it over his house and drop it on the other side, missing his house completely (while the foreign exchange student from Spain that had never seen a tornado sat on the front porch watching the whole thing!!) and have had them come through my neighbourhood in Texas while we huddled in the bathroom with the kids. My dad has even sat through a movie in Indiana and suddenly started getting wet because a tornado had removed the roof!
When I used to work up in Rochester I lived through a direct hit from the epic microburst (linear tornado or white squall at sea) that was completely unprecedented and destroyed a straight line like a mile wide from Rochester to Syracuse in the 1990s. That was something.
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- Tornados are much smaller and if one does happen to touch down in Dallas, chances of it hitting my building are slim.
- FL is the Sunshine State. I hate sunshine!
- FL gets almost as hot as Texas but with much higher humidity.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I've had a tornado start to form in my back yard in New York (near @Minion-Queen now.) One of my best friends in high school had a tornado pick up the barn across the street from his house and carry it over his house and drop it on the other side, missing his house completely (while the foreign exchange student from Spain that had never seen a tornado sat on the front porch watching the whole thing!!) and have had them come through my neighbourhood in Texas while we huddled in the bathroom with the kids. My dad has even sat through a movie in Indiana and suddenly started getting wet because a tornado had removed the roof!
When I used to work up in Rochester I lived through a direct hit from the epic microburst (linear tornado or white squall at sea) that was completely unprecedented and destroyed a straight line like a mile wide from Rochester to Syracuse in the 1990s. That was something.
I live 3-4 hours downstate from Rochester. We had a tornado twice since we've lived here. Thankfully we don't have a whole lot going on in this town so the damage was minimal both times. The frequency of natural disasters still makes this place far safer then some of the alternatives though.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
He's available, give him an interview!
Is he not at Mcafee anymore?
I'm here but still fairly active looking. I took McAfee because I needed something and had no choice. I need income to flow again.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
Actually where I am located was chosen for Kennedy Space Center because it has no history of Hurricanes. The Gulf Stream is very strong here and its starts to pull the current away from the shoreline. So the likelihood of a direct hit here is very minimal
I wouldn't mind visiting FL but I could never live there.
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
Actually where I am located was chosen for Kennedy Space Center because it has no history of Hurricanes. The Gulf Stream is very strong here and its starts to pull the current away from the shoreline. So the likelihood of a direct hit here is very minimal
I wouldn't mind visiting FL but I could never live there.
Have you visited?
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@coliver I think you just turned the flagging NY economy into a positive... tornadoes have nothing to destroy, lol.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver I think you just turned the flagging NY economy into a positive... tornadoes have nothing to destroy, lol.
That made me LOL
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
Actually where I am located was chosen for Kennedy Space Center because it has no history of Hurricanes. The Gulf Stream is very strong here and its starts to pull the current away from the shoreline. So the likelihood of a direct hit here is very minimal
I wouldn't mind visiting FL but I could never live there.
Have you visited?
I have an aunt in Fort Meyers and have been to the theme parks a few times. Probably been to FL a little under a dozen times in my life (separate times).
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
I would love to have AJ in our IT department. Of course keeping him calm in most situations may be a full time job
I will never move to FL. I have an aversion to hurricanes...
Actually where I am located was chosen for Kennedy Space Center because it has no history of Hurricanes. The Gulf Stream is very strong here and its starts to pull the current away from the shoreline. So the likelihood of a direct hit here is very minimal
I wouldn't mind visiting FL but I could never live there.
Have you visited?
I have an aunt in Fort Meyers and have been to the theme parks a few times. Probably been to FL a little under a dozen times in my life (separate times).
The culture in Ft. Meyers, Orlando, and where I live are totally different.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver I think you just turned the flagging NY economy into a positive... tornadoes have nothing to destroy, lol.
Oh the joys of living in a post-90s upstate NY.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver I think you just turned the flagging NY economy into a positive... tornadoes have nothing to destroy, lol.
Oh the joys of living in a post-90s upstate NY.
Yeah. Fun right? Lol
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@ajstringham said:
I have an aunt in Fort Meyers and have been to the theme parks a few times. Probably been to FL a little under a dozen times in my life (separate times).
The east coast is very different from the west coast and the panhandle.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
I have an aunt in Fort Meyers and have been to the theme parks a few times. Probably been to FL a little under a dozen times in my life (separate times).
The east coast is very different from the west coast and the panhandle.
Still, too much sunshine. I will get to Seattle someday...
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You need to focus on Microsoft and Amazon.
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@scottalanmiller said:
You need to focus on Microsoft and Amazon.
It'd be kinda cool to work for Microsoft or Amazon.
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@ajstringham both are companies that I would seriously consider. Amazon has reached out to me and we have had conversations but have never worked out something that works for both of us. Good company and I would totally consider it.
Microsoft would be a dream job for me. Not that it is my top pick ever and people will boggle that me, the open source guy, would love to go there but MS is a great company with a great culture and I really respect the bulk of what they do and how they act and even moreso now in the post-Balmer era. I don't know that I would want to stay there for the rest of my career or anything like that, but I would love to have a few years, at least, of the Microsoft experience. I have never reached out to them, though. I would likely want to be in Redmond. But if they reached out to me, I would definitely answer.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham both are companies that I would seriously consider. Amazon has reached out to me and we have had conversations but have never worked out something that works for both of us. Good company and I would totally consider it.
Microsoft would be a dream job for me. Not that it is my top pick ever and people will boggle that me, the open source guy, would love to go there but MS is a great company with a great culture and I really respect the bulk of what they do and how they act and even moreso now in the post-Balmer era. I don't know that I would want to stay there for the rest of my career or anything like that, but I would love to have a few years, at least, of the Microsoft experience. I have never reached out to them, though. I would likely want to be in Redmond. But if they reached out to me, I would definitely answer.
I think my dream job has to be something like Google. Based on what I've heard about their work culture and everything, it sounds like it'd be an amazing place to work!
