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-misanthroptimist

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1. The thing about these events
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 10:44 AM
Oct 2024

...is that you can probably find just about any kind of story you want if you look hard enough.

For instance, Milton roared through my part of FL early Thursday morning. We weren't in the center, but still received hurricane force gusts. I lost power for two or three seconds. So, to me, Milton wasn't a big deal.

Meanwhile, the other side of my street is still without power, three days later. My neighbor who is ~100 feet south of me is running his generator as I type this. I imagine his take on Milton is quite different from mine.

And both of us have a far different perception to those that got hit with the uncharacteristically viscous hurricane spawned tornadoes that Milton produced just a couple dozen miles away.

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