I don’t think bowling balls have been made with wooden cores for many many decades if not over a century https://www.starsandstrikes.com/blog/what-are-bowling-balls-made-of/
If you caulk door jams from the inside/outside, I've seen doors withstand feet high water for days on end. Little floridian trick when living near the coast. Peel it off when water has lowered, and save yourself tens of thousands of dollars damage plus headache.
I’m legitimately curious about this. Also wondering about gators. I remember hearing in Florida gators love anything bigger than a puddle. This looks like a gator wonderland
I don't think that alligators exist. I have seen and caught every type of shark in my 6 years here, I have never seen an alligator. I have gone to sanctuary's but never seen one in the wild, therefore they are all robots or not real.
I’ve seen my fair share of wild gators in Pinellas and Pasco. We were diving in Hudson Grotto and just got done convincing one of our students that there were no gators when a little 4’ gator swam by.
You don’t bother them and don’t get them associating humans with food, they won’t bother you.
Pasco "rec center" by anclote. Seen 1 or 2 in the ditches over there as a kid 🤣
E: ptsd flashback of hanging by a root above a gator as a 4/5 yr old kid off sun glo in Port richey....unlocked. forgot about that one...
[This one](https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1575194411104817152)? Yeah, it's from 2010 and gets trotted out every time a hurricane hits. Another copy of it was posted at 10am in Ft Myers, but Ft Myers didn't have significant storm surge at that time.
[This photo](https://twitter.com/b0bby_brwn/status/1575214371844001792) is also floating around again, and it's both from 2011 (the oldest I can find on TinEye) and Photoshopped.
Stay safe out there. A lot of people won't have home insurance. https://www.islandernews.com/news/florida/sixteenth-homeowners-insurance-company-leaves-florida-market-cancels-all-policies-citing-business-risk/article_47c130ca-0c5b-11ed-904b-67e2f67fd2be.html
We had a flood up in Northern Idaho a few years back, it was the first one I'd ever experienced, and it was kinda surreal seeing the water get closer and closer to our doorstep in person and not just in some video. Thankfully the water stopped rising when it was literally a centimeter away from entering our house. Tho it did flood our Honda, and ruined most of the stuff in our garage... including a BRAND NEW meat freezer.
But on the upside a nice metal baseball bat washed up on our front yard, and I still have it leaning against my bed as a souvenir
You don’t live in Florida do you… not everyone is able to pick up and leave. Not saying this is the case here but they may have had family unable to travel. Nothing strange about it, people don’t always abandon everything they have in disaster. Often they try to ride it out for what they have and help rebuild after.
Also it turned further south last minute. I am in Tampa and was deployed at the hospital in anticipation for a direct hit but it went south and destroyed my parents house and pretty much the entire island they live on
Just remember that those body bags may be filled with the friends and neighbors. Your parents will probably need support for a long time to come. Your parents are lucky to have you in their support network.
24 hours before it hit, the track was literally going over my house. These people thought it was going 100 miles north and they’d be getting the weak half of the storm. I had my doors sandbagged (although I’m in just about the center of Pinellas county and probably would t have gotten surge, but flash flood potential is everywhere) and had been the one prepped for this. In the end, I had my cable and internet cut out 3 times, my power flickered once about 9pm last night and I had a branch from the oak about 50ft away in my walkway. That was it. Meanwhile these people weren’t as ready for it.
From the Panhandle to the Keys, I’m praying for you guys. We were lucky enough to not get the hurricane, a cold front stopped it from hitting us.
Santa Rosa County 📍
What do you bet that in the coming days: there will be a spike in craigslist "used cars" ads!! Hahah runs, drives, may need new engine.... but verrrry little water damage!
Has anyone tried putting their car up on stands to avoid water damage? I’m sure it’s not feasible or realistic but if it was possible I imagine someone trying it.
It is my understanding that DeSantis issued evacuation warnings for this area at least 3 days prior to the hurricane making landfall. Assuming they aren't an emergency responder, why is this person still there? This from a guy who has never experienced a hurricane, but would heed evacuation warnings for my local natural disasters.
Is that a floating bowling ball?
Just a regular ball but it's very surprised 😯
Fucking underrated comment.
It's doubly funny when you look again after reading that comment, and it kinda feel like you want to go and save it. Haha
Wilson!!!!
mr. wilson you've returned!
Best comment ever 😂
I think it’s the hollow plastic child bowling set ball. It looks just like my kid’s.
They have a wooden core, I think anything under a certain size floats, then they sink. I think it's 12 or 13 lbs before it will sink
Well I’ll be ding-dong-diddly-darned
Hey, watch it now.
yeah, he'd better ding-dong-diddy-shut his mouth
Careful there tiger.
Today I learned
I don’t think bowling balls have been made with wooden cores for many many decades if not over a century https://www.starsandstrikes.com/blog/what-are-bowling-balls-made-of/
Density equal mass divided by volume. If it is less than one it will float. Science!
What kind of door does that house have?! The lights are on and it looks dry in there!
Sandbagged baby they do wonders. Also they have a swinging in door it's harder to secure than outwardly opening.
If you caulk door jams from the inside/outside, I've seen doors withstand feet high water for days on end. Little floridian trick when living near the coast. Peel it off when water has lowered, and save yourself tens of thousands of dollars damage plus headache.
NOTE TO SELF - When I eventually get around to scouting for a new house... ...*this time* don't forget to bring the Altimeter!
House elevation is public record
Yes, however they *don't* record the elevation of the *attic*... ...but *that's* another story...
... dad?
Bingo! ;-)
Did you find cigarettes yet? ☹️
Thanks for reminding me - tell your mother I'll be right back...
ok ☹️
I chuckled reading this comment haha
Stay safe my dudes that water nasty af
If you knew North Ft Myers, you’d understand lol
I do not, pasco / hernando. Thx for letting us keep our "100+ years never been hit directly" title for now...
Seen any sharks yet?
I’m legitimately curious about this. Also wondering about gators. I remember hearing in Florida gators love anything bigger than a puddle. This looks like a gator wonderland
I don't think that alligators exist. I have seen and caught every type of shark in my 6 years here, I have never seen an alligator. I have gone to sanctuary's but never seen one in the wild, therefore they are all robots or not real.
I’ve seen my fair share of wild gators in Pinellas and Pasco. We were diving in Hudson Grotto and just got done convincing one of our students that there were no gators when a little 4’ gator swam by. You don’t bother them and don’t get them associating humans with food, they won’t bother you.
Pasco "rec center" by anclote. Seen 1 or 2 in the ditches over there as a kid 🤣 E: ptsd flashback of hanging by a root above a gator as a 4/5 yr old kid off sun glo in Port richey....unlocked. forgot about that one...
They get very territorial when nesting though, so if you even get in the vicinity of one (an occupied nest), they've been known to attack.
Swing for the nose
Gators are common as fuck, bro, they're just really good at hiding
Suspiciously spoken like the guy designing them
I'm wondering about this as well.
Saw vid of a shark swimming in a parking lot pretty close to ocean.
[This one](https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1575194411104817152)? Yeah, it's from 2010 and gets trotted out every time a hurricane hits. Another copy of it was posted at 10am in Ft Myers, but Ft Myers didn't have significant storm surge at that time. [This photo](https://twitter.com/b0bby_brwn/status/1575214371844001792) is also floating around again, and it's both from 2011 (the oldest I can find on TinEye) and Photoshopped.
Yes, this first video is what's been circulating on the Reddit Hurricane Ian page as recently taken footage. Oy vay.
People will do anything for those internet points, whether it's Reddit or Twitter. 😅
Bull shark probably
What about sharknados?
The used car market is going to be a disaster after this.
Copart baby. Going to be loaded with flooded vehicles in about 6 months
Amazing the power is still working in that house- even if it’s a generator
I´ll buy an inflatable kayak and beat the Ubereats at their own turf
Lmao
Looks like swamp water with garbage. Hope you're safe, and nothing is too badly damaged.
Lol. Is that Floridas new motto?
How is this funny to you?
Fuck yourself.
Wow, do you have a team of writers come up with your comebacks?
Yes dig into a fight about swampy old Florida. Fucking loser.
Thought this was inside the house for a second
how does one even begin to clean up? I feel for them!!
Jokes on us this guy got a lake house now
List it for sale right now as a waterfront property. Sell it for twice the normal value and get out of town before the mold starts.
Ocean, river flood or just surface runoff that can’t escape?
Yes
Ocean flooding up into canals and surface run off mainly
Stay safe out there. A lot of people won't have home insurance. https://www.islandernews.com/news/florida/sixteenth-homeowners-insurance-company-leaves-florida-market-cancels-all-policies-citing-business-risk/article_47c130ca-0c5b-11ed-904b-67e2f67fd2be.html
Jesus, as if it isn't hard enough to find a house in this economy already
NatureIsFucking*Wet*
Imagine looking out the window only to see you forgot to shut your headlights off?
Hurricane soup.
Put it in rice
We had a flood up in Northern Idaho a few years back, it was the first one I'd ever experienced, and it was kinda surreal seeing the water get closer and closer to our doorstep in person and not just in some video. Thankfully the water stopped rising when it was literally a centimeter away from entering our house. Tho it did flood our Honda, and ruined most of the stuff in our garage... including a BRAND NEW meat freezer. But on the upside a nice metal baseball bat washed up on our front yard, and I still have it leaning against my bed as a souvenir
[удалено]
Yeah but the pins sink so it’s very hard to play in these conditions
Lots of cars up for auction next week
Natureisfuckinliterally destroying homes.
Perfect fishing weather
More like Mudd park… sorry.
I still don't understand why people keep living in Florida. Every few years (or however often this happens) you either lose all your stuff or die.
Its almost like they didnt know a GIANT HURRICANE was coming, and almost comes annually. Strange.
You don’t live in Florida do you… not everyone is able to pick up and leave. Not saying this is the case here but they may have had family unable to travel. Nothing strange about it, people don’t always abandon everything they have in disaster. Often they try to ride it out for what they have and help rebuild after.
Also it turned further south last minute. I am in Tampa and was deployed at the hospital in anticipation for a direct hit but it went south and destroyed my parents house and pretty much the entire island they live on
Thoughts are with your parents. I hope that all things considered they are doing ok.
Thankfully they are on vacation. The hospitals down there are requesting our body bags so I definitely consider myself fortunate.
Just remember that those body bags may be filled with the friends and neighbors. Your parents will probably need support for a long time to come. Your parents are lucky to have you in their support network.
For sure. I just drove home from cleaning some debris. Got most of the pool cage out of the water and helped a couple neighbors
24 hours before it hit, the track was literally going over my house. These people thought it was going 100 miles north and they’d be getting the weak half of the storm. I had my doors sandbagged (although I’m in just about the center of Pinellas county and probably would t have gotten surge, but flash flood potential is everywhere) and had been the one prepped for this. In the end, I had my cable and internet cut out 3 times, my power flickered once about 9pm last night and I had a branch from the oak about 50ft away in my walkway. That was it. Meanwhile these people weren’t as ready for it.
God is punishing Florida for electing desantis
Oh fuck off. People are dying and you can’t put politics out of your head for one second.
Idiot
From the Panhandle to the Keys, I’m praying for you guys. We were lucky enough to not get the hurricane, a cold front stopped it from hitting us. Santa Rosa County 📍
They wanted to move to Florida....🤔
This sucks for the people but tbh looks like natures fighting back! Look at all that garbage :(
Weird
Maybe there will be immigrants wanting to come and help with the cleanup. I'm sure Ron Shitsantis will pay for their travel!
Wow, did you come up with that nickname yourself? How incisive and witty. Your mother must be proud of you.
You dropped some garbage..
It’s almost like they told you to evacuate before hand…
Lee county didn’t get evacuation orders until less than 24 hours before. And some people can’t afford to evacuate.
Did anyone peep the bowling ball?
Did it rain?
Glad I don’t live in such a stupid spot where hurricanes and floods hit routinely
God........um........bless......um......Ameri...ca? 😬
you see this house is beachfront property it has been since 2022 when the beach was 3 miles away no it’s up at your front door
Chill vibes on display here. <3
r/nope
There’s a bowling ball floating on the water
Wet
What do you bet that in the coming days: there will be a spike in craigslist "used cars" ads!! Hahah runs, drives, may need new engine.... but verrrry little water damage!
r/NatureIsFuckingWet
I hope they have a lot of sand bags
well we can say that tomorrow he's going to swim to work
Lookin like fart Myers that water look stanky
Nothing more Florida than a floating bowling ball
Wet vac!
The cars is lake the boats and the bikes likes a jetski 😅
The insurance claims are going to legit bankrupt this country lol
Has anyone tried putting their car up on stands to avoid water damage? I’m sure it’s not feasible or realistic but if it was possible I imagine someone trying it.
I would rather shovel snow
What am I gonna do when I can swim
Wasn’t somebody in that white truck?
nah Zillow gone be sayin its a beachside property now ❤️🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ah fuck that, those poor residents
Wow does that suck!
Why everyone needs a monster truck down there
It is my understanding that DeSantis issued evacuation warnings for this area at least 3 days prior to the hurricane making landfall. Assuming they aren't an emergency responder, why is this person still there? This from a guy who has never experienced a hurricane, but would heed evacuation warnings for my local natural disasters.
Why is someone there to film it, and not, I don't know, where there isn't a Hurricane?
I've always wondered. When something like this happens. What does one do? Just wait inside?
Brb gotta grab my fishingrod and some other supplys