quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 27, 2025 09:29AM

As someone who has faced this multiple times but had the ability get out of harm's way, watching this worst of storms bearing down on thousands of people trapped on an island is agonizing. This will be very, very bad.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: October 27, 2025 10:46AM

I saw something on the news earlier that most people are refusing to go to refuge centres, they're staying in their villages/shacks/homes to protect their belongings from looters.

So most likely a lot of people are going to die to protect their stuff.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 28, 2025 11:02AM

That happens here as well, and when I decide to leave I go no farther than I need to get out of harm's way so I can return as quickly as possible, but that's more about starting repairs ASAP than worry about looters; I don't have much worth stealing, lol. Something that gets some people killed here is a sense of complacency, they think, "Well, the last hurricane(s) turned out to be not that bad here so I'll just ride this one out." That's what happened in 2022 just a few miles from here on Fort Myers beach during hurricane Ian and a bunch of people died when pretty much the entire island went under three to five meters of storm surge water and waves. Just a few miles difference of where a storm comes ashore or a variation in size or strength can make a huge difference in the outcome and some of the most experienced people who should know better become susceptible to that deadly complacency.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: October 28, 2025 11:16AM

Hurricanes are just backwards cyclones right?

quasi Report This Comment
Date: October 28, 2025 12:10PM

Something like that. Same thing, really.