Originally Posted by tk13:
Cantore just about got taken out on the weather channel. Even for him this hurricane might be a bit too much. That's going to end up as a GIF all over the internet.
I was waiting to see two guys walk through the shot behind him like nothing was happening.
Really hard to take that clown seriously after seeing that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Hugo happened when I was at Great Lakes. My roommate and I were friends with a young married couple who were set to transfer to a command in Charleston the day it hit. Their assigned housing got wiped out, so they were told to stay put, but they had already moved out of their home and had nowhere to go. The Navy was amazingly unhelpful to them and basically did nothing. They ended up staying in our living room for two weeks until alternate housing was found for them.
I visited Charleston a couple of years later. There was still a ton of damage that hadn't yet been repaired. That one was definitely not overhyped.
The Navy has never been as friendly to the member's family as other branches. Like the grumpy CMC says, "if the Navy wanted you to have a wife they'd have put one in your seabag..."
As for Charleston, by the time it was all done, it was much better. One nice thing about a hurricane is that it tends to destroy some structures that many people would love to see destroyed and gotten rid of anyway. [Reply]
Still 145 mph winds over 500 miles wide-My son, daughter in law and Grand daughter are boarded up and safe in Naples. My son has to work in this crap he's a first responder actually head of first responders. [Reply]
