Hurricane Ian's destruction

The person who posted is not there. Her mom is there though…didn’t want to evacuate to a home deemed less safe (apparently this house has impact windows and storm shutters, whereas the person posting…the homeowner’s daughter…lives further inland but does not have those storm mitigating items).

If you have Twitter (anyone…not just you @NorthCyd. I’m not trying to be a **** here), click on the tweet and read the comments. The poster explains the situation. Also, you’ll see all of the news outlets reaching out to her asking permission to use the photos. Pretty gross.
Why is asking for permission to use photos gross? Id rather they do that then risk their lives to send someone down there
 
I really hope these reporters that are out in the hurricane reporting live are getting paid millions lol holy ****.
 
While not as destructive we have blizzards pretty regularly and no one thinks of bugging out before one hits. We can have ice, feet of snow, gale force winds and days long power outages.

I'm sure people think we are crazy as well.

I was thinking it's more like when we go out to see the Tornado during a warning
 
I can honestly say in the 40 years I have lived in the Midwest, I have never had a multi day power outage. The most I can recall being out is maybe 6 or 7 hours.
I was without power for 11 days after a snowstorm in Oct 1997 in Omaha. I grew up just east of UNO, so it's not like I was out in the boonies. Turns out 12" of wet, heavy snow + a lot of big old trees that still had their leaves = tons of down power lines. If I recall, school was closed for 2 days, but had a good week of getting ready by candle light in the morning. Frontier **** isn't for me.