As Hurricane Milton “barreled” (the obligatory verb for an object moving at 5-10 mph) into Sarasota, Kamala Harris threatened merchants:
About 12 hours later, Orbitz is showing hotel rooms in Orlando for a stay beginning tonight at $122/nights. If you’re willing to stay at the La Quinta… $72/night. For those who want to be ready for Disney World’s reopening tomorrow, the on-property Swan hotel is $252/night. Perhaps Jussie Smollett reported having been overcharged?
What about a hotel in Miami, which was never forecast to be “barreled into”?
I won’t be staying in a hotel tonight because I need to get back up on a ladder. Like Jeffrey Epstein, these hurricane screens didn’t hang themselves and I fear that they won’t unhang themselves either. (The previous owners of our house invested in impact glass doors and windows, but the front door is an unusual shape and they left the original door in place. The wide Armor Screen covers an outdoor dining area that has a bug screen whose frame is hurricane-proof (supposedly) but whose screen material is sacrificial. My thought on the hurricane screen for that area was that we could use it to store all of our outdoor items in the event of a truly bad storm.)
It was mostly peaceful yesterday here in Jupiter (Palm Beach County). The schoolteachers were enjoying the start of their two-day taxpayer-funded holiday while everyone else worked (health care, retail, expert witness, etc.). There was a bit of rain and the wind picked up around 9 pm. There were a handful of tornadoes in SE Florida caused by Hurricane Milton, but none came into Jupiter itself (one was in Jupiter Farms, to our west, one in western Palm Beach Gardens in Avenir, and a sad one for aviators in Fort Pierce that deposited some airplanes outside the airport fence).
“The schoolteachers were enjoying the start of their two-day taxpayer-funded holiday”
100 miles north of Jupiter in Brevard County, public school teachers are enjoying a 4-and-a-half day taxpayer-funded holiday due to the storm. Local city and county workers enjoying two paid days off, while cops and firefighters and “essential” others earning double-time-and-a-half for 12-hour shifts Wed. & Thur. (paid by FEMA)! Minimal storm effects in Brevard. The sun came out at 9:00 am on Thur. 10/10.
Just back from Home Depot and Publix. The entire strip mall of about 50 stores was operating per usual while public employees relaxed.