DeSantis passed the hurricane test
Donsurber.com,
by
Don Surber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/1/2022 11:03:08 PM
A 500-year hurricane wiped out most of Florida this week. The Tampa Bay Times described the devastation.
The newspaper said, "It wasn’t just the coastline, though it took most of the blow.(snip)The cleanup will take months. Recovery will take years. Even for a state that deals with hurricanes every year, this one could be too much.
But 4 years ago, Floridians elected the right Florida Man to run the state government. He didn't wind up in a motel room drunk and stoned with male hookers. DeSantis knew what to do and is doing it. (snip)DeSantis passed the test. Problems crop up and he is on it.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine 10/1/2022 11:16:18 PM (No. 1293048)
There have been hurricanes this bad plenty of times in my lifetime. Camille, Andrew, the one that almost wiped out Galveston - Camille pushed houses back several feet from where they were. It chopped up the roads like building blocks. It won't take years to recover. The southern states that get these storms learned long ago how to bounce back. Florida will do just fine.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 10/2/2022 12:18:05 AM (No. 1293071)
Surber us going overboard here with "500 year hurricane" and "destroyed most of Florida".
But are untrue.
Stronger hurricanes have happened in recent years and while there is a lot of damage, it is highly localized, most of Florida is entirely undamaged.
I like all the rest of what he wrote and what DeSantis has done and is doing.
But it isn't necessary to exaggerate. The truth is what we need to stick to and deal with.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rama41 10/2/2022 1:19:35 AM (No. 1293086)
And Biden had no intention of calling DeSantis until he was shamed into it by DeSantis refusing to take a reporter's question trying to politicize the slight. When asked later, Biden still refused to say what a good job DeSantis has been doing. That would be at cross purposes to what Democrats are already planning..
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Msquared112 10/2/2022 6:26:17 AM (No. 1293126)
We left Sarasota for Lakewood Ranch to stay with friends until the storm passed. They never lost power.
Our condo, an older building, is in Sarasota. Twelve hours after the storm hit there, the power was back on. Freezer food didn’t even have enough time to defrost. Internet came on yesterday (Sat.) at 11am. All comms just fine. Zero damage to condo building, no water seepage, nada. By contrast people nearby in Englewood and Venice got very hard hit.
God was with us. This could have been utter annihilation but the prayer chains and Ron DeSantis, also a person of faith, were on the case. We are eternally grateful for both.
LESSON LEARNED: When “mother nature” get pi$$ed off, leave the room and don’t try to argue.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Msquared112 10/2/2022 6:27:00 AM (No. 1293127)
PS: “Most of Florida” was NOT destroyed. Surber got some bad info.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pc1eszm 10/2/2022 7:54:32 AM (No. 1293155)
I live no where near the storm damaged area yet I have an awesome Hurricane Ian story to tell…
I have a friend who lives in NW Ohio. She and her husband were in Cape Coral visiting friends when the storm hit. They flew so they didn’t have a car. 4 flights they tried to book were cancelled. A 5th was out of Atlanta booked for last evening. They had no way to get there until, out of sheer desperation, she called me and asked if we could come get them. No small ask since I live NE of Atlanta.
Without hesitation, my husband agreed to go get them. He got there and got them out just before I-75 was closed due to flooding. Round trip it took about 22 hours. My friends made their flight and they are now back home safe and sound in Ohio.
Most Americans are awesome and I have a feeling there will be more stories like this one told in the coming months.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
downnout 10/2/2022 8:02:48 AM (No. 1293162)
I enjoy Surber’s musings on things but he does himself no favors with such hyperbole as “…hurricane wiped out most of Florida.”. The devastation on the west coast is horrific but the majority of Florida weathered the hurricane quite well.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/2/2022 9:58:26 AM (No. 1293272)
Future president Ron and First Lady Casey DeSantis showed the world how things are done. It’s called leadership.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/2/2022 1:32:21 PM (No. 1293550)
Here's how I know that DeSantis is going a good job. The Leftist media has gone pretty quiet about it, especially anything related to DeSantis. Rather than give a political enemy credit for a good job, they would rather say nothing.
Sure there are pictures and video and brief stories describing the extent of the devastation but not too much about the emergency actions being taken. They also KNOW that if they lie about the situation, DeSantis will rip them apart. He not only is doing the right things, he has the details ready to go if the media starts making up lies as they usually do with a Republican in charge. That is how they nailed Bush for Katrina. Much of the that reporting was huge exaggeration or outright lies, as was proven later. The media didn't care. They wounded Bush and the correction quietly leaked out much later. If there really were problems, they we due to dem mismanagement in LA and New Orleans not Bush. Bush's fault was his weakness in con confronting the lies, which his presidency collapsed.
DeSantis will NOT let that happen and the media knows it. Thus the muted reporting.
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My intro is a lame leadin to this splendid article. There is so much here. On the hurricane hits. And on what Governor DeSantis has been doing. Before the hurricane hit and ever since. “He’s been everywhere.” Why do we have to prefer either Trump or DeSantis when our country, darned near beaten to death by Biden and his henchpersons and Obama and the WHO and the WEF and God only knows who else? Keep cool and watch and enjoy both of them. We don’t have to make any choice yet… And read this. Don hits all the bases