Aug 26, 2023
Hurricane 🌀 Laura 3 years ago. Peanut rode the storm out in my house. I remember evacuating to Baton Rouge and coming home the next morning through downed trees and power lines and the look in Peanut’s eyes when I opened the door.
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Hurricane 🌀 Laura 3 years ago. Peanut rode the storm out in my house. I remember evacuating to Baton Rouge and coming home the next morning through downed trees and power lines and the look in Peanut’s eyes when I opened the door.
Serious Safety PSA
If yall are in Texas, Louisiana, or southern arkansas... or anywhere else that's about to get hammered:
Leave if you can, if not, button up, hunker down, and stay safe. It's gonna get bad. If you're in south Arkansas, this is your first rodeo, and you have not seen winds like you're about to see. Not sustained, at least.
If you want to keep it, take it inside. Trashcans and lawn ornaments will blow away, or worse, cause damage to vehicles and structures. Bring them into a garage or shed if possible.
If you have time, check the trees around your house for limbs that are dead or look likely to fall. As a person who has lived where strong gusts are a thing I can tell you that tree limbs will travel a lot farther than you think in a sustained gale. A lot farther. Find them and, if you have time, pull/cut them down.
Tornadoes are expected. Even without them, winds this high are dangerous. Keep children and pets indoors. Stay indoors yourself. The worst of the winds will be around the eye of the storm, so be extremely wary of sudden calm, as it will be very, very temporary.
Assume that you will lose power. Have flashlights, portae power banks, and candles handy. Have a portable radio on hand for weather broadcasts. Have water stashed away.
If your area has a flash flood warning, move electronics away from the floor, even if you live on a hill.
This is gonna be a bad one. Stay safe, you guys. I mean it.
There's an app called BringFido that will help you locate pet friendly hotels, and many of them are discounting rooms for storm refugees. TAKE YOUR PETS WITH YOU.
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I'm not sure if I have followers who are in the path of Hurricane Laura, but please be careful if you are. Category 4 storms are horrible and dangerous. Cat 5 are even worse. I went through Hurricane Katrina- I know what its like. And that was only a Cat 3.
If you can evacuate, PLEASE DO. Leave. If you can't, just try to get higher ground and in a stable house/building that can withstand the winds- which are the most destructive, from what I've been hearing. The storm surge is going to be horrible. There are highways in Louisiana that are already flooded.
Take pictures of how your house/property looks. It will not look that way when you return. Take anything that is valuable (birth certificates, Social Security cards, IDs, money, things that you hold sentimental value with), because your house may not be there when you get back. And if it is, there is a chance it could get looted.
Take out any perishable items in the fridge/freezer. Meats, dairy products, eggs- things that will go bad in a sweltering fridge because you will lose power. You will lose water.
If you go out of state, buy water, batteries, and get those big barrels or cans that you can fill up with gas. Because there will be none when you return.
And since we are in a pandemic, there is a chance it could be over a week before some people get that power back.
Please be safe, be cautious. And do not-
Do /not/ think you can survive this storm in a double wide trailer.
You can't.
This is a killing storm.
Everyone in the path of Hurricane Laura, please be safe. This thing pulled a Hurricane Michael and intensified way more than forecasted and way quicker than expected. Hopefully you’ve already evacuated if you were given the order.
Please take care of yourselves.
Hey y’all. Please reblog and donate if you can. My best friend got hit by the hurricane Laura in Louisiana. She’s a black bisexual woman with no electricity, no running water, and her food is spoiling. Even just spreading this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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fuck yeah Mother Nature the ally
Hurricane Laura, a vast and still strengthening Category 4 storm, is approaching Texas and Louisiana in the latest sign of a climate emergency. The Nat’l Hurricane Center warned Wednesday of an ‘unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves [that] will cause catastrophic damage.’ The storm’s outer bands began to make landfall midday, but the hurricane is so large that its core isn’t expected until Wednesday night. Ecologist Josh Lewis said Laura appears to be ‘the most powerful storm to strike Louisiana in over a century’ in terms of wind speed and intensity. Meteorologist Eric Holthaus noted that the storm is heading directly for Lake Charles, LA, a majority-Black city with a per capita income of $22,855. ‘This is the crossroads of the climate emergency and environmental racism of the oil industry,’ he wrote.
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