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Five hours of driving from the ocean is nothing. I have lived on opposite sides of the world and prepared for both hurricanes and typhoons plenty of times while

by oefrha 2y ago

Five hours of driving from the ocean is nothing. I have lived on opposite sides of the world and prepared for both hurricanes and typhoons plenty of times while being further from shore. I have prepared for two recently. These aren’t natural disasters without warning (unlike say earthquakes), and while you can hardly mitigate the damage, there’s no excuse being stranded unless you simply live alone. Maybe people in your area collectively have no preparedness at all, if they all think moving away from a mountain AirBnB into civilization in preparation for a hurricane is outlandish.

sethammons 2y ago
Gotcha. These people, mostly residents, should have disregarded the predictions of 2 inches of water, assumed it could be, literally 10x as bad, and should have relocated, potentially at expense rates that would hurt their paycheck to paycheck situation. What idiots. Airbnb renters shouldn't be going into mountains during storms in general. Why do you keep bringing them up though? What percentage of the people stranded, dying, and dead are you ascribing to short term renters? I would be astounded to discover if it was more than 5%.
- oefrha 2y ago
  > mountain AirBnB ... (I won’t even say this if they actually lived there) How about reading comments you reply to? Anyway, I’m done with this bad faith exchange. Edit: Thanks for the shadow edit changing your comment entirely after my reply, making a bad faith exchange worse. Why do I keep bringing AirBnB renters up? Maybe because I read the article before commenting and it’s what the particular incident is about? I won’t further change my reply even if there are more shadow edits.
  - sethammons 2y ago
    Clearly I read your comment as dismissing the general population there as airbnb travelers with the proviso that some may actually live there
infamia 2y ago
> if they all think moving away from a mountain AirBnB into civilization in preparation for a hurricane is outlandish. I would love to hear why you think a big portion of the people impacted are AirBnB tourists, or are you just going by what you see in the news?

by oefrha 2y ago

sethammons 2y ago

Gotcha. These people, mostly residents, should have disregarded the predictions of 2 inches of water, assumed it could be, literally 10x as bad, and should have relocated, potentially at expense rates that would hurt their paycheck to paycheck situation. What idiots. Airbnb renters shouldn't be going into mountains during storms in general. Why do you keep bringing them up though? What percentage of the people stranded, dying, and dead are you ascribing to short term renters? I would be astounded to discover if it was more than 5%.

oefrha 2y ago
> mountain AirBnB ... (I won’t even say this if they actually lived there) How about reading comments you reply to? Anyway, I’m done with this bad faith exchange. Edit: Thanks for the shadow edit changing your comment entirely after my reply, making a bad faith exchange worse. Why do I keep bringing AirBnB renters up? Maybe because I read the article before commenting and it’s what the particular incident is about? I won’t further change my reply even if there are more shadow edits.
- sethammons 2y ago
  Clearly I read your comment as dismissing the general population there as airbnb travelers with the proviso that some may actually live there

infamia 2y ago

> if they all think moving away from a mountain AirBnB into civilization in preparation for a hurricane is outlandish. I would love to hear why you think a big portion of the people impacted are AirBnB tourists, or are you just going by what you see in the news?