How will Republicans handle a hurricane?
The reports about this this tropical storm evolving into a serious hurricane, has me curious about how Republicans will handle the reality of a hurricane in this country.
Given what we know about the realities of a bad hurricane:
How will Republicans handle being stranded on the roof of the Tampa Bay Times Forum for a few days? It could get rough up there.
How will Republicans handle three days without rescue, or any emergency food and water because it's just too difficult to reach them. Talk about a challenge.
How will Republicans handle being called "looters", "freeloaders" and "criminals" when they are forced to break into an abandoned convenience store or gas station to avoid starvation and thirst? That's really going to be uncomfortable for them.
How will they handle being met with violence and gun shots on bridges--when they're just trying to get to higher ground and escape the chaos?
How will Republicans handle it, after they've been victimized and are just looking for help out of a national disaster--when armed tanks roll into Florida with soldiers bearing semi-automatic weapons--as if they're preparing for battle with ruthless criminals? I imagine that will be stressful.
And after they're relocated to temporary cots in the Houston Astrodome, how will they handle it when Barbara Bush shows up, looks them up and down and proclaims that they look like the kind of people who would be grateful for this sort of arrangement? Oh, that will be weird--especially after cocktailing with her in the Hamptons the weekend before.
Then, when the Republicans are left with nothing but the dirty clothes on their backs--the government will issue them debit cards to help them out with a few essentials. But how will the Republicans handle it when the media and right-wing talk radio accuses them of being leeches and welfare queens, after they are accused of spending the money on lottery tickets and candy?
I hope the Republicans are able to weather all of the realities of a hurricane.
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Tampa is still within the cone of uncertainty and the storm could shift back to the east.
Living in Florida I for 42 years I have some experience with tropical storms and hurricanes. I usually largely ignore storm tracks that are five days away. Three days out is far more accurate.
Hurricanes can and do strange things. It is very important to consider the cone of uncertainty and ignore the center track.
I have often said in the past that if the center track of a long range forecast passes over the area that I am at, I really don't worry at all. It will move as the storm approaches.
Many here were wishing that the hurricane would hit Tampa and disrupt the Republican convention. The Tampa Bay area is very vulnerable to hurricanes. I evacuated Tampa when Hurricane Charlie was forecast to hit in 2004. It was no fun and I ended up in the worst traffic jam I have ever experienced. I headed south to Lee county where my daughter lived at.
I remember sitting in my daughter's home watching the storm pass by us on its way to Tampa. For some reason Charlie decided to turn hard right and stuck Punta Gorda. I was perhaps 60 miles from the center but while it was a strong cat 4 hurricane it was very small (the highest winds extended only to an area 7 miles form the center). We got some high wind and rain from the storm but suffered no damage.
In the 42 years that I have lived in Florida that is the closest I every came to being in the center of a hurricane. I have experience numerous tropical storms in the Tampa Bay area and where I live now in northern Florida. Tropical storms usually are merely a lot of rain and a few strong gusts of wind.
will be coming from all those Gulf Coast states that are routinely hit by hurricanes, tropical storms, and tropical depressions. They "handle" them about the same as everyone else.
When you live on a coast, you learn plenty about storms 
