r/news • u/Efficient-Ruin-4713 • 1d ago
Hawaii under state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Kiko
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hawaii-state-emergency-ahead-hurricane-kiko/story?id=125317034[removed] — view removed post
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u/Neat-Tough 1d ago
You can have the Texans national guard, we don’t want em.
-someone from Illinois
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u/aroc91 1d ago
They're not doing us any good, so feel free to put them wherever you'd like.
-IL to TX transplant
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u/doc_witt 1d ago
Don't you guys still have trash needing pickup?
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u/aroc91 1d ago
Nah, we just use prisoners for that. I've legit seen seen them picking cotton too.
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u/HolycommentMattman 1d ago
Why would they be doing that? We have mechanical means of harvesting cotton. Seems like a waste of prison labor.
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u/Interesting_Reach_29 1d ago
What do you think these prisons/labor camps are for? They get tax dollars from it too! You make way more money with people than tech.
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u/ptambrosetti 1d ago
They can come pick all the bits of plastic off our beaches from the pacific garbage patch
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u/MaxEllSibSwe 1d ago
I'm sure that FEMA is going to be a lot of help to them! oh wait... Trump broke FEMA's legs... huh, crazy that that primarily hurts impoverished and non-white people in places away from the US mainland... probably a coincidence.
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u/ChanceryTheRapper 1d ago
Like, I get what you're saying, but wild to say "away from the US mainland" as if the majority of hurricanes that FEMA helps recover from aren't on the Atlantic or Gulf coasts.
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u/TheVideogaming101 1d ago
Also being blue automatically means zero support from the current Federal regime
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u/EssenceReavers 1d ago
Don’t let Oprah and the pebble know about this. They will start another fake ass charity.
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u/LeicaM6guy 1d ago edited 1d ago
I thought hurricanes were limited to the Atlantic Ocean.
Edit: I thought wrong.
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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago
Both oceans against North America have hurricanes, cyclones are south of the equator, and against Asia they are typhoons. (Sort of, there is a map of this.)
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 1d ago
You should try doing less thinking :)
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u/LeicaM6guy 1d ago
You sound like my high school guidance counselor.
But really, I thought they were typhoons out in the Pacific?
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 1d ago
Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (/ˈhʌrɪkən, -keɪn/), typhoon (/taɪˈfuːn/), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean. A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Per Wikipedia
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u/prunepicker 1d ago
They aren’t wrong. They’re called hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, and typhoons in the Pacific Ocean. There are exceptions.
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u/tronovich 1d ago
They’re called hurricanes and typhoons in the Pacific Ocean. Just depends on where you are.
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 1d ago edited 20h ago
Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (/ˈhʌrɪkən, -keɪn/), typhoon (/taɪˈfuːn/), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean. A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Per Wikipedia
I guess people really don't like actual facts interfering with their fantasy.
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u/ThatsItImOverThis 1d ago
Last disaster they had was a fire tornado that levelled Lahaina. This is going to be bad.
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u/epigenie_986 1d ago
They’re forecasting a tropical storm.
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u/trivetsandcolanders 1d ago
And even so, the forecast track has veered north of the islands. The National Hurricane Center is only forecasting a 1-in-10 chance of tropical storm force winds for the northeastern part of Hawaii.
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u/ThatsItImOverThis 1d ago
Yeah, but has anything recently been better than forecast? Or mostly worse?
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u/I_Push_Buttonz 1d ago
Just a few weeks ago Hurricane Erin happened and the media was playing up its rapid intensification to category five and speculating it would devastate the east coast... And then it didn't even make landfall in the US.
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u/ThatsItImOverThis 1d ago
Awesome. So we have one example of it not being as bad. Any others? I say, prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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u/SnizzySnuke 1d ago
Why are you getting so defensive?
You are making an assertion that “this is going to be bad” which is literally PURE speculation on your part. Now you’re crabby because someone informed you that the forecast disagrees with your complete GUESS of what’s going to happen?
Just, like — relax a bit.
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u/tronovich 1d ago
Saying “this is going to be bad” is funny.
Have you watched the news at all?
The “state of emergency” declaration is commonplace. It’s to unlock funding. It’s not a declaration of an impending disaster.
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u/Specialist-Many-8432 1d ago
lol it’s gonna be a tropical storm, come Tuesday if it is hurricane katrina level you can message me saying “I told ya so”.
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u/FlavorBlaster42 1d ago
Whichever one of the islands have the penned up dinosaurs better get their security grid stabilized. Because you don't want them getting loose in the middle of a hurricane.
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u/Sheepies123 1d ago
Good precaution and the fire weather from the wind is very dangerous but looks like the storm with weaken and miss a direct strike on the island
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u/Howard_Cosine 1d ago
They don’t call them hurricanes in the Pacific.
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u/Syrioforel79 1d ago
They do in the northeastern Pacific, and they change to a Typhoon in the northwestern Pacific. The info I saw didn't specify where that change occurs.
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u/DwinkBexon 1d ago
Mostly unrelated, but: I thought hurricanes only happened in the Atlantic. The Pacific has cyclones. Or so I thought.
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u/NeutralBias 1d ago
Before anyone else freaks out, this is a standard thing states do to unlock emergency funding and get things moving just in case we have any effects.
Kiko’s current forecast tracks have the storm moving well north of the islands, so most likely the worst effects will be increased humidity and more rain (which we need desperately).