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They suffer from brain drain, but it might not be enough to matter.
Except that time when they poisoned all of their farmland
Yeah indeed, then there was one coming toward Florida and suddenly Something Happened and it just disappeared. Someone must have made a phone call...
Helene destroyed much of the Southeast, most notably North Carolina, and FEMA was less than worthless, even actively obstructing local recovery efforts.
Then Milton, a category 4, was about to completely annihilate the middle of Florida and then mysteriously dissipated and vanished just as it started reaching the coast. Everyone cheered that their prayers had been answered, and that was that, and the media hurriedly moved on to the next thing.
It was a strange year for hurricanes. Some might even say unnatural.
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3I also remember Lindsey Graham's deebly goncerned response to Helene.
Another strange thing about Helene...It was supposed to go straight over Atlanta. All the forecasts predicted Atlanta was going to be hit, and the city was bracing for impact. But overnight the hurricane veered hard eastward, missing Atlanta and western Tennessee almost entirely and instead hitting east Georgia and the Carolinas out of nowhere.
Ah, well. Probably just happenstance.