During a Thursday press briefing, Florida governor Ron DeSantis came prepared with the facts on hurricane history, schooling a reporter who tried to blame tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton on global warming.

Two hurricanes and dozens of tornadoes have hit Florida in the last couple of weeks.

When asked by a reporter whether he thinks the increase in tornadoes could be linked to climate change, DeSantis responded, "I think you can go back and find tornadoes for all of human history for sure."

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When Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida late Wednesday, it had a barometric pressure of roughly 950 millibars, the governor stated.

"I think, if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower [barometric pressure] — so the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is," he continued. "I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960."

The most powerful hurricane to hit Florida since the 1850s was the Labor Day Hurricane in the 1930s, which had a barometric pressure of 892 millibars, according to DeSantis.

"It totally wiped out the Keys. We've never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane that we've ever had in the state of Florida," DeSantis said.

He noted that the state's most deadly storm was the Okeechobee hurricane in 1928, which killed more than 4,000 people.

DeSantis added that Hurricane Ian, which killed 149 people in Florida two years ago, "wasn't even close to that."

"I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something; there's nothing new under the sun. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it's something that we'll continue to deal with," he said.

DeSantis argued that what has changed is Florida's population.

"We've got 23 million people. A storm that hits is likely to hit more people and property than it would have a hundred years ago. And so the potential for that damage has grown," he continued, adding that the state's prevention ability has also significantly improved.

"We never did the pre-staging of power assets until I became governor. Now, people, like, expect that, but that wasn't what was done in the past. That's why people would be out with power for three weeks when we'd have hurricanes," DeSantis stated.

Quote from: Herman on October 07, 2024, 09:18:29 PMCategory five hurricane Milton is heading for Florida.

Mmmm, and apparently its near the limit of intensity for what the Earth's atmosphere is capable of producing in that region.

Kinda convenient to see all these storms hitting red areas right before an election where the dem nominee is expected to be slaughtered in, huh?

Quote from: Lokmar on October 07, 2024, 09:50:55 PMJust talked to my daughter in Florida. They're battening down the hatches in Orlando and expecting winds around 90MPH.

I hope she is spared the worst of it. Biggz too.

Quote from: Herman on October 07, 2024, 09:18:29 PMCategory five hurricane Milton is heading for Florida.

Just talked to my daughter in Florida. They're battening down the hatches in Orlando and expecting winds around 90MPH.

Category five hurricane Milton is heading for Florida.

Oh, and if those choices above seem overly harsh, just remember this much... normal people accept the designations meted out at birth to them. We do not consider it as a choice as much as we accept it as a fact.

And facts do not care about your feelings, any more than they care the rest of us. You'd have to be damaged to think it was any other way and terminally arrogant to thint that bullying the world into saying otherwise would change any of this.

So drink a bag of cement and harden the fuck up, buttercup.

Quote from: JOE on August 09, 2024, 12:32:10 PMTrans people should get their own legal gender.

Suggest words like "sterile", "mutilated", "broken" and "Alticus".

Ron DeSantis announced his order to send the National Guard to end a damaging union strike at ports on the Gulf Coast.

"At my direction, the Florida National Guard and the Florida State Guard will be deployed to critical ports affected by the strike to maintain order and, where possible, resume operations," he said to reporters Thursday from Manatee County.

"It is unacceptable for the Biden-Harris administration to allow supply chain interruptions to hurt people who are reeling from a category 4 hurricane," he added.

Quote from: Lokmar on August 09, 2024, 11:18:45 AMFuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

When they try to stand in the way of what Florida is doing, they are.

Quote from: JOE on August 09, 2024, 12:32:10 PMTrans people should get their own legal gender.

Florida is right to bar biological males from biological females sports, prisons & washrooms. They're stealing their identity.

I actually agree with you folks on the Right in that regard...Lokmeer.

See Sweetie, libertarians and conservatives are the mainstream.

Quote from: Lokmar on August 09, 2024, 11:18:45 AMFuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

Trans people should get their own legal gender.

Florida is right to bar biological males from biological females sports, prisons & washrooms. They're stealing their identity.

I actually agree with you folks on the Right in that regard...Lokmeer.

Quote from: Lokmar on August 09, 2024, 11:18:45 AMFuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

If they think banks have a right to force their woke politics on all Americans, it is un-American.

Quote from: DKG on August 09, 2024, 07:13:04 AMRon DeSantis signs anti-woke law to stop banks from freezing Floridians' bank accounts based on their politics.

"We reject a global elite trying to force their ideology on us by capturing major institutions," DeSantis, who has led an aggressive campaign against so-called "woke" ideology in the Sunshine State, said when signing HB 989 into law.

"We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone's political or religious beliefs."

But while DeSantis claims he's fighting discrimination, the U.S. Treasury has labeled the Florida law — and other similar laws under consideration in mostly conservative states like Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota — as a potential threat to national security.

DeSantis' goal with HB 989 was to "strengthen Florida's protections for consumers ... from being forced to adopt ideologies or reflect a preferred political behavior."

Per an Associated Press report, DeSantis said the law will protect the access that conservative groups and the firearms industry have to the financial sector — and stop them from having their accounts frozen or closed.

The law makes it illegal for banks to "deny or cancel, suspend, or terminate its services to a person, or to otherwise discriminate against a person in making available such services" on the basis of several factors, including (but not limited to):

The person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations

Any factor if it is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard, including any such factor related to the person's business sector.

The person's engagement in the lawful manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, or use of firearms or ammunition

The person's engagement in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacture of fossil fuel-based energy, timber, mining, or agriculture

It also allows Floridians to appeal "unwarranted account cancellations and restrictions" through a coordinated complaint and investigatory process within the state's Office of Financial Regulation.

The Treasury has openly criticized the new Florida law and any other state laws that bar financial institutions from carrying out necessary risk assessments.

In a July letter to lawmakers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson reiterated the importance of banks being able to probe customers in order to prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing.

A person's politics is not risk assessment. It's part of the nefarious cancel culture.

Fuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

Ron DeSantis signs anti-woke law to stop banks from freezing Floridians' bank accounts based on their politics.

"We reject a global elite trying to force their ideology on us by capturing major institutions," DeSantis, who has led an aggressive campaign against so-called "woke" ideology in the Sunshine State, said when signing HB 989 into law.

"We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone's political or religious beliefs."

But while DeSantis claims he's fighting discrimination, the U.S. Treasury has labeled the Florida law — and other similar laws under consideration in mostly conservative states like Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota — as a potential threat to national security.

DeSantis' goal with HB 989 was to "strengthen Florida's protections for consumers ... from being forced to adopt ideologies or reflect a preferred political behavior."

Per an Associated Press report, DeSantis said the law will protect the access that conservative groups and the firearms industry have to the financial sector — and stop them from having their accounts frozen or closed.

The law makes it illegal for banks to "deny or cancel, suspend, or terminate its services to a person, or to otherwise discriminate against a person in making available such services" on the basis of several factors, including (but not limited to):

The person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations

Any factor if it is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard, including any such factor related to the person's business sector.

The person's engagement in the lawful manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, or use of firearms or ammunition

The person's engagement in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacture of fossil fuel-based energy, timber, mining, or agriculture

It also allows Floridians to appeal "unwarranted account cancellations and restrictions" through a coordinated complaint and investigatory process within the state's Office of Financial Regulation.

The Treasury has openly criticized the new Florida law and any other state laws that bar financial institutions from carrying out necessary risk assessments.

In a July letter to lawmakers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson reiterated the importance of banks being able to probe customers in order to prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing.

A person's politics is not risk assessment. It's part of the nefarious cancel culture.

A woman in Florida may soon be fired from her job with the Broward County school district after she apparently allowed her son to play on the girls' volleyball team at his high school.

Last November, Jessica Norton was one of several members of the faculty and staff at Monarch High School near Fort Lauderdale to be reassigned to jobs at "non-school sites" after then-Superintendent Peter Licata discovered that a boy may have been playing on the school's girls' volleyball team.

That boy turned out to be Norton's son, though she routinely refers to him as her "daughter." She also indicated that his name and gender have both been legally changed, and Florida law does permit minors to legally change their gender on birth certificates and driver's licenses so long as they have parental consent.

However, another Floridian law, the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, signed into law in 2021, forbids biological males like Norton's son from joining sports teams reserved for women and girls. Not only did Norton apparently violate this statute by knowingly permitting her son, now 16, to play on the girls' team, but she also allegedly kept his gender listed as "female" on school records and checked "female" on a form asking about his sex at birth.