‘A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest | Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere
‘A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest | Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere
Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere
if you've never been to florida, the heat is absolutely miserable. and when the power goes out, as it does every time there's a hurricane, then you're fucked, and all the food in your fridge is bad the next day, because it's 90+ inside the house now. plus, thousands of gallons of water that just flooded your neighborhood are now in the air as humidity, make everything exponentially worse.
this is ignoring the fact of being surrounded by asshole floridians
Floridian here and you basically described it to a tee. Why are there so many entitled assholes here? I can’t leave my house for 5 minutes without encountering some of the worst people society has to offer.
The heat and humidity are ultimately what’s driving us away. When summer hits, we basically don’t go outdoors at all because it’s 1000% fucking miserable.
Went to Miami a couple of times for work, they warned me about the humidity, I dismissed it as I grew up in a former swampy area, next to a bigass river, an area known for its unrelenting humid heat.
I had no idea it could be so much worse.
NW FL here. You have to go out and get used to it, and that has to be a commitment. Easier said than done, I've failed year after year.
If you're out every day you learn tricks to stay cool and what to avoid. For example; We walk down to the neighborhood creek a couple of times a week. That trek is about a mile over sandy, slippery washes. You don't want to go or leave from 2PM-5PM. Be on the water at those times or don't do it. Best, go after 3PM. Arrive hot and dying, swim and play until past 5PM, walk home when it's better.
Learn how to dress, learn how to use cooling cloth, plenty of tricks. It's like Arrakis, but humid.
tl;dr: It's all good in or on the water.
So do you like survival games like rust or the forest, or do they just hit too close to reality down there? (Minus the snow of course)
you're talking like no one has to go to work and wear specific work clothing that doesn't take the miserable heat into account. even still, i lived in tampa bay for well over 25 years, and the clothing, cooling cloth and any other "tricks" don't make it not 95+ degrees outside. there is no amount of money in existence that would convince me to put up with that bullshit ever again
The solution is of course to ban talking about climate change and to discriminate against trans people.
CA here, we've seriously considered upstate NY near the lake because of long term climate stability
Some people in FL move to the midwest because of weather. I moved here because FL turned into a super dumpster fire. We are not the same.
These Florida migrants are gonna terk er jerbs!
time to build a wall and have florida pay for it.
The heat is unbearable. Anyone taking public transport to work arrives a sweaty,stinky mess. Hopefully it's not also thunderstorming.
I left Florida after COVID there's like 5 people that still live there that I hope don't drown.
Move west, where there is no water.
In the gulf of Mexico?
Well that's salt water. Also if you're trying to escape unbearable heat and worsening storms you don't move to the Gulf of Mexico. After all this articles about moving away from Gulf States not towards them.
There's lots of water, but we mostly use it on growing animal feed and motor vehicle fuel.