the tropics are waking up

[ggunn]

I fear that the flooding could reach inland as far as "Herbert Hoover Dike" around Lake Okeechobee. Canada is reporting several Carbon Monoxide injuries from generators after Fiona hit there. Too many generators, too few alarms.

No matter how much we are warned against it, some people will always run portable generators indoors.

 

[DandyDon]

No matter how much we are warned against it, some people will always run portable generators indoors.

I don't understand why. They produce as much killer gas as 450 cars. Do people not know, seriously? I run my gas mower for a few minutes before an oil change every year, and I can see the attraction of working with one in a garage, but that's a deadly risk too.

 

[mediumone]

I don't understand why.

That's ok, it all works out in the end.
Simply vying for the Darwin award of the year.

 

[ggunn]

They produce as much killer gas as 450 cars.

Where do you get that number? How is it normalized for apples to apples?

 

[DandyDon]

Where do you get that number? How is it normalized for apples to apples?

Well, part of that is that cars are much cleaner today. My hairdresser tells me she knows of two in my small town who tried to kill themselves in closed garages with their cars running, but failed. I didn't ask for names. They would have succeeded with lawnmowers.

It's seen on several sites, but they all are probably taking it from https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf

 

[DandyDon]

That's ok, it all works out in the end.
Simply vying for the Darwin award of the year.

Like the people in Fort Myers captured by a news crew playing in the storm surge?

 

[DandyDon]

So Ian has weakened to a Tropical Storm but is gaining strength over the water gain and is expected to be a hurricane once more when it lands in Charleston....

 

[DandyDon]

So much of Florida is a wasteland, but I thought the Keys would be safe. Not necessarily...

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[greeniguana]

A news reporter in Orlando this afternoon was super excited to narrate some live shots of a gator swimming around in a flooded residential neighborhood.

He made it sound like the gator came to eat the entire community.

 

[DandyDon]

Gators, crocs, snakes, balls of red ants, along with some looters who were arrested. I hope the best for those suffering thru the aftermath.