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Californians Prepare For Hurricane By Nailing Plywood Boards Onto Their Tent Flaps

Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:01 pm
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
179315 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:01 pm





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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — As Hurricane Hilary looms off the shores of the Golden State, Californians are rushing to prepare by nailing plywood boards onto their tent flaps and filling sandbags to protect their cardboard boxes.

Residents have been flocking to their local hardware stores and drug dealers to stock up on essentials, praying the category-four storm decreases in power before reaching their possibly ill-suited tarp-and-shopping-cart shanties.

"We have definitely seen an increase in customers looting plywood rather than the usual power tools," heaved one Home Depot manager while scampering around trying, unsuccessfully, to stop one of the thousands of looters. "Business sure is — huff — booming!"

San Francisco risks a unique threat due to its hilly nature. Thus, authorities have urged residents to use sandbags as a guard against potential floods of poop.

At publishing time, California Governor Gavin Newsom had passed a law requiring all outdoor retailers to stock hurricane-proof tents for looters.



Bee
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
18648 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:03 pm to
That plywood is going to fly well down those San Fran streets. Maybe clean up the place
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:04 pm to
Gavin is not going to let this crisis go to waste.
Posted by Deuces
The bottom
Member since Nov 2011
16316 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:08 pm to
Lol. The Bee.

This is believable, though.
Posted by Byrdybyrd05
Member since Nov 2014
26422 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:11 pm to
I bet this will become reality lol
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
34151 posts
Posted on 8/18/23 at 11:13 pm to
We all laugh at California but that cancer is spreading through the US.
Posted by LSUneaux
Metairie and MAGA AF
Member since Mar 2014
4788 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 12:21 am to
The storm, even when it’s post tropical, will have zero effect on San Francisco. Rookies.
Posted by CoyoteSong
Colorado
Member since Aug 2021
2603 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 12:23 am to
Can you imagine the looting. It will be a Democrat paradise.
Posted by Haystack Calhoun
Lake Charles
Member since Mar 2023
61 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 1:49 am to
I had a huge sigh of relief when I realized this was satire.
Posted by Tall Tiger
Golden Rectangle
Member since Sep 2007
4171 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:19 am to
Serious question to anyone who downvoted this: why? I would honestly like to know why this is offensive to anyone. California encourages and facilates tent cities, which is ridiculous on its face but if a hurricane is coming it's both ridiculous and a life safety issue. This deserves scorn.
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
19109 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:59 am to
Hope their generators are not inside.
Posted by FLObserver
Jacksonville
Member since Nov 2005
15779 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 5:49 am to
quote:

Hope their generators are not inside.

I mean do we really??














I kid !! I Kid!!!
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
32670 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 5:51 am to
Posted by CitizenK
BR
Member since Aug 2019
13790 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 5:57 am to
ZERO effect on San Francisco.
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
27539 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:17 am to
Biden's America
Posted by bakersman
Shreveport
Member since Apr 2011
5985 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:26 am to
Hurricane coming for SoCal
No pop up afternoon showers in the Southeast. The world is coming to an end
Posted by ShoeBang
Member since May 2012
21794 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:26 am to
quote:

ZERO effect on San Francisco.


Other than cleaning the place up a bit
Posted by K Baw
W Monroe
Member since Jun 2019
542 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:37 am to
Those $15k fema tents incoming.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
11464 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:51 am to
If the Bee writer lived pre-1980/1990’s, everyone thought this was your savior for windows in a hurricane:



PSA: Tape doesn’t work. Wood may not work either if the storm is strong enough.
This post was edited on 8/19/23 at 6:58 am
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
19296 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 7:28 am to
When we lived in Metairie prior to the Bicentennial (1976 for the less historically inclined) while evacuating from yet another hurricane, Dad explained the tape is giving up on the glass staying intact. The tape is so the cleanup of the breakage is easier by keeping the pieces together.

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