where's the money?

Crypto is just not real money. Sure someone gave it to you in exchange for your car, but where did it start? Did someone put money in a bank that was the equivalent of 2000 coins or did they simply open an excel spreadsheet and write I have 2000 coins worth 3 billion dollars! The person left holding the bag has air in their hands. The only people who make out are the ones smart enough to sell the bag before it burst.

"*we believe in time that outliers that misuse user funds will be weeded out by the free market,”*

That's an interesting statement from CZ

Now we know what happens when we boarded up in our houses. Probably much worse and much farther during a real storm

"*“It looks like we have been spared the worst of it*"

**Why do we let them get away with this every time??**

These photos remind me of the US news reporters who stand beside a destroyed clapboard lean-to in the middle of a flooded **valley** to demonstrate how deadly the winds were. After decades everybody knows if we have heavy rain Nassau downtown will flood, if we have hurricanes the coastal roads will get overtopping and some roads will crumble, fishing hole bridge will be impassible, glass window bridge impassible. Everybody knows. Did we experience damage beyond that?

Remember when the Christie administration kept using hurricane Matthew as the cause for why nothing could get done? This is like that. **Every approaching storm gets the same panic response no matter what the information shows because "Dorian" and if you point it out you get, *it's better to be over prepared, you live in Nassau you dont understand*. We're enabling traumatized Bahamians to stay traumatized because *what's a radar? who could have known*, this could be Dorian.** When in reality, how many storms have we had this year? How many were Dorian? The MET is now afraid to make obvious calls about impact because they could get blamed for not being dire enough so every storm gets these dire take cover warnings. This is unsustainable. **Noone can predict every nuance of weather but my God we must be able to publicly state at least that a 70mph wind storm that people struggling to call a hurricane was never going to be "*the worst*".**

When I read a storm warning that looks like Dorian I'll be the first to run for the hills, until then take precautions suited to the risk. It saves time and money.

Abaconians have been complaining about hurricane damage for the last 4 years. Where was the heartbreak?

That is my take on it, that this was made more than it was for the PR. I listened to the DPM after his inspection basically say nothing much to see.

You expect the salt water damage within maybe 40ft of the coast, that's inescapable. The roads bridges piers beach infrastructure cant run. He also added we faired better than expected... well if you expected a Cat-3 or greater ignoring the data, then yes

wooden structure with corrugated steel roof?

Can a reporter please ask NEMA what the benchmarks are for an evacuation exercise and where are the storm surge graphics used to justify evacuation. Not that it wasnt necessary but how did they use data to arrive at the decision

So the storm that was hyped up as an approaching doomsday turned out to be exactly what it said it was all along, a tropical storm with winds under 80mph, 3-5" of rain, no threat of catastrophic damage and some storm surge intrusion that happens with *every* storm.

I'd really like to hear an assessment from NEMA, not saying it was better to be safe than sorry, but assessing whether the response overestimated the threat. We cannot keep doing this. It is wasteful and bad emergency management.

Just because some people have legitimate Dorian PTSD fears, we can't enable them by saying prepare for the worst! at every storm. When it's as clear as day this was nowhere near the worst. The messaging should have been from the start: *we understand your fears, be cautious, lack of awareness and respect for nature can cause harm, but this is not Dorian. Based on the storm data these are the effects we anticipate, if that changes we will brief you immediately.*

And no, this is not because I live on Nassau, it's because I read the storm warnings minus the NEMA messaging. Did the same for Fiona. If the warnings say the storm is 150 miles away, and that's the closest it will come to you, extends out from the center 200 miles. With outer bands having 40mph. It dont matter how strong winds at the center are, you're getting max 40mph winds.

I do think we should all be prepared generally for a tsunami, that has no warning, based on where you are what will you do? Being able to swim is a good practical prep start