For more than two decades, I have suspected the weather reporters have sensationalized weather just as much as the MSM exaggerates and creates new stories. I was kicked off of a hurricane and weather reporting site in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for telling people that the damage in Katrina wasn’t as bad as was being reported.
I was there, on the ground as a rescuer in the area of Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, and Biloxi. Damage was pretty severe within about a mile or so of the beach, but outside of that, it really wasn’t that bad. We watched as reporters told their viewers no one was there helping, while we were standing right next to them distributing food, medical aid, and searching neighborhoods for the injured and dead.
I had pictures. That didn’t matter. I disagreed with the consensus there and was expelled from the website.
About ten years ago, we had a hurricane pass almost directly over our heads, and the damage was nowhere near what the winds being reported would have done. So I bought a personal weather station. Nothing I’ve seen from that PWS has supported what the weather folks report.
The same is true about Hurricane Isaias. It was reportedly a CAT3, then weakened at the last minute to a CAT2, and even that lower bar wasn’t seen on shore. The highest wind I could find in the storm’s path was a wind gust to 116 mph with a sustained wind of 91 mph reported at a station near Santa Rosa Sound, Florida. That’s category 1 strength.
Fox weather reporter Robert Ray live dramatically bracing from the wind, he had just come out of a leaning squat and random person nonchalantly walks by and says it’s a bit windy 🤣. I feel like I just came from a Shakespeare play! pic.twitter.com/9jbrUJbyGn
Today, I woke up to the first sunny morning in the past five days. A week of clouds and rain (more than 5 inches of it). I had to drain water from my pool on five different occasions to keep it from overflowing.
When I walked outside this morning, humidity was at 100% with a dewpoint of 74degF. It smells like mud outside. Now that it’s sunny and the ground is wet, the grass is going to grow like it’s mutated, but it will be hot, humid, and the ground too muddy to mow for the next few days.
Because the hurricane passed to our west, winds are now out of the southwest, and we are back into heat and moisture being blown at us from the Gulf. For the next week, we are back to hot and humid, with temperatures in the upper 80s.
I like it much better when storms pass to our south or west. That side of the storm pulls the cooler, dryer air towards us.
We officially got our first hurricane of 2026’s season at 2330 Eastern Time on October 7. 23:30 EDT on October 7 is 03:30 UTC on October 8, which is the time NHC confirms it upgraded Isaias to a hurricane. Hurricane records use UTC, so its official date is October 8. That means 2026 ties 1905 for the latest first Atlantic hurricane on record by calendar date, matching a mark that stood for 121 years, making it the latest first hurricane in the Atlantic basin since we began spotting them with satellites.
While we here at Sector Ocho always monitor Hurricanes that are near Florida, this one is forecast to strike LA (Lower Alabama), which is what we here in Florida call the Panhandle. For us here on the Florida Peninsula, it will be a rain event only. We aren’t even forecast to get any wind from it. There is nothing to get excited about unless you are in the central path of a storm that’s a CAT 3 or higher when it makes landfall. For that reason, our daily routine here at Sector Ocho will remain as normal. I will not be activating any of my storm checklists or plans at this time.
What *has* happened this week is a cold front has been stalled over the central part of the state, and my rain gauge says we have received a steady rain for the past three days- four inches of rain. Since the area has been in a rain deficit for the year, this is going to nearly completely erase that problem. We were nearly 7 inches of rain below normal for the year, and the combination of stalled cold front and tropical moisture from the hurricane will erase nearly all of that deficit.
On a side note, this is a fall more like the one from my Florida childhood: lots of rain. I remember one year, we had a cold front stalled over us for over a week, and it completely ruined our Thanksgiving break from school. A week off of school, and stuck inside watching it rain.
The Wake County school board in North Carolina hired a male teacher who says he’s a transgender nonbinary and demands to be called ‘Ms’ by students and shows up in dresses and skirts. Some speakers appeared at the school board meeting to demand the Wake County school board provide alternatives to elementary school parents who don’t want their children educated by a transgender teacher.
The board responded by telling the parents if they don’t like the school hiring transgender teachers than then they could pull their kids out and homeschool them.
“Here’s what our detractors are telling us by the way. You don’t support school hiring a trans teacher? Maybe public school isn’t for you or your family. Maybe homeschool. Maybe private school. That’s right. Maybe pay taxes into the school system and then pay again to escape from it.”
A cheaper option would be for parents to ban together and elect themselves a new school board. Failing that, tar, feathers, and rope my be an option.
If you have any medical professional who tells you a man can become a woman and menstruate, even with hormones, do not trust them with your medical care, as they are politically correct woke morons who shouldn’t be in charge of anyone’s healthcare. A woman’s menstrual cycle is caused by hormone levels changing as a part of her monthly cycle. The four hormones involved are:
Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
luteinizing hormone (LH)
Estrogen
Progesterone
FSH is released from the pituitary gland in the brain. Some of the follicles in the ovaries respond by growing. As those follicles grow, they release estrogen. Estrogen levels climb higher and higher as the dominant follicle gets bigger. The increased levels of estrogen thicken the uterine lining and causes the brain to release LH, which causes one of the follicles to burst, releasing the egg it contains, as well as about a teaspoon of hormones:
estrogen
progesterone
androgens
follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
luteinizing hormone (LH)
The now empty follicle then begins producing progesterone for about 10 to 14 days unless a pregnancy occurs. Progesterone stabilizes the uterine lining, making it spongy, warm, and ready to feed a fertilized egg. The uterus is now ready for implantation of a fertilized egg.
After that 10 to 14 days, the follicle stops producing those hormones if the egg is not fertilized. Estrogen and progesterone levels crash suddenly, and this sharp drop causes the uterine lining to break down and shed, while simultaneously prompting the brain to release FSH again to start a brand new cycle.
Now look at a tranny who is taking hormone therapy. The brain isn’t going to release FSH, there are no ovaries to respond by releasing estrogen and progesterone, and no uterus to respond to those hormones, even if they are being taken. As to those hormone levels, it would be nearly impossible to get them to the finely precise levels needed to cause a menstrual cycle, and even if you could do so, there are no organs in a male that would respond to them.
It just can’t happen, no matter what the person believes. A man can no more menstruate than he can become an attack helicopter.
This is purely a psychological problem called a delusion. If you are a man who believes you were born into the wrong body and are really a woman, you need mental health services, not hormones or your own personal pronouns.
– Take hormones (I recommend injections!) – Get facial surg, breast aug and SRS with the $ you got from being a hall of fame household name – Change your name and live as a woman in society
Let me get this straight- the new standard is, in order to be a woman, some people have to:
take hormones
get surgery, and
legally change their names.
That being the case, can we define WHICH people must to these things? Obviously, they mean anyone who isn’t a woman must do them. So how do we define what a woman is?
The left is incensed because up until now, we have been led to believe that a woman is anyone who says they are, and if we somehow misgender someone, use the incorrect pronouns in referring to them, or don’t believe they are who they say they are, we have committed a violent act rooted in hate. Remember Chud the Builder? Mean words are violence and justify a physical defense.
Sure, you have a 1st Amendment right to Free Speech, guaranteed by the US Constitution, but if someone attacks you because they don’t like your speech, that’s your fault, and if you defend yourself with the 2nd Amendment you belong in prison.
We were told by the lefty press how Florida can’t tell tranny bars that it is illegal to have drag shows in front of kids because it is a limit on free speech. (As a side note, when I posted “Then how is it illegal for me to bring an 8 year old to Rachel’s?”(a local strip bar) that comment was deleted as “violating community standards”)
In 2022, the liberal members of the medical profession want the DOJ to to “investigate and prosecute” Americans who question anyone declaring their transgender ideology online. You can write a million papers and have them reviewed by a million of your peers, and I will still tell you what few others will- your tranny emperor is not supposed to groom kids into being your little fuck toys in whatever evil games you are playing. That’s what this is- you get as many sports figures and celebrities to come out and tell you how cool it is to be trans. This is no different than vape companies making bubblegum and cotton candy flavored nicotine products.
The grinding of gears you hear? That is the hard reality colliding with the religious dogma in their tiny, malfunctioning brains. It’s the sound made when you drop a tranny. (kids, ask your parents what this means) They claim to be the intelligent, educated ones, yet can’t even resolve this clash of ideas with logic, because you can’t logic your way out of a conundrum created by emotion.
There are times when Twitter’s character limit is too much of a restriction. This is one of those times. I am posting an image of this, because I don’t want it deleted and lost. Below is my answer:
It used to be a war of ideas. That was back in the day when I was a single issue voter. I felt Second Amendment rights were the litmus test for a freedom and liberty loving government. After all, a government that doesn’t trust its citizens with arms can’t be trusted with power. My vote was always cast with that underlying principle in mind.
Ever since 2016, those of us who have opinions like mine, rooted in freedom and liberty and their Constitutional protections, have been under siege.
Trump was attacked and investigated for a “Russia Collusion” accusation that was entirely fabricated by Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and the CIA.
Then came 2020. Our businesses were closed, we were put out of work, jailed for going to the beach, forced to wear masks that did nothing, and forced to take a vaccine that didn’t work. We were told it was too dangerous to go shopping at small stores, but WalMart and large Floyd protests were just fine.
Then came the election. Many people were suspicious of the anomalies in the vote counting, and remain so today. We were told it would be a crime and was unAmerican to question the election. In fact, the Lt Governor of Pennsylvania said anyone who questioned the election results should be thrown in prison because questioning elections isn’t protected speech. The sad part is today, he is one of the more moderate on the left side of the aisle. His name is John Fetterman.
An appointee (now Justice) to the Supreme Court said she can’t define what a woman is because she isn’t a biologist. We all know she was lying. She knows she was lying. Everyone knows it.
Those of us who complained or presented opposition to these moves were kicked off social media sites, deplatformed, threatened with death, called Hitler, and there were even prominent government officials calling for us to be placed in camps- first for those who refused COVID vaccines, then later for supporting Trump. Three years ago, a woman managed to find out my real name, then called hospitals in the Central Florida area in an attempt to get me fired. Why? Because I stated on social media that I don’t use people’s chosen pronouns. I was told this was a violation of those people’s rights, was not protected speech because hate speech is violence, which made me literally Hitler.
There was one man who attempted to have a dialog. They shot him in the neck in front of a crowd while he was peacefully speaking, because words are violence. Then they mocked those who mourned him, hounded his wife, accused her of being part of the murder plot, and called her a whore.
A decade of attacks and violence from the left. People have been financially ruined, their reputations destroyed, they have been injured, disabled, and even killed- all for having an opinion with which a leftist communist disagreed.
There are literally thousands of examples of leftist violence, attacks, and threats documented on this blog. Right now, we on the side of freedom are responding with unconventional warfare. We are engaging them using their own rules, their own definitions. We claim that a man who wants to play for the WNBA need only claim he is a woman while playing in the league, and that’s the rule.
They respond with angst and the gnashing of teeth, calling us mean and saying we hate women. No, we are protecting women’s sports by forcing you dishonest communists into admitting your entire position on transgenderism is a house of cards, built on the faulty foundation that a person can declare themselves to be something and everyone else has to comply with their delusion.
We are fighting back- now the ball is in the left’s court. They are going to be forced to allow these men to declare that they are women and be eligible to play in their league, or they are going to have to admit their position is indefensible.
We’ve been getting attacked for more than a decade. I haven’t held a grudge, I’ve grown tired of being attacked and turning the other cheek. I’ve spent the last two days exposing the left’s position on trannies to be the ridiculous lie that it is, and I’ve enjoyed watching the mental gymnastics of the left as they try to justify their position: everything from saying these men aren’t “real” trans women, but refusing to define the term, to claiming the definition of a woman is hormone levels. Anything but the admission they are and have been lying.
So is that to be the new rule? There is a two year waiting period to be trans? Will there be registration? Perhaps we could make those who have registered wear something like a star on their clothes, so we all know. Otherwise, it would simply be too easy to misgender someone.
I haven’t had this much fun since I got to watch ICE shoot a rubber bullet into that Antifa dude’s balls.
Sex isnt a binary thing. If she wants to play in the WNBA, who are you to question her truth? Xe/Xem is stunning and brave. If you believe otherwise, you are literally Hitler, you transphobic monster.
