The people of Doperland just assumed he might have had a rough day. Unless this happens all the time.
There’s gale-force winds and there’s gale-force winds. When the storm was approaching, I ran outside for exercise and the winds were supposedly in the high 20s, with gusts higher than that. The winds, and gusts, could have been slightly higher and I still would not have felt that the winds themselves were dangerous, although I did stay within a mile of home in case the rain and winds suddenly increased.
To me, it’s not very clear whether the health effects of exercising in the very beginning of a storm, with very low gale force winds, are more beneficial than the slightly higher chance of injury due to falling debris or being knocked over by a gust. (But I really did it in order to keep my metabolism up, not for the long term effects.)
Thanks, that does sound much less adversarial than I was thinking, apologies for misinterpreting you!
If you enjoy schaudenfraude, here’s clips of Shepard Smith from just before Hurricane Matthew.
Hurricanes in Florida are sort of like The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Every time we ask, is this a dud, or is it the real deal? The reality is that every major storm is the real deal, if you are unlucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
~Max
Just keep in mind that lawyers, and particularly government lawyers, choose their line of work, not vice versa. I could never do Dinsdale’s job. Take that as you will.
The part where he goes “but, hey, ‘FREEEDUUUUM’ or something” … oh dear. 
What I got from that video is that Shepard Smith was sick of Fox News viewers.
To be fair, I’ve been seeing a lot of interviews with survivors where they state they were idiots, stupid, and lucky to be alive, sometimes with a choked sob about how they tried to hang onto someone only to have the storm/water rip them away. So maybe some of the luckier ones have a learned a lesson about heeding warnings.
And also to be fair, I’ve heard stories of people who evacuated. Who went into debt renting hotel rooms out of state, and who could not get back to their homes for weeks. When they do get home, they find that there is no damage at all from the storm, but there is damage from looters and it being left unattended for weeks.
I can see why someone who has been through that a time or two would be hesitant to leave their life behind once again.
C’mon over to the Tip-Top Tavern, we’ll be there for Thursday night feetsball. I’ll buy you an Old Fashioned and you can “imitate” me too!
The OP misrepresents how Hilaree Nelson died. She didn’t “ski off a mountain” - that sounds idiotic. She was pushed off by a freak avalanche.
Most news stories elicit either of two responses from me:
“Busy, busy, busy” (when it’s about living);
“So it goes” (when it’s about dying).
The opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s indifference. Hate is love that’s gotten warped by pain. By complaining about people afflicted with misfortune, Dinsdale is showing he cares far more than I do with my studied indifference. He just expresses it in a dickish manner. He can’t just dismiss it with a casual “So it goes” because he can’t help caring. It’s natural to care, to feel something for other human beings. It’s just warped to turn it against the victim.
I’m in permanent survival mode, and most of my spoons each day have to go for things that directly affect me (LGBTQ, healthcare, voting rights). Even so, I set aside enough spoons to keep up with the struggles of Black people, American Indians, and Ukrainians against oppression. After that, I got none left. Dinsdale is probably in more robust health and can expend his excess mental energy on warping his caring for other people.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/sport/ski-mountaineer-hilaree-nelson-death-nepal-spt-intl
"…he and Nelson were skiing down from the summit of Manaslu to rejoin their sherpa team when the 49-year-old “started a small avalanche.”
She was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope, …"
That is consistent with what I had heard before. The 2 reached the summit in deteriorating weather, quickly geared up, and started to ski down to their Sherpas. Nelson, skiing 2d, caused an avalanche.
I think there was a different avalanche lower on the mountain that same day.
“Skied off a mountain” vs “caused an avalanche that pushed her off the mountain”? I’m not sure there is a huge difference. But I apologize that I wrote my OP in a manner you find misleading.
That is a hell of an insight.
You need to write a book…
Love, Pain, and Spoons
AND OTHER VISIONS OF JOHANNA
Skiing off of mountains is an actual thing. It is very different than what happened to Hilaree Nelson.
Well, OK. Apologies to everyone who thought I was referring to someone who was ski BASE jumping.
I’m not sure “While skiing, caused an avalanche that pushed them off a mountain,” casts her in a much different/better light than “skied off a mountain.”
Think of it as the difference between someone who crashes their vehicle because they have poor driving skills, or are drunk, or not paying attention, etc. And someone who crashes their vehicle because a tree falls onto the road in front of them in a windstorm.
While you can argue that a person should not be driving in such conditions, there is still an element of misfortune involved, rather than it being completely their fault. The same can be said of someone skiing when conditions were conducive to avalanches.
I almost skied into a (small) crevasse once. It was flat light and hard to see until I was right on top of it. Managed to kind of ‘hop’ over it. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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