20 sats \ 19 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Oct \ parent \ on: US Labor Market With Mixed Data econ
I hadn't really given it much thought. Unemployment filings require the person to be able to file. If power and internet are knocked out, you're not going to be filing for unemployment. Plus, there was probably some temporary employment in the form of disaster relief.
I dont know, its not like hurricanes happen never.
They get hit every year down there.
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These were much more destructive than normal, though.
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They live there knowing that is a risk.
It has always been a risk.
Just like people in the west live in a desert.
People in the north live in the snow.
People in the south live near the water.
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Not the mountains of North Carolina. That is why the death toll is so bad there was no evacuation order and only some lucky people received warnings at all. Most people where stuck by the time it got bad with roads washing out completely.
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I realize it isnt normal for them, but they just watched it come.
Its not like the storm hit them out of nowhere.
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Yes, they have been hit by hurricanes but nowhere near the damage that occurred ever did. If it was so bad and everyone knew it the government would have ordered evacuations but no one thought it would be that bad that far inland. So no one left I mean you in the mountains the government is saying it will be fine why would you leave?
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Dude have you ever been to those parts? They don't exactly have a clear way out the roads wind around and up and over mountains. The area that was devastated was on the west side of the state not a part that gets hurricane-force winds because of how inland it is. It crossed Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina before getting to North Carolina. This was roughly 450 miles inland.
This also wasn't the government being wrong this was scientific models being broken in front of our eyes. Historical events took place something no one could have accounted for. Flooding started in North Carolina roughly an hour after landfall when the Hurricane itself wasn't even close to the state. By the time the outer bands got there, people were already stuck from landslides.
I mean they had a tornado on a freakin mountain. People would have left if they had known but the forecast didn't show this.
Sure, but realized unemployment effects will be driven by realized hurricane severity.