Tropical Storm Elsa makes landfall, moves across Florida

[@xylsky1300]

It rained in my area from yesterday morning until 20 minutes ago from this post it stopped. It was hard rain and the wind was pretty strong.

[@SorenPenrose]

I dunno if I can trust this forecast...there's no sharpie

[@SorenPenrose]

@Hortler i wish, i could use the extra cash

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

Imagine not understanding that weather forecasting is a predictive science...

[@lanek2177]

Imagine going on a date.

[@urekmazino6800]

@@lanek2177 imagine dragons

[@lanek2177]

Urek Mazino blew my mind

[@lanek2177]

Andrew Evans it sucks

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

@@lanek2177 wait is this a real problem? Are dates not a thing anymore? I'm in my 30s, but going on dates wasn't rare when I was younger and single.

[@kingpowers93]

Just some rain in SW Florida, minor flooding. Not much wind at all either.

[@GordonWaiteJr]

Daytona Beach? Your on the wrong coast woman! The storm is in the Gulf not the Atlantic.

[@terryglover7673]

Motel rooms sold big last night 😂

[@10Hammers]

Not the cat 1 MSM was predicting last night. I'm sure they're disappointed.

[@DrunkDoglol]

Fear sells.

[@skylerdurance3007]

I live in Orlando and it hasn’t rained in my area all day lmao

[@sarahewson3607]

I live an hour west of you and it rained heavy all night and didn’t stop until about 9am 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@joeyriddle428]

Grow up

[@marymarmande8446]

❤️ sending love and prayers I've been playing 💞 nobody has to much or I pray no damages from this hurricane please keep praying until this system is over back in the ocean ❤️ ☮️

[@stevegordon9997]

I live in Homosassa Springs and its been blowing in the high 30,s and 40,s ,not what there saying .

[@joeyriddle428]

Stop it

[@blakekford]

"Now, here's a look at your Pinpoint Accurate Forecast" What a joke lol. How does he even say that with a straight face?

[@grandolph9281]

The motivation of a paycheck may have something to do with it

[@joeyriddle428]

Guess i can ask u the same thing

[@93mgee]

**NOT Financial ADVICE **but a good read For all of the new baby apes. I know a lot of you have questions, and I thought it would be helpful to provide you with some overall context to understand the significance of the movement you just joined. Here’s the cliff note version. Covid hit last March and a couple of big hedge funds concocted a plan to drive AMC into bankruptcy by “shorting” it and make a ton of money in the process. You “short” a company when you think the value of the stock is going to go down. When the country locked down and AMC closed their doors and their revenue literally went to $0 overnight, it was a no brainer play for the hedge funds. So they started borrowing millions and millions of shares from brokers and sold them “short” at the market price at the time, and they pocketed the cash from the sale. The idea is that the stock price will drop, you can buy them back later at a lower price, and then return the borrowed shares to the broker and keep the difference. If the company goes bankrupt, the stock goes to $0 and they don’t have to buy anything back at all and keep everything. This is what they were banking on. They’ve done this to company after company over the years, and they saw this as a sure thing as any. Well a bunch of people on Reddit (affectionately known as “Apes”) noticed they were trying to drive AMC, GameStop and many other retail and mortar stores into bankruptcy, and banded together to buy up all the available shares, driving up the share price. This resulted in the mini squeeze in January. But Apes didnt sell after that. And the hedge funds didn’t cover their short positions either (I.e. buy back the millions of shares they had borrowed and sold short). The Apes kept buying and buying, and holding and holding, and once the real shares were all bought up, the hedge funds doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on their short position and started making synthetic shares (IOUs) and selling those shares into the market trying to drive the price down. When the price dropped, instead of selling like the hedge funds wanted them to, Apes said “thank you very much for the discount” and kept buying more and holding. Nobody has sold for the past 5 months since the movement really got started in January, and more and more people are jumping in and adding more everyday. Now because of all of the synthetic IOU shares the hedge funds have created to keep shorting AMC, us Apes likely own more way more shares than are actually supposed to exist (as much as 6x-8x by some estimates). But real or synthetic, each share the hedge funds sold short is a liability on their books that must be bought back in order to close out their position. They literally have hundreds of millions of shares, possibly billions, to buy back, and we own them all. They have to buy them back eventually, and every day that the borrowed short shares are still on loan, the hedge funds are paying interest to the brokers they borrowed them from. Meanwhile it costs us nothing to hold. Things started to come to a head a couple weeks ago because the interest rate on the borrowed shares was reported to be as high as 250% (1-2% is normal for your average stock), so the hedge funds are collectively paying hundreds of millions of dollars every day just to hold their position, and a lot of them are starting to miss the payments and margin calls could be coming very soon. That’s when the fun starts. At that point, the broker forces them to buy back all of the hundreds of millions of shares they have borrowed and sold short, because the broker doesn’t want the hedge funds’ recklessness to fall onto them. And remember, the Apes own all the shares and aren’t selling. The hedge funds can only buy a share for what an Ape is willing to sell it for, and us Apes really love our shares. Once the margin calls start, the computers just start buying back all of the shares at the best available price no matter what that price may be. They all have to be bought back. Everything must be settled. And if the cheapest price an ape is willing to sell for is 1,000, or 10,000 or 100,000, well then that’s what the hedge funds will be forced to buy the borrowed shares back for in order to close out their position. Apes are going to hold and hold and hold driving up the price further and further to make the hedge funds bleed as much as possible until they are inevitably forced to buy back their millions of shares. They will need to buy our shares, and we set the price. And remember, it costs us nothing to hold. This movement has been building for the past 5 months, but you just heard about it yesterday. One thing Apes don’t do is set dates for the squeeze. Nobody knows when it will happen, all we know for sure is that the math says it’s inevitable as long as we hold. I only see three possibilities as to how this all plays out: 1. AMC goes bankrupt and the hedgies win (please note this is not going to happen. AMC has enough liquidity to last them through 2022 and the most passionate shareholder base in the universe. Not to mention a pretty badass CEO who has completely embraced the new shareholder base) 2. Hedge funds are somehow able to meet their daily margin payments to avoid being margin called, and they strategically close out their short positions over time, causing a sustained Tesla type squeeze over a period of a year or more (remember, apes aren’t selling until we’re at the moon) 3. Hedge funds will be margin called and forced to buy everything all at once and we’ll have the most violent squeeze in the history of short squeezes. The price is infinite as long as apes hold.I wouldn’t bet on #1, #2 will require patience, and #3 will be absolute insanity (and in my personal non-financial advisor opinion is the most likely outcome). Either way, we’re winning the battle. This beautiful movement is growing by the day, and we can hold longer than they can. Never before has anything like this happened where millions of regular people have been able to band together to take on the billionaires who have been screwing them over time and time again, and be able to actually hit them where it really hurts. It is the big hedge fund himself on the other side (you know the one) who has his hands in all the retail brokerage apps to make sure our orders get routed to him to fill. And then they fill them with synthetic shares that they don’t even have and dig themselves even deeper. They created and marketed easy access to the stock market to the retail investor because they only saw the retail investor as prey. Just another way to bleed us dry. They never saw this coming. Like I said, everything will eventually have to be settled. Margin calls are coming. And the SEC has already enacted several rules to prepare as much as possible for the catastrophic fallout from this event, and to make sure that something like this can never happen again. The millions of little guys with an app in their hand are a threat now, and I’m sure they’ll adapt to it. So this could very well be a once in a lifetime opportunity here. Although I’m not a financial advisor

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Sorry guys, I washed my car this morning. My bad.

[@lgh9801]

Washed mine as well 🤣

[@krdelux3919]

I’m afraid to wash mine. It would fall apart.

[@cmuneeee]

In Kissimmee, Florida it didn’t even rain.

[@tresonsaint6488]

It's not a snow storm?

[@ebogar42]

You all were wrong again. Wasn't even close to Tampa.

[@tommersch4296]

uh huh - they sharpied it in

[@KentonJoseph]

They said Horseshoe Beach not Tampa. Hear much, Gomer?

[@deansapp4635]

@@KentonJoseph K, I heard them say Tampa was gonna get hit, Just saying

[@ebogar42]

@@KentonJoseph Way to change it. We all heard Tampa. How would I know it was Tampa if I didn't hear Tampa? I'm not from there, but heard Tampa a thousand times. lol

[@joeyriddle428]

@@deansapp4635 no u didnt stop trolling its the weather for gods sake

[@richiereynaga5091]

Not too bad just a really bad storm in retrospect.

[@avail1.]

Take care👍

[@BilgePump]

Your right Taylor county not highly populated. That is good news Thanx!

[@heavyd777]

It's a non event. We barely had any wind or rain and I live right on the west coast.

[@casey653]

And my parents live in Fort Myers and they had a tree fall near their home. I wouldn't call wind speeds and storms that can topple trees a non-event

[@taziologlisi6751]

@@casey653 prayers go out to your 👪

[@sarahewson3607]

It rained heavy all night and I’m in central Florida, just be thankful it wasn’t a major storm!

[@joeyriddle428]

Stop with your conspiracy garbage

[@casey653]

@Hortler Im pretty sure if one tree fell, more did aswell.

[@anderander5662]

There are people in Reno, Nevada who are scared of this little storm....good for clicks I guess.

[@craigdaubbeats-rapinstrume9185]

We have a Blizzard in PA right now. 😳

[@Jordan-yd2um]

Is this heading to New York and brooklyn??

[@Miguel-wb7jd]

Most likely the remnants. It isn’t likely for it to get stronger

[@thekidfromcleveland3944]

A bunch of wind and rain poses more of a threat than the Heat this postseason.............. ......s****s amazing if you think about it

[@621Chopsuey]

I have to drive across the state through that for work. Not looking forward to it.

[@Uh.naenae]

Hope my fellow Galveston ppl survive

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

They goners rip

[@thejoker8583]

Pressure was 999 😈🤘 Flip that !!! MUHAAAAA More fun > guest 75 wind 65 7+5= 13 6+5= 11 13 +11= 24 2+4 =6 MUHAAAAA

[@handson4580]

this makes me want to drink

[@jonesvox1]

Animated BS. It’s a nice day here in Cntrl FL. Parks closed, walking paths closed?? Why? Another example of “Trust us….we’re the experts….and we will protect you….whether you want to be or not”

[@dinky6620]

Gripe gripe gripe. If they had done nothing would you also gripe?

[@showmethescience2514]

I think they have to over compensate for all the idiots.

[@joeyriddle428]

Yeah ppl are on here actually implying that this is fake.damn cowards wont even outright say it

[@lisai4413]

Lock down for a minor storm not for COVID-19. What Floridians expect when they have fools running their state. Little Marco, Desantan and Rick Snot

[@vinnyx3585]

Damn cant she just let it go

[@dancook4993]

Here we go again gouging Americans again with high gas prices .

[@Josh-vc2cp]

Horseshoe Beach is in Dixie County. Keaton Beach is in Taylor County.

[@antoinettewilliams716]

They make the Storm sounded bad smfh it was just rain nothing more

[@sarahewson3607]

Then be thankful we weren’t the latest national disaster area 👍🏼

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

It just a warmup. More big hurricanes coming 😈😈😈

[@samueltorres8168]

That's all I need to know

[@chiefaborigine242]

Didnt they say tampa would get hit...seems like they don't know or just saying stuff

[@kyzoFPS]

i feel like they said it as a prediction not as fact.

[@ebogar42]

@@kyzoFPS If it's a prediction, they shouldn't say Tampa a thousand times as if they know for sure.

[@justinneale9405]

Thank you, dam.

[@robertstalnaker5728]

Better not ask for any government assistance because that would be liberal socialism

[@handson4580]

...this storm is litterally nothing i didint even feel it here in central Florida. Maybe the reason this is so hyped up is that its in JULY a vary rare occurrence with only 55 since 1851 but still extremely poor reporting and predictions maybe you should focus more on the weather and less on politics

[@joeyriddle428]

U first child

[@handson4580]

@@joeyriddle428 ok no profile pic

[@joeyriddle428]

@@handson4580 so?

[@handson4580]

@@joeyriddle428 you just made a profile just to insult and spread hate is the point.

[@deansapp4635]

Over blown again.

[@joeyriddle428]

Nope try again

[@FaithwalkerTodd]

@@joeyriddle428 Is it your job to run cover for the media? It just seems that you’re always there trying to defend them.

[@vincentfalcone9218]

Nothingburger