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Norbert

(7,170 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:59 AM Jul 2

So what will happen if Alligator Alcatraz gets a direct hit

From a hurricane and hundreds of detainees die. How will this be explained, or will they categorize it such as a sub-human death toll. The US is sinking deeper and deeper.

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taxi

(2,402 posts)
5. Here's what happened in 1928
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:19 AM
Jul 2

This hurricane went through West Palm Beach before killing 2,500 people forty miles inland. The concentration camp is about 55 miles south of Lake Okeechobee and 50 miles inland. Please watch the 90 second video.


In the summer of 1928, heavy rainfall raised Lake Okeechobee’s water level three feet above normal. And in the fall, a hurricane smashed the coast of Florida. The impact flooded Lake Okeechobee. This inland flood obliterated 21 miles of the 47-mile earthen and an estimated 2,500 people died in Southern Florida, most of them migrant farm workers.



https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/swamp-okeechobee-hurricane-1928/

maptap22

(214 posts)
6. It doesn't even have to be a hurricane...
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:51 AM
Jul 2

We get wild storms down here in FL like mini-hurricanes and I believe the state has the highest lightening strikes in the country. With all those metal cages? Seems like they built a lightening rod out of tents in the swamp.

TommyT139

(1,649 posts)
10. And the rest of the structures are tents, right?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:24 AM
Jul 2

Heat, wind, rain - with insufficient medical care, food, and water -- death rates will soar.

global1

(26,161 posts)
8. The Repugs Have Abandoned Their Symbolic Elephant For An Alligator......
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:14 AM
Jul 2

The camp structures were put together in a weeks time. I would say that they aren't too sturdy. A hurricane would wipe them out. The entire camp could be flooded or swept away.

The Everglade Alligators and Snakes would flourish and take out those detainees that didn't die first from the wind and water.

But what about the guards and the workers that serve the camp. They will also die cause there is no way to save them either -- should a hurricane hit.

Such an incident would be a total disaster.

jmowreader

(52,542 posts)
9. "They got what was coming to them"
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:34 AM
Jul 2

"If they had just stayed home they'd be alive now, so it's all their fault."

"Hey you Mexicans, you see what you get when you invade Trumperica?"

Something like that.

malaise

(286,769 posts)
11. Well just imagine the staff receive the warning a few days before the
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:36 AM
Jul 2

hurricane - do you think they are staying?

Walleye

(41,453 posts)
12. And since the cuts to NOAA, they won't be prepared
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:47 AM
Jul 2

But if a lot of immigrants die in the storm, Maga butt hurt boys will be celebrating like crazy. And they will tell us this is what they voted for.

FloridaBlues

(4,581 posts)
13. I haven't read anywhere how strong this tent structure is against hurricane winds.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:15 AM
Jul 2

Between Desantis and trump what could go wrong? Everything.

NutmegYankee

(16,430 posts)
17. They just won't say anything.
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 07:54 AM
Jul 4

Those inside will just disappear. “They’ve been deported” will be the regimes press statement.

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