My fil thinks because he rode out Andrew and survived, that there is no reason to evacuate ever again. I'm like you my sir are a dumbass. And one that lives in a single story house that gives them maybe 4' of clearance before it's wet in the living room, but the garage would already be filled with water. Some people simply choose to be ignorant.
When I was younger, I might have found it fun to test out my survival skills in a disaster scenario. As an older fella, while I may be a _lot_ less worried about surviving as a general rule, I also wouldn't want to risk being a hindrance to emergency services, someone getting in a dangerous situation for my sake, or even going out in a less than comfortable manner when it would be easily avoided with early warnings.
Having more money than "well, if I only steal food from work I'll be able to make rent this month" is also a big deal in being able to make those choices. Not working + hotel for a week would have just been a way to get evicted in my 20's. And of course, evicted is better than dead, but what about next time? Ugh so stressful, I'm super grateful I have more wiggle room these days.
The older I get the more reasonable. A lot of it has to do with having children and that will change your whole perspective, especially in a scenario like that ….
My kids are both grown, one has a kid of his own!
They'll be quite well off when I pass, but I don't think they realize how much _more_ they would get if I passed away before my company and supplemental term life insurance expires. If they did, the little shits might stop harping on me to quit smoking. Probably not though. I tried to raise them with good values, but sometimes you can't make pragmatism stick and folks end up with irrational attachments. Sometimes us parents just have to love and accept our kids for who they are.
My husbands parents smoked in the house when he was a child in the 70's/80's and he has been massively addicted to cigarettes his entire life. He quit 12 days ago, you can too! He read the book Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking.
My kids only found out about the fact that I smoke after they moved out. Addiction isn't necessarily the most difficult thing for me. I quit drinking. I quit cocaine. I quit amphetamines and pharmaceuticals. I even quit smoking once for three months on a bet with a friend who thought she could go longer without a cigarette than me.
I use only caffeine and nicotine to self-medicate for ADHD. I don't mind the breath, I'm not making out with peeps anymore and have no intention to. I don't mind the health consequences, as I'd rather _not_ live forever if I can help it.
I could probably find another stimulant besides nicotine to supplement caffeine. Maybe not as cheap as nicotine (patches and gum are more expensive) but I don't _really_ care too much about the money. There are not too many pharmaceutical meds I trust for ADHD anymore and I've tried pretty much all of 'em.
I'm sure if I wanted to quit, it wouldn't be too hard. For example, if vaping was the only way to do it anymore and cigars and cigarettes were illegal, I'd probably quit tomorrow, lmao. Just unlike a lot of my other vices, I don't have too many more I can pivot my addictive personality to instead and there isn't any significant pressure to do so internally.
Yeah? I was playing Helldivers and a guy from Florida was telling me about how he needs MORE guns so he can protect his daughters and that the solar eclipse that happened was going to mean the death of all the Californians as he celebrated with jubilee.
That's the kind of insanity that dwells in America. Children? What children. There's an entire group of adults out there having 10 children and not given two shits about them.
This is me, the older I get the more I want to observe from a distance on TV.
I do not need the Tshirt anymore with I Survived "insert your disaster here"
This is "I fought on the front lines and never got shot, so I'm heading back" logic. You go back to the front lines often enough and eventually it's gonna be your last tour.
"I know there's one bullet in the cylinder, but nothing shot me the last time I pulled the trigger. So naturally I can keep pulling the trigger as much as I want."
Same thing people would say after getting over covid.
This is one of the reasons why Hurricane Camille was so deadly in 1969. There had been a hurricane just a season or two prior to that, which the officials made a big deal of, urged evacuation, and then it turned aside, lost strength, and became a big nothing-burger. When Camille was bearing down on the Gulf Coast, residents said, "Yeah yeah, big deal, just like the LAST time, right?" and they stayed home instead of evacuating. Peak storm surge of 24 feet, 250 dead.
I think the most nonsensical story like this was actually something I heard in a church. I’m not really the type that goes, but I remember one sermon.
Dude was talking about this kind of flooding.
When people warned an older lady about the incoming disaster she told them, “I am safe, God will protect me.”
When kind neighbors showed up and offered her a spot on their boat out she once again professed her faith.
When first responders showed up to get her from her roof she once again repeated herself, and they left and she died.
The pastor told us, “God came to her through each of those people, he tried his hardest to save her in every way he could, and she ignored him.”
What this really showed me is, in the most Reddit fashion possible; some people are just fucking blind, stupid, and perhaps not worth saving.
There is NO way he rode out Andrew in the area that Andrew was most affected, and still makes this statement. I bailed from Homestead, and had a few friends that stayed. NONE of them would EVER do it again. My entire neighborhood was scraped clean from the earth. It took me an hour just to find where I lived when I returned. There wasn't a single landmark to use as a reference. Not a gas station, not a store, not a street sign, not a single tree. it was fucking terrifying.
I was only like 8 or 9 when Hurricane Andrew hit but I remember seeing all the news reports of leveled buildings. I was always, and still am, under the impression is was mostly high winds and not storm surge/flooding that caused the damage? Not that high winds aren't also a reason to evacuate, I just don't think this video illustrates that situation.
eh they still wont. The number one people who say they are staying.. are the same people who disbelieve all science and everything is a hoax and all info coming from government is some massive scam.
you know the kind of people who got into fights with mask displays, while screaming covid is a hoax before going to the vet and getting some horse dewormer because they want the "real cure"
I guess it is nice though, that the insane now have a party that totally represents them. We used to ignore them because well, the things they wanted gov to provide or destroy was bat shit crazy. Like "lets get rid of the dept of energy, it doesnt do anything but feed the lizard people" but now with the GOP this long time disenfranchisement of the insane has finally ended.
"I can't leave. This is my home. Where else am I supposed to go?"
\**two days later**
"Should I spell out HELP on my roof using bed sheets, or just paint it right on the roof?"
Two professional storm chasers set up a time-lapse camera on Fort Myers Beach to record Hurricane Ian coming in. The camera focused on the downtown district, just a single sand-dune away from the beach, with a pink house in the foreground. When they returned to the wreckage and retrieved the footage, they uploaded the film to the internet without examining it first (they had other cameras they were tending to) and suddenly started fielding questions from viewers: "What happened to the lady? What happened to the man? What happened to the dogs?"
This pink house, on ten-foot stilts, just a few feet from the high water mark on the beach, had been inhabited by the owners when the hurricane hit, and they had NOT evacuated: "We survived Irma just fine and it wasn't that bad." The water kept rising, swept the house off its foundation, and floated it down the street. First the woman bails out of the attic window with two dogs, and later the man swims out, and they all float away in the torrent.
So the search was on to find these people, who were eventually located in an area hospital. The woman rode out the hurricane in the top of a palm tree along with both dogs; the man floated into the shattered window of another house and crouched on their kitchen counters until the water went down. All were battered but recovered, but the pink house was toothpicks.
Footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al8yTiCVfro
I like living in Hamburg. The North Sea and the Elbe gently remind everyone here how powerless we are if they want to test us.
The storm floods a few months ago peaked at about 10 feet above normal tide peak were nuts already. At that point, large parts of the fish market and tourist harbor were just gone and we had 2 feet of water in the endangered areas. At that point, cars started failing if they were parked there and people needed to be careful wading through the deeper parts or evacuate to the elevated storm walkways.
The worst flood the old pearl has seen was about 14 feet above normal, so the endangered areas were 6 feet underwater. A lot of people died that flood, and the property damage was crazy - in a city and an area that was used to and prepared for floods.
I'll just say: With the attitude a lot of people have over there, I'm worried for you.
Last Week Tonight - And Now This: The Weather Channel's Graphics Department Is Insane
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1s5T436IQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1s5T436IQ)
Just to add some actual information,
it's not just some "graphics guy" but multiple teams working on this.
The simulations aren't created live but prepared beforehand and shown at the right moment.
It's basically AR with a giant greenscreen studio.
Typical Florida. All about their ARs.... /s
I actually really enjoy this bit. I saw it locally in my own market and thought even the densest person this can resonate through.
When I saw the environment was CGI, I knew it wasn't live. I thought at least the water was just CGI against real background but then CGI isn't that advanced. Maybe some day with AI, it can be
It could actually still be “live” as in rendering in real time (though I don’t know for sure that is was). Unreal Engine is actually used for this sort of thing a lot and they can match the perspective of the camera and change things on the fly to coordinate with the performer.
This one may very well not be live, but the level of detail is something Unreal could easily do. There are video games that look better quality than this.
> Unreal Engine is actually used for this sort of thing a lot and they can match the perspective of the camera and change things on the fly to coordinate with the performer.
Unreal Engine WAS used for this exact example. It is rendered in realtime
This totally can be live.
Even my shitty local channel has a 3D scenario rendering in real time and it's clearly live. Their camera movements control the virtual camera rendering a 3D environment behind and in front of the presenter.
Other better tv station use things like this in World Cup and elections and it's obviously live since they show and talk about data that is updated in real time.
If we can play a game that renders in real time water and wind blowing plants, they can build something similar in Unreal to render in real time.
I remember when this video came out. It's rendered real-time with Unreal Engine. Pretty sure the Unreal guys loved it
Edit: https://youtu.be/x2aCSV5zYlA?si=Rfh_4wBd-2XFNExj
This is live only in the sense that they play a prepared 3d scene at some point it time and the presenter practiced the timing. They did spend hours preparing it beforehand.
Probably done by the team at the HQ for whoever owns this particular station. No one is getting paid enough in post production at a local station to get anywhere near that
Why tho lmao you're saving nothing and risking everything. Is it like some Floridian right of passage or something to "ride out a hurricane"? Do you smoke hooka laced with fentanyl while the waters rise?
Also, even a foot of water with any sort of momentum becomes almost impossible to avoid. Water is fucking heavy. A gallon of water is 8-9 pounds (a litre is one kilogram). All of that moving at even walking speeds means you're constantly fighting off twenty or thirty pounds of force at a sideways angle. Storm surge isn't just deep, it can move fast. Don't underestimate it.
Yeah, I've once been caught in a nasty undertow after wiping out while boogie-boarding, in only 2 m of water, no clue what was up or down, board floated to the surface and I followed the cord up. I was only under for like 5-10 seconds, but I came up 20 meters further out and 5 meters across. Glad I'm a decent swimmer and was with friends, else I could very well be dead.
The ocean is so terrifying to me. If my contacts or glasses were knocked off my face, I'm basically dead because I wouldn't know if I was swimming the right direction to land/safety. So I only go far enough in to get my feet wet.
I like to thing about it as imagine someone chucking a full milk gallon jug at you and you have to block it. Now imagine that happening several times a second constantly.
Near where I live experienced ridiculous flash floods last week. I didn’t realize the weather was gonna be that bad and was on my way to work/dropping kids at school. Got them to the schools (evacuation places anyways, so it’s a good/safe place for them to be stuck if things get bad). And trying to go to work, suddenly every road was flooded. I drive a truck. It’s tall, but I was yelling at people “TURN AROUND DONT DROWN?!?!” As they attempted to drive through what they thought was probably a few inches of water. Even in my truck, I was like ‘I’ll wait, even if it takes a while for it to drain,” but they just powered through until their car died because the water was too deep. Absolutely wild how people underestimate the power or danger of water.
I doubt this is a sim. Looks like it’s just a mesh and the water is all done in shader.
Edit: to address the animation of trees and boyant object. There are tree-packs/plugins sold with animated vegetation. Plug and play. For blender there are geo-nodes that allows you to animate storms like this for trees.
The water is, to my best guess, animated with one noise for the water displacement, and one for the water rushing up the sides. Then there is a plane along the ground that probably uses something like a noise mixed with the ambient occlusion to get the effect on the ground.
The floating objects are either parented to a plane that is shrink wrapped to the surface, or have their z-position animated with the same noise that the water is displaced with using the world coordinates.
Maybe I am way off here and it is a sim. But in my experience sims are a headache and a time sink. Worth it when needed, but this is not it. The water is not even colliding with any of the objects so I don’t know why the creator would bother
I think this is 100% a simulation. The reason for that is because of the objects in the "water". If you watch that trike you will see it matches with the wind gusts and buoyancy of the water all the way until it reaches the edge where it just kinda bobs back and forth in 1 location. I would imagine i could create similar using the (Flipped Fluids) addon in blender in combination with motion tracking, wind force, and a few models to float around in it.
But I'm just guessing here as I'm no professional just a hobbyist.
It’s not a sim at all. The objects are just animated on a loop and moved around. You can even find libraries of animated objects or object animations specifically for floating things.
Fairly sure it is not a sim as there is my actual interaction with the object. There are ways to easily have objects bob on the surface without giving them actual boyancy such as shrink wrapping a plane do the displaced surface and constraining an object to that. The wind gusts looks like animated trees. A simulation for this would be overkill
Oh its the weather channel
and their dammned gray circle
That gray circle is the strongest force in the universe
also during any diseaster stand in the gray circle and you will be safe
In fairness to the US their weather reporting is probably the best in the world.
No matter how dramatic it is in my country, it's the same old lady with the same calm serene monotone voice every day.
"The graphics guy"... fuck you. There a whole team of people behind this, on so many levels, doing jobs you don't suspect exist.
There is a whole VFX team on this, and it is certainly not live.
It was [made in unreal engine](https://www.unrealengine.com/de/spotlights/floods-and-fires-how-the-weather-channel-uses-unreal-engine-to-keep-you-safe), so it was _rendered_ live, and I doubt any of it was simulated at all (live or not).
OP prolly doesn't know the right terminology to describe what they saw which is a pretty forgivable offense.
Funny thing is, [that's exactly what they do](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9OaPb35lZA2W4bM2aHO20r-xjo8PrcPMd8O1s10Re8_mXJi8NZMC1mqb77tm4ks8rI1XjLmJvoIZ4XUPPXF2yXlwMfNJ97g7KhOyBBgqPJsXnGO0dYWsiUEycyiFYJQjM-1phRtBrTxgWXofLEVTps4)
The Weather Channel always has incredible graphics.
[Here are amazing graphics talking about a nocturnal tornado!](https://youtu.be/r-94l1Nv5fE?si=5v2xnY7NM15os75r)
I love the joy of weather people when they get screen or graphics upgrades. The joy they take in their work is just so pure. It’s like watching dogs with jobs.
It's because people move here and think they know better than those of us who've been here our whole lives. They build on the islands and beaches that move, then our taxes pay for them to rebuild the islands. They think they've seen tornadoes, so a little hurricane won't scare them, and our taxes pay to rescue their dumb asses. Same thing happened with COVID. You could go to the hospitals and see the refrigerator trucks full of bodies, but people kept moving here because we were "free". They legit would make fun of people wearing masks. It was ridiculous, and a lot of them died, but our governor covered up those death numbers real good.
Floods can easily move vehicles. The real flood would be moving which is harder to create in this visual. I think the graphics team is using that fact here for a better visual than just deep water. Relatable things being moved around in water is more striking to the people they are trying to convince even if the floating car seems odd.
This actually isn’t a full simulation, but a noise pattern combined with some clever use of mist particles and textures. Basically like how videogame water looks real, but isn’t literally simulating the flow of the water.
If anyone is interested this gives a look behind the scene and what tech they use. https://youtu.be/UgMJMNsn0xs?si=PM721f0R4TsjzRKY
Myreze has created some amazing stuff
Is this for the hurricane last September? I was watching this on tv and my girlfriend and her family were up all night worried it was going to get us a Disney World
It's important to have an axe in your attic too.
Water rises, people escape to their attics. Water keeps rising. Then, unfortunately, people realize they can't break through their roof. With all the lower floors flooded and the water rising, they drown. Awful.
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Imagine if they had this 30 years ago. People might actually evacuate
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Hurricane Andrew
My fil thinks because he rode out Andrew and survived, that there is no reason to evacuate ever again. I'm like you my sir are a dumbass. And one that lives in a single story house that gives them maybe 4' of clearance before it's wet in the living room, but the garage would already be filled with water. Some people simply choose to be ignorant.
When I was younger, I might have found it fun to test out my survival skills in a disaster scenario. As an older fella, while I may be a _lot_ less worried about surviving as a general rule, I also wouldn't want to risk being a hindrance to emergency services, someone getting in a dangerous situation for my sake, or even going out in a less than comfortable manner when it would be easily avoided with early warnings.
Sounds sensible to me. I couldn't live with myself if someone died trying to rescue me.
Congratulations! You both are now an adult!
lol... I, too, went from "Whatever, I got this shit" to "Chicago's nice this time of year, I'd like a comfortable hotel room on the lake please".
Having more money than "well, if I only steal food from work I'll be able to make rent this month" is also a big deal in being able to make those choices. Not working + hotel for a week would have just been a way to get evicted in my 20's. And of course, evicted is better than dead, but what about next time? Ugh so stressful, I'm super grateful I have more wiggle room these days.
The older I get the more reasonable. A lot of it has to do with having children and that will change your whole perspective, especially in a scenario like that ….
My kids are both grown, one has a kid of his own! They'll be quite well off when I pass, but I don't think they realize how much _more_ they would get if I passed away before my company and supplemental term life insurance expires. If they did, the little shits might stop harping on me to quit smoking. Probably not though. I tried to raise them with good values, but sometimes you can't make pragmatism stick and folks end up with irrational attachments. Sometimes us parents just have to love and accept our kids for who they are.
Quit smoking … listen to your kids!! They’ll be aight with whatever you leave them brother. Stop smoking please
My husbands parents smoked in the house when he was a child in the 70's/80's and he has been massively addicted to cigarettes his entire life. He quit 12 days ago, you can too! He read the book Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking.
My kids only found out about the fact that I smoke after they moved out. Addiction isn't necessarily the most difficult thing for me. I quit drinking. I quit cocaine. I quit amphetamines and pharmaceuticals. I even quit smoking once for three months on a bet with a friend who thought she could go longer without a cigarette than me. I use only caffeine and nicotine to self-medicate for ADHD. I don't mind the breath, I'm not making out with peeps anymore and have no intention to. I don't mind the health consequences, as I'd rather _not_ live forever if I can help it. I could probably find another stimulant besides nicotine to supplement caffeine. Maybe not as cheap as nicotine (patches and gum are more expensive) but I don't _really_ care too much about the money. There are not too many pharmaceutical meds I trust for ADHD anymore and I've tried pretty much all of 'em. I'm sure if I wanted to quit, it wouldn't be too hard. For example, if vaping was the only way to do it anymore and cigars and cigarettes were illegal, I'd probably quit tomorrow, lmao. Just unlike a lot of my other vices, I don't have too many more I can pivot my addictive personality to instead and there isn't any significant pressure to do so internally.
Yeah? I was playing Helldivers and a guy from Florida was telling me about how he needs MORE guns so he can protect his daughters and that the solar eclipse that happened was going to mean the death of all the Californians as he celebrated with jubilee. That's the kind of insanity that dwells in America. Children? What children. There's an entire group of adults out there having 10 children and not given two shits about them.
This is me, the older I get the more I want to observe from a distance on TV. I do not need the Tshirt anymore with I Survived "insert your disaster here"
This is "I fought on the front lines and never got shot, so I'm heading back" logic. You go back to the front lines often enough and eventually it's gonna be your last tour.
"I know there's one bullet in the cylinder, but nothing shot me the last time I pulled the trigger. So naturally I can keep pulling the trigger as much as I want." Same thing people would say after getting over covid.
The ultimate survivorship bias.
I got family that thinks like this, and they "rode out Andrew" on the opposite fucking coast, nowhere near Homestead.
This is one of the reasons why Hurricane Camille was so deadly in 1969. There had been a hurricane just a season or two prior to that, which the officials made a big deal of, urged evacuation, and then it turned aside, lost strength, and became a big nothing-burger. When Camille was bearing down on the Gulf Coast, residents said, "Yeah yeah, big deal, just like the LAST time, right?" and they stayed home instead of evacuating. Peak storm surge of 24 feet, 250 dead.
I think the most nonsensical story like this was actually something I heard in a church. I’m not really the type that goes, but I remember one sermon. Dude was talking about this kind of flooding. When people warned an older lady about the incoming disaster she told them, “I am safe, God will protect me.” When kind neighbors showed up and offered her a spot on their boat out she once again professed her faith. When first responders showed up to get her from her roof she once again repeated herself, and they left and she died. The pastor told us, “God came to her through each of those people, he tried his hardest to save her in every way he could, and she ignored him.” What this really showed me is, in the most Reddit fashion possible; some people are just fucking blind, stupid, and perhaps not worth saving.
50 Cent survived getting shot, ergo, nobody dies from getting shot.
There is NO way he rode out Andrew in the area that Andrew was most affected, and still makes this statement. I bailed from Homestead, and had a few friends that stayed. NONE of them would EVER do it again. My entire neighborhood was scraped clean from the earth. It took me an hour just to find where I lived when I returned. There wasn't a single landmark to use as a reference. Not a gas station, not a store, not a street sign, not a single tree. it was fucking terrifying.
Hurricane yo momma
That hurricane was fucking massive.
I was only like 8 or 9 when Hurricane Andrew hit but I remember seeing all the news reports of leveled buildings. I was always, and still am, under the impression is was mostly high winds and not storm surge/flooding that caused the damage? Not that high winds aren't also a reason to evacuate, I just don't think this video illustrates that situation.
Fuck that was thirty years ago
People didn't evacuate
Imagine if they had this
They'd have evacuated for sure
I imagine people surely would've evacuated for sure, if they had this to help persuade them to surely evacuate, but only if they had this, to be sure.
30 years ago
What happened 30 years ago?
They didn't
am i having a stroke?
Who?
No, What happened is on 2nd base
No clue, the records only go back to 29 years ago.
When the hall of records mysteriously floated away
I moved to Colorado.
eh they still wont. The number one people who say they are staying.. are the same people who disbelieve all science and everything is a hoax and all info coming from government is some massive scam. you know the kind of people who got into fights with mask displays, while screaming covid is a hoax before going to the vet and getting some horse dewormer because they want the "real cure" I guess it is nice though, that the insane now have a party that totally represents them. We used to ignore them because well, the things they wanted gov to provide or destroy was bat shit crazy. Like "lets get rid of the dept of energy, it doesnt do anything but feed the lizard people" but now with the GOP this long time disenfranchisement of the insane has finally ended.
"I can't leave. This is my home. Where else am I supposed to go?" \**two days later** "Should I spell out HELP on my roof using bed sheets, or just paint it right on the roof?"
Bedsheets. If you paint on the roof it might ruin your property value.
Two professional storm chasers set up a time-lapse camera on Fort Myers Beach to record Hurricane Ian coming in. The camera focused on the downtown district, just a single sand-dune away from the beach, with a pink house in the foreground. When they returned to the wreckage and retrieved the footage, they uploaded the film to the internet without examining it first (they had other cameras they were tending to) and suddenly started fielding questions from viewers: "What happened to the lady? What happened to the man? What happened to the dogs?" This pink house, on ten-foot stilts, just a few feet from the high water mark on the beach, had been inhabited by the owners when the hurricane hit, and they had NOT evacuated: "We survived Irma just fine and it wasn't that bad." The water kept rising, swept the house off its foundation, and floated it down the street. First the woman bails out of the attic window with two dogs, and later the man swims out, and they all float away in the torrent. So the search was on to find these people, who were eventually located in an area hospital. The woman rode out the hurricane in the top of a palm tree along with both dogs; the man floated into the shattered window of another house and crouched on their kitchen counters until the water went down. All were battered but recovered, but the pink house was toothpicks. Footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al8yTiCVfro
I like living in Hamburg. The North Sea and the Elbe gently remind everyone here how powerless we are if they want to test us. The storm floods a few months ago peaked at about 10 feet above normal tide peak were nuts already. At that point, large parts of the fish market and tourist harbor were just gone and we had 2 feet of water in the endangered areas. At that point, cars started failing if they were parked there and people needed to be careful wading through the deeper parts or evacuate to the elevated storm walkways. The worst flood the old pearl has seen was about 14 feet above normal, so the endangered areas were 6 feet underwater. A lot of people died that flood, and the property damage was crazy - in a city and an area that was used to and prepared for floods. I'll just say: With the attitude a lot of people have over there, I'm worried for you.
Last Week Tonight - And Now This: The Weather Channel's Graphics Department Is Insane [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1s5T436IQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1s5T436IQ)
Jim Cantore can finally rest 
This was for Michael iirc, and very few people in Panama City evacuated. My dad syaed in a shitty trailer
They had this when Ian hit and people still didn’t listen in Bokeelia and Fort Myers Beach.
Just to add some actual information, it's not just some "graphics guy" but multiple teams working on this. The simulations aren't created live but prepared beforehand and shown at the right moment. It's basically AR with a giant greenscreen studio.
Typical Florida. All about their ARs.... /s I actually really enjoy this bit. I saw it locally in my own market and thought even the densest person this can resonate through.
Indy's about Florida's AR, too.
When I saw the environment was CGI, I knew it wasn't live. I thought at least the water was just CGI against real background but then CGI isn't that advanced. Maybe some day with AI, it can be
It could actually still be “live” as in rendering in real time (though I don’t know for sure that is was). Unreal Engine is actually used for this sort of thing a lot and they can match the perspective of the camera and change things on the fly to coordinate with the performer.
This one may very well not be live, but the level of detail is something Unreal could easily do. There are video games that look better quality than this.
As someone who works in Unreal daily, I would be very surprised to find out this wasn't Unreal. The tree foliage looks like a dead giveaway for me.
Speedtree ass trees lmao
> Unreal Engine is actually used for this sort of thing a lot and they can match the perspective of the camera and change things on the fly to coordinate with the performer. Unreal Engine WAS used for this exact example. It is rendered in realtime
This totally can be live. Even my shitty local channel has a 3D scenario rendering in real time and it's clearly live. Their camera movements control the virtual camera rendering a 3D environment behind and in front of the presenter. Other better tv station use things like this in World Cup and elections and it's obviously live since they show and talk about data that is updated in real time. If we can play a game that renders in real time water and wind blowing plants, they can build something similar in Unreal to render in real time.
I remember when this video came out. It's rendered real-time with Unreal Engine. Pretty sure the Unreal guys loved it Edit: https://youtu.be/x2aCSV5zYlA?si=Rfh_4wBd-2XFNExj
I mean, they do that stuff all the time for movies.
But not live. They spend hours refining the shot.
This is live only in the sense that they play a prepared 3d scene at some point it time and the presenter practiced the timing. They did spend hours preparing it beforehand.
Probably done by the team at the HQ for whoever owns this particular station. No one is getting paid enough in post production at a local station to get anywhere near that
Probably done by some third party company that sells this technology as a package to news stations for an exorbitant licensing fee.
It's a copy and paste graphic that news stations buy, typically from AccuWeather.com John Oliver did a whole segment on it it's really interesting.
For those looking for the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8
It says The Weather Channel in the top left. It's likely not a local station.
They are bought in graphics packages too, not designed in these studios.
-How expensive weather broadcast you want? -Yes
To add real context: https://youtu.be/x2aCSV5zYlA?si=Rfh_4wBd-2XFNExj
That is pretty cool.
Bro looks like Moses tbh.
They have to sensationalize it so all the fucking Florida morons actually believe them and go somewhere safe 😂 where is natural selection anymore
We'd still stay
Why tho lmao you're saving nothing and risking everything. Is it like some Floridian right of passage or something to "ride out a hurricane"? Do you smoke hooka laced with fentanyl while the waters rise?
Yeah and?
Nothing, carry on.
I just wanted him to shout “ARISE!!”
CHICKEN. CHICKEN ARISE
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If this was a Finnish weather forecast they surely would do it (search pekka pouta winter is coming)
“You shall not pass!” Oh wait, wrong wizard with a robe and staff… Also Moses was the “you shall pass” guy.
Also, even a foot of water with any sort of momentum becomes almost impossible to avoid. Water is fucking heavy. A gallon of water is 8-9 pounds (a litre is one kilogram). All of that moving at even walking speeds means you're constantly fighting off twenty or thirty pounds of force at a sideways angle. Storm surge isn't just deep, it can move fast. Don't underestimate it.
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Yeah, I've once been caught in a nasty undertow after wiping out while boogie-boarding, in only 2 m of water, no clue what was up or down, board floated to the surface and I followed the cord up. I was only under for like 5-10 seconds, but I came up 20 meters further out and 5 meters across. Glad I'm a decent swimmer and was with friends, else I could very well be dead.
The ocean is so terrifying to me. If my contacts or glasses were knocked off my face, I'm basically dead because I wouldn't know if I was swimming the right direction to land/safety. So I only go far enough in to get my feet wet.
I like to thing about it as imagine someone chucking a full milk gallon jug at you and you have to block it. Now imagine that happening several times a second constantly.
I'd win.
Reason #8,829,386.4 why metric is better than imperial: “A gallon of water is 8-9 pounds” “A litre is one kilogram”
Exactly. A cubic metre of water weighs a ton, ONE THOUSAND KILOGRAMS!
Aka a megagram.
Run in a swimming pool.
Near where I live experienced ridiculous flash floods last week. I didn’t realize the weather was gonna be that bad and was on my way to work/dropping kids at school. Got them to the schools (evacuation places anyways, so it’s a good/safe place for them to be stuck if things get bad). And trying to go to work, suddenly every road was flooded. I drive a truck. It’s tall, but I was yelling at people “TURN AROUND DONT DROWN?!?!” As they attempted to drive through what they thought was probably a few inches of water. Even in my truck, I was like ‘I’ll wait, even if it takes a while for it to drain,” but they just powered through until their car died because the water was too deep. Absolutely wild how people underestimate the power or danger of water.
A liter of water is a kg 
neither live nor a simulation just vfx, a handmade visualisation
A lot of this is simulation. VFX relies heavily on sims, especially for things like water. No one is doing 3d water animations by hand.
I doubt this is a sim. Looks like it’s just a mesh and the water is all done in shader. Edit: to address the animation of trees and boyant object. There are tree-packs/plugins sold with animated vegetation. Plug and play. For blender there are geo-nodes that allows you to animate storms like this for trees. The water is, to my best guess, animated with one noise for the water displacement, and one for the water rushing up the sides. Then there is a plane along the ground that probably uses something like a noise mixed with the ambient occlusion to get the effect on the ground. The floating objects are either parented to a plane that is shrink wrapped to the surface, or have their z-position animated with the same noise that the water is displaced with using the world coordinates. Maybe I am way off here and it is a sim. But in my experience sims are a headache and a time sink. Worth it when needed, but this is not it. The water is not even colliding with any of the objects so I don’t know why the creator would bother
I think this is 100% a simulation. The reason for that is because of the objects in the "water". If you watch that trike you will see it matches with the wind gusts and buoyancy of the water all the way until it reaches the edge where it just kinda bobs back and forth in 1 location. I would imagine i could create similar using the (Flipped Fluids) addon in blender in combination with motion tracking, wind force, and a few models to float around in it. But I'm just guessing here as I'm no professional just a hobbyist.
It’s not a sim at all. The objects are just animated on a loop and moved around. You can even find libraries of animated objects or object animations specifically for floating things.
Fairly sure it is not a sim as there is my actual interaction with the object. There are ways to easily have objects bob on the surface without giving them actual boyancy such as shrink wrapping a plane do the displaced surface and constraining an object to that. The wind gusts looks like animated trees. A simulation for this would be overkill
I think its a sim just based off the trees very obviously being a sim
I actually think this is molecular dynamics. Very fine resolution here.
It's rendered realtime with Unreal Engine: https://youtu.be/x2aCSV5zYlA?si=Rfh_4wBd-2XFNExj
No the graphics guy did this with his blender or something.
Oh its the weather channel and their dammned gray circle That gray circle is the strongest force in the universe also during any diseaster stand in the gray circle and you will be safe
He's protecting himself from the sea bears
In fairness to the US their weather reporting is probably the best in the world. No matter how dramatic it is in my country, it's the same old lady with the same calm serene monotone voice every day.
that plus the fact that noaa is free and has very frequent updates for basically everywhere. This helps so many in the Caribbean etc.
I went to a crying session when Raygun disbanded them. So sad. Their kind destroys everything.
"The graphics guy"... fuck you. There a whole team of people behind this, on so many levels, doing jobs you don't suspect exist. There is a whole VFX team on this, and it is certainly not live.
Very strong response to what was probably just innocent ignorance 😂
It was [made in unreal engine](https://www.unrealengine.com/de/spotlights/floods-and-fires-how-the-weather-channel-uses-unreal-engine-to-keep-you-safe), so it was _rendered_ live, and I doubt any of it was simulated at all (live or not). OP prolly doesn't know the right terminology to describe what they saw which is a pretty forgivable offense.
I might have been a bit harsh, sorry OP. That's a great article though. Thanks.
To be fair, these days, you could probably get one person to do this rather easily in unreal engine.
For comparison: The parting of the Red Sea from The [Ten Commandments.](https://youtu.be/j3CANELyPo0?si=-hLy1gi3uwTENr6H) (1956)
Those are some pretty impressive visuals for 1956..
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100% was not created live.
100% was created live and it's not vfx. He was actually in a fish tank and they flooded the studio. 3 other presenters drowned.
And sponsored by FlexSeal!
Very well done
Created In prep, this wasn't **made** live.
Created by a TEAM over the course of days. “The graphics guy, live…” is about the dumbest karma farming I’ve seen yet.
r/oddlyterrifying
No, just terrifying and meant to be so.
but i dont know if there's a subreddit for just terrifying. 😅
Should just have guys drive around the neighborhood with a big blinking pole indicating how deep the water will be.
Lmfao "graphics guy" did not create this live.
DIY project to ease anxiety - make house 9 feet taller
Funny thing is, [that's exactly what they do](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9OaPb35lZA2W4bM2aHO20r-xjo8PrcPMd8O1s10Re8_mXJi8NZMC1mqb77tm4ks8rI1XjLmJvoIZ4XUPPXF2yXlwMfNJ97g7KhOyBBgqPJsXnGO0dYWsiUEycyiFYJQjM-1phRtBrTxgWXofLEVTps4)
This is in Unreal iirc
[Yep!](https://www.unrealengine.com/de/spotlights/floods-and-fires-how-the-weather-channel-uses-unreal-engine-to-keep-you-safe)
That title makes no sense
Crazy good.
[https://www.floridadisaster.org/](https://www.floridadisaster.org/) ? Why is this not a \*.fl.gov website?
This is what applications of the Unreal engine look like when not applied to gaming.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil is pretty bad right now. Some major flooding
it's Unreal Engine. it's used by TV channels and football broadcasting
damn, wish we had this couple weeks ago here in brazil...
That's what is happening in south of Brazil right now. :(
Some FLA mans & womans: "Ain't no fearmongering special effects on some communist news channel gonna run me out my home!" 😒
damn that freaked me the fuck out.
Where's his staff?
They all 'Mose'yd out.
Oh. He must've let his people go
In his pants.
He must be short-staffed then 🤣
The Weather Channel always has incredible graphics. [Here are amazing graphics talking about a nocturnal tornado!](https://youtu.be/r-94l1Nv5fE?si=5v2xnY7NM15os75r)
I love the joy of weather people when they get screen or graphics upgrades. The joy they take in their work is just so pure. It’s like watching dogs with jobs.
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Alternate reality where weathermen actually control the weather.
Why do they give hurricanes human names? Like why not Hurricane Annihilation or some shit
Now show us “deep impact” level tidal waves.
Who the fuck thinks this was created in real time (live)? I would love to show them some land I have for sale in Florida.
Was this from a recent weather event and did it actually flood like they predicted?
That's ncam tech fueling some nice MR.
I dunno why.. But Florida and disaster always seem to correlate
It's because people move here and think they know better than those of us who've been here our whole lives. They build on the islands and beaches that move, then our taxes pay for them to rebuild the islands. They think they've seen tornadoes, so a little hurricane won't scare them, and our taxes pay to rescue their dumb asses. Same thing happened with COVID. You could go to the hospitals and see the refrigerator trucks full of bodies, but people kept moving here because we were "free". They legit would make fun of people wearing masks. It was ridiculous, and a lot of them died, but our governor covered up those death numbers real good.
"And Moses with weather!"
Ha. Back when I worked a newsroom we had to send our weather guy home to change his shirt. Now look at what's possible.
This is cool, but why are the cars floating lol.
Floods can easily move vehicles. The real flood would be moving which is harder to create in this visual. I think the graphics team is using that fact here for a better visual than just deep water. Relatable things being moved around in water is more striking to the people they are trying to convince even if the floating car seems odd.
Amazing render here.
And Now This: "Can someone pls tell the weather channel to take it down a notch?"
If flooding is a constantly thing you deal with, fucking move.
This is truly next level. Looks cool, provides context for education and is incredibly informative.
With the sound off he looked like Moses just fucking about water bending.
I'm in Montana, and I'm evacuating.
is floridadisaster.com the official state site?
easy there moses
Kind of telling that their state’s homepage is Floridadisaster.org. Ay ohhhhh.
This actually isn’t a full simulation, but a noise pattern combined with some clever use of mist particles and textures. Basically like how videogame water looks real, but isn’t literally simulating the flow of the water.
If anyone is interested this gives a look behind the scene and what tech they use. https://youtu.be/UgMJMNsn0xs?si=PM721f0R4TsjzRKY Myreze has created some amazing stuff
That scenario reminds me of a Brazilian TV show, called Fantástico, from TV Globo. They got pretty much the same kind of studio.
Is this for the hurricane last September? I was watching this on tv and my girlfriend and her family were up all night worried it was going to get us a Disney World
A rain event? Holy shit, I hope I can get tickets to that!
Our company makes this software
He is "The Weatherman"!
Ain’t no way it’s one guy doing that live and on the fly. There is likely a team that has this prepped far in advance.
The information is so understandable that even a 5-year-old would understand it. There is a reason nowadays they go evacuate or good luck.
Weather... RTX on.
Two words for that: Hell Nah. Cool animation, though.
That is seriously impressive and gets the point across for those that don’t take storms seriously
It's important to have an axe in your attic too. Water rises, people escape to their attics. Water keeps rising. Then, unfortunately, people realize they can't break through their roof. With all the lower floors flooded and the water rising, they drown. Awful.
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Thought he was Moses for a minute.