Irma has gone beyond the territory of the Florida Peninsula and is almost directly moved to Marco island, then on her way to Tampa. At the moment the power of the hurricane corresponds to the 3rd category and wind speed in its epicenter — 193 km/h.
Meanwhile, in Florida occurs most mass evacuation because of the hurricane in the history of the United States: it shall be 6.4 million people. However, despite the calls of the authorities, not all the inhabitants of the areas of particular risk and wish to move to a safe place. Many decided to meet the elements of the house.
Two of them, the musicians District Edwards and Zeke Murphy, figured out how to have fun and relieve stress during a hurricane — they offered to shoot him. Residents of Deland even created the event in Facebook.
Their idea aroused great interest: after 5 hours on the intention to visit the Shoot At Hurricane Irma said 28 thousand people.
This immediately caused the reaction of the authorities that prevent firearms owners from such actions because of their extreme danger.
The County Sheriff’s office Pasco warn that because of the physical characteristics of natural phenomena the bullets back and kill the shooters.
In the schematic shows how this can happen.
To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma. You won’t make it turn around & it will have very dangerous side effectshttps://t.co/CV4Y9OJknv
— Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) September 10, 2017
The organizer of the Facebook event admitted that the idea to shoot Irma came to him «out of boredom and stress.» According to him, he did not expect such a violent reaction to his proposal.
A few hours ago on the event page, he urged people to help each other out during the hurricane in every way possible.
