You can't make up Florida, as evidenced by a video of a man taking a bong rip as Hurricane Ian makes its way through the state.
In the video, a bearded man stands outside as the wind blows through the palm trees behind him, and at one point, he blows some debris against his head. The man takes a huge inhale of "dabs," the concentrated, waxy butane hash oil that makes partakers cough violently.
In the background, "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by the one-hit wonder hair metal band Scorpions can be heard playing, though it's not as loud as the audible and visible gusts of wind blowing almost-horizontally past the man.
Everyone who's lived in Florida knows of the crazy urge to party when hurricanes hit.
CNBC reached out to a psychologist to explain why people would rather stay in harm's way during a storm.
Robert Meyer, a University of Pennsylvania marketing professor and co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, told CNBC that people engage in a sort of herding effect when they see others handling an emergency situation.
Meyer said that we are prone to an optimism bias because we think bad things will happen to other people and not to ourselves.
As climate degradation continues its deadly march forward, megastorms like Hurricane Ian are going to become all the more common.
The scientists sent a robot into the storm.
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