Chloe Hu

TX Woman’s OTD ‘26. UCF ‘15 alumna.

[Derek R Peterson @Unseen_Archive]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing the graduates @UMich commencement. I spoke about the long history of student activism, which has moved the University toward justice.

Here is a video. It has caused a furore on social media & in UM admin.

https://t.co/1tIJPnRwyp

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

It’s been 8 years since anthony bourdain passed, he showed Palestinians more respect than most media ever has.

This clip is from a 2013 episode of parts unknown where he went to the gaza strip.

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

@AllEmeraldCoast Palmetto bugs by a long shot 😷

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

Yoda welcomes Integrity home! @NASAArtemis #artemisii #spacecats

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

Not a complete waste of time attempting to study for the board today, but also not as productive as Day 1 could’ve been 😂🛰️🌌🌒✨ #THEMOON #ArtemisII

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

After continually digging around the Epstein files I am convinced that if every single person saw it for themselves, everyone would be SO ANGRY that there would actually be a revolution/overthrow of government/civil war. And the government knows this.

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

@realstewpeters I hope everyone thumbs down this video. They turned off comments 😂

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

If our Christianity causes us to protect the powerful and ignore the powerless, that’s when we know we are following someone other than Jesus.

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

FR 😭 if I wasn’t a poor grad student I would help protect them so much!!

[Sammy Obeid @SammyObeid]

Where can I donate to hiring more security for Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

@CollegeFBonX

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

Yoda monitoring the storm! @ryanhallyall @OfficialYallbot #dfwwx #catception

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

@firstwefeast Huntrix

[All Things Emerald Coast @AllEmeraldCoast]

My only New Year’s resolution is to spend more time at the beach in 2026✨🥂🌴🌊

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

Mele Kalikimaka 🤙🏽🎄🌈

[Hawaii Football @HawaiiFootball]

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP

#BRADDAHHOOD x #GoBows

[UCF Knights 🌴 @UCFKnights]

Out of this world atmosphere 🚀

[Chloe Hu @chl0eviolet]

In Frost I trust ❄️ #GKCO

[𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐁𝐎𝐘 ⬛️🟨 @NBAKNIGHTBOY]

Realest talk I’ve heard all season. Respect.

[UCF Knights 🌴 @UCFKnights]

GO ‘NAUTS. LAUNCH ON. 🚀

[All Things Emerald Coast @AllEmeraldCoast]

My favorite color will always be beach 🏝️

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Want to honor this noble tree. It withstood the wrath of Cat-5 #Hurricane #MELISSA's inner-core winds. As the screaming white void swallowed up the town & started tearing the hotel apart, the tree danced & twisted obscenely. But it held on. Never gave up. I'm so in love with it.

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Man. #Hurricane #MELISSA. Incredible power. Perhaps the mightiest hurricane of the 83 I've witnessed.

My location (Crawford, a tiny beach town in St. Elizabeth Parish #Jamaica) took the full force of the inner right eyewall and may have seen the peak winds in this historic, record-smashing hurricane.

First pic: as it started to get scary. Bone-rattling gusts were making roofs explode into clouds of lethal confetti. The grand palm tree out front was starting to bend obscenely—in a way I found unnatural.

Second pic: after we bolted the door shut because it was getting too dangerous even to watch the storm. (I'd randomly ended up in the hotel's kitchen with a local family.)

The hurricane's inner eyewall was a screaming white void. All I could see through the cracks in the shutters was the color white—accompanied by a constant, ear-splitting scream that actually caused pain. (Notice the woman in the pic holding her ears.) The scream occasionally got higher and angrier, and those extra-screechy screams made my eardrums pulse. Meanwhile, water was forcing in through every crack—under the floor and between the window slats.

I remember shuddering at the thought of what was happening to the town—what this screaming white void was doing to people, homes, communities.

My fears were well-founded. The impact in this part of coastal St. Elizabeth Parish is catastrophic. Wooden structures were completely mowed down and in some cases swept from their foundations. Some concrete structures collapsed. The well-built ones—like my hotel—survived, but even they had major roof, window, and door damage. The landscape has been stripped bare—the trees just sticks. The roads are blocked with rubble and utility poles.

Nearby Black River—a unique old historical town right on the water—was smashed beyond recognition: historical sites destroyed, main streets filled with rubble, the town market twisted like a pretzel, even the regional hospital destroyed.

It's a good thing I wasn't in my hotel room during the storm because one of the windows blew out, showering the bed with glass and wood. The hotel lost most of its roof, and several third-story rooms were smashed open. But in the lower flooors, those grand old concrete walls protected us. And so far I'm aware of only two deaths in Crawford—a fellow who had a heart attack at the school next door (his body was still in his car and unclaimed the next morning, a sad and disturbing sight), and a woman who drowned in the storm surge in Gallon Beach. While walking down the devastated streets of Black River, I ran into the Jamaican Member of Parliament for this region, @floydgreenja. He's a great dude and I appreciate that he already has a gameplan for turning this catastrophe into an opportunity—to build this region back better. And I vowed on the spot that I'm going to make it my mission to spread awareness of this catastrophe and get that aid flowing in. I'll be talking about MELISSA a lot over the coming months—because it is both a fascinating meteorological event and a human disaster that demands an international response. (And I swear an epic video is coming out of this.)