Eh, we've done worse here. Not the best joke, not the worst joke. Not being able to joke about hurricanes coming in Florida takes away like 20% of the possible comedy advantage of living in Florida.
I think it’s the setting/audience/monetization. We’ve done hurricane parties and had fun drinking after spending an entire day putting up shutters for the neighbors on our street. We’ve bought hurricane cakes and made funny apocalyptic posts on social media from Costco buying water and snacks with a storm heading right towards us. My favorite hurricane meme is the one about eating all your snacks and being too heavy for the rescue helicopter basket.
Tim (and a lot of other vloggers) make light of the situation, that they really aren’t in, in a much more public setting, if that makes sense. They’re also making money off—oh nooooo it’s a hurricane!!!!!!Absolutely no where near them. The same can be said for Kyle taking one of the last meal kits and stomping in puddles laughing while people were be evacuated from their homes by boat not too far from him. It’s not humor in an uncomfortable situation, it’s them being assholes.
Which to me, is tasteless, because they do it for attention, not actual concern. Tim wasn’t in any danger from Idalia, at all, yet he made money from sensationalizing Happy Hurricane Day! They do it for clicks (money) not because they are really in a perilous situation that sometimes humor helps get you through.