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2024-09-28 17:29:22

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Couldn't have really imagined a disaster on this scale. Basically flash flooding in every river valley, "normal" flooding everywhere else, roads washed away wherever the water could reach them, and trees down literally everywhere.
The towns completely cut off from transportation, power, communications, and even drinking water are the "lucky" ones. The unlucky ones don't exist anymore, and might not be recoverable.
And all of this spanning the majority or entirety of several states.

2024-09-28 16:17:03

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Regarding going into the water when you don't need to (to play, mess around, etc). It's not just "dirty" ... it's contaminated with everything that's been on the ground there or uphill. Human sewage, animal feces, fertilizer, pesticides, oil, and whatever other chemical crud that's been released or washed down to you by the floods.

2024-09-24 08:47:05

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And if they are at risk of homelessness, the solution is a strong social safety net for everyone. The solution is not and never will be to try to stop a landslide which has been happening for a quarter of a million years, nor to keep throwing funds into temporary fixes.
The other solution is for local governments to use other people's money to buy, clear, and maintain the land. It's unlikely they can afford to do that at the rates the owners think they deserve.

2024-09-24 08:38:46

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The old people decided to live on a landslide once upon a time just like everyone else, with the nice views in the quiet little neighborhood, and big backyards with pools. They weren't mentally incompetent when they made that decision.
Somehow the homes threatened with ending up in the ocean are never the low-income ones, and I'd be very surprised if actual homelessness is a serious risk for any home owners there. It certainly isn't in the gated community below.

2024-09-23 19:39:38

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There's a twisted hilarity in them being more worried about internet access and warm food than the massive tears opening up in the ground beneath the homes they're clinging to.

2024-09-23 19:22:01

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Dontcha just hate it when your fellow citizens don't want to flush away massive amounts of their own tax dollars to temporarily patch your neighborhood together as it inevitably slides into the ocean? And don't get me started on those government agencies that won't even TRY to reverse massive geological processes 😭

2024-09-22 08:02:08

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The weird thing about the "just moved away" scenario is that he left a house valued at around $1M behind to rot, while still paying property taxes and whatnot.
Obviously he has some family money, maybe made some more with a patent or something, investments, whatever. But even a billionaire doesn't throw away that sort of money without at least getting a trip to space or the bottom of the sea in return 🤷‍♀️

2024-09-21 17:06:37

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If those seed, you're gonna need a helluva lot more bees 😬
We were picking fennel sprouts out of our tiles 5 years after purging the mother plant and her minions 😔

2024-09-21 14:51:06

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Leave it to a fascist to label opposition to genocide as a hate crime 🙄

2024-08-01 05:35:37

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That's not a mere landslide. That's a giant hill that's parked itself across a river valley 😬

2024-07-09 17:14:08

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I don't think Houston was designed to walk anywhere safely, even short distances.

2024-07-09 16:24:36

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That's what we got some months ago. There's an internet connection for dynamic energy pricing, but everything except our major appliances (oven, stove, washer/dryer, dishwasher) will run off solar and batteries when the grid goes down.
Selling when there's peak demand (versus peak solar) is great for us AND the grid.

2024-07-09 14:18:14

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But the deadly fumes and the loud noise are how you know it's working 😐

2024-07-09 12:51:08

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Tell me there's a "How's my driving" sticker under that phone number on the tailgate 😐

2024-07-09 12:11:37

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Handwashing is the new faith healing for respiratory viruses 😑

2024-07-09 06:38:51

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Utah seems to be a bit of a train wreck when it comes to water management. But at least they're doing it for Jesus instead of corporate profits 🤷‍♀️

2024-07-06 14:42:31

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Looks like the models have a consensus on it hitting somewhere between Corpus Christi and Houston, and strengthening as it hits land. Biggest difference is still ICON showing more strengthening while on the water.

2024-07-05 16:17:32

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I think GFS and GEM might be giving too much weight to historical data, rather than the current water temperatures. Whereas ICON doesn't GAF how zany its predictions look.

2024-07-05 15:34:09

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Looks like it's closer to the ICON tracking as well. GFS and GEM had it staying over land longer, with the resulting trajectory carrying the remnants toward the Mexico/Texas border.
Though the GFS track is closer to ICON now, but without the same intensification before it hits Texas and some other storms start to feed it.

2024-07-05 15:16:42

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ICON seems to be winning so far, at least in regards to wind gust intensity. GEM and GFS had it de-hurricaning a while ago 🤷‍♀️

2024-07-04 18:12:02

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Targeting cops with fireworks is done deliberately in Europe. It's pretty frequent during or after soccer matches, New Year's Eve, and riots.

2024-07-04 09:46:57

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ICON's predicting 115 mph winds directly hitting Houston, and over 160 mph in the vicinity shortly before that when making landfall in Texas 😐
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/727/581/527/240/256/original/27ecd4280eb21310.png

2024-07-03 16:03:23

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First stink-shaming, and now body-shaming. We can't all be sweet-smelling whippets, after all 😔

2024-07-03 08:05:12

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ICON is wild. It's envisioning Beryl making landfall near Houston then continuing as a storm up the center of the US on a crazy cross-country tour all the way up past Detroit and into Canada 😐
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/721/511/844/861/135/original/7a99da602515fb16.png

2024-07-02 15:49:54

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Military flags are actually a relatively good sign: the worst extremists loath anything involving the federal government.
A substantial subset of the MAGAs don't even particularly want Trump as president - they're just hoping he'll destroy the government.

2024-06-03 16:58:25

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A law student I went to school with did something similar to get off with driving the wrong way down a one-way street in the same state. Though I think she went with the gastric reflux defense.

2024-03-27 10:02:58

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Can we nuke the trolley?