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WrenP-Complete posted:https://twitter.com/PSBCap/status/901887857102610432 No way that came from Houston. For one thing the flood water is "fresh" and I'm pretty sure any regional sharks would die in it. I'm also in the Houston area and that location looks very out of place to me.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:40
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Telsa Cola posted:To be honest thats likely a photoshop, also yeah the sharks are either going to die from the contaminants or the low salinity of the water. I won't speculate as the veracity of the image, but it could be a bull shark which actually tolerate freshwater and are known to occasionally range many miles inland. It looks similar to a bull shark profile as well.
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WrenP-Complete posted:REDACTED: fake shark news. Not this again. Pics were floating around like this during hurricane Sandy and were all fake as hell
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Aug 27, 2017 21:41
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Considering the twitter account that posted that image I am 100% sure it is fake
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WrenP-Complete posted:Whoops, my bad on the shark tweet. I'm sorry. I'll redact my original post. Hey, don't worry about it bro. Better safe than sorry when it comes to street sharks.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:41
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Aug 27, 2017 21:42
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You know with any other presidency that picture of the flooded senior citizen's home would have been a damning condemnation of the administration's inability to prepare or function in the face of disaster. But here, in the thirty-seventh level of hell that we currently occupy, it still has to take a number and wait its turn in the lobby.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:43
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Squalid posted:I won't speculate as the veracity of the image, but it could be a bull shark which actually tolerate freshwater and are known to occasionally range many miles inland. It looks similar to a bull shark profile as well.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:51
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I wonder if Abbott is sitting in his office thinking "thank god everyone already hates Trump and wants to blame him, regardless of what my role was in this mess!"
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Aug 27, 2017 21:51
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Bullfrog posted:Meanwhile, in Berkeley, antifascists are completely dominating on the streets, after a pathetic right-wing rally drew a tiny number of people Only if we could do that to society's and government's systemic inequalities.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:52
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You'd think racist assholes would learn that its a really bad idea to show up in Berkeley. I know the area alone draws them more attention but at some point it can't be worth it.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:53
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It looks like this will be historic flooding that completely blows away all records in the area. What happens if the water table rise above the surface and just stays there for a week? Does every building in Houston experience foundation shift and become long term uninhabitable?
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Aug 27, 2017 21:54
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Hurricane Harvey resource list incoming: In TX: http://harveyrelief.handiworks.co/relief-map may help you locate shelter and food, if you're in need, and/or volunteer opportunities. For everyone: https://www.self.com/story/hurricane-harvey-how-you-can-help
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Aug 27, 2017 21:55
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Bishounen Bonanza posted:It looks like this will be historic flooding that completely blows away all records in the area. What happens if the water table rise above the surface and just stays there for a week? Does every building in Houston experience foundation shift and become long term uninhabitable? The best part is this is the future for all coastal cities. Like, we're getting a little time-travel forward to what it's like to live in American during hurricane season in 2050. Imagine this happening yearly, to multiple cities.
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Bishounen Bonanza posted:It looks like this will be historic flooding that completely blows away all records in the area. What happens if the water table rise above the surface and just stays there for a week? Does every building in Houston experience foundation shift and become long term uninhabitable? Look what happened to Christchurch after their earthquake. They had to tear down the entire downtown area and most of the population was displaced and never came back.
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Aug 27, 2017 21:58
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Covok posted:So, if your curious what the right-wing thinks of how the alt-right and pro-confederates were correctly revealed to be Nazis after Charolettesville, it's this: "we are actually winning when they call us Nazis because people will soon see that all the videos showing us scream 'jews will not replace us' while carrying Nazi flags were false!" Burn GBS to the loving ground IMO
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Aug 27, 2017 21:59
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the black husserl posted:The best part is this is the future for all coastal cities. And Florida gets extra hosed because of our geology. Our aquifers are growing dry because they get pumped so much for people and especially for agriculture. Bad, bad poo poo happens when storm surges make salt water penetrate underground into the slightly damp sponge Florida sits on top of.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:00
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Fart City posted:You know with any other presidency that picture of the flooded senior citizen's home would have been a damning condemnation of the administration's inability to prepare or function in the face of disaster. SulphagneSocialist posted:I wonder if Abbott is sitting in his office thinking "thank god everyone already hates Trump and wants to blame him, regardless of what my role was in this mess!" Pretty much. State and local authorities deserve a LOT of the blame for all this -- that nursing home should have been evacuated BEFORE the storm hit -- but people are rushing to blame Trump for what is really a failure at many levels. I mean blame Republicans generally for this, they're the ones who cut regulations and funding.
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Additional Harvey resources for those in the effected area: FEMA site for Harvey information Texas Government Hurricane site This includes a list of voluntary and mandatory evacuation zones. If you are evacuating, do not drive through flooded areas. If there is a mandatory evacuation for your location, you should deffo evacuate if possible. If it's voluntary, you should still give it serious consideration. It's not going to get easier to evacuate. 
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Aug 27, 2017 22:07
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If I'm in Houston on Tuesday, I would love to be in a boat to rescue people, to be in a boat to trail Trump to heckle him.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:07
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I assume others have gotten the Washington Post email alert: Trump plans to travel to Texas on Tuesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey I cannot believe how dumb this is.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:10
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He'll get SLIGHTLY wet and tell his driver to go back.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:11
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Who decided to use the words "aftermath"? Tuesday is when it is forecast to go back into Houston right?
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I can't wait to hear about how the safety steps the secret service takes will slow down saving people
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Kylra posted:Who decided to use the words "aftermath"? Tuesday is when it is forecast to go back into Houston right? Maybe Wednesday. Not clear. https://twitter.com/BenNollWeather/status/901882669620895744
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the black husserl posted:The best part is this is the future for all coastal cities. Yep. Houston is double-hosed by not only having a historically enormous natural disaster but also by having terrible poo poo infrastructure and a government that would rather put its hands in its ears than prepare for this predictable eventuality. They've had several record-breaking floods and storms in the last few years and they still did basically nothing to prepare for the inevitable future storms. Hopefully this will serve as an example for other coastal cities: Prepare thoroughly, and actively remove populations from natural flood plains. Or better yet, if you live in a coastal city, move inland. This seems right now like a natural disaster only matched by katrina in recent decades, but it will happen more and more, even to cities better prepared. If you move to a flood plain in a city prone to floods, you have only yourself to blame when your property is irreparably destroyed and your communities decimated.
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Discendo Vox posted:I assume others have gotten the Washington Post email alert:
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Aug 27, 2017 22:16
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Trump Logic: This only happens every 500 years! I must be the center of attention! USA: Oh you'll get the attention.
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Prester Jane posted:https://twitter.com/mlgyfamoffice/status/901895646747140097 Oh good, people are going to be stranded or without proper supplies for days, and are going to be homeless for months, but don't worry, we're turning the oil back on in a week! gently caress these people.
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Taffer posted:If you move to a flood plain in a city prone to floods, you have only yourself to blame when your property is irreparably destroyed and your communities decimated. Let's be real here. Most people have trouble keeping their kids supplied with diapers and diabetes medication, let alone planning years ahead for climate disasters. People are going to move to a place where the local CVS and Arbys are hiring. If that happens to be in a flood plain, so be it. I can't really blame them.
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houston didnt vote for orange man, they prob wont be super thrilled to see him uselessly mill about saying nonsense.
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Mexico's response to POTUS's tweet: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/mexicos-response-to-trump-tweet-includes-offer-of-aid-for?utm_term=.jy5OVRzD0 quote:Mexico's Foreign Ministry on Sunday offered to provide "all the help that can be provided" in response to the devastation now-Tropical Storm Harvey is unleashing on Texas.
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Taffer posted:Yep. Houston is double-hosed by not only having a historically enormous natural disaster but also by having terrible poo poo infrastructure and a government that would rather put its hands in its ears than prepare for this predictable eventuality. They've had several record-breaking floods and storms in the last few years and they still did basically nothing to prepare for the inevitable future storms. Hahaha I live in a city in a state that's known for its attractiveness to hurricanes that got hammered by a recent one, losing a main beachside road in locations and they're quibbling over the cheapest way to "rebuild" without actually spending any money on complicated, unneeded things like seawalls. The amount of bitching that happened when a mild rainstorm washed away a good bit of their "fixes" was hilarious because they didn't bother to shore their newly-rebuilt dunes with anything underneath, let alone plant something like sea oats to hold the loving thing together.
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Discendo Vox posted:I assume others have gotten the Washington Post email alert: I mean I guess you don't often get to visit a city actively being washed into the loving sea. WrenP-Complete posted:Mexico's response to POTUS's tweet: Mexico being classy, it's nice to see other countries aren't letting the five-alarm fire that is the Trump admin get in the way of decency 
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It's good to see that all of the Trump supporters have retreated to a single thread in which they can express themselves without any fear of being banned for arguing in bad faith or dog whistle bigotry, and that even then, most of them are obvious re-regs who are afraid of being affiliated even with their anonymous usernames. Nice that they seem to have collected a bunch of circlejerk avatars for themselves and are still somehow convinced that they are the victims of persecution.
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Aug 27, 2017 22:23
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This is the neighborhood I grew up in right now (Nottingham Forest for anyone familiar with the area near Stratford High School) 
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the black husserl posted:Let's be real here. Most people have trouble keeping their kids supplied with diapers and diabetes medication, let alone planning years ahead for climate disasters.  I know. But it's still so infuriating. They've had almost a *century* of bad floods in this city, and tons of terrible floods even in the last couple decades. These are things you should really consider when moving to an area. I don't even live in an area prone to serious flooding but seeing a few houses ruined by rivers spilling over during a bad rain has always convinced me that not living on high ground is idiotic, even as a child.
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