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I remember this one time he said some things on a bus.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:From the GBS thread: Can we assume erosion caused the water to come up to the houses like that, or is this case of rich people taking "I want a house on the water" a bit too literally.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:17
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Can we assume erosion caused the water to come up to the houses like that, or is this case of rich people taking "I want a house on the water" a bit too literally. Little A, little B
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Sep 11, 2018 16:18
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I'm glad all the rich peoples houses will be destroyed but it's a shame about the other 99% of the people but who cares they are poor and should have worked harder
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Sep 11, 2018 16:20
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Duzzy Funlop posted:From the GBS thread: Because the hurricane will smash them into the houses, right? And they aren't high enough to offer real protection anyway?
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Torrannor posted:Because the hurricane will smash them into the houses, right? And they aren't high enough to offer real protection anyway? Just the 2nd part.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:21
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I’m beginning to think a cement pad and a RV would be a better solution for beach front living.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:From the GBS thread: Looking forward to the 'after' picture where it's just the sandbags
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Sep 11, 2018 16:26
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Torrannor posted:Because the hurricane will smash them into the houses, right? And they aren't high enough to offer real protection anyway? Let's just say that digging a moat would be more helpful.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:28
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Torrannor posted:Because the hurricane will smash them into the houses, right? And they aren't high enough to offer real protection anyway? First, describe the problem in terms of mass of sediment that you think a Cat 4 Hurricane parking over the Carolinas will move, and then consider that dumb little pile of sandbags in terms of a ratio to that total sediment mass. Now, consider the amount of energy that the ocean is gonna convert to moving sediment around over the course of the next few weeks across the Carolinas and out to sea. Consider how much energy a hurricane has, within the context of the hurricane being a whole lot of water vapor, i.e. full of the latent energy that turned it from seawater into a giant America loving spinning cloud To answer you, the sandbag might get dragged by seawater into causing physical damage, and the sea is probably gonna be plenty higher than that, but the sandbag wall just ignores by literal orders of magnitude the scope of the problem that homeowner is facing.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:30
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Mmm subsidized insurance for millionaires. Can't wait to see how they rebuild these oceanfront homes
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Sep 11, 2018 16:35
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Thanks for the replies, that's about what I thought. How do these people get insurance for their houses? No rational insurance company will want to insure that mess, it's just a matter of time until a hurricane comes knocking.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:39
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They're starting not to.
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Torrannor posted:Thanks for the replies, that's about what I thought. John Oliver has you covered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf1t7cs9dkc TLDW The government subsidizes flood insurance, which rich people use as a well-fare check to keep rebuilding vacation homes for themselves even if they get destroyed every 5-10 years.. However, as flooding / climate change gets worse flood insurance also gets more expensive, meaning that while it is still a welf-fare check for the wealthy, its too expensive for poors so they are hosed.
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LingcodKilla posted:I’m beginning to think a cement pad and a RV would be a better solution for beach front living. We've been thinking of maybe something like that with a storage unit inland or just a real cheap-o condo on a hill with a vehicle loaded up and storage inland if we still have enough we care about to need it. Yes, I'm in my thirties and very busy figuring out how I'm going to try to enjoy wasting away from this Earth.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:48
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I'm past Chapter 4 of Woodward's book, and...I don't think I can take this. I mean, is there anything else worthwhile reading in this book outside of the confirmation, in excruciatingly-vivid detail, the incomprehensible idiocy going on in Trump's campaign, administration, and mind that we already know of? It's beyond sanity.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:From the GBS thread: Gotta admire their optimism. Logic, no. But the optimism is off the loving charts. LingcodKilla posted:I’m beginning to think a cement pad and a RV would be a better solution for beach front living. I actually like this idea.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:53
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Godholio posted:Gotta admire their optimism. Logic, no. But the optimism is off the loving charts. This is apparently South Topsail Beach, by the way. Which is located roughly here  Hardest working sandbags in showbiz
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Sep 11, 2018 16:56
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Duzzy Funlop posted:This is apparently South Topsail Beach, by the way. All the rainwater, to the sandbags as it flows downhill back toward the beech: [that quote about how i'm not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in here with me]
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DownByTheWooter posted:To answer you, the sandbag might get dragged by seawater into causing physical damage, and the sea is probably gonna be plenty higher than that, but the sandbag wall just ignores by literal orders of magnitude the scope of the problem that homeowner is facing. Right on. What Ron White said about the wind applies. It's not that the waves ares rolling, it's what the waves are rolling.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:02
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mlmp08 posted:All the rainwater, to the sandbags as it flows downhill back toward the beech: [that quote about how i'm not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in here with me] Yeah, the sandbag wall is only going to last a couple of hours tops once the actual storm starts to hit. They'll start riding beach sand downhill towards the water, and as the surge/rain washes downhill it'll accelerate the process. Not that 3' of protection was going to do poo poo anyway.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:02
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Godholio posted:Gotta admire their optimism. Logic, no. But the optimism is off the loving charts. I'd be super happy with an rv on a beachside lot. As long as I could get internet, that is.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:11
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I live in Denmark, a country that consists mainly of islands with a highest point of about 200 meters above sea level. My wife and I am currently planning on selling our house that lies about 50 meters from the ocean and buying a sailboat to live on instead. The bank just agreed to our financing when we sell the house next year. 
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Sep 11, 2018 17:24
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:I'd be super happy with an rv on a beachside lot. As long as I could get internet, that is. My retirement dream (dream, because  at actually retiring) has always been "mountains or the beach." If I end up in the mountains, an RV for trips to the beach is actually a really good idea.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:26
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I used to work with a guy who sold his house and bought an RV and lived out of it full time. He would travel up and down the US trying to stay at around 75F and flew out of whatever the nearest airport was every time he had to work.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:29
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Godholio posted:My retirement dream (dream, because I would only visit the mountains during fall. Other than that I'm not a mountains guy. So I would do the opposite.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:30
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Both Carolina's have now issued mandatory evacuations for coastal areas plus inland areas.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:34
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Look as a good Christian conservative, I believe that God would send us a message if we needed to change something about our behavior. *earthquakes and hurricanes and wildfires and torrential rain at unprecedented levels* He sent us Trump!!!
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Sep 11, 2018 17:45
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They used to say this stuff was punishment for (whatever slightly leftist thing) but now it's all good, all hail god
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I'm wondering how bad I-64 is going to be coming inland from Hampton Roads... My wife is at a conference there (beachfront hotel) that somehow isn't in a mandatory evac zone, and she's waffling on heading home tonight versus tomorrow afternoon.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:52
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Sep 11, 2018 18:00
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-Anders posted:I live in Denmark, a country that consists mainly of islands with a highest point of about 200 meters above sea level. That sounds like a great plan
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Godholio posted:My retirement dream (dream, because Does the military not provide any kind of pension or is it so little you need another from another job/401k (that's what you call RRSPs?)
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Sep 11, 2018 18:06
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-Anders posted:I live in Denmark, a country that consists mainly of islands with a highest point of about 200 meters above sea level. The Waterworld plan. I can dig it.
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Sep 11, 2018 18:07
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Does the military not provide any kind of pension or is it so little you need another from another job/401k (that's what you call RRSPs?) At 20 years you get 50% of your base pay. I don’t know if it’s your base pay at your retirement date or your highest achieved base pay (if you for some reason got dropped in rank). It goes up by I think 5% for each year after 20 (55% after 21 years, 60% after 22, etc). Let’s say most enlisted that do 20 get to E-7. The 2019 base pay for an E-7 is $3945. If you can live off of less than $2000 a month you’ll do alright. Otherwise, and more likely, you’ll need to supplement that somehow, like by working at the commissary because anyone who does 20 is probably dumb enough to work somewhere on base after they retire.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Does the military not provide any kind of pension or is it so little you need another from another job/401k (that's what you call RRSPs?) Military retirement is 50% of your base pay (which, depending, might actually be something like 25% of your take home), 75% after 30 years.
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and the best part about retiring after 20 is that aside from a few industries you're probably hopelessly behind your peers in trying to start your post-military career
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Sep 11, 2018 18:16
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Bigly Strong Trump canceling trip to Ireland because he's a stupid loving coward lol
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