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Shima Honnou posted:So you remember how India didn't have enough water? Well, the monsoon finally arrived and brought a murderous flood that's displaced over a million people across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh! quote:The seeds of the crisis can be found in Velachery, a neighborhood named after one of Chennai’s many lakes. The lake was once deep and wide, but as the city grew, portions of it were filled in 20 years ago to make room for private homes.
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india's a big place. here's the forecast for tomorrow: poor chennai the reason this stuff hasn't yet become this scale of a problem for cities in the american west is all the fuckin canals we have, carrying water across deserts and such. cape town and chennai haven't had the same infrastructure investments, i don't think
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I know nothing about Chennai's water infrastructure. What has caused it to become so dry? Is there usually a river that's gone dry due to heat, or a desalination plant that broke, or an aquifer that got tapped out, or ...? It presumably has had water in the past. Was it all just trapped rain reservoirs that evaporated?
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hmm, let's see edit: my point with the below is to say that they probably are having a drought that they don't have enough surface water storage to make it through. the article above seems to say they're tapping groundwater unsustainably as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_management_in_Chennai this is full of contradictory poo poo, but the key thing for me is that they give a storage value for their reservoirs: quote:There are four reservoirs in the city, namely, Red Hills, Cholavaram, Poondi and Chembarambakkam, with a combined capacity of 11,057 mcft. 11,057 million cubic feet is 254 thousand acre feet. by comparison, the reservoir that supplies southern california, lake oroville, is 3.5 million acre feet, and there's another 4 million in shasta which could supply them in an emergency lake mead, which supplies las vegas and phoenix, is at 10 million acre feet right now and that's considered really low so it looks like chennai has an order of magnitude less water storage available than western american cities. the biggest potential issue for western american cities is probably the canals between them and these lakes getting broken by an earthquake btw chennai's metro area has 8.6 million people while socal has 24 million, las vegas has 2.2, and phoenix has 4.8 oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 15:11 on Jul 15, 2019 |
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Three cheers for the new normal
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Wrenever posted:Three cheers for the new normal  i am unbelievably excited to watch earth death unfold. all this super weather pwning america is like  real shame about da rest of the world tho, rip india.
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Ann Arbor sucks poo poo and is so deep up its own rear end in a top hat about how progressive and liberal they think they are you can't imagine they'll ever emerge. gently caress Ann Arbor and the people who love that bullshit blue bubble incapable of self-reflection.
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How are u posted:Ann Arbor sucks poo poo and is so deep up its own rear end in a top hat about how progressive and liberal they think they are you can't imagine they'll ever emerge. gently caress Ann Arbor and the people who love that bullshit blue bubble incapable of self-reflection. ferndale is way better
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here's an article on los angeles-area future heat projections, since we're on that topic https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-extreme-heat-20150514-htmlstory.html quote:By 2050, parts of Los Angeles County are forecast to experience triple or quadruple the number of days of extreme heat if nothing is done to control greenhouse gas emissions, placing further demand on the region’s drinking water and electricity, according to two new reports by UCLA scientists.
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How are u posted:Ann Arbor sucks poo poo and is so deep up its own rear end in a top hat about how progressive and liberal they think they are you can't imagine they'll ever emerge. gently caress Ann Arbor and the people who love that bullshit blue bubble incapable of self-reflection. The state of Michigan in general has gotten way too up their own assholes about how cool and underrated they are.
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ChipNDip posted:The state of Michigan in general has gotten way too up their own assholes about how cool and underrated they are. downstate michigan sucks
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ChipNDip posted:The state of Michigan in general has gotten way too up their own assholes about how cool and underrated they are. Don't worry climate change has decided we're gonna have flash floods today.
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oystertoadfish posted:here's an article on los angeles-area future heat projections, since we're on that topic The funny thing is that so far California has had an incredibly mild summer, one of the nicest in years
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Spime Wrangler posted:downstate michigan sucks Non north woods Michigan is effectively just Ohio
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The Glumslinger posted:The funny thing is that so far California has had an incredibly mild summer, one of the nicest in years Yeah this heatwave in the northeast is on the heels of two mild summers lol we were so fuckin due for the hammer
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Minneapolis had a storm pop up out of nowhere when rain wasn't even forecast for the day. Suddenly it went from a clear day to sewer manholes overflowing like geysers and streets turned into rivers. https://twitter.com/mark_tarello/status/1151255336789118977 Second time in two weeks! Love this new normal. 
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Jul 17, 2019 08:13
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That's 43°C. drat, that genuinely hot no matter who you are.
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The best part about the flash floods in Minneapolis is they come out of the blue then the storm fucks off just as fast, leaving really great lighting for the aftermath shots.
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That seems pretty hot How will this affect the corn harvest?
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What the gently caress is all this Michigan chat? *Drowns and dies in a heatwave in Detroit*
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twoday posted:That seems pretty hot apparently it's bad, combined with the tons of rain earlier in the season. i'm kind of annoyed by this article bc they don't say any specifics about how the heat will affect corn, but mr farmer getting interviewed in illinois doesn't like it https://www.kwqc.com/content/news/Farmers-concerned-about-heat-wave-512816581.html quote:"We've gone from one extreme to the other, from too wet to being to now being too hot and dry," says Geneseo farmer Justin Weber. edit: this article is also mostly about rain too, despite the headline, there's a quick bit where some guy says the heat wave will cool off by next week, so i'm guessing the heat itself isn't long-lasting enough to be a big factor https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/us-heat-wave-to-hit-at-a-critical-time-for-crops-and-farmers/70008828 quote:The heat won’t last beyond the weekend, according to Nicholls, which is good for farmers. “It cools off late in the weekend and the temperatures are pretty ideal next week,” Nicholls said. “However, we’re in a pattern for below-normal rain. The temperatures are better but there’s just no low-level moisture, so they can’t manufacture any rain there. oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 14:14 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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twoday posted:That seems pretty hot First crops looking a bit strange
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dew worm posted:First crops looking a bit strange Country girls make do
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Pepperoneedy posted:Country girls make do
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Jul 17, 2019 15:58
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michigan is pretty crap, we're just midwest, despite what everyone here chooses to believe. its not gonna be the water wonderland anymore once the nearly 70 year old enbridge pipeline bursts in the bottom of lake superior
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:michigan is pretty crap, we're just midwest, despite what everyone here chooses to believe. remind me again why they put an oil pipeline through the bottom of a very large freshwater body that people need again??? ever removing that would be insane
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:michigan is pretty crap, we're just midwest, despite what everyone here chooses to believe. line 5 goes through the Mackinac straight, not superior it’s still dumb as heck and Michigan conservatives are bootlickers
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i don't know why i always mix that up.
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It's pretty cool Duluth died and there's basically no commercial or industrial stuff (that ore dock in Marquette is all I can think of) anywhere on the biggest lake in the world
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Pepperoneedy posted:Country girls make do
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can't wait for the heatwave to hit and for it to be like 120 in the warehouse at work.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:can't wait for the heatwave to hit and for it to be like 120 in the warehouse at work. You probably outnumber your boss dozens or hundreds to one, and you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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It's been raining in NYC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Vwv6Khu6o
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Pepperoneedy posted:Country girls make do
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Perry Mason Jar posted:It's been raining in NYC after the rain passed it became so hot that the pavement melted and started leaking into the subway https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1152244458538393601?s=20
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the heat really fucks with the minds of our young people. the last two days on the job aged be about a million years gonna start a teacher band and name it Indoor Recess
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Over Easy posted:the heat really fucks with the minds of our young people. nice haiku
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twoday posted:after the rain passed it became so hot that the pavement melted and started leaking into the subway Krang is concerned because that's how you get ninja turtles
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A storm and rain so strong here in Detroit that the truckyard at work is closed for safety purposes. There's literally 30 semis parked in a line up the service road waiting for this to end and it just keeps kicking up every time it looks to be ending.
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