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and it’s not like a flood in Nebraska or something where the water is just kinda sitting there. that’s an expansive raging ocean full of currents and waves that will absolutely kill your rear end, banging on your door. on the second floor.
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Sep 3, 2019 01:28
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angerbeet posted:Oh cool I was on an island today and missed this We're all going to die
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soy posted:and it’s not like a flood in Nebraska or something where the water is just kinda sitting there. that’s an expansive raging ocean full of currents and waves that will absolutely kill your rear end, banging on your door. on the second floor. to be fair when the waters that high in Nebraska it's usually moving 30 miles per hour and full of debris
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Sep 3, 2019 01:31
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:while I, in principle, agree, Puerto Rico's shows that these cat 5 storms have the potential for catastrophic loss of life. we'll see how the Bahamas fair, but it could be very bad. but a Florida landfall is less everyone dieing and more everyone being turbo hosed. generally the immediate death toll from a traditional Mother Earth disaster is low what fucks people is usually the period of time immediately after the disaster, when all of our modern infrastructure has been compromised. most shelter has been destroyed, power is out, fresh preserved food and uncontaminated running water are no longer available, communication and transportation networks have largely broken down, medical facilities are damaged and overwhelmed, and so on the flooding and wind don't usually kill that many people with modern building codes and weather forecasting. but in the aftermath of the storm, the necessities of life are often in short supply, which can kill a lot of people if aid doesn't arrive quickly for example, maybe a tree limb fell on you or something. you're not dead, but your arm's broken in a real nasty way. time to go to the hospital? good fuckin luck with that https://mobile.twitter.com/SincerelyReal1/status/1168664411210420229 https://mobile.twitter.com/gwancool/status/1168617934220124160 https://mobile.twitter.com/CAffairsTCI/status/1168644155230294017 where are they evacuating the hospital to? dunno, but it's not gonna involve any fuckin planes https://mobile.twitter.com/kionnemcghee/status/1168540276949954560 needless to say, it's gonna be a while before anyone injured in the storm gets medical attention. hopefully no one gets infections or other entirely preventable consequences while they're waiting for replacement medical and transportation infrastructure!
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Sep 3, 2019 01:53
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This is all extremely grim.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:02
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Negrostrike posted:This is all extremely grim. i am pleasantly surprised by the stark reduction in "lol" and "I hope the storm strengthens for my personal giggles" posts since Dorian started annihilating the northern Bahamas
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Sep 3, 2019 02:07
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dorian killed some folks
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Sep 3, 2019 02:09
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When Sandy hit New York there were quite a few people on the coast who ended up drowning in their attics. Some of the houses were even ripped from their foundations and carried out to sea entirely, with people trapped inside. Sandy had devolved into a Cat 1 by the time it hit the Bahamas, and even devolved further into a tropical storm, before restrengthening to a Cat 1 before it hit NJ/NY
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Sep 3, 2019 02:10
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The ocean just loving rose up and ate the god damned island, christ.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:10
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where is the airport in that last video?
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Sep 3, 2019 02:10
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this is a sobering reminder that the rich and powerful are going to just run away in a mad panic and take none of us with them
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Sep 3, 2019 02:13
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GreyjoyBastard posted:i am pleasantly surprised by the stark reduction in "lol" and "I hope the storm strengthens for my personal giggles" posts since Dorian started annihilating the northern Bahamas i still hope it wipes out maralago, but yea i know what you mean
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Sep 3, 2019 02:14
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This is an unusual move. https://twitter.com/WAFB/status/1168675451734306816?s=20
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Sep 3, 2019 02:14
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Chuka Umana posted:where is the airport in that last video? under the water
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Sep 3, 2019 02:14
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Chuka Umana posted:where is the airport in that last video? i circled it in that image that was posted a few pages back. 
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Sep 3, 2019 02:16
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Is the US planning to send in USNS Mercy or anything like that?
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Sep 3, 2019 02:25
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How are u posted:The ocean just loving rose up and ate the god damned island, christ. Did you know that the peoples who lived in the Mississippi river delta and along the gulf coast and in Florida and in the Caribbean who had inhabited the region for thousands of years built massive mounds which could provide shelter in times of extreme flooding?  It's a pretty neat fact, anyway, most of these mounds have been bulldozed and replaced with sea-level houses and strip malls because ancient shell mounds block the view of the beach and aren't considered to be a proper foundation for modern buildings, so let's see how that works out twoday has issued a correction as of 02:32 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 02:27
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well im sure they're growing salt-resistant crops and fishing from ever more bountiful oceans of sustainable or overpopulating varieties of fish and not either cash crops to feed imperialism or working for the rich who decide they'd better off writing that one off to the insurance company
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Sep 3, 2019 02:33
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a helpful bear posted:Is the US planning to send in USNS Mercy or anything like that? mercy is based out of San Diego, comfort is in Latin America rn so that'd be the ship to send but uh no (independent of either of those facts) also I'm super depressed thinking about that class of ship as the way resources COULD be allocated in our system
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Sep 3, 2019 02:35
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^^^^ 'In mid-2004 Vice Admiral Michael L. Cowan, the Surgeon General and chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, said that the Comfort and Mercy should be retired. "They’re wonderful ships, but they’re dinosaurs. They were designed in the ’70s, built in the ’80s, and frankly, they’re obsolete".[2] Few, if any, options are presently being explored to replace them with a platform better suited to the mission at this time.' a helpful bear posted:Is the US planning to send in USNS Mercy or anything like that?
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Sep 3, 2019 02:37
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I think I heard on the news that the coast guard was going to go to the Bahamas when it was safe to try and help.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:39
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Silly Burrito posted:This is an unusual move. Gonna attach a bunch of balloons to my house to pull an Up to avoid a hurricane
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Sep 3, 2019 02:40
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twoday posted:Did you know that the peoples who lived in the Mississippi river delta and along the gulf coast and in Florida and in the Caribbean who had inhabited the region for thousands of years built massive mounds which could provide shelter in times of extreme flooding? That would have been a nice time to be alive instead of now.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:41
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Al! posted:this is a sobering reminder that the rich and powerful are going to just run away in a mad panic and take none of us with them
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Sep 3, 2019 02:46
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Al! posted:well im sure they're growing salt-resistant crops and fishing from ever more bountiful oceans of sustainable or overpopulating varieties of fish and not either cash crops to feed imperialism or working for the rich who decide they'd better off writing that one off to the insurance company not only that, these mounds were made of their waste - they were all made of leftover shells from shellfish they had eaten. Our society also creates landfill heaps, and if there had been some in the Bahamas it could have provided a place for people to escape to, instead of drowning in their homes. That ancient society had an awareness of the dangers posed by the environment in which they lived, as well as the waste they produced, and figured out a way to organize and control these various destructive factors in such a way that it would serve the collective good over the long term. But our society considered these people to be savages and exterminated them, and now, instead of learning anything from their system, we have the one we have now, which ignores both our place in the world and the damage we do to it. twoday has issued a correction as of 02:56 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 02:53
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twoday posted:not only that, these mounds were made of their waste - they were all made of leftover shells from shellfish they had eaten. Our society also creates landfill heaps, and if there had been some in the Bahamas it could have provided a place for people to escape to, instead of drowning in their homes. That ancient society had an awareness of the dangers posed by the environment in which they lived, as well as the waste they produced, and figured out a way to organize and control these various destructive factors in such a way that it would serve the collective good over the long term. But our society considered these people to be savages and exterminated them, and now, instead of learning anything from their system, we have the one we have now, which ignores both our place in the world and the damage we do to it. but aesthetics
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Sep 3, 2019 03:19
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a helpful bear posted:Is the US planning lmfao
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Sep 3, 2019 03:22
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We have top men working on it right now. Top... men.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:27
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twoday posted:We have top men working on it right now. truml isn't a man they are a god
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Sep 3, 2019 03:28
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like the lowest form of deity but still one
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Sep 3, 2019 03:28
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Poniard posted:like the lowest form of deity but still one demigod emperor trump  pray the hurricane away
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Sep 3, 2019 03:31
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Poniard posted:like the lowest form of deity but still one Someone with a wikipedia account please update this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_considered_deities
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Sep 3, 2019 03:34
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Silly Burrito posted:This is an unusual move. Honestly the only thing I would have done differently from the last hurricane was to put trash bags inside the house on the windows that didn't have storm shutters. since water kept seeping in and I spent all night mopping. The windows are aluminum jalousie type with iron bars on the outside so its not like they would be damaged by debris and getting shutters on them wouldn't be practical since gently caress getting on a ladder to install them. Higher probability of me killing myself installing them than from the actual storm.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:35
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Honestly the only thing I would have done differently from the last hurricane was to put trash bags inside the house on the windows that didn't have storm shutters. since water kept seeping in and I spent all night mopping. The windows are aluminum jalousie type with iron bars on the outside so its not like they would be damaged by debris and getting shutters on them wouldn't be practical since gently caress getting on a ladder to install them. Higher probability of me killing myself installing them than from the actual storm. have you tried sitting at the exact midpoint of all windows and just channeling a repulsor field? that seems like the easiest way, you are keeping your crystals charged right?
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Sep 3, 2019 03:38
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What are the chances that Cuba is going to score another political coup by sending a massive swarm of doctors over?
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Sep 3, 2019 03:40
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Epic High Five posted:have you tried sitting at the exact midpoint of all windows and just channeling a repulsor field? that seems like the easiest way, you are keeping your crystals charged right? Dont have a bro, but you are always welcum in my house if you bring your own crystal Heartcatch posted:What are the chances that Cuba is going to score another political coup by sending a massive swarm of doctors over? As if we would let them in
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Sep 3, 2019 03:41
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Why? Do the Bahamas have a problem with Cuba?
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Sep 3, 2019 03:42
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Heartcatch posted:What are the chances that Cuba is going to score another political coup by sending a massive swarm of doctors over? far more likely than more american doctors just volunteering to go
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Heartcatch posted:Why? Do the Bahamas have a problem with Cuba? Oh I thought you were talking about florida
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