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BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Reminds me a bit of the bit right before the worst ending of Far Cry 5. >.>

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TACD
Oct 27, 2000

unexpectedly intense crack ping from the weather thread this morning

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Hmm there seems to be a bit of fire activity in the Golden State.





Look at the length of that scroll bar.

Platystemon has issued a correction as of 09:48 on Aug 20, 2020

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Nix Panicus posted:

And as mentioned earlier, all the inmates who were trained and experienced firefighters while in prison are ineligible to become firefighters on release, because they don't hire felons. So California is always chronically short on trained firefighters because they can't hire felons, which means they need to use slave labor felons to make up the shortfall.

guess who's fighting against it

quote:

For several years, state lawmakers have considered various bills to change the law so that inmate firefighters arent disqualified by their criminal records. The most recent version, AB 1211 by Assemblywoman Eloise Reyes (D-San Bernardino), was shelved early in the session after pushback from firefighters associations. The bill will be taken up again next year.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Platystemon posted:

Hmm there seems to be a bit of fire activity in the Golden State.





Look at the length of that scroll bar.

ah, lovely. my wife just said she was thinking about moving us out there to be a computer toucher. lmao.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
My girlfriend routinely asks if we can move out of state. No! She doesn't like the seasons and she wants some place that's warm and sunny most of the year. Hell no! California, fires; Florida, hurricanes; Georgia, the actual mouth of hell; the Caribbean, hurricanes and equatorial; Texas, literally Texas; Colorado, okay maybe Colorado.

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Cygna
Mar 6, 2009

The ghost of a god is no man.
While we're on the prison tangent, I'm going to hearken back to LF days and recommend The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander to anyone who either doesn't know or wants to know more about the prison-industrial complex. It's an excellent overview and will make you extremely angry.

Howdges
Dec 29, 2012

Unfortunately Colorado is also on fire quite a bit, not as bad though.. Yet

Charlatan Eschaton
Feb 23, 2018

a couple of spots kinda look like they're running out of fuel so thats good i guess

call_of_qthulhu
Nov 21, 2003


Fun Shoe
hi weather thread, tropical depression 14 formed. it will be named marco eventually.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




we should just fill in the gulf

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

not_superiority posted:

hi weather thread, tropical depression 14 formed. it will be named marco eventually.



how dare you not post the best image from the advisory

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?

call_of_qthulhu
Nov 21, 2003


Fun Shoe

deadwing posted:

how dare you not post the best image from the advisory



tbf crushing anxiety kept me from looking at that one too much since i live in the houston area, like closer to the coast part of houston than the further inland part

Preoptopus
Aug 25, 2008

Три полоски,
три по три полоски

Howdges posted:

Unfortunately Colorado is also on fire quite a bit, not as bad though.. Yet

Live in the mountains. Can confirm. Its quite lovely.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Preoptopus posted:

Live in the mountains. Can confirm. Its quite lovely.

Doesn't it rain at like 3pm on the dot every day in summer

Preoptopus
Aug 25, 2008

Три полоски,
три по три полоски

i say swears online posted:

Doesn't it rain at like 3pm on the dot every day in summer

Its been super dry and windy this summer. The few rains we had last about 3 min.
Currently 4 major fires burning over 175k acres with almost no containment. i70 is closed. Its raining ash everywhere and my head hurts when the smokes blowing my way.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/20/colorado-wildfires-update-grizzly-creek-pine-gulch/

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

not_superiority posted:

hi weather thread, tropical depression 14 formed. it will be named marco eventually.

Little Marco dealing poorly with dry air and windshear. Will never be a hurricane! :sad:

Ardlen
Sep 30, 2005
WoT



PostNouveau posted:

What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?
They can combine into a megahurricane via the Fujiwhara Effect.

Numlock
May 19, 2007

The simplest seppo on the forums

PostNouveau posted:

What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?



The simulation we live in will crash.

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


Numlock posted:

The simulation we live in will crash.

oh therell be some crashing alright

Dustcat
Jan 26, 2019

groovy

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-two-hurricanes-collide-fujiwhara-effect-2017-9

SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012

PostNouveau posted:

What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?



lol using if in 2020.

TehSaurus
Jun 12, 2006

SpaceCadetBob posted:

lol using “if” in 2020.

This is gonna be awesome.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

SpaceCadetBob posted:

lol using if in 2020.

it could hit houston

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

It could spontaneously swerve to gently caress up southern Florida

Stunt_enby
Feb 6, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
it's going to do sick donuts all across the continental us then ramp off the rockies to land in alaska

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Kinda optimistic of them to suggest it'll remain a Cat 1, seeing as every sub-Cat 3 hurricane that touches the Gulf almost immediately goes up two notches in grade, at least while it's in open water.

BIG HEADLINE has issued a correction as of 01:12 on Aug 21, 2020

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Weathergeddon 2020: What the effects will be is unclear, but who knows?

Moot .1415926535
Mar 24, 2006

Yep, that's pretty much it.

i say swears online posted:

Doesn't it rain at like 3pm on the dot every day in summer

it used to

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

PostNouveau posted:

What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?



Max Mayfield will whip his glasses off and mutter "...my god"

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

lmao nature is trying to exterminate us

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Paradoxish posted:

lmao nature is trying to exterminate us

As the saying goes, turnabout is fair play.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

PostNouveau posted:

What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?



don't even want to risk considering it

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

PostNouveau posted:

What happens if 2 hurricanes collide right over New Orleans?



it must be so nerve wracking living anywhere along that path

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

The OSHA thread in GBS served up these videos. It's insane.

Me flicking forward through the first one: "Okay, sure, thats a bit windy. Wow, that's a lot of branches flying past. Okay, that tree in the front lawn is now gone. Holy poo poo, that very large tree now in the front lawn wasn't there a second ago."

In the second video, just jump to 3:45

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Joey Steel
Jul 24, 2019

deadwing posted:

how dare you not post the best image from the advisory



Mother nature has decreed anathema against Louisiana, that's all.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

https://twitter.com/JackSillin/status/1296799327806009344?s=19

decent chance Houston gets a hurricane sitting on top of it for several days, again

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
cool

cool cool cool

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Zeno-25
Dec 5, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Very cool that my favorite cousin and her folks just moved back to Pensacola. At least they don't live on a barrier island now lol

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