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The Oldest Man posted:Don't cross the streams https://twitter.com/normcharlatan/status/1297335178831040513
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PostNouveau posted:Orders in New Orleans are to prepare for shelter in place. They expect to have all the pumps working by Sunday (98 out of 99 operational right now). They're confident Laura will not get above Cat 1. I don't much like the mayor, but she's a good leader in a crisis so I'm just gonna keep an eye on official reports. Which means half the pumps will fail within 15 minutes of rainfall.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:06
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Aug 23, 2020 02:06
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these two will be interesting because it will be an inverse of the norm where people ignore the Liddl' Marco hurricane because Marco Rubio is so meek and pathetic, but are terrified of the Laura Loomer one because she is a nightmare creature from the hell dimension. Florida never fails to provide!
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Aug 23, 2020 02:12
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Thoguh posted:Congrats on being an absolute fuckhead.. We had about ten minutes of warning and by the time it got to Chicago it was just a storm so I dunno what the gently caress you are bragging about, though parts of western Illinois got hit hard. im gonna kick his rear end
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Aug 23, 2020 02:16
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Hmmm, gonna be impossible to evacuate for Laura because of Marco. They better be right about it not strengthening.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:21
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Stairmaster posted:im gonna kick his rear end Sir or Ma'am I am allowed to be angry on the internet about a sperglord bragging that actually the thing that destroyed half of my state and that the recovery workers have been comparing to Katrina in terms of devastation actually isn't a big deal because there was a lot of warning about the storm in Chicago. Like, for real, gently caress that guy acting like there was warning for the Derecho in the places it actually impacted vs places a four hour drive away.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:21
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oh it's the waterspout version of that recurring nightmare i have, except i can't just realize it's that dream again and wake up cool, cool cool cool
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Aug 23, 2020 02:46
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Thoguh posted:Sir or Ma'am I am allowed to be angry on the internet about a sperglord bragging that actually the thing that destroyed half of my state and that the recovery workers have been comparing to Katrina in terms of devastation actually isn't a big deal because there was a lot of warning about the storm in Chicago. lol it killed 4 people and they got the power back on in a week comparing that damage to katrina is offensive as hell
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Aug 23, 2020 02:58
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Thoguh posted:Sir or Ma'am I am allowed to be angry on the internet about a sperglord bragging that actually the thing that destroyed half of my state and that the recovery workers have been comparing to Katrina in terms of devastation actually isn't a big deal because there was a lot of warning about the storm in Chicago. nice meltdown lol (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 23, 2020 03:01
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fore warning: looks like a storm is brewing in the weather thread
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Aug 23, 2020 03:01
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real SUPERSTORM SANDY vibes itt lmao
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Aug 23, 2020 03:03
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a little rain never hurt anyone
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Aug 23, 2020 03:04
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the wizard of oz was based on a real derecho. you insensitive clod. you impudent freak
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Aug 23, 2020 03:07
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Minrad posted:nice meltdown lol
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Aug 23, 2020 03:08
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Stunt_enby posted:dude had a fat storm gently caress up his city/town and has been directly helping with recovery efforts and is probably stressed the gently caress out and traumatized, you could at least drop the loving shield of irony and have some loving empathy or just... not post no
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Aug 23, 2020 03:10
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Minrad posted:nice meltdown lol 
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Aug 23, 2020 03:15
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 the Redwoods are gone the old gods are officially dead now we can start anew
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Aug 23, 2020 03:23
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this is the neon genesis evangelion x melancholia future friggin bad rear end imo
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Aug 23, 2020 03:25
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol it killed 4 people and they got the power back on in a week A lot of people are still without power my man. Also it isn't flooding so the Katrina comparison in terms of damage holds. This was a 50 mile wide tornado. It was hurricane damage but not hurricane flooding. The death toll from Katrina was from the flooding.
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Aug 23, 2020 03:28
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Thoguh posted:A lot of people are still without power my man. Also it isn't flooding so the Katrina comparison in terms of damage holds. This was a 50 mile wide tornado. It was hurricane damage but not hurricane flooding. The death toll from Katrina was from the flooding. wait there's still people without power? ok my bad, that's p lovely yeah also you're right, i bet the economic damage to such a large region will be comparable
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Aug 23, 2020 03:29
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:wait there's still people without power? Yeah 2 weeks later and there are still neighborhoods that don't have it. And also a lot of houses that don't even if the neighborhood does because certain lines are owned by the electricity company and others are the responsibility of whoever lives there so if you got a bunch of damage then congrats, you get to hire an electrician to do the wire going in to your house. Hope you can afford it.
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Aug 23, 2020 03:34
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one of our friends after katrina had her mom run down and bribe a linesman to fix their street first, after three months of no power their house was mostly ok but they had to throw out their fridge no electricity absolutely kills people and long-term fucks up your finances thanks to large appliances like that. two weeks is easily enough time to gently caress a lotta people over
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Aug 23, 2020 03:39
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Thoguh posted:Congrats on being an absolute fuckhead.. We had about ten minutes of warning and by the time it got to Chicago it was just a storm so I dunno what the gently caress you are bragging about, though parts of western Illinois got hit hard. NOAA issued a severe tstorm watch for central iowa at 9am predicting a derecho These things don't really come out of the blue, try paying more attention to the forecast Zeno-25 has issued a correction as of 04:13 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Aug 23, 2020 04:09
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The SPC are usually excellent at giving the general range of where severe weather can be expected a day or two in advance, but even they tend to get blindsided by derechos. It's really worth emphasizing that the onset of a derecho is very difficult to predict in advance because of their self-propagating and self-reinforcing nature; in addition, the conditions that initiate them aren't super well understood. Tornadoes are very localized events; they get a lot of attention, but your chances of actually being hit by a tornado are pretty low (unless you live in Moore, apparently.) There's also the real problem that a derecho is not something that exists in the public consciousness as an "oh poo poo!" the way that a tornado does. A derecho like that was basically a low-grade tornado across an entire state. How do you prepare for that? Aside from bunkering down to save your own life, how do you limit damage to infrastructure? How do you enact an emergency response when everywhere else in the state is dealing with the same thing? How do you rebuild your life when the corn harvest that you rely on to stay afloat just got decimated, and everyone else you know is in the same boat? Weather is spectacular and fascinating but remember that the pictures and videos don't really show the true extent of the damage; the people actually affected will be still be picking up the pieces long after you've forgotten about it.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:24
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Minrad posted:nice meltdown lol *Doing army guy on radio voice*skk mission command we got his rear end skk
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Aug 23, 2020 05:39
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The funniest thing about climate change doing nonstop elbow drops from the top of the cage onto US infrastructure is that in 99% of the country, if something breaks it just never gets fixed because nobody spends money on stuff like that anymore. Lol
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Thoguh posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBkPichBlt8 it's fuckin wild this thing didn't dominate the news for like a week straight. i guess it didnt kill enough people to be exciting
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Aug 23, 2020 05:46
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Epic High Five posted:The funniest thing about climate change doing nonstop elbow drops from the top of the cage onto US infrastructure is that in 99% of the country, if something breaks it just never gets fixed because nobody spends money on stuff like that anymore. Lol most of our water and drainage and sewer systems were built in the 50's and had roughly 50 year design lives, so everywhere is a couple of decades past replacement now there is an absolutely insane amount of money that the people in charge haven't been spending toward building and maintaining poo poo, look up the ASCE infrastructure grades sometime to see how it breaks down per essential civil engineering system
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Aug 23, 2020 05:59
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Thoguh posted:Sure, entire sections of a state were wiped off the map, but once that happened I was able to warn my parents that a few hours later they might get some rain and then post smugly about it on the internet. christ, looking back at the stories, Quad Cities had 106,000 households without power  a quarter of the Quad Cities completely blacked out
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Epic High Five posted:The funniest thing about climate change doing nonstop elbow drops from the top of the cage onto US infrastructure is that in 99% of the country, if something breaks it just never gets fixed because nobody spends money on stuff like that anymore. Lol its epic and win imo
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Aug 23, 2020 06:08
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Victory Position posted:christ, looking back at the stories, Quad Cities had 106,000 households without power In the 2012 Derecho, 1.6 million in MD lost power, ~1 million each in both Ohio and Virginia, 672k in WV, and ~68,000 in DC (which was ~10% of the city's inhabitants, during a 100F+ heat wave). Winds barely broke 90mph, though. Again, they need to start calling them "Inland Hurricanes" to get people's attention.
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Aug 23, 2020 06:11
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Giga Gaia posted:its epic and win imo It's great lol, you read a story from like 2006 about a rural bridge collapse that left a whole town with an extra 45 minute commute to get groceries and then you check on it today and its like, yup, still no bridge
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Aug 23, 2020 06:16
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Epic High Five posted:It's great lol, you read a story from like 2006 about a rural bridge collapse that left a whole town with an extra 45 minute commute to get groceries and then you check on it today and its like, yup, still no bridge do those rural bridges help elon take us to mars? chek mate
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Aug 23, 2020 06:17
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Epic High Five posted:The funniest thing about climate change doing nonstop elbow drops from the top of the cage onto US infrastructure is that in 99% of the country, if something breaks it just never gets fixed because nobody spends money on stuff like that anymore. Lol there are still like some NY subway stations that didnt reopen after Hurricane Sandy and still lasting damage. i think one of the last ones finally did like last year, 7 years later, in the second richest state in the country lmao this is basically how it's going to go, and probably not just US but especially so. death by thousands of paper cuts. a town floods, we gawk for a week and then move on as it dies out, maybe arizona becomes unhabitable megadrought wasteland, it gets forgotten, maybe lots of florida get wrecked, just leave it, fires burn down multiple cities in californoa oh well just leave it.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:In the 2012 Derecho, 1.6 million in MD lost power, ~1 million each in both Ohio and Virginia, 672k in WV, and ~68,000 in DC (which was ~10% of the city's inhabitants, during a 100F+ heat wave). Winds barely broke 90mph, though. The thing about it is this derecho was exceptionally severe. Most have winds of 60-90 mph, been through more of those than I can remember. However this one had a measured 126 mph and 140 based off of damage estimates. Add another unprecedented weather extreme in a warming world to the pile i guess
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Zeno-25 posted:The thing about it is this derecho was exceptionally severe. Most have winds of 60-90 mph but this one had a measured 126 mph and 140 based off of damage estimates. Oh, I'm not discounting the fact that this thing was a mid-grade EF3 a few hundred miles long. I'm just saying they might need to be renamed since I'm almost certain they'll become way more common.
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Derechos usually happen like once every year or two in that region of the midwest, there's really no excuse for ppl there to not be aware of that phenomena. I spent most of my life in Northern IL ffs Also they are an entirely distinct atmospheric phenomena from a tropical cyclone and you gotta draw the line somewhere. What's next, renaming microbursts? Make the corn hicks learn a Spanish word imo Zeno-25 has issued a correction as of 06:45 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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