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Spoondick posted:i read something maybe last year about climate change models showing pretty much all of californias forests getting burnt down over the next 50 years because of elevated heat and droughts Fallout 1 & 2 were a documentary
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Zeno-25 posted: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 I remember watching one while I was at NIU some poor bastard had everything blown out of their pockets and were down to only their pants when someone foolishly went out to help them. suffered the same fate, but pantsless
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Xaris posted: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
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Epic High Five posted: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! Marco studied the blade (of Chang).
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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. That storm greeted me to DC. I came down that weekend from NYC to scout out apartments since I was starting a job in the fall. My bus got in at about 10pm and nobody at Union Station seemed to have any idea something was on the way. I remember the night looking like typical DC summertime, kind of hazy and still. Thought I'd check Metro to see how far away the train was, since it'd be nice to stretch my legs and walk to where I was staying if the train would be too long. It was a 15 minute wait so I went back up the escalator. I've never seen anything like it in my life, it was this low boiling black cloud out of nowhere that flowed over the city like a volcano cloud. A wall of wind smacked into the station and blew a bunch of trash cans away, everyone booked it down into the Metro station. I was picking dirt out of my teeth half an hour later. By the time I got off the train it was strobing lightning and heavy rain. Welcome to DC! I can only imagine what 140 mph would be like. As you said, the next two days were triple digits and humid. Definitely didn't help my apartment search, I could barely walk a mile in that weather. I wonder how many old people without power that killed.
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lorba forecasted to be be cat2 by landfall https://twitter.com/wx_danielle/status/1297477740069871616
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BIG HEADLINE posted: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. muy derechos
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baw posted:lorba forecasted to be be cat2 by landfall https://twitter.com/wx_danielle/status/1297477740069871616 Trying to fly in my virtual airline this weekend is going to be so hosed.
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Taintrunner posted:Trying to fly in my virtual airline this weekend is going to be so hosed. my very first thought in seeing the new flight sim is to do The Hump i saw a streamer do the most mundane flight from LA to vegas and he was so thrilled and i was thrilled with him
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This poo poo is loving hilarious to me because about a week ago my wife was talking about maybe moving out to California.
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it's easy. all you gotta do is make the convicts work anyway, regardless of the rona. hell, to make up for any loss in efficiency due to the plague, just draft up a bunch more prisoners. ez
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Aug 23, 2020 12:37
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How is there anything left to burn in California? Didn't the whole state burn down last year?
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don’t worry, california will drown next year like it did in 1862, thus providing lots of moisture to grow more fuel
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Luneshot posted:
It's been three years since hurricane Maria, but driving around Puerto Rico has been wild, both urban and rural. There are still so many places and things that were totally wrecked by Maria that are still the same. Just tons of destroyed, abandoned areas, houses, infrastructure, buildings, etc. You always see some big building with the roof just peeled back like a sardine can. there are still thousands of houses with the infamous blue tarps, awaiting repairs or just resigned to live like that Looking up things to do and hikes, I always have to remember to check for updates post-Maria. So many things closed down or were destroyed that there's a distinct pre VS post Maria timeline.
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Platystemon posted:Wildfire isn’t going to frontally assault major cities. after it loses its food source of minor cities it can only come after the large ones
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Third World Reagan posted:after it loses its food source of minor cities it can only come after the large ones Nah because by then the cities will have achieved herd immunity. 
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Pretty much every major city in california has signifcant amounts of the city that are in areas extremely prone to wildfire.
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Platystemon posted:Wildfire isn’t going to frontally assault major cities. Is this really a statement you're confident in making in 2020?
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https://twitter.com/alanauglis/status/1297276626397540353?s=20 Double Katrina
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SKULL.GIF posted:Is this really a statement you're confident in making in 2020? My favorite (I actually hate it) is that everyone in cspam decided that negative meme magic is real and is intent on using their combined psychic force to make everything worse.
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Lawman 0 posted:My favorite (I actually hate it) is that everyone in cspam decided that negative meme magic is real and is intent on using their combined psychic force to make everything worse. We just watched two storms become two hurricanes become a Doublecane
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the only thing left to really ramp this up at this point is for them to beef up to cat 3s in the gulf before they make landfall i mean, why not?
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Trump could always nuke them.
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:How is there anything left to burn in California? Didn't the whole state burn down last year? lightning finds a way ~~ The state faces are more acute shortage of personnel than usual - the coronavirus pandemic has depleted a fire-fighting corps made up of prisoners, which has helped the state battle blazes since World War Two, due to early releases from jail.  trump country
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lmao Just burning down a few "minor" cities, no big deal
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according to that japanese scientist, most likely subtractive
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People still buy 700K plus home in the CA forest because "it's how I want my children raised" lol I guess they just clear a lot of space around their home, have evacuation routes and think they are fine then?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:according to that japanese scientist, most likely subtractive if they get too close, yes, but what about damage from the one-two punch?
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if a hurricane loses energy when it crashes into another doesnt that mean all the water falls out of two storms at once onto new orleans?
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actionjackson posted:People still buy 700K plus home in the CA forest because "it's how I want my children raised" lol the good news is that when everything burns down the forest does too, we had 4 pines, 2 cedars and 6 oaks on the lot... now we have 1 oak, only problem is nobody wants burnt timber in large quantities so there's millions of dead trees rotting where they stand... on the plus side we have full sunlight all day and we'll be making tons of solar energy to sell to pg&e for next to nothing
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Xaris posted: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 Tl;DR: effortpost about the last big Hurricane Sandy subway tunnel repair Yeah they just finished repairing one of the last tunnels. poo poo was crazy. The tunnel was essentially crumbling, but they couldn't just shut it down because hundreds of thousands of people used it to get to and from Manhattan every day. Shutting it down would send tens of thousands of riders to other subway lines, which would put them ridiculously over capacity - imagine waiting an hour to get into the subway every morning. But the MTA said that shutting it down completely would mean they could finish repairs in one year, while doing nightly or weekend shutdowns would take three years, so ultimately the city decided on a full shutdown. This caused real estate values along the line to drop, and less than one month after construction was meant to start Cuomo jumped in, halted it, and demanded an alternate plan. The shutdown had literally been discussed for 3 years and Cuomo didn't say a word until less than a month before it started. I can't even express how much press this shutdown got for years. Everyone was talking about it. Personally, I joined Transportation Alternatives and helped start a group that helped people without a lot of bike experience figure out how to bike from Brooklyn to Manhattan. We ran group rides to help train people and get them comfortable, because we expected literally thousands of people to have no other option soon. A bunch of techie startups formed and created uber pool-like services just to deal with this specific tunnel shutdown. People moved to new neighborhoods. Some people left the city completely! Ultimately they decided to do a nights and weekends partial shutdown, but also decided to speed it up by making it shittier. The wires and cables that send signals through the tunnel used to be housed in a protective concrete sheath, and this sheath was all crumbled due to salt water from Sandy. The original plan was to tear it all out and rebuild it. The new plan was to leave the crumbling wall there and cover it with strong netting so chunks don't fall out and derail trains. And instead of running cables through the protective concrete wall, they just stapled them to the tunnel wall. So, repairs are "officially done," but none of the damage from Sandy has really been fixed, and if the tunnel floods again we are turbofucked. Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 17:40 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Real hurthling! posted:if a hurricane loses energy when it crashes into another doesnt that mean all the water falls out of two storms at once onto new orleans? Right now New Orleans isn't in the predicted path of Laura
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PostNouveau posted:Right now New Orleans isn't in the predicted path of Laura ??? https://twitter.com/alanauglis/status/1297276626397540353
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