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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:this poo poo is rapidly making its way towards medford, a city of ~85k people. if they have to try and evacuate it in the middle of the drat night it's going to be a living nightmare. https://twitter.com/GreatWinter2017/status/1303536962914062339
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SKULL.GIF posted:DESTRUCTIVE FIRE! NUMBER UP!
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How could fire do this to me
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new stream btw: https://www.facebook.com/kobitv/videos/2790437481191592/ it was exploding a while ago but it seems to have slowed its approach to medford for now, hopefully it stays that way.
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Sep 9, 2020 05:34
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cool new doom .wad
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Sep 9, 2020 05:38
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I'm in Eugene and imo this fuckin sucks!!
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Sep 9, 2020 05:51
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feel like some bad stuff is going on... not sure though. maybe its good? if it was bad we'd do something about it, right?
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my friends are currently in escrow for their first home and it looks like that home might not exist anymore
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weathergeddon x cool zone cross-over post https://twitch.tv/malcontentmenttango Tacoma's on fire yo
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Man Musk posted:weathergeddon x cool zone cross-over post 
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https://kval.com/news/local/photos-evacuees-gather-at-thurston-high-school#photo-1 god drat this is hosed, this is only 11 miles away from where I live and what's even more hosed is the northern area from where these folks are staying got a stage 3 evacuation about 4 hours ago. Very possible Springfield may get evacuation orders too.
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hobbesmaster posted:i'm guessing the issue at that point would be if the fire passes before you run out of oxygen. nifty post, the second video especially imo!
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i had a laugh at the recommendation also there was a fire dogge 
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I grew up in Talent. I hated it at the time because it was small and boring. When I would go back as an adult, I could see a small town trying so hard to be a cool place, and in outright defiance of all logic, succeeding on several fronts. The Talent Club was my favorite bar I’ve ever been to, and that’s not the top of a short list. It opened up in 1905 as a two story structure with a brothel upstairs, the brothel part caught fire, and the remains of the building ended up being rolled on logs down to its final resting place across from the grocery store. It was a very strange place, but it fit perfectly with the community it represented. It was small and lovely looking on the outside, but huge and warm on the inside, staffed with friendly bartenders and peopled with a fun group of regulars. They had a chalkboard behind the bar where you could pay in advance for your friend’s next beer next time your friend came in, covered in years of tallies and names. They had unbelievably regular and shockingly high quality live music. They had no liquor license and only took cash, but they would also sell you a to-go sixer and a pack of smokes and some frozen burritos when it was closing time. In a town where the convenience stores close at like ten, this was a godsend. Across the street was the sweetest little independent coffee shop you could ever hope to see in your life, the kind of place people think about when they open coffee shops that suck. The coffee was good and strong, the food was good and you could tell that the cooks got to play around with it a little, the pastry was unbelievably strong, there were public book cases that people actually used, and there was a wonderful little patio to chainsmoke on while you added all those possibilities up in a way that made sense for you. Behind the bar, across another street, was a grocery store that mostly fed me as a child. They had a deep fryer and a deli counter and would sell you the best jojos on the planet, all crusty and battered and perfect, and they would also have a huge barbecue out front during the summer months where they would sell you a Polish for like a dollar or some really unsanitary chicken that also owned. More importantly, they had a taco truck in the parking lot most days, and that truck singlehandedly changed me from a picky eater to an international gourmand in the space of one bite of one taco. I’ve spent years of my life cooking tacos professionally and thousands of dollars traveling down to Mexico to eat better tacos than I can get here, and all of that happened because of one taco that cost one dollar, or six for five. I still can’t make them like that. Around the corner, they still had a video rental place as of 2018, the kind that has a cat in it and employees get space for their curated selections. You know how it loving sucks to spend an hour scrolling through all of your ten different streaming options trying to find something you could deal with watching, and how that inevitably ends with you putting on some poo poo you’ve seen a dozen times just to get rid of that chore? There is a solution to that problem, it is a video store, and Talent loving had one. Within eye-shot of that video store was The Grotto, which sold a kind of pizza that I’ve never been able to find again, and that I don’t even know how to ask for. It tasted like it might have had a sourdough crust, and there were a bunch of weird bubbles on the bottom of a slice. My friend’s mom tried and failed to teach me to shoot pool in there when I was about ten years old. What I’m trying to tell you is that you could spend an entire day in about a one block vicinity and enjoy every second of it. Coffee, tacos, live music, drinkin, rent a movie and grab a pizza, that’s a great day. The last few times I was down there, it was because I was taking care of my mom. She’s got dementia, and it fell to me to cook her meals and stuff for a bit. It was always an unfriendly welcome, because people are naturally suspicious of strangers in a town doing its best to not become another tweaked-out hellhole on I5. By the second time I would see the same person, they would warm up and ask me what my deal was, and by the third greeting, everyone was my best friend. When I checked out of the motel, the lady at the desk was apologizing for charging me full rates and demanding that I tell her I’m me next time so she could give me a discount (which I totally did). I hope as hard as I can hope that this is a premature eulogy. Maybe some of these places, and more importantly, the people who make them what they are, will be okay. I want it all to be okay. I love those people and the things they bring to the world. There’s a value there that doesn’t show up on balance sheets. This has been a terrible day.
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fabergay egg posted:feel like some bad stuff is going on... not sure though. maybe its good? if it was bad we'd do something about it, right? yeah i think we pay taxes for firefighting but i'm sure they are on it
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Real Mean Queen posted:I grew up in Talent... for what it's worth it sounds like talent may have skated by without getting it too bad if local chatter is anything to go by, though we won't know until daylight. phoenix however sounds like it's a total loss with basically nothing left standing.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:for what it's worth it sounds like talent may have skated by without getting it too bad if local chatter is anything to go by, though we won't know until daylight. phoenix however sounds like it's a total loss with basically nothing left standing. There was basically nothing standing in Phoenix to begin with. This is a light joke to distract from the gut wrenching horror I feel for the people of Phoenix, people who took me in as a semi-homeless teenager and treated me much better than I ever treated them. I love those people and owe them a great debt that can never be repaid, and I hope that every single one of them gets twice what they’re owed from insurance, and twice again for the people in the trailer park across the bridge from the Iron Skillet. Those folks looked after me out of nothing other than their inherent kindness, even when all I brought was bad news. I don’t have a nice eulogy for mainstreet Phoenix, because there isn’t one to write, but I hope every single soul in that horrible place gets out safe and collects a huge check. E: I was wrong to say that, La Burrita was very good if it still existed yesterday. Puck’s is also a huge loss, you can’t get a donut that good no matter how hard you try. Real Mean Queen has issued a correction as of 08:41 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Man Musk posted:weathergeddon x cool zone cross-over post On the plus side, the smoke might smell better than Tacoma's Aroma.
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https://twitter.com/chriscabe3/status/1303296080377913344?s=21 the sheer terror of driving near a forest fire and not be able to see ahead from the smoke and then holy gently caress giant fire five feet away
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You've done it, Hume! You beautiful son of a bitch, you've freaking done it
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Bulgakov posted:also there was a fire dogge fire dogge wants only to take you away from this terrible world
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hard to see but here's the sun from the office in my house. camera doesn't pick up how deep red it is and how smoky the air is. perfectly normal happy healthy planet we have.
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You’re all in the Otherworld now
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Louisgod posted:hard to see but here's the sun from the office in my house. camera doesn't pick up how deep red it is and how smoky the air is. perfectly normal happy healthy planet we have. I remember that happening once when I lived in Kansas, it's the most bizarre thing. I sent it to a friend in another state and she asked if I had accidentally opened a Hellmouth. It was also from wildfires in Colorado, in 2010 or 2011.
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Evil_Greven posted:some town in eastern washington got 80% wiped out by a firestorm yesterday apparently some good stuff here for doomscrollers https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/sep/08/it-all-happened-so-fast-malden-pine-city-residents/ quote:Morse, who grew up in the Lincoln County town of Edwall, described Malden as a “typical small town.” But, he said, it’s also become a haven for criminal activity, sowing distrust among neighbors. quote:Like many residents of Malden, Hoover and Butler did not have homeowners insurance.
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Sepia-red sky. Another town has burned down. You cannot leave the house today. Sepia-red sky. Another town has burned down. You cannot leave the house today. Sepia-red sky. Another town has burned down. You cannot leave the house today. Sepia-red sky. Another town has burned down. You cannot leave the house today. Gray-red skies. Another city has burned down. You cannot leave the house this week.
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Stereotype posted:the best way to survive a brush fire is to pee on it, thereby exerting your dominance over the fire But what if the fire is into piss play?
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Sep 9, 2020 17:59
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Love being far from any active fire and still having trouble breathing and a red sun
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Posted this in the academic subforum but here you go too. "Approximately 1.8 million ha burned annually in California prehistorically (pre 1800). Our estimate of prehistoric annual area burned in California is 88% of the total annual wildfire area in the entire US during a decade (1994–2004) characterized as ‘‘extreme’’ regarding wildfires. The idea that US wildfire area of approximately two million ha annually is extreme is certainly a 20th or 21st century perspective." From Stephens, Scott L., Robert E. Martin, and Nicholas E. Clinton. "Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands." Forest Ecology and Management 251, no. 3 (2007): 205-216. Telsa Cola has issued a correction as of 03:36 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Climate change definitely gets scapegoated to a large extent. A main issue is homeowners not wanting controlled burns for fuel reduction around their houses because of the smoke and poo poo. Basically a "MY PROPERTY VALUES" type thing. Mechanically reducing the amount of acres necessary would be extremely, extremely expensive and massively time consuming so thats not really an option.
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you don't think climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of these fires?
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actionjackson posted:you don't think climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of these fires? It is to a degree but theres at least one paper out that states at least in California its having a relatively unknown factor. Its drying out fuels more, yes, but California already does a really, really good job of that. An increase in Human caused ignitions gets pointed to mainly, as housing and such expands into more areas the number of fires increase because you have more people loving around or whatever.
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Oh yeah poor planning and lovely housing policies have definitely been a leading factor in fire issues but climate change is turbocharging them as well
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coastal retreat fireland retreat desert retreat lets do it!
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actionjackson posted:you don't think climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of these fires? He's saying its getting entirely blamed on climate change (and gender reveal parties) when a huge component is the landowners not wanting natural systems (periodic burning) to inconvenience them.
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