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Real hurthling! posted:dams sure seem dumb as hell idk. like at least dont live under them if you gotta kill a river with one ianae I know it ended up being somewhat debunked or at least contextualized—but still a hearty lmao for that thing where Houston had a bunch of housing developments on the water side of its levees
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HashtagGirlboss posted:I know it ended up being somewhat debunked or at least contextualized—but still a hearty lmao for that thing where Houston had a bunch of housing developments on the water side of its levees with a zoning department small enough you can drown it in a bathtub, caveat emptor motherfucker
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How was it contextualized? People were under mistaken beliefs about how likely it was that any flood would ever bring the water level that high, but houses were absolutely built inside the reservoirs. For lack of budget, the federal government never bought the land all the way to the maximum fill level, and decades later when the suburbs sprawled out to the reservoirs, no one told land owners that it couldn’t be developed.
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There is an earthen dam here in SE King County Washington called Howard Hansen that was extensively damaged during the floods in 2009 and was due to imminently fail before the Army Corps of Engineers was able to stabilize the sides of the dam. I was working in the Kent Valley at the time, which was due to be under 10' of water if the dam were to fail. The roads outside of my office, and all along the river were stacked with 3'x3'x3' sandbags. If the dam would have failed that would have been not only tons of houses but also one of the the largest industrial/warehouse areas in the west under water. I spent a lot of time thinking about the best route to boogie up in case the valley flooded while I was at work.
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Lacrosse posted:There is an earthen dam here in SE King County Washington called Howard Hansen that was extensively damaged during the floods in 2009 and was due to imminently fail before the Army Corps of Engineers was able to stabilize the sides of the dam. I was working in the Kent Valley at the time, which was due to be under 10' of water if the dam were to fail. The roads outside of my office, and all along the river were stacked with 3'x3'x3' sandbags. If the dam would have failed that would have been not only tons of houses but also one of the the largest industrial/warehouse areas in the west under water. I spent a lot of time thinking about the best route to boogie up in case the valley flooded while I was at work. Jury rig a raft out of floor models from the IKEA. It’s a twofer, you can snag some meatballs and Swedish fish to keep your energy up.
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Lacrosse posted:There is an earthen dam here in SE King County Washington called Howard Hansen that was extensively damaged during the floods in 2009 and was due to imminently fail before the Army Corps of Engineers was able to stabilize the sides of the dam. I was working in the Kent Valley at the time, which was due to be under 10' of water if the dam were to fail. The roads outside of my office, and all along the river were stacked with 3'x3'x3' sandbags. If the dam would have failed that would have been not only tons of houses but also one of the the largest industrial/warehouse areas in the west under water. I spent a lot of time thinking about the best route to boogie up in case the valley flooded while I was at work. Just wait til Rainier goes and the lahar hits!
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Platystemon posted:How was it contextualized? While I don't disagree with you here on any specific point . . . money is fake and the federal government simply didn't want to, for whatever reason. Don't give them an out here. And, it clearly COULD be developed - it was just a real bad idea to do so. Obviously, it didn't stop the developers from doing so, however.
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Careful, you can't say money is fake - it offends the Almighty Number.
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Zarin posted:While I don't disagree with you here on any specific point . . . money is fake and the federal government simply didn't want to, for whatever reason. Don't give them an out here. I think you'll find it was actually a great idea for the developers since they made money on the deal and no longer have any sort of liability after selling the homes.
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Looking forward to this winter in the Midwest fluctuating between 60 and -20
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is the next atmospheric river supposed to hit BC in a few days?
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actionjackson posted:is the next atmospheric river supposed to hit BC in a few days? It’s hitting now, I’m getting emergency evacuation orders on my phone and I’m south of the border (I’m safe, I’m just close enough as the crow flies that I get the alerts).
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Nov 28, 2021 04:09
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There will also be another one...Tuesday? Seems bad.
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Nov 28, 2021 04:12
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cool that the Pacific North West now gets monsoon seasons
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Booourns posted:To be fair tons of rain isn't exactly uncommon in the PNW This is usually when the storms happen, too. Climate change is accelerating how much rain come with them on average but this sort of pattern is common in November. The "big blows" are basically like Pacific noreasters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_windstorm Sometimes they're a result of a typhoon remnant getting sucked into the pineapple express jet stream.
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What the heck was that clock tower made of,those winds are bad don't get me wrong but that looked like a pretty flimsy construction
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Just how normal is it for Hawaii to get blizzard warning? https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnnyParker012/status/1466602994678571013
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Are earthquake swarms off the Oregon coast weather? It’s more geology really the Farallon Plate will get its due one day but probably not today
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shirts and skins posted:This is usually when the storms happen, too. Climate change is accelerating how much rain come with them on average but this sort of pattern is common in November. The "big blows" are basically like Pacific noreasters. patterns on the Great Plains are more erratic than before but follow the old rules that apply when you live right on the boundary of polar air- We have always had inconsistent random days or weeks, a 55° day in January, a snow in May or October, Spring/Fall cold snaps, now and then. Now it's more like a random 75° day in January bookended by 0-10° snows, draught followed by violent thunderstorms that rarely roll and boil gently like when I was a kid. (our tornadoes, at least, seem to be hanging out eastward these days- but nados have always been a rare hazard compared to canes and phoons and quakes) The frustrating thing is pointing that out to people who also grew up here and they're like "it's always been like this, that's the plains midwest, 'dont like the weather? Wait ten minutes', etc" It was actually very weird and bad that I wore a t-shirt and shorts on christmas a few years back! It was super strange to have a week last year, when they were dealing with their first deep freeze down in Texas and it didn't go above 0°F up here!!
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We did it Australia! Fires in Western Australia https://twitter.com/9NewsPerth/status/1468673373576310790 while the east coast floods https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/status/1468651707181719552
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wolfs posted:Are earthquake swarms off the Oregon coast weather? As this is obviously the earthquake group before they start to hunt ....horror filmolgy?
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65f right now in the middle of december in southern indiana and we have a tornado watch right now what in the gently caress
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The intensity of the long-tracker tornado right now coupled with the lack of chatter around it is a bit disconcerting. It looks like this might go down as one of the worst tornados in history.
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https://twitter.com/DelCrossV/status/1469484456243122177 https://twitter.com/JackSillin/status/1469506813766815750 https://twitter.com/TornadoStudy/status/1469494752047513600 https://twitter.com/ChurchillWx/status/1469510169063272450
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scary ghost dog posted:i dont know how to interpret those images You can wait for the sun to rise tomorrow and there will be many images you can interpret.
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PostNouveau posted:283 mph seems pretty fast yeah but tornadoes only affect like a dozen households at a time
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scary ghost dog posted:i dont know how to interpret those images the big erect dong on the radar is an artifact created by debris blown into the air by the tornado
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:the big erect dong on the radar is an artifact created by debris blown into the air by the tornado Also, that big erect dong is usually seen in cases of massive hail. In this case, it's massive debris. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_spike)
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