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Of course people who are stuck there are stuck there, I didn't say anything about that. But a poo poo ton of people in the US for instance happily pack up and move across the country to live in places where tornadoes are a weekly thing, or where murder hail happens every year. That's the kind of thing that I'm still continually surprised about.
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Apr 26, 2022 03:49
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Yeah, well, I voluntarily moved to earthquake country, so I am in no position to judge. Hey, I had already moved from tornado country to blizzard country to hurricane country, so no big.
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Apr 26, 2022 04:20
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binge crotching posted:Of course people who are stuck there are stuck there, I didn't say anything about that. But a poo poo ton of people in the US for instance happily pack up and move across the country to live in places where tornadoes are a weekly thing, or where murder hail happens every year. That's the kind of thing that I'm still continually surprised about. like, for instance, why would anyone choose to stay in the USA, a country well known to be a third world hell hole??
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Apr 26, 2022 04:43
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Hide the sign while the prime minister (known for fuckups) visits for a photo op during the election campaign https://mobile.twitter.com/ACTcameramatt/status/1518773091337650176?s=20&t=rQHYWUJ3GCm8TrrhnIuPmA (3 pics)
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Apr 26, 2022 04:54
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grittyreboot posted:How many places exist on Earth with no dangerous weather at all? Or dangerous wildlife for that matter? England is about the most benign place I can think of. Their most dangerous weather is thick fog and their most dangerous animal is like a badger or something.
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Apr 26, 2022 05:41
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Sagebrush posted:England is about the most benign place I can think of. Their most dangerous weather is thick fog and their most dangerous animal is like a badger or something. In my neck of the woods in Upstate NY we're pretty good. Once every other year there's a big honking blizzard, but there's no earthquakes, dangerous storms, or fires or floods or anything. The blizzards used to be more common 
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Apr 26, 2022 06:02
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I don't get it.
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Apr 26, 2022 09:38
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The Real Amethyst posted:I don't get it. DiESEL
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Sagebrush posted:England is about the most benign place I can think of. Their most dangerous weather is thick fog and their most dangerous animal is like a badger or something. The last wild bear in England was killed over 1000 years ago, and the last wolf around 400 years ago. There are now wild boar due to farm escapes and they are now established and slowly expanding. I think the most dangerous animal is the deer due to 50000 car crashes a year !
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Apr 26, 2022 11:13
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Unperson_47 posted:Just realized that not only do they ride and turn on two wheels, it all started with them swerving at the last moment to avoid that oncoming dude. Saved that guy a lot of pain (and maybe his life) and also looked cool. Eh, neither of them ever crossed into the opposite lane, it was plenty of space to pass safely.
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Apr 26, 2022 11:17
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binge crotching posted:Of course people who are stuck there are stuck there, I didn't say anything about that. But a poo poo ton of people in the US for instance happily pack up and move across the country to live in places where tornadoes are a weekly thing, or where murder hail happens every year. That's the kind of thing that I'm still continually surprised about. Economics. People need a job to feed themselves and their families, sometimes the only viable option is in Hellweather Country or Snakebite Lagoon. Plus the densely populated "safe" regions also tend to have higher costs of living. Sagebrush posted:England is about the most benign place I can think of. Their most dangerous weather is thick fog and their most dangerous animal is like a badger or something. Doesn't England get pretty regular flooding?
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Apr 26, 2022 11:39
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PurpleXVI posted:Doesn't England get pretty regular flooding? Parts of it at least, though it doesn't help that developers keep building on floodplains or covering hills with impermeable roads and wondering why it floods when it rains heavily.
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Apr 26, 2022 11:52
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Britain's most dangerous weather is probably gales killing people by bringing down trees on them/throwing debris into them. We have no real dangerous animals, although I suppose there's a very small percentage chance of getting eaten by The Beast of Bodmin Moor.
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Apr 26, 2022 11:56
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The most dangerous animal in Britain is the Englishman. Over the years they've killed millions.
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Apr 26, 2022 12:23
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Britain is too full of people and petty crime. Finland has about the right population density and I'd rather take some wolves, bears and moose than too many people.
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Apr 26, 2022 12:28
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The most dangerous animal in Britain is the Englishman. Over the years they've killed millions. They're also an invasive species
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The most dangerous animal in Britain is the Englishman. Over the years they've killed millions. Yeah but some of those millions were English so it's not all bad.
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Aren't heat waves going to be a bigger problem in England moving forward? Compared to the US, there are fewer domestic residences with air conditioning and they aren't as well-built for proper cooling airflow. Same problem as when the PNW started having longer heat waves.
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Apr 26, 2022 13:56
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Platystemon posted:DiESEL drat I watched it like 5 times and all's I could see was a rectangle with some lines.
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Apr 26, 2022 14:13
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I was in Socorro, NM in 2004 when one of those happened for like 40+ minutes sustained and I still flip the gently caress out the second I see hail, no matter how big, to this day
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Apr 26, 2022 14:33
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Mercury Hat posted:Aren't heat waves going to be a bigger problem in England moving forward? Compared to the US, there are fewer domestic residences with air conditioning and they aren't as well-built for proper cooling airflow. Same problem as when the PNW started having longer heat waves. This will be less of an issue if the jet stream breaks down and they have to deal with being at a higher latitude than Maine without a heat pump warming the islands up.
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Apr 26, 2022 14:34
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MrQwerty posted:I was in Socorro, NM in 2004 when one of those happened for like 40+ minutes sustained and I still flip the gently caress out the second I see hail, no matter how big, to this day Baseball size hail is a yearly event in Colorado and Wyoming, regionally. Golf ball is more frequent and widespread. But you never know where is going to get hit hard so you just learn to deal with it. I never seem to encounter large hail. I might see dime and nickel size hail every couple of years. My last apartment complex got pummeled one day for 15-20 minutes, loving up lots of cars. I was at work a few miles away, only rained there.
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KoRMaK posted:like, for instance, why would anyone choose to stay in the USA, a country well known to be a third world hell hole?? Rock flag and eagle, baby.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Baseball size hail is a yearly event in Colorado and Wyoming, regionally. Golf ball is more frequent and widespread. But you never know where is going to get hit hard so you just learn to deal with it. Socorro got declared a FEMA zone over that, my buddy got $5k to fix his roof (  ) out of the $1 billion they released to fix things up. NMT actually had just built a giant all-glass theater building that was literally a right triangle. Amazing looking structure, until it was torn to shreds. Every car in that city was turned to a totaled waterlogged golf ball or a shredded husk, depending on how old it was. New Mexico, especially Albuquerque and cities south of that, don't generally get golf ball or baseball-sized hail. poo poo out in this region is barely built to handle upticks in moisture, 40+ minutes sustained of baseball-size and larger hail basically never happens. I was driving home from a stay in Jemez with my girlfriend last summer and a hailstorm started and I tried to turn back, but I was the leader of the pack. Everything went real well but I was so steeled the entire time, watching an entire parking lot of cars basically explode with water and ice outside your dorm room sticks with you. edit: I decided to ditch my math class that day after a giant block of ice exploded next to my shin walking out from under the balcony first thing in the "morning," a few minutes before it started, but I missed out on a kid deciding that now was the time to grab a piece of this historic hailstorm. The ice that was around for days and days afterward, that I went snowboarding on at the golf course. Yeah that kid fractured his skull, tibia and fibia and had to be emergency rescued and airlifted. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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Goddamn that sounds nuts. Obviously you don't get used to the hail, you get used to the threat. It really does seem to happen annually in east Colorado or Wyoming, out in the plains. I don't know that many houses are really built for hail though.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Goddamn that sounds nuts. Big problem with NM and hail is that everything is flatroof
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Yeah, fortunately we have to build for snow load in Colorado, and high winds, so the homes are more naturally resilient. I'm in the San Luis Valley though, and there's a lot of flat roofs here too.
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The Real Amethyst posted:I don't get it. Platystemon posted:DiESEL It's German for "the sel".
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MrQwerty posted:Big problem with NM and hail is that everything is flatroof On the positive side, house insurance buys everyone a new roof every few years so you don't have that expense to deal with.
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Deteriorata posted:On the positive side, house insurance buys everyone a new roof every few years so you don't have that expense to deal with. My stepfather basically did exactly this in Illinois, several times. When he tried it in Tennessee the most he could get out of insurance was half the price. He's a hail magnet.
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My girlfriend used to write insurance somewhere in Texas and said premiums were crazy high (like five times what we pay here) because of constantly replacing roofs from hail damage.
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Deteriorata posted:On the positive side, house insurance buys everyone a new roof every few years so you don't have that expense to deal with. CRUSTY MINGE posted:My stepfather basically did exactly this in Illinois, several times. When he tried it in Tennessee the most he could get out of insurance was half the price. My dad just did that because the 10-year-old roof totally failed over his bedroom after a snow and he still had to pay, but not really that much. Probably like 15-18%. He still whined like it was full price, mind you.
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Sagebrush posted:England is about the most benign place I can think of. Their most dangerous weather is thick fog and their most dangerous animal is like a badger or something. Or English people.
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Okay, this is random, but I have found that those rattle cans of spray on drywall texture are apparently unavailable, possibly at a national level. The boxed stuff is still readily available, so I’m assuming it’s the packaging process that was disrupted. Could just be the new normal of random supply line issues, but for the sake of trivia, anyone know of any major incidents recently that would have led to this? Some aerosol packaging plant in Texas nuking itself or something?
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Bad Munki posted:Okay, this is random, but I have found that those rattle cans of spray on drywall texture are apparently unavailable, possibly at a national level. The boxed stuff is still readily available, so I’m assuming it’s the packaging process that was disrupted. Odd, I noticed that a couple months ago the only option was the oil based stuff but last week I was back in full stock locally. My 15 minute light fixture replacement turned into a weekend of patching drywall, the old fixture was covering up an oversized hole around the box.
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The Real Amethyst posted:I don't get it. edit: same joke already made, going to edit out in shame
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Unperson_47 posted:Just realized that not only do they ride and turn on two wheels, it all started with them swerving at the last moment to avoid that oncoming dude. Saved that guy a lot of pain (and maybe his life) and also looked cool. If you slomo the start, the tuktuk was initially in the oncoming traffic lane as they are taking the corner wide (due to excessive speed), and were already drifting the rear tyres as they crossed the line back into the correct lane, the "swerve" appears to be them regaining traction at the rear, with leftover sideways momentum causing the vehicle to pivot around the center of mass (and go up on 2 wheels). It looks cool, but there are questionable decisions that brought them to that point, IMO nothing about that maneouver would have changed if there was no motorcyclist, they were basically already committed before they come into view past the parked truck. Also if you slomo / frame advance you can see the passengers in the back as it passes the camera 
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StormDrain posted:Odd, I noticed that a couple months ago the only option was the oil based stuff Yeah, that’s exactly what I hit last night, and it spanned multiple stores of varying sizes. I looked up the same stuff online and it was listed as unavailable everywhere.
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Weird. I bought a few cans without trouble in January.
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