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The funniest* thing is that this is well known and everyone just accepts that the aquifer will run dry at some point and oh well. Like they've known for decades this was happening and just decided to accept that their ultimately doomed. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article28640722.html *You may disagree as to whether this is funny
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PostNouveau posted:Found a map with a legend further in the thread Are the splotches in Idaho/Washington the result of the dams on the snake river and columbia river?
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May 21, 2020 17:43
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Luneshot posted:big fan of our insistence on large-scale irrigation and animal agriculture in the southwest and california, places famous for having plentiful water supplies Haha yeah. But you can move water. You can’t move growing seasons or open land. So 
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May 22, 2020 19:34
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Thesaurus posted:What are the odds of a cat 5 obliterating me in Puerto Rico this season? Certainly better than the odds of anyone in the mainland US actually caring
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May 30, 2020 01:43
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Is 2005 the only time we made it all the way to the Greek letters?
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I'm sure it's not possible for a bunch of reasons I don't understand but if Nana were to clear central America and reform in the Pacific would they rename it?
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Now do Beta, which also just formed. October 27th apparently. HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 22:31 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sep 18, 2020 22:09
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:man wine country just loves being on fire They just wanted a return to normality. http://www.staritahills.com/wine-and-fire quote:It goes without saying that we are all missing our annual Wine and Fire event that is typically held the third weekend in August. Better late than never?
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Sep 28, 2020 18:33
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FAUXTON posted:lol and it wasn't even hurricanes that did that, it was sinkholes Sinkholes are terrifying. I still have nightmares of that video of the trees just sinking into the swamp.
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Oct 1, 2020 16:26
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:that was a punctured salt dome, they've punctured a few of those drilling for oil since it can frequently be found around them Yeah, that's the one. Same general concept at least. That video came out right around the same time that guy in Florida got caught in a house that went down one didn't it?
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Oct 1, 2020 16:51
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PostNouveau posted:Just gonna go gently caress up the ruins of Lake Charles Would it be better or worse to just double tap Lake Charles? I imagine a lot of folks are still evacuated and it's just going to knock down stuff that's already gotta be knocked down anyway, right? Or am I just completely wrong?
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Oct 7, 2020 18:51
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SKULL.GIF posted:I'm presuming Texas and Mississippi get the 9-10? Why does Louisiana get only 3? I’m pretty sure just Texas and Florida’s west coast get the 9 nautical miles. Every other state is 3 Edit: yeah. https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/oceancommission/documents/full_color_rpt/03a_primer.pdf HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 04:12 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 04:01
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:mississippi extended theirs up to 9 miles years ago, though it was done by state law so idk how the feds handled that That’s super interesting and I didn’t know that, but I’m not sure how that would work because the three miles is set by federal law after the Supreme Court basically held states had no jurisdiction off shore so I think they’d be pretty effectively preempted there
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Oct 11, 2020 16:31
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500excf type r posted:A word of mouth story from a coastal washington native tribe about an earthquake was dated exactly to the day sometime in the early to mid 1700s because of records of a tsunami that hit japan Those oral histories are very robust. If you ever find yourself near Neah Bay the Makah people’s cultural center is very well done and interesting. They had a story of a large mudslide that later was excavated and resulted in a ton of well preserved artifacts, including evidence of gill net fishing which was used to help establish the practice as predating the treaties to the eternal consternation of modern fisherfolk who get really pissed about natives fishing. Honestly I have no idea what the poster is talking about there were settlements and people all up and down the coast
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Oct 31, 2020 15:27
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500excf type r posted:I love the Australian native stories that have been proven through the geological record to be 10-12000+ years old, passed down word of mouth, generation to generation. I read a book about that a couple years ago, the edge of memory. The whole thing was absolutely fascinating. Native people in the US are doing a lot of work to preserve their histories and languages. It’s not all getting lost. I think sometimes in the US we like to act like all the native people are gone or mostly gone, but they’ve hung on and shown remarkable tenacity against outright genocide. Probably a topic for a different thread though. Back to eta watch.
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Oct 31, 2020 15:47
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Shear Modulus posted:i'm pretty sure they're referring to this earthquake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake Maybe? But that didn’t depopulate the coast and happened after settler contact and pretty close in time (around 100 years before L&C who described plenty of native populations along the Columbia including bunches near present day Portland) to settling starting. Complications posted:I dunno we kind of ignored everything the natives had to say about living within a hundred miles of the coast in the pacific northwest, it's possible that there wasn't a major population in that basin until white people trade up and down the river went nutso on the grounds that it periodically destroyed everything there. I’m not trying to be too off topic with 29 forming but also I think the above is outright wrong.
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Oct 31, 2020 22:03
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:here's a thing you can read about the next expected Big One from the cascadia fault I think I’m really failing to make my point because I’m aware of the Cascadian subduction zone and the historic earthquakes and have even been out to the ghost forest in Neskowin. I’m pushing back at the suggestion that people in OR/WA didn’t settle by the coasts until white folks showed up. That’s ahistorical and a pretty gross erasure of the people that were here.
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Zarin posted:Hasn't Tampa been dodging "the big one" since before building codes were a thing? I think they haven’t had a big one in 100 years
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Nov 5, 2020 06:04
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FlamingLiberal posted:The current NHC forecast for that wave is 20% chance of formation within 48 hours, 80% chance within 5 days Up to 80%/90% respectively as of an hour ago. Iota here we come
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Nov 12, 2020 20:36
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shame on an IGA posted:I'm in that line of "without excellent coverage" through SC and it actually owns because CAE, CHS, ILM, GSP, RAX and CLT TDWR all overlap coverage there and I can keep switching sources and getting a new scan every minute or two. Pretty sure that’s the Pee Dee River which is like the most South Carolina name for a river
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Mar 22, 2021 05:00
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shame on an IGA posted:hell we even have two of them My favorite South Carolina river will always be the Wateree River, though, because if you say it out loud it sounds like you're just really bad at adjectives. Regardless, while the Pee Dee is definitely a very swampy stretch of water I'm very curious why it's so clearly distinct on that map, like the guy upthread said it's surrounded by several airports and there's an air force base not too far away either
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Mar 22, 2021 23:56
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Gunshow Poophole posted:I would simply choose to cower under the second tallest tree I never leave home without a theodolite for this exact reason
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Apr 30, 2021 05:46
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It's going to be nasty and I'm definitely not looking forward to it but it has been pretty dry and I don't think we're going to have to deal with any serious humidity (Portland isn't actually particularly close to the coast and while they aren't quite as high as the cascades the coast range does sit between here and the ocean, it's consistently a bit drier and warmer here than Seattle). But yeah as mentioned the houses here aren't really built for hot weather, more to stay warm in the winter, and when it doesn't cool off under 70 at night it can cause some serious issues with multi-day heatwaves gently caress You And Diebold posted:it was a big problem last heat wave because a ton of the homes there dont have any AC, people dont even have window units Window units have gotten a lot more common in the last couple of years from what I've noticed but yeah central AC is actually pretty uncommon
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Jun 22, 2021 18:51
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The Oldest Man posted:PNW calibrated forecasts are being updated and AC ownership, at least as far as dinky window and portable units go, has shot way up over the last few years. Which given that those have to be way less efficient than central systems I’m going to imagine are going to greatly increase the chance of our grid melting. Sunday is not gonna be fun
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Jun 24, 2021 17:35
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Shifty Pony posted:window units are surprisingly efficient, especially because they let you cool one room unlike a central system. the units themselves might be efficient but the installation of them is decidedly not (often just cardboard/duct tape sealing the gaps on either side of the unit)
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Jun 24, 2021 17:56
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coke posted:they actually grow rice too Lmao rice doesn’t even need to be flooded. They just do it to keep away weeds and pests. So it’s an extra layer of stupid
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Jun 24, 2021 23:57
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Shear Modulus posted:right, agriculture in california uses extremely water-intensive methods because big landowners have absurd grandfathered water rights from hundreds of years ago that let them pull as much water as they want for practically free so it's cheaper than trying to conserve water I don’t know if it’s the case in California but I know the way some states’ water rights are set up you can actually lose your rights if you start significantly conserving water so there’s an incentive to not fix up your system too much Laterite posted:i mean, all things being equal, is that better or worse than relying on herbicides & pesticides? Fair enough it’s just funny cause it’s so unnecessary
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:flash cook me daddy
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Helith posted:So how windy is it going to be in the PNW on those heatwave days? because very hot, dry and windy is prime bushfire/wildfire weather. This is what NWS is predicting for tomorrow quote:Sunday So yeah, plenty windy enough for bad things to happen RIP me
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Jun 26, 2021 17:10
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Still ‘only’ 90 in Portland and I’m starting to feel a tiny bit of hope that it won’t be as bad as forecast Edit: I was an idiot to hope HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 22:53 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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silicone thrills posted:https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/1408885188260622338?s=20 Yeah we’re officially over 100 and rising. I definitely spoke too soon https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSPortland/status/1408904585838686212
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Jun 26, 2021 22:57
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Raine posted:if your piss is yellow and not clear, you aren't drinking enough water No you can over hydrate which can be deadly You want really pale yellow SirPablo posted:drink more piss
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSPortland/status/1408935399938957312 Tomorrow is going to be hell. I’ll be surprised if it gets under 75 tonight
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hifi posted:don't do this. if you have ice in an unbearably hot and humid environment you're better off just sticking your feet in it. swamp coolers work off evaporation and by shifting the air conditions more towards the hypothetical wet bulb conditions, so you could theoretically be pushing the temp to like... 90 degrees and 80% humidity if you don't know what you're doing. The humidity is remarkably low so it shouldn’t be much of a problem. Portland was at 17% and even now NWS is reporting 29%. I don’t think with humidity where it’s at a freezers worth of ice will move it that much but I could be wrong Notorious R.I.M. posted:While opening everything does help, I can assure you that it still sucks when it gets no colder than the mid 70s outside. Ideally you pay attention to when the temperature inside is reading higher than the temp outside but yeah the high overnight low is going to be really brutal especially given that it’s supposed to hotter tomorrow
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Jun 27, 2021 03:14
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DoombatINC posted:I am limiting myself to three (3) lovely ice beers a day The loophole here is obvious
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Radirot posted:oh word? Was already 100 by noon https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSPortland/status/1409226494694498306
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Jun 27, 2021 20:57
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Crunchy Black posted:So this is going to be a wet bulb event, and even if its not and just close, is going to kill more folks than the condo collapse, won't it. Lmao it’s hot and getting hotter but let’s be real it’s not going to be a wet bulb and while I think sadly there will be some deaths I don’t think it’ll get to triple digits The most worrying thing to me is if it doesn’t cool off below 80 tonight
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Jun 27, 2021 21:24
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SirPablo posted:Wtf is a wet bulb event Wet bulb event is my meatloaf tribute band’s name
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George H.W. oval office posted:Never heard of wet bulb but it sounds like every day in the summer in Houston. gently caress it’s miserable from July-September I think this was the closest a populated place ever got https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-world-record/
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