Disasters, natural or otherwise

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Mongrel » Tue Aug 07, 2018 12:22 am

Not so much a news item, but seeing as how this is now the largest wildfire in recorded California history, and there's plenty of fires all over CA, are you guys down there near any of this stuff?

Going by vague memory, the areas roughly near Friday or Brent seem "fine" on CA's fire map, but I dunno about anyone else?
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Friday » Tue Aug 07, 2018 3:40 am

The Carr fire was close-ish to me. It's been raining ash outside for about a week. Sun is red all day through the smoke.

But I've been lucky enough to not have to evacuate. Thousands have lost their homes and some people are dead, including the people who fight the fires. This is, unfortunately, the new normal for California.

Our huge rainfall two winters ago just gave rise to a massive amount of underbrush, which served as tinder for the fires.

California has always had wildfires, of course, but they're worse now because of two main factors:

1. Climate Change causing more extreme weather patterns
2. Encroaching subdivision development into the foothills, where fires are common.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby IGNORE ME » Tue Aug 07, 2018 10:42 am

A fire broke out about 4 miles from where I live but then it went the other way. I ended up just looking at the smoke and thinking "oh, I hope I don't have to breath too much of that".

I took a picture of it from the roadside, and while I was doing that I found a full lighter that had been tossed right into the dry part of the planters next to my condo. So fuck everyone.

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Büge » Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:00 pm

Speaking of which, northern Ontario's on fire in several places. I just got back from my parents' house, which is in a region thankfully untouched by the blazes, but there is still a total fire ban where they live.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Grath » Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:36 am

So apparently Seattle is a blasted hellscape just in time for my business trip there, thanks to thunderstorms in British Columbia starting massive wildfires.

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Mazian » Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:47 am

Maybe you could redirect your trip to Beijing, which has better air quality at the moment.

But definitely don't keep going north.

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Mongrel » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:08 pm

Hooooly shit.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Büge » Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:22 pm

Brazil’s National Museum was destroyed in a fire.

This means the loss of irreplaceable fossils, including the oldest fragments of prehistoric humans found in the Americas. Millions of specimens of invertebrates from a century-old collection. Archives and recordings of indigenous song and languages, many of which are extinct, as well as collections of ethnography and anthropology for cultures which are lost to history. Even the museum itself was a 200-year old building.

No, they didn't have the information stored digitally. The museum's budget has been cut to the bone.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Mongrel » Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:48 pm



The best ("best") part of this story is the commentators blaming the Puerto Rican administration for not carrying out the local end-distribution, when they were dumped on an inaccessible airfield at the least connected end of an island where almost the entire road infrastructure outside the capital had been destroyed.

Specifically, they're calling out the "corrupt Democratic governor".

Who is actually a Republican.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Friday » Mon May 13, 2019 8:38 pm

I mean, I 100% agree, and we all 100% agree, but the generation he raised is not the generation in charge.

Yet.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Friday » Mon May 13, 2019 8:39 pm

tl;dr, no joke, if everyone over 50 died tomorrow, but their ghosts continued to consume whatever resources they would have (in order to avoid Thanos-like cheating) but were unable to do anything else, I think we'd be fine.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Friday » Mon May 13, 2019 8:43 pm

Millennial: I'm worried about Climate Change literally killing tens of millions, if not billions if it escalates to war, of people

Boomer: You're lazy

Millennial: I work really hard though 45+ hours a week, and that's just to support myself

Boomer: Yeah but the economy is good right now, you know that right?

Millennial: What the fuck are you talking about

Boomer: The true threat is the brown people

Millennial: fine I'll go talk to a Democrat

Millennial: I'm worried about Climate Change literally killing tens of millions, if not billions, of people

Democrat Boomer: I know what I'm doing radical solutions are not called for

Millennial: sigh
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Mongrel » Mon May 13, 2019 9:23 pm

Friday wrote:tl;dr, no joke, if everyone over 50 died tomorrow, but their ghosts continued to consume whatever resources they would have (in order to avoid Thanos-like cheating) but were unable to do anything else, I think we'd be fine.

Pretty much. Even 55 would work out alright.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Joxam » Mon May 13, 2019 10:04 pm

Honestly boomers really aren't that important. Now if we could get rid of like 2 to 3 dozen billionaire families and their companies we'd be fine.
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby IGNORE ME » Tue May 14, 2019 1:04 am

You know what I hate about this season? All the times a character makes an incredibly stupid mistake that gets everybody else killed, manages to survive through contrivance, and still gets to be in charge for some reason.

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Friday » Tue May 14, 2019 1:26 am

And we're not petting our dogs
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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Thad » Tue May 14, 2019 10:14 am

I am.

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Re: Disasters, natural or otherwise

Postby Mongrel » Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:43 pm

The flood ing underway in New Orleans is currently predicted to crest at more than FIVE FEET higher than Katrina's flooding did.

The Army Corps of Engineers are claiming the current levees won't be overtopped, but then the levees failed without being overtopped during Katrina, so, um.

Hard to imagine someone worse in charge than the Bush administration, but here we are. So pray for Nawliners sakes that history does not have a second, even worse, repeat in this case.
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