It looks to me like that is just a mud slide that needs to be picked up. Nothing like Highway 1 sliding into the Pacific Ocean 130 feet below that has happened more than once.
Yeah, just pick up the mud slide, find the several hundred people still unaccounted for, locate all the caskets unearthed and sent downriver, transfer 800 prisoners to other facilities, and rescue the people still cut off. Pretty much the same. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/us/video/north-carolina-lake-lure-helene-digvid https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurric...tion-north-carolina-near-worst-case-scenario/ https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/video-casket-rushes-raging-tennessee-floodwater-helene
I'm always amused when someone brings up the hole in the ozone layer as an example of "science getting it wrong," when in reality the Montreal Protocol is probably the most successful instance of international cooperation in human history.
I thought global warming was caused by the giant ball of flaming hydrogen gas that we're making circles around, but I don't really keep up.
I'm loving the weather here. Hint of fall. My sister is at my parents house in Alabama now because her town in Georgia is out of power til at least Monday. I'm one of "those people" that used a climate change map to make a short list of places to live. These worsening disasters down south was one reason I did not want to buy property there. Even if you don't have an insurance claim on your property, you have to deal with the inconvenience and misery of the whole area dealing with storm aftermath. I grew up with regular hurricanes, and they are still happening but now there's a "big one" all the time. My sister escaped Harvey in a fucking canoe with her special needs daughter. My other sister has a house that has regular flooding because... Louisiana. I just don't want to participate. I'm selfish, I guess.
The current warming trend is caused by a ton of carbon that was previously buried in the ground being pumped into the atmosphere. The ozone hole has/had nothing to do with it. It could cause a shit load of skin cancer though.
I feel for folks who are stuck because their lives are engrained in a physical area, or due to the cost of moving their lives to another region. But there's so many who put their heads in the sand and deny there's even a problem. Don't fucking gaslight me. I'm out.
I'm a fan of James Smith's content. He's a fitness & nutrition guy, but he occasionally delves into stuff like the business of podcasts. Not sure if I can find this video outside of FB: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/CuAeMLD1B9wNiagN/?mibextid=oFDknk
A hurricane is God saying “get off my lawn”. I personally am thankful that I at least live in an area where parts of what used to be my home are not in low-earth orbit because of the weather.
No, not selfish. Just smart enough to realize, " you know, there are places where I don't have to deal with this particular natural disaster almost every year." We also monitored the weather in places that had a hub for my place of employment and NW Arkansas consistently had the best weather (of places relatively close/in the middle of all the children) so that's how we ended up here. Some of these pop up thunderstorms are no fucking joke - a few weeks ago one took out a decent sized tree in our front yard and wrecked several more in the neighborhood. But overall, we love having four seasons (still waiting for fall to get it's ass here) and not dealing with hurricanes and extended power outages in the sweltering heat. TL/DR - Not selfish, smartly moved on from regularly occurring BS.
my parents' house in Florida is 13 feet above sea level at high tide. Storm surge was 10 feet. Every other house in their area, that they could tell, was flooded. They currently have cell signal, though without internet, and are going around helping others getting their shit cleaned up. The devastation was so minor in comparison that I doubt their barrier island is even on FEMA's radar, or at least triaged so far down the list to like "we'll get there eventually." Yet for a while all the local fishing guides and such were using their boats to ferry people around because the island was still underwater, and now the roads are still largely impassable. one of the main roads: