Severe Weather Thread

All good. I am on the west side of the storm. It is very mild.

 

I just heard that the hurricane had diminished the water in the gulf causing the water to start to recede in the Homosassa and Crystal Rivers even though high tide times have not been reached. The best news a lot of people could hear right now.

 

Interesting stat.

 

COVID-23

 

Burning Man Syndrome is going to be a pretty decent unofficial name for the hybrid when COVID merges with herpes simplex virus

 

Looks like a regular day in San Francisco.

 

The climate is bonkers this year. This is going to be a big, big problem.

 

3 years worth of rain at once is hard to comprehend. I know you can’t necessarily compare this way but just to try to think in terms of something I’ve seen, so that’s the 2010 Nashville flood. In that flood 6-8x more rain would have been needed to be 3 years worth. Just crazy.

 

They didn't believe the models on this one at first. Thought there must be some error. There wasn't, it came to pass.

 

That’s insane.

 

Make no mistake, under the right conditions we in the southeast US may face such a circumstance (maybe not 3 years' worth because Greece is more arid than us, but a year's worth or more). It isn't "likely" but it is a lot more likely than it used to be. And I don't know what that would mean for our hydro-electric dams. Someone somewhere (TVA, Army Corps) would have to decide who loses everything or even dies, or risk even more catastrophic failure through inaction.

 

After Nashville that’s a terrifying thought. Both screwed up massively.

 

This conversation made me think of the book Rising Tide, about the Mississippi flood in 1927. If you haven’t read it you definitely should I’m pretty certain you’d like it.

 

If it isn't pre-decided, no one wants to decide. Because no matter what, whoever was in charge will be held as at-fault for the natural disaster.

Remember, "George Bush doesn't care about Black people." Not saying that things were great in 2005, but it wasn't because anyone "didn't care."

 

Exactly. Every level of government screwed that up.

 

What would getting it right look like, would be my question to that.

The disasters of tomorrow are already set up. There is a level of authoritarianism that we are uncomfortable with that would be necessary to evacuate a city and separate people from their property.

 

formed a lake. Edit nm. That’s Reelfoot lake formed from earthquakes that made the Miss River run backwards for a day.

 

The Salton Sea was an oopsie about 100 years ago, breach of an irrigation route off the Colorado.