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Erwin TN after Helene Storm
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The most unrealistic thing about this illustration is that the majority of people are recording in landscape.
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Nah it's cool, I've got a lawn chair and a bottle of whiskey set aside for the end of the world.
These assholes are going to vote for Project 2025, which would eliminate NOAA & NWS. Idiots.
I live here and I am not voting that way. I am hoping this wakes some of my ignorant neighbors up.
I hope it works out okay for you.
I assure you they will find a way to blame the blue team that is easily defeated with logic and facts but they will have already made up their mind.
I kid you not, on Xitter they already argued that the increase in flooding is due to the clearing of forests for wind turbines. Also that wind turbines slow down cloud drift so much that much more rain falls in an area. So, wind turbines are the evil cause for all that.
Ugh these motherfuckers get literally every grain of truth wrong. Trees do prevent flooding(studied to be an arborist and utilizing trees in urban environments for cooling and flood control), BUT the amount of trees cleared for wind turbines is negligible compared to what we've cut down for parking lots and industrial complexes(pavement increases flooding).
Besides, no amount of trees is going to take care of that amount of rainfall in that period of time. Even if everything was forest there's only so much they can absorb. Some of them would uproot and tip over from the ground becoming so water logged. I've seen it happening in our forests from an unusually wet summer. Entire portions of forest where the trees just fell over from too much water in the soil after 3 years of drought.
See how many words and how much energy it takes to properly explain the situation thoughtfully? The morons spreading those falsehoods don't need to expend nearly as much time/energy because they're just lying.
It's at the point now that conservatives are willing to accept anything in place of the truth as long as it suits their agenda. Guess they could be called "Not-Sees" given their tendency to embrace blatant lies while ignoring obvious and clear truths.
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How can you believe in this? The degree of brainwash is incredibly high.
Repeat a lie often enough and people believe it. Especially if you get then angry first so critical thinking is shut down. Help that along with social media echo chambers and 24/7 "news" broadcasts. Add cult of personality around it and you get this.
Your ignorants neighbors will think Helene is the consequence of the Dems.
Tennessee and Kentucky are far more purple than conventional thought gives them credit for.
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The kind that gets struck in the face with a wooden paddle and it seems like they're saying - "THANK YOU SIR MAY I PLEASE HAVE ANOTHER?"
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Good! There wont be as much flooding if we stop measuring it! /s
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Hi, someone from Asheville checking in. Absolutely devastating here, much like Erwin up the road.
I've never been in a hurricane before this but it was absolutely insane. We're so far inland, and so typically climate insulated. No one expected nearly this and it quickly overwhelmed everything we have. Just got soke cell back, I've heard potentially weeks for power for some and same on water.
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Not climate change sure sucks, don't it, Republicans. Anyway I live up north so I'm fine, at least as far as hurricanes are concerned.
Anyway I live up north so I'm fine, at least as far as hurricanes are concerned.
My parents came from Ohio to visit me in Texas just after Ike came through. I was going to show them around Houston the first couple of days, but we just got out of there. About halfway through their visit, the neighbor called to tell them trees were down and there was no power and it was expected to be out for days. Weather (and IIRC tornadoes) from the remnants caused all kinds of damage.
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Helene was only a category 4 and did this amount of damage. It's insane.
Yeah man-made climate change ain't real, we get hurricanes in Tennessee all the time
And durechos in Iowa, and smoke covering the sky for months, and "cold snaps", and hottest summers on record, yeah these are all normal things that I totally remember having as a child. Keep your heads in the sand people, it's all just one crazy storm, they couldn't possibly be all related
Don't look up
“Only” a cat 4? It was one step away from the highest rating of 5..
I think because we've seen cat 5s do less damage across the nation. The category is for wind strength and doesn't necessarily corelate with flooding /rain fall
It's a wet category 4. It's the type that carries months of rain and looks for a place to dump it all in a few hours. They create a lot of flood damage. A dry cat 4 would do wind damage and storm surges but not the water bombing.
The scale doesn't say how wet a storm is, just how fast the wind is. Revising this scale is still being discussed.
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This was also a lot more powerful than the Appalachian mountain and westward communities are used to getting. They aren't set up for it in the same way that communities East of them and on the coast are.
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If we make it ILLEGAL to Mention Helene Storm then we will SOLVE the Problem!
If we don't test for hurricanes, the problem will go away. Don't look up.
Is Tennessee usually hit this hard by hurricanes? I can’t recall ever seeing anything this catastrophic from a hurricane that hit Tennessee before.
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