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Erwin TN after Helene Storm (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Climate change be like

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The most unrealistic thing about this illustration is that the majority of people are recording in landscape.

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[+] [email protected] 126 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (37 children)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I live here and I am not voting that way. I am hoping this wakes some of my ignorant neighbors up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How can you believe in this? The degree of brainwash is incredibly high.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Your ignorants neighbors will think Helene is the consequence of the Dems.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Tennessee and Kentucky are far more purple than conventional thought gives them credit for.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Good! There wont be as much flooding if we stop measuring it! /s

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Helene was only a category 4 and did this amount of damage. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah man-made climate change ain't real, we get hurricanes in Tennessee all the time

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Don't look up

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

“Only” a cat 4? It was one step away from the highest rating of 5..

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If we make it ILLEGAL to Mention Helene Storm then we will SOLVE the Problem!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

If we don't test for hurricanes, the problem will go away. Don't look up.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Hi, someone from Asheville checking in. Absolutely devastating here, much like Erwin up the road.

Biltmore village

River arts district

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Getting some Chocolate Factory vibes, but it is the scary boat ride part.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dunno why but those highway exit designs look really elegant

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

They seem to hold a lot of water!

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