hurricane coming...

We've gotten through the alphabet a few times before...mid 2000s iirc

one step closer to soylent green

Your daily dose of dystopia: São Paulo's mayor wants to feed the poor with pellets made from a mix of unwanted and nearly expired food items pic.twitter.com/oWwDFGNOAV

— Alex Cuadros (@alexcuadros) October 16, 2017

"made from a mix of unwanted and recently expired people"

soylent green: fresh and locally-sourced

the ribbon

jfc

It's important to remember that, while the forecast can still change, all signs point to #Florence being one of the worst hurricanes in U.S. history.

If you are in harm's way, act now to protect your family. Start your prep process. Help others. Do not underestimate this storm. pic.twitter.com/Kc3RjtelcS

— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 10, 2018

i'm sure the POTUS will react inspiringly

https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-09-10-hurricane-florence-preparations-southeast-coast-north-carolina

Cool week for me to be flying east, hoping my New York to DC train is unmolested on Saturday. I assume my folks will have a basement flood to deal with again.

Anyway I hope everyone here in the coastal Carolinas makes it out of town and everyone else stays somewhat dry.

damn, I'm driving through Charlotte Saturday afternoon.

are you, though?

What is God trying to say with this hurricane? Have the conservative Christians that stink up the southeastern part of the US been able to interpret HIS Master Plan yet?

my god this is scary

cool, great, my family lives in north carolina -- not eastern, but solidly in the 50-60 mph zone on the map I saw

...make that 70, the map above is worse, fuck

shudder to think of the current US administration's capacity to dealt with any national disaster

Heading directly towards my parents home! They’ll never go anywhere, will always ride it out.

past hurricane survivability not an indicator of future hurricane survivability

i think Trump should go down there and see for himself what all the fuss is about

shudder to think of the current US administration's capacity to dealt with any national disaster

i hate to think how it could be worse than W-Katrina (or Yam-Puerto Rico), but records are made to be broken.

shudder to think of the current US administration's capacity to dealt with any national disaster

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, September 10, 2018 1:50 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We already know their capacity to deal w natural disaster

always great when hurricanes hit NC's coal ash ponds and hog waste pits

not sure if that's facetious but environmental damage to hog lagoons is a fairly big deal, especially for the people who live near them, who are disproportionately black and/or lower-income

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/us/hurricane-reveals-flaws-in-farm-law-as-animal-waste-threatens-n-carolina-water.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/20/north-carolina-hog-industry-pig-farms

(sorry if this is in fact what you intended!)

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/145000.shtml?tswind120#contents

ah, that was probability not mph

still terrifying

wunderground cat6 blog the best resource as per

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Expect-Storm-Surge-15-20-Feet-Landfalling-Category-4-Storm-Carolinas

best wishes to everyone in the storm's path. take precaution.

Side note: storm surge expert Dr. Hal Needham

(yeah i was being sarcastic -- i've been through a couple NC hurricanes, although fortunately not terribly near the hog farms)

secure yrou residence and fleee!

Expecting rivers of sewage and [drowned hogs](https://www.factoryfarmmap.org/#animal:hogs;location:US;year:2012).

In general though, so long as one is at least 20 ft in elevation above the coast and drainage, sheltering in place isn't a terrible idea. If you're on the coast, get out, storm surge is the killer.

I've been through maybe a dozen hurricanes, always a few dozen miles inland, and it was helpful to be on hand to empty out freezers/refrigerators during prolonged power outages and have a chainsaw to clear roads. Just make sure you've got plenty potable water, batteries/chargers for all the phones/radios/flashlights, and lots of insect repellent, as you may have to sleep rough. MREs aren't bad, but jugs of vodka and cartons of cigarettes are better trade goods.

bitcoins wil be useless as well

Some background articles when Hurricanes Floyd and Matthew overran Carolina hog farms
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/us/hurricane-reveals-flaws-in-farm-law-as-animal-waste-threatens-n-carolina-water.html
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/green-life/more-dozen-breached-hog-waste-lagoons-found-north-carolina-after-hurricane-matthew
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/11/04/500701098/manure-happens-especially-when-hog-farms-flood

S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster announced a mandatory evacuation of the South Carolina coast on Monday. Eight counties along the coast would begin evacuating as of noon on Tuesday, McMaster said at a press briefing on Monday....

As of noon Tuesday, lanes will reverse on Interstate 26 from Charleston to Columbia and Highway 501 from Myrtle Beach. Highways 278 and 21 in Beaufort County will be ready for reversal as of noon, but officials will wait to make an order at that time.

https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article218123955.html

Floyd was my favorite hurricane growing up. Our power was out for over a week.

what a delight!

The best hurricane scenario is when you endure the agony of preparation only to have the storm weaken or wobble a couple hundred miles from the expected impact point. Your power stays on and you get days off, sometimes more than two.

The worst hurricane scenario is when an Andrew hits, you dive into an interior closet with your family, and when you emerge the closet is the only thing left. This happened to my best friend's dad.

stay safe folks

my parents bought a place in SC earlier this year. about 20 minutes south of Myrtle Beach. they asked me what i thought beforehand and i told them that i would never invest in a place on the mid-atlantic coast because of climate change, gave the russian roulette analogy with additional bullets being added to the chamber every few years, all that (my dad is a concealed carry kind of guy so i thought maybe that would resonate with him). they still think that climate change is a hoax and that it can't be real because god promised never to punish humans with a big flood again.

anyway, hopefully god will cause the storm the die down somewhere off in the ocean

'I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth' leaves a fair bit of leeway for climate change and rising seas imo

it's true, but i feel like granting their premise is a step too far

i hope all come through safely and well.

my 88 y/o mom is a little to the south of expected landfall. she'll be evacuated and i am v confident that she'll be ok, but i am actually ao glad my dad died 2 weeks ago. he was in memory care nearby, and it would have been a)stressful b)difficult c) possibly traumatic for them both to endure the compounded evacuation and possible separation, one aware in a hellspace, the other knowing who knows what.

I live in a brick house on a hill and all the power lines in DC are underground but this is probably going to suck

I don't intend this as discouragement or cause for worry, but with the levels of rainfall predicted underground lines may be just as vulnerable.

Hurricane a-comin
it's rollin round the bend

iirc pepco does not have a great history of responding to storms

Every time I see this thread I'm reminded of this timeless drama (spotify link).

Rain's Comin' In