Climate Change - increasingly horrible disasters loom
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there is so much out there about this - I don't really need to provide a lot of sources - a quick google search will find you thousands of links
of course there are the climate change deniers
and there are those who say what little we can do won't be nearly enough
just one link:
from the article:
"Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree*: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. "
couldn't resist one more link - story about Siberia, one of the coldest places on earth where there is human habitation - they now face 100 degree days and multiple wildfires caused by them
https://eos.org/articles/siberian-heat-w....
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I can't begin to describe what it's like to lose almost everything you own, sitting in a house with water rising not knowing how high it will get, cleaning and throwing your possessions away, and THEN having an even worse storm making a beeline towards you.
I never saw the comment but I hope he apologizes when he returns. I had 6" in my basement a long time ago and all the stuff I lost was heartbreaking. I can't imagine what you and everyone around you is going through losing everything. I saw on the news some lady on the beach is riding it out in her stilted home . I think she is nuts but wish her no harm
Stay safe
I lived there for 2 months a while back. Absolutely loved it. I'm sure you know this, but It looks like the eye of the storm moved a little south and should hit around Bradenton or even more south. Hopefully it keeps that path as a direct hit to st petersburg / tampa would be devastating for storm surge.
Yeah, we're glued to the tv. Normally the wind wouldn't be an issue but there are mountains of debris everywhere you go.
But it's the storm surge that has me worried. We might avoid it but if it shifts just a few miles north we get clobbered again.
I never saw the comment but I hope he apologizes when he returns. I had 6" in my basement a long time ago and all the stuff I lost was heartbreaking. I can't imagine what you and everyone around you is going through losing everything. I saw on the news some lady on the beach is riding it out in her stilted home . I think she is nuts but wish her no harm
Stay safe
Thanks man
Hoping things work for you BB, can’t begin to imagine how much that sucks
Insurance apocalypse seems right around the corner.
I don’t think people are ready for how soon this could occur, and how life changing it will be.
My best guess is in less than 4 years no firm will issue a new policy in california and florida and those that are grandfathered will either see their premiums increase exponentially or those firms will use every trick in the book to terminate your policy.
I live in San Jose, it’s hot but nowhere close to fire hazards. I have a big tree in my front yard, State Farm sends me a notice with a photo that if I don’t cut my branches an acceptable degree that they don’t hang over my roof because of the fire risk the falling leaves have within 72 hours my policy is terminated. Like, in theory I understand the logic and that’s fine, but 72 hours is aggressive as ****. So I find a tree trimmer who can make that timeline and pay an absurd amount to do it and assume everything is fine. A day after I see a street photo of my house from them at a weird angle that makes it look like branches are still over my roof (they’re not) and my policy is terminated
Fighting with them for over a month on this was beyond absurd but not surprising. Don’t expect things to get better
Yeah, we're glued to the tv. Normally the wind wouldn't be an issue but there are mountains of debris everywhere you go.
But it's the storm surge that has me worried. We might avoid it but if it shifts just a few miles north we get clobbered again.
I'm a ways inland, NE of Tampa, so hopefully not much to worry about here. My only concern is when the water starts coming down faster than it can drain away, might end up with some water in the house but nothing close to what you must be getting near the gulf. Tonight might be dicey but hang in there.
I’m so worried for Florida :(
Bigger, you’re in our thoughts. Wishing you safety above all else ♥
Gettin mighty windy outside. I think the streetlight across the street is about to come down. Lights have been flickering for the past few minutes, hope the power stays on!
Stay safe, WotPeed ♥
Wind seems to be picking up, streetlight did come down a while ago. Weather app says winds steady at 50 mph, gusts at about 75.
Power goes out every few minutes. It comes right back on but all of the network devices in the house go offline for about 30 seconds. Makes doing anything a pain in the ass.
Thankfully no major water issues yet.
Our condo in Naples had a live cam but it went out hours ago :/
The beach, pools, cabanas, gaming courts etc were all gone last I checked
Our house started taking on water just before I went to bet around 1am. Not a lot, but enough to need tending to. Thankfully that was also the time that the rain began letting up. The wife and I cleaned up what we could and put towels down to slow any further intrusion and were finally ready to go bed around 2am when the lights went out again, only this time they didn’t come back on.
Power just came back on a little while ago. No major damage in our area, just lots of downed trees and signs, lakes where there weren’t lakes before, and minor structural damage to some stores.
We were supposed to fly out of Tampa this past Tuesday but the airport closed before our flight could leave. Our new flight leaves tomorrow afternoon so now we’re anxiously waiting to hear when that airport will reopen.
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Maybe this would warrant a new thread. Idk.
Is anyone else preparing for this stuff to really kick off, or adjusting their life around climate change?
Fighting with them for over a month on this was beyond absurd but not surprising. Don’t expect things to get better
that sucks. interesting they're willing to pull out all the stops to dodge future coverage.
sounds like the FL office of insurance regulation is so incompetent they've allowed fly-by-night insurers to price out actual insurance companies on home insurance, i.e. charge below-market rates to collect premiums during good times with insufficient capitalization and then fold during bad times. no matter, FEMA will bail them out. oh wait..
Maybe this would warrant a new thread. Idk.
Is anyone else preparing for this stuff to really kick off, or adjusting their life around climate change?
Yes i went to a vacation in October which wouldn't usually be the case because it's too cold already, instead this time in early October in that location the weather was fine, climate change increased the span of months the location is accessible for a good vacation, it was awesome
Yes i went to a vacation in October which wouldn't usually be the case because it's too cold already, instead this time in early October in that location the weather was fine, climate change increased the span of months the location is accessible for a good vacation, it was awesome
When your region is under water, it's nice to go on vacation.
Yes we should be able to manage land much better than in the past but unfortunately the state is terrible at every single job it has, and my region is controlled by leftists since ww2 so this is why even with immense sums spent in 2023 after the same floods we got them now with 2 days of rain lol.
Politicians should get the death penalty for this, instead they get more european money.
I live in the city center where we never had a flood in 2k+ years as we have no major river passing through Bologn
this aged so well
Specific micro-points had water problems (because they didn't fix them in 2023) , but life went on fairly normally for everyone else
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general...
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/...
https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-en...
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image...
Spoiler
This is fine
I am in the center and it didn't flood where I am, it flooded where it flooded in 2023, an underground river on one side of the center.
In fact the day after the floods was a Sunday and it was fully packed of tourists as usual.
As a said they don't pass through Bologna, they arrive toward Bologna then are canalized.
It is not fine because it was fixable in 2023 and they (the left) didn't fix it, even if the EU and the national gvmnt gave them hundreds of millions to fix it, but still everyone not living in that point wasn't affected.
Still unclear why you think this has anything to do with climate change though
Ah I see, so when we put out exemple of exacerbated patterns , it is random but when you say
Yes i went to a vacation in October which wouldn't usually be the case because it's too cold already, instead this time in early October in that location the weather was fine, climate change increased the span of months the location is accessible for a good vacation, it was awesome
then this is science.
Ok got it.
I am in the center and it didn't flood where I am, it flooded where it flooded in 2023, an underground river on one side of the center.
In fact the day after the floods was a Sunday and it was fully packed of tourists as usual.
As a said they don't pass through Bologna, they arrive toward Bologna then are canalized.
It is not fine because it was fixable in 2023 and they (the left) didn't fix it, even if the EU and the national gvmnt gave them hundreds of millions to fix it, but still everyone not
yup physic in italy is working differently from the rest of the world.
