All About Natural Disasters

[SwampD]

17 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

They have exploded in popularity over the last 5 years with social media, people come up with all kinds of stupid ways to have blue or pink explode and etc....

The Amazon and Pantanal are on fire and it's highly believed it's arson related to plant more sugar cane and coffee. Greed. 

Side note, I was in Sao Paolo today, it's devastating how it looks, the city center was just sprawled with tents and homeless people, Covid has really dessimated the place other than the elite, not from sickness but from the economic fallout.... Meanwhile there was a dumb @ss teenage girl doing glamour shots with a friend in the street for Instagram pics while in the background was pure devastation. I'm so glad I can't speak portuguese or it may have been bad.

I feel I may need to start doing some medical work in Brazil after some of this trip. 

Point us to your gofundme page when you do.

We had the Me Generation. This is the Look At Me Generation.

[Wyldnwoody44]

15 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Point us to your gofundme page when you do.

We had the Me Generation. This is the Look At Me Generation.

Indeed, and thank you! I wish I could do more to change the world we live in, but that's just the nature of the human being sometimes. 

[Doohicksie]

I survived the Texas Freezocalypse.  Coming through the other side, I am unscathed.

But early in the week it wasn't so assured.

Sunday night and Monday morning, my outdoor faucets froze despite having weather covers on them. I thawed them out each time with a hairdryer. After that I just turned them on to a trickle and let them run.

We lost internet for a good chunk of Monday, got it back later that afternoon.

We worried Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, that our pipes would freeze or we would lose power or the pipes would burst or whatever. We were worried the water would be cut off or that it would be compromised and we would need to boil it. We let the faucets indoors trickle too. We ran our dishwasher and clothes washer at night hoping the lines wouldn't freeze. Luckily for us, none of that happened.

With continuous power we were okay. We had food and the water never stopped flowing.

My son and his wife weren't so lucky. They didn't have power for much of Monday through Thursday. It would come on for a while, then shut off again. Thursday, the water line for the ice maker in the fridge, which was run through their attic, burst. My son heard it and shut off the water immediately so there wasn't too much water damage. They were fortunate to get a plumber out Friday and didn't suffer any further leaks in the meantime. Still, they feel fortunate. Their house remained livable.

A friend of mine who lives about a mile away, lost power and it was off for about 4 days. He and his wife stayed in the house even though the temperature got down to almost freezing. They're big campers and had sleeping bags and clothing to keep them warm. They also have a bunch of cats so they didn't want to leave them alone. Their power eventually came on and they're okay too. I have a dozen or more other friends with similar stories.

My friend Joel Burns, yes that Joel Burns, suffered major damage to his meticulously restored, hundred year old house when the pipes over his kitchen broke. Unfortunately, this repeated hundreds and thousands of times in the region.

If you have a few extra bucks these days, kick them in to one of the many relief funds for the state. Many people are going to need a lot of help to put their lives back together. For a few days there, Texas was a third world country.

Today has been beautiful. It got up to nearly 60 degrees and the snow is mostly melted. I survived and for that I am grateful.

[Curt]

Reminds of living through the 1998 ice storm.

I can’t imagine how difficult that is for people in a non-cold weather region without supplies and infrastructure to deal with the weather.

[Doohicksie]

I think the most important thing is to not freak out.  Just stay put, don't get out on the roads as long as you've got adequate food/shelter.  Obviously for people who are having problems they need to do what they need to get help.  But if all the yahoos just stay put that helps a lot.

[ubkev]

Bump.

So far my house has avoided flood damage. The river isn't in danger of cresting the *****, but the floodgates have been closed. The creeks are a different story. All of the creeks are flooding everywhere in the area. A bunch of neighborhoods 4 blocks from my house were evacuated last night. Hopefully we've seen the last of the rain for a little bit.

 

 

Edited September 2, 2021 by ubkev
Levee* because the filter doesn't like *****

[Sabres Fan in NS]

May God bless and protect everyone out there.

We are going to have some wind and a lot of rain thanks to the remnants of Ida.

I am also keeping a very close eye on Larry.  It's far off, but they pretty much all start out that way.  I really think (to borrow one of my favourite lines from Hunt for Red October) ... *this one's going to be close*.

[SwampD]

Went for a bike ride. They are three dead cars in the street at every creek crossing. My old house is still under water.

[ubkev]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Went for a bike ride. They are three dead cars in the street at every creek crossing. My old house is still under water.

Same here. All of the bridges crossing the creeks are still barricaded by flood gates. Cars dead everywhere and there appears to be a *****-ton of houses with flood damage. 

However, the floodgates protecting us from the river were taken down this morning. We're all clear.

...for now

[Doohicksie]

I would like to mark myself safe from the Texas tornadoes this afternoon.  At our place we had heavy rain and 70 mph winds with some thunder, but no hail and no rotation.  Other spots in Texas weren't so lucky.  😞

[Doohicksie]

From Monday:

 

[Doohicksie]

Happy Tuesday, or as we call it in North Texas, Tornado Day.  We've had at least three touchdowns in the area including this one which is within a mile of my location:

 

[Doohicksie]

 

[Doohicksie]

@RochesterExpat... are you in the clear?  I think one of the tornadoes was in your area.

[Weave]

9 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

 

Lol at the Freudian autocorrect.

Stay safe Doohickie.

[Doohicksie]

1 hour ago, Weave said:

Stay safe Doohickie.

The weather's moved on and we're still here.

[Doohicksie]

[Doohicksie]

This is the same twister as in the first Twitter link I posted today... this is about a mile from the other video.

 

[RochesterExpat]

On 12/13/2022 at 8:59 AM, Doohickie said:

@RochesterExpat... are you in the clear?  I think one of the tornadoes was in your area.

Apologies for the very late response (I was dealing with some personal stuff the last two months). We're fine. We woke to the tornado warning but nothing touched down near us.

[ubkev]

The Air Quality Index (wtf? I'm from the country, my air is supposed to be perfect!) is currently 116. There is a red flag warning from the national weather service and the outside air tastes like campfire. Evidently an AQI number of 116 is only moderate. Pretty much all of this smoke is blowing in from Eastern Canada, but our hills seem primed up for a fire. It's dry as hell here, the river is way down for the time being, and the grass feels like a hay field. Let's hope we don't get heat lightning. Or some ***** doesn't have a camp fire. 

[SwampD]

Yesterday, the skies were crystal clear. I ran three miles like nothin'. Today with the hazardous air alert, I barely made it past 1 and had to stop.

[Scottysabres]

1 hour ago, ubkev said:

The Air Quality Index (wtf? I'm from the country, my air is supposed to be perfect!) is currently 116. There is a red flag warning from the national weather service and the outside air tastes like campfire. Evidently an AQI number of 116 is only moderate. Pretty much all of this smoke is blowing in from Eastern Canada, but our hills seem primed up for a fire. It's dry as hell here, the river is way down for the time being, and the grass feels like a hay field. Let's hope we don't get heat lightning. Or some ***** doesn't have a camp fire. 

I was in the Town of Lyndon just outside of Franklinville all weekend with nice camp fires. I'm 52, I've walked these woods and hills for my entire life, it wasn't remotely close to the driest of seen it in my life time. Back in the early-mid 80's there was a couple of years where it was bone dry. My grandfather and father used to tell me the dry spell in the 60's was the last they remembered before then, it's definitely a cyclical event.

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I'm tickled this thread is still around after 12 years.

[ubkev]

1 hour ago, Scottysabres said:

I was in the Town of Lyndon just outside of Franklinville all weekend with nice camp fires. I'm 52, I've walked these woods and hills for my entire life, it wasn't remotely close to the driest of seen it in my life time. Back in the early-mid 80's there was a couple of years where it was bone dry. My grandfather and father used to tell me the dry spell in the 60's was the last they remembered before then, it's definitely a cyclical event.

That's 212 miles away. 

[Scottysabres]

45 minutes ago, ubkev said:

That's 212 miles away. 

So.....just around the corner then 🤣