Hurricane 2024

[muted reborn]

That umbrella stand has seen some shit

They should scratch high water mark lines on it for Helene and Milton to show people how high the water levels were.

[The SnowShow]

Good to hear everyone’s ok here.

[highangle]

Marine Zone Forecast


...STORM WARNING TONIGHT...

Synopsis: A front swings to the North Gulf Coast for Sat afternoon. A 963 mb low at 53N 152W Sat afternoon moves to 56N 152W at 974 mb by Sun afternoon. Its front extends over the Gulf through Sun afternoon.


Tonight
SE wind 40 to 55 kt. Seas 19 to 30 ft. Rain.

Sat
SE wind 20 to 35 kt. Seas 17 to 22 ft.

Sat Night
SE wind 30 kt. Seas 16 to 20 ft.

Sun
SE wind 20 to 30 kt. Seas 14 to 20 ft.

Sun Night
SE wind 15 to 25 kt. Seas 10 to 14 ft.

Mon Through Wed
W wind 10 to 25 kt. Seas 6 to 11 ft.


https://windy.com/?55.553,-166.685,5

[MultiVerse]

This is just fantastic: Presbyterians and Hipsters. How Asheville is getting on with it after Hurricane Helene.

Weird thing is: You can still get a cold beer.

And with sunny skies and temperatures in the upper 80s late last week, a cold beer was a pretty attractive proposition. At the Burial Beer Company, one of those excruciatingly hip little places with which downtown Asheville is positively thick, the owners have been bringing in ice along with the food and other supplies being provided at no charge to anybody who asks. Today, they’re making catfish and BLTs, and by the look of the bacon, they aren’t holding back the good stuff. (Which—why would they? It’s not like the refrigerators are working.) There’s a tip jar out with a fair number of twenties and at least one fifty in it, but no talk of money otherwise.

....

People are cheerful and talkative, cooperative, and very scrupulously polite at intersections with dark traffic lights. It isn’t exactly a festival atmosphere, and people are already anxious about the prospects for the city’s tourism-driven economy.

....

All that anxiety comes out in other ways, too. Social media and the old-fashioned face-to-face rumor mill have produced thousands of imbecilic tall tales about FEMA refusing supplies or roving gangs pillaging them. There are reports of shooting sprees in the streets and gunfights at the gas stations, none of which are, as far as anybody can document, actually true.

...

“Our presbytery was mobilized,” James says. “Other churches I had worked with, too, started getting in touch. I’d been at First Pres in Columbia, South Carolina, and they’re coming up with a truck tomorrow. We have others bringing up diapers, wipes, baby products. We’re one of the only places that has diapers and baby stuff.” The nested failures of our material supports—digital communication, electricity, water, diesel and gasoline, transportation—are not lost on a minister who is inclined to see in all things the work of Providence.

“Whether it was the pandemic or Hurricane Helene, it unmoors you from the daily lie that you are self-sufficient,” James says. “These moments are an unadulterated opportunity to trust God, daily, moment by moment. We’re a church that understands that we have been shown grace and mercy by God, and we want to be a conduit of that to the people of Asheville.”

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...ille-helene-2/

[heckacali]

Cross posted from NHL thread where it gets less eyeballs

Lol irony or the NHL/ Biden Kamala weather control machine missed the date by a few days....

NHL game Hurricanes at Tampa Bay today
(postponed)


Too soon?

[MultiVerse]

Well, human caused climate change is fake and the government can't do anything right except regularly carry out massive conspiracies to control the weather /s

[Foggy_Goggles]

This is my parents neighborhood. There house is generally fine but some on their block are literally gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9208Ptld0Fw

[bodywhomper]

Dr Marshall Shepherd today, “NWS has confirmed some EF3 tornadoes from Milton. Tornadoes are very common with tropical systems but not that strong.....That's quite rare. While the destruction in Tampa Bay is typical of a Cat 3, the tornado damage in South Florida is alarming.”

[frorider]

Lemme see if I got this summarized keerectly:

1. Spread lies about FEMA aid being withheld based on voting pattterns
2. Watch misinformation result in militia enthusiasts threatening safety of FEMA workers, resulting in temporary withholding of aid
3. Use campaign stops as opportunity to threaten withholding of FEMA aid as political weapon
4. Profit!!

[MultiVerse]

kr·ekt. This is how things work now

[The AD]

I don't get those comics with the horribly drawn people. Why is the guy's face all black in the 2024 panel and is that supposed to be the same guy on the left in 2007 or the guy on the right? I'm confused.

[Toadman]

Lemme see if I got this summarized keerectly:

1. Spread lies about FEMA aid being withheld based on voting pattterns
2. Watch misinformation result in militia enthusiasts threatening safety of FEMA workers, resulting in temporary withholding of aid
3. Use campaign stops as opportunity to threaten withholding of FEMA aid as political weapon
4. Profit!!

Pretty accurate. I would add say that the Trump campaign and his gang of fascists are actively spewing out loads of lies to better their image. If Trump gets into office, they will gut agencies like FEMA if not out right defund them. Then blame the Dems for all the bad things that about to befall the poor and less fortunate.

[MultiVerse]

I don't get those comics with the horribly drawn people. Why is the guy's face all black in the 2024 panel and is that supposed to be the same guy on the left in 2007 or the guy on the right? I'm confused.

It's a Chad meme. Yes, same guy with his parents back in '07 vs 2024. The black signifies hostility directed at him and handling it like a 'Chad.' #knowyourmeme

Many boomers & zoomers are not cognitively prepared to handle what's coming within the next few years with AI images becoming virtually undetectable. It's already happening, in fact:



Philosophical description of the phenomena in postmodern culture, "Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

[Skistack]

I'd bet good money that Russian troll farms started alot of this crap.

[The AD]

It's a Chad meme. Yes, same guy with his parents back in '07 vs 2024. The black signifies hostility directed at him with him handling it lie a 'Chad.'

I mean, I can't see why that would be confusing to anyone.

[ötzi]

I'd bet good money that Russian troll farms started alot of this crap.

No doubt. Slava Ukraini! They just might save the world.