251: back in my day wank meant something

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[(Anonymous)]

Anon with climate change and aging infrastructure the risks are literally everywhere. The northeast is having historic blizzards that lead to days long power outages, wildfires wreck the mountain west, the southeast is running out of water and had life endangering temps. Really the only climate sheltered place is maybe the Great Lakes region but they have the same blizzard/power grid problem.

Also imagine saying hurricanes aren't dangerous as if Katrina was not one of the most devastating natural events in history...????

[(Anonymous)]

*recent history not history history

[(Anonymous)]

really edging the pedants out there lmao

[(Anonymous)]

not history history

[(Anonymous)]

those are not all created equal, anon, and it's absurd that you think that a blizzard is comparable to a major earthquake or a wildfire in destructive power

[(Anonymous)]

blizzards that leads to days long power outages with increasing frequency and intensity my friend

[(Anonymous)]

really depends. we've gotten more than three feet of snow at a time where i live on multiple occasions and the power in my neighborhood never went out.

[(Anonymous)]

da

and my city has no blizzard infrastructure, a single foot shuts us down and we're having to contend with that being an 'every winter' thing now instead of a 'once every ten years MAYBE' thing now.

[(Anonymous)]

three feet of snow is not an ice storm. ice storms are entirely different beasts. i lived through the 96 blizzard that had the entirety of the downtown van island with snow so high, you couldn't see cars. power stayed up then. ice storms can fuck the pipes/dams/water centers. weather is becoming worse, and that's a huge issue worldwide, not just in north america.

[(Anonymous)]

by this logic we all need to get the fuck out of north america entirely for being in the yellowstone supervolcano zone.

[(Anonymous)]

someone doesn't remember the ice storms that took out power/water to entire cities before and it shows.

[(Anonymous)]

spoken like someone who has never experienced a true blizzard

[(Anonymous)]

it's not a fucking competition, anon, but you sound really dumb saying this. out of season heavy snowfall can evacuate entire cities just as fast as any wildfire can, coming from someone who has been through both of those disasters personally.

[(Anonymous)]

full city evacuation has never happened where i live and we're covered in snow most of the year.

have you considered that it depends on the location and infrastructure, unlike wildfire which fucks everything

[(Anonymous)]

wildfires, famous for not depending on locations (fire risk zones) or infrastructure (fire response capabilities, fire codes followed during construction)

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i'm a ne anon and i'm wondering wtf anon is on about because i've never heard of anywhere being evacuated for a blizzard. it's usually the exact opposite where they tell you to stay where you are because trying to travel in blinding snow is extremely dangerous.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah trying to evacuate a city for a blizzard would be a stupid idea for just about every conceivable reason, if you live up here you know any governor who tried it would get mocked all the way to the next election cycle

[(Anonymous)]

[citation needed]

[(Anonymous)]

citation extremely needed lmao

if they're talking about that texas ice storm then this subthread doesn't apply to them, as texas was clearly identified as a climate shitzone for like four different reasons

[(Anonymous)]

"blizzards are actually SOOOO bad" responders in here are the kind of people who've never even attempted driving in snow because it's too scawwy

+1

[(Anonymous)]

your house is covered in snow >>>> your house fucking burning down

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

fr. potentially losing power for a few days is annoying but there's a reason houses in the ne all have fireplaces and everyone up here owns a generator. it's not even remotely comparable to your house literally burning down or being blown/swept away.

[(Anonymous)]

as if the people scared of fire don't sound like neanderthals hiding in their freezing moldy caves, afraid of the mighty sun god who cannot be predicted.

this whole thread is embarrassing for everyone participating. literally none of you have been outside.

[(Anonymous)]

i can't believe i'm saying this but go back to your f/f bait

[(Anonymous)]

the northeast has had to deal with days-long power outages after bad storms for many decades, as a northeast anon. the blizzards we've been having are also not particularly abnormal, and we have the infrastructure to deal with them. if northeast people started saying our climate situation is as bad as the west's in particular we'd be laughed into the corner of shame