251: back in my day wank meant something

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[(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)]

yeah using "you don't evacuate for blizzards!!" as a gotcha for why they're not bad is, like, missing the whole point that a: severe blizzards cripple the ability to transport yourself and b: blizzards tend to be far more widespread, on average, than wildfires or tornados, not to mention significantly longer in duration, so relocating yourself to avoid one could mean moving hundreds of miles for, like, weeks. it's completely untenable.

[(Anonymous)]

fire is one of the only disasters they'd try to evacuate you during it. tsunami is the other, and that's likely not going to be effective, considering. you stay in place during an earthquake and then deal with fallout after. you stay in place for a tornado and hope your shelter doesn't get ripped up. you stay in place during a blizzard and hope you don't freeze to death. that doesn't mean the damage of natural disasters are negligible because you're not evacuating.

lbr here. we're seeing an elevation in the number of natural disasters and the damage they cause. katrina and the subsequent flooding was kind of the big oopsie start that drew attention nationwide. wildfires are out of control. this year was probably one of the least worst in pnw history for wildfires, and i have to wonder if it's not that most of the stupidly populated places have already burned down. it's really easy to brush off disasters that you personally haven't lived through. all of them are and can be devastating. you still die in blizzards. and every other natural disaster out there.

fires are the only one i can think of that are 'accidentally' (read: through negligence) caused by people. some ass throwing a cigarette out the car, or ignoring no fire warnings at campsites. or gender reveals. they're triggered by dumbfuckery. that's why there's more of them.

[(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)]

even counting texas, people don't evacuate cities for fucking blizzards

[(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.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

not knowing about the fireplaces/generators really gave them 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)]

i'm sorry no one is impressed by your west coast vs east coast fight