The Natural Disasters Thread (may it remain quiet)

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  1. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    So far, we are safe from the fires. We are some of the very fortunate few whose backburning wasn't cut /delayed earlier last year for budgetary and bad weather reasons. So while we live right next door to a very large and dry forest, no blazes have been able to get out of control in our area.

    Also, rain is finally forecast. I never thought I would be grateful for a category 3 cyclone, but they're pretty good at dousing fires.
     
  3. Mish

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    Also over 2,000 homes destroyed. On the streets of rural towns, scenes of apocalypse.

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    The shaking in Puerto Rico is predicted to continue for some extended time. Twice an hour, I'm treated to momentary vertigo as my inner ear tells me the land is moving under me in a way that's less dramatic than the actual rumbles and ripples that we have to now accept as part of our daily lives. The Caribbean plate has always been an active plate, but it seems she got a hold of some Cuban coffee this last month.

    The 7.7 that occured between Jamaica and Cuba the other day put all predictions into confusion again, but not the fact that this is pretty much our new normal for the foreseeable future. The CLIP (Caribbean Large Igneous Province) is on the move in a way it hasn't been in a very long time. This image is from Jan 12. It's four or five times as many events now. I wake up every night grabbing a mattress that feels like it's slipping out from under me.

    Quakes make a sound that's got nothing to do with falling buildings or other destruction. The very earth rumbles. I've heard it before I felt it, my head turning to the window as a vibration just above the infrasonic catches my ear and then the dancing begins.

    I see you laughing, California, you smug little so&so, because this is all a slow Tuesday for you, but not for us. Thousands sleep in tent towns, hundred have homes that look they were stepped on by God.

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    I hope it decides to stop soon.
     
  6. EFMingo

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    We ain't laughing.

    The only way we know there's an earthquake is when the news tells us. Then everyone pretends like they felt it and laughs at the honest people. I've lived here for quite some time now, and I've never felt one. Only felt earthquakes in Guam and Indonesia, and those were on top floors of hotels, which is completely wild by the way. Don't recommend at all, unless you enjoy the fear of building collapse.

    Seen the tent and shack towns in Indonesia, and experienced quakes there. Everything there (at least where I was at) was made of lighter and wooden materials in order to flex from the constant quakes. I remember my bed dancing from side to side on the fifth floor of ramshackle hotel. Interesting wake up call.

    Good luck over there. Hopefully not too many are lost in the aftershocks. I'd hope for none at all.
     
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    It never leaves you, that feeling? One of my earliest memories is glass breaking and my grandmother trying to hold our bunk from slamming the wall. "Gram? Why are you shaking the bed?" The news was on all day and I still see vividly the little truck smashed under the bridge. That was 1971. Of all the quakes after that, Northridge was the one that scared me shitless. Straight up and down, everything slammed the floor at least a dozen times - so fast. We thought we were going through the floor. News on for days, I'll never forget the image of the apartment pancaked over the bottom floor. We just got you back. Please God, be safe!
    I'm ready to support the FundMe to get you the hell out of there.
     
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    Two storms down, and a third on the way-within a month of each other. My power's gone out twice, thankfully for very short periods. This will be the 6th storm so far this year, and we're only 7 weeks in!
    Granted that storms are small fry compared to quakes, but they still bring chaos, flooding, and ferocious winds. I would say I'd prefer to be in England, but it sounds like they've had much the same as us.
     
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  10. Link the Writer

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    So, had a tornado sweep through last night. Fortunately this was the only damage done -- though there was a large, heavy tree branch just inches from our cars.
    Yip, the joys of Mother Nature. :p

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  11. Iain Aschendale

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    Kyushu is getting smacked with rain and flooding (like 80cm/2'9" in a couple days), 14 elderly victims when a nursing home flooded the entire first floor to the ceiling. The rain is passing over Osaka today and we'll probably have some flooding but I'm neither on nor near a flood plain, my apartment is on a high enough floor that I'd be safe from anything short of a Deep Impact style tsunami, and it's a modern steel-framed building.

    Life is safe here.
     
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    Wait, do you live in Japan?
     
  13. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Yup, almost twenty years now.
     
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    Drone footage of San Francisco. When I first watched this clip on Twitter it was set to the Blade Runner theme, but unfortunately I couldn't find that one on YouTube.

    Edit: found the clip set to music. :)

     
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  15. Link the Writer

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  16. Iain Aschendale

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    Typhoon coming in tomorrow that looks like it's going to tour the whole country. We shall see.
     
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  18. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Yeah, I wish it had been a week and a half ago to wash all those Olympic scum back to where they came from, but no such luck.
     
  19. Homer Potvin

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    Mulitple records were set in the wind surfing medal competition this year.
     
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    What you really needed was a Godzilla attack.
     
  21. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Do they have a response team trained for that? I bet you they do in some manual somewhere... prob not very effective, but somebody at some point probably brainstormed on paper.
     
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  22. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Remember when George W was president and the CDC issued guidelines for a zombie apocalypse? Theory was that it was a good set of basic emergency preparedness stuff and letting people LARP themselves into safety was easier than just telling them to use their heads and be ready for various real-world disasters.

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    So I hear tropical storm Henri has made landfall in Rhode Island, with power cuts expected for thousands of people.

    Hope @Homer Potvin is ok.
     
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    It was a lie! Didn't even lose a tree branch.
     
  25. EFMingo

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    That's always so disappointing.
     
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