If you haven't been flooded out and have never experienced what it is like I don't want to hear shit from you about telling people what to do in the wake of a flood
Asheville update: we're still fine, cell service has held up overnight. Still no power, water pressure dropped a lot but still running. Boil water advisory in effect but we have no power to boil with. County update: if you're missing someone please check in at buncombeready.org.
My wife is flying into Charlotte this morning and sent this from the plane. Western NC is in bad shape.
The part I don't understand is why somebody would post stuff like this before the cleanup is even done. There's still missing people. What kind of reaction did they expect?
Has society not learned that "I don't want to be [mask off about social issue]. But" INEVITABLY leads to the worst possible statement?
How Project 2025 Became Toxic and Exposed the Right’s Toxicity The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme Right. New piece:
The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme Right
OnStar has given customers in the areas affected by Hurricane Helene free access to their onboard WiFi capabilities. If you have a Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, or Cadillac with Onstar system inside, you now have wifi access, even if you don't have an onStar subscription: www.onstar.com/services/cri...
OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
consider likelihood of poly-events that collectively strain or break supply chains, transport nets, emergency response. Floods in one region, wildfires another, heat dome & power grid collapse in Texas, drought & heat wave across Europe, climactic collapse of grain cultivation in India…
Given the extreme weather we are seeing, it is worth noting that Project 2025 wants to do away with NOAA, and believes the main problem with climate change is that people are too alarmed about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-manda...
