>> We've been in drought like at least 60% of my life, I'd estimate? Varying in severity but rain isn't that common in any amount that is useful nevermind flooding. It's just when it rains, it often pours. <<
Yeah, droughts are getting worse, but it's not just that. It's weather in general getting more extreme, harder to handle. Drought alternating with torrential rain is very bad; long gentle rains are better.
>> Just two years ago I think we got flooded in again, I have loads of pictures of it. In some places it was 7+ feet deep. Whole houses went under in others. And I got yelled at for showing people their children were RUNNING ACROSS THE GODDAMN LAKE WHERE THE WATER BREAKS LIKE RAPIDS WHEN THE DAM IS RELEASING WATER UPSTREAM WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE DONT LET YOUR KIDS RUN AROUND TOWN IN A FLOOD <<
I live not far from a dam. It has a sign listing the names of people who have died around it. Every so often, someone else walks past that sign to play on the dam, and dies. Up where my parents live, there's a river that sort of freezes in winter. Sort of, meaning the ice is routinely weak in places. People still walk over the river, fall through, and drown every few years.
It's just a Darwin award, you know? Some people are too stupid to survive. Water will kill you.
I wrote a poem on this topic, but it hasn't been published yet.
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Date: 2019-02-27 10:58 am (UTC)Yeah, droughts are getting worse, but it's not just that. It's weather in general getting more extreme, harder to handle. Drought alternating with torrential rain is very bad; long gentle rains are better.
>> Just two years ago I think we got flooded in again, I have loads of pictures of it. In some places it was 7+ feet deep. Whole houses went under in others. And I got yelled at for showing people their children were RUNNING ACROSS THE GODDAMN LAKE WHERE THE WATER BREAKS LIKE RAPIDS WHEN THE DAM IS RELEASING WATER UPSTREAM WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE DONT LET YOUR KIDS RUN AROUND TOWN IN A FLOOD <<
I live not far from a dam. It has a sign listing the names of people who have died around it. Every so often, someone else walks past that sign to play on the dam, and dies. Up where my parents live, there's a river that sort of freezes in winter. Sort of, meaning the ice is routinely weak in places. People still walk over the river, fall through, and drown every few years.
It's just a Darwin award, you know? Some people are too stupid to survive. Water will kill you.
I wrote a poem on this topic, but it hasn't been published yet.