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Cat 5 Milton One Of The Strongest Hurricanes On Record (weather.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So apparently we are now in the find out of the fuck around part of climate change. My only question is if Florida is still going to retain it's electoral votes once it's fully submerged underwater?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think it's largely too late. When Germany is (maybe? If i read that right?) In the path of a hurricane we're facing something no one is ready for.

What I think is going to happen is that major population and industrial centers are going to be destroyed faster than they can be repaired or moved, which will create knock-on effects damaging the whole economic system. Like there will be one single vital doo-dad factory that supplies 90% of a critical doo-dad, it'll get flattened, and the doo-dad shortage will reduce the production of doohickeys by 30%, which will have it's own effects.

And meanwhile the us and gulf nations will have millions of utterly impoverished refugees fleeing from region to region ahead of storms and heat bubbles, swamping city and state resources while the feds try to find a way to means test cholera.

Many of the gulf states are already in horrible shape, and this new normal of very strong storms is going to beat them flat and send their people fleeing.

Just trying not to think much about what happens in the rest of the gulf where the economy is even worse than say mississippi. : (

It's real fucking grim.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

We already have a fucking IV fluid shortage because of the previous hurricane and my hospital, in fucking CALIFORNIA, has begun rationing bags.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's largely too late. When Germany is (maybe? If i read that right?) In the path of a hurricane we're facing something no one is ready for.

Does a post-tropical cyclone count?