Photograph of a Wendy's restaurant flooded almos tto the roof.  Label in top left says "Asheville, NC, September 27"   Text above photo: Climate Change isn't real!  Sir, this is a Wendy's

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[–] 106 points 2 years ago (30 children)

Floods like this happen all the time

And if they don't it's still a very natural thing to happen

And if it's not, it's a cycle and it's been the same since historic times

And if it's not then you shouldn't build near water

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lol: someone reported this comment as 'criminally wrong' because they didn't get your sarcasm

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Damn the one time I don't put a /s

    I honestly didn't expect anyone not to get it, that'll show me.

    Just to help for anyone else wondering it's a modified version of the narcissist's prayer.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Ashville NC which is kinda the epicenter of where the worst of the reporting is coming out of is 250 miles from the coast and located in the mountains. This isn't just "yeah you built in Florida you signed up for extreme weather events" this is "the fucking Appalachian mountains flooded!" This should be the wakeup call the climate change is coming for everyone and will make more extreme weather events for everyone

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Maybe they should have built on higher ground if they didn't want to get flooded. Like ISS modules.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Fall 2036: Breaking! Freak hurricane floods ISS!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    For real though.

    If you settle in an area famous for being a flood plain, you can't be mad about it when the plain floods.

    Germany are now doing experiments with controlled flooding of old flood plains to channel water away from too narrow man made canals. The flooding also kills invasive plants as they were only allowed to grow because of the geological changed forced upon the land.

    interesting watch on the topic.

    Lar summer in Norway we had a flood matching the regular high points. Only issue was that the last high point was almost 100 years ago. So people stopped caring and the areas close to the river was regulated as river front houses.

    Climate change is an issue. But people being dumb as fuck is an even greater one.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They got 36cm of rain in short order. Places that aren't in the 100-year flood plan still got drowned.

    The area is primarily rolling hills. So every time it flattens out just a little bit every tiny creek just overflowed.

    A couple hundred miles inland you can't just expect everyone to build only on the top of the highest location.

    This is deep in climate change denier country. I suspect we're about to get some climate change converts, after it's way too late.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    i see the sarcasm, but now for a real question:

    we are already seeing the things they warned us about years ago happening now. further unrealized warnings call for large habitat destruction. we could see large extinction events. the same people that bury their heads in the sand are the ones who stand in the way of legislating solutions to mitigate this. entire species of animals that are completely innocent could die because these ignorant people will block solutions. what do we do?

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    My sister is in Asheville. She now has no car and just got electricity back on 2 days ago.

    She says that her home will not have access to water for 3 months.

    Shit's fuckin' bad.

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m sure disbanding the EPA and NOAA will fix the weather.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, hearing similar things from others; it takes a really long time to fix the utilities when the roads are washed out all over the place, and need to be repaired to even bring heavy equipment in to many locations.

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  • [+] 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (13 children)

    I have eaten there many times at this location.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I was just going to say, I drive past this place almost everyday. It's wild to see Asheville everywhere online. Hope you're doing well JimmyBigSausage.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I am well. I live out west now. Thank you skinless_corpus. Hope you are well too.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    We're good here. I'm north, off of Merrimon. Still no power. Most of Merrimon seems to have it, except us.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    This is what happens when the Frosty machine breaks and thaws out.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Sir, this was a Wendy's.

    Now please stop rolling coal and spraying aerosols performatively to "own da libs" and swim to the next window

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If it was a Waffle House it would still be open.

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    "FAKE NEWS"

    • The right-wing, probably
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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The move they're making is to claim that Democrats control the weather and inflict storms like this on people. It's bullshit, like most of their other claims, and really reeks of desperation.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    to claim that Democrats control the weather

    Are you serious?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    at least the a/c is safe

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wait till you find out what is going on with the permafrost at the Siberian flats, Alaska and elsewhere. If you freeze stuff in a refrigerator, the power goes out, well all that decomposing stuff will give off gasses and those gasses are way more potent as a greenhouse gas than c02.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    i dead ass thought this was a lego set at first

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Moved there in my mid 20's. A few years after there was a "The Flood of the Century". They found the McDonald's Grand Piano standing in a field on the Biltmore Estate. By the time I got there the damage was mostly cleaned up to the point you couldn't even tell there was a flood.

    Used to say that Asheville doesn't really experience natural disasters...gonna keep my mouth shut from now on.

    Stay strong Asheville...

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