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These assholes are going to vote for Project 2025, which would eliminate NOAA & NWS. Idiots.
I live here and I am not voting that way. I am hoping this wakes some of my ignorant neighbors up.
I hope it works out okay for you.
I assure you they will find a way to blame the blue team that is easily defeated with logic and facts but they will have already made up their mind.
Your ignorants neighbors will think Helene is the consequence of the Dems.
Tennessee and Kentucky are far more purple than conventional thought gives them credit for.
Fr not only do they lose the popular vote… even the red states aren’t all 80/20… there are miserable intelligent Americans everywhere and nobody gives a shit. I’ve lived in blue bubbles my whole life and spent a ton of time in red places with red people (stop, you know what I mean), and there are always normal blue people. And most red people are only a disinformation or two away from being with it. Unfortunately that’s all it takes in a two party system and they game it well. Take away angels and abortion and before the hell cult, most Americans are half decent and not Nazis.
That was the thing about Arizona it took the Democrats realizing it was a purple state and they should vote. That’s why these states seem to flip so suddenly. Then of course it’s a decade or two wait to get a state legislature that’s not gerrymandered to hell and back.
With the abortion issue there’s new organizing going on in a bunch of previously locked down red states.
Take away Memphis and see how much the hue of Tennessee shifts towards 0°.
Take away New York, or Baltimore, or Detroit, or any city really. It has long since ceased to be a state level thing. The system however is still running like it’s the 1840’s.
Tennessee is somewhat of an outlier, as its other major cities skew red, though at least in part artificially so. Nashville, for example, is part of three different districts now, the 5th, 6th, and 7th. It’s been lost to gerrymandering. Knoxville, in the 2nd, and Chattanooga in the 3rd are heavily Republican cities.
The 4th contains conservative-leaning private universities and suburbs of Nashville and Chattanooga.
The 9th District, colloquially “Memphis” in my previous statement, is the only district in the state that currently has a significantly strong Democratic voter base. If anything, it became even more blue after the 2023 re-districting moved part of East Memphis to the already conservative 8th district.
Of the districts other than Memphis, the 5th, which can be thought of as the ghost of Nashville, is the closest to even resembling purple; even so, it has a CVPI of R+9.
Districts aren’t really a good way to measure though. As you point out some of them are pretty well gerrymandered.
The kind that gets struck in the face with a wooden paddle and it seems like they’re saying - “THANK YOU SIR MAY I PLEASE HAVE ANOTHER?”
With Kevin Bacon wielding the paddle
Good! There wont be as much flooding if we stop measuring it! /s
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Sorry for the losses but shit like this is caused by ignorance for and/or denial of climate change and its causes.
Don’t use the victims to silence the solution which indeed is better policies to avoid or at least dampen the impacts of climate change. And it is a political problem that can only be solved by voting for those who take care of the problem and don’t deny it.
I wish you and all the people there all the best. And as soon as you’re all safe please make sure you all go and fucking vote.
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They’re talking about the area’s average, not everybody in it.
And if they’re not, then they’re as dumb as the republican cunts they’re lambasting and their stupid opinions don’t matter.
Either way, you’re not in the blast zone. Hope the flood recovery goes as well as it can and your political efforts are successful!
In that case, heres some thoughts and prayers
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Yes how dare they call out a political party for actively working to make this situation worse
eh, fuck it. Not worth engaging.
Helene was only a category 4 and did this amount of damage. It’s insane.
Yeah man-made climate change ain’t real, we get hurricanes in Tennessee all the time
“Only” a cat 4? It was one step away from the highest rating of 5…
I think because we’ve seen cat 5s do less damage across the nation. The category is for wind strength and doesn’t necessarily corelate with flooding /rain fall
It’s a wet category 4. It’s the type that carries months of rain and looks for a place to dump it all in a few hours. They create a lot of flood damage. A dry cat 4 would do wind damage and storm surges but not the water bombing.
The scale doesn’t say how wet a storm is, just how fast the wind is. Revising this scale is still being discussed.
Last I read this morning it was still a category 4 and never made 5.
Yes correct. But I’m more pointing that that saying “only a cat 4” comes across like if it was a weak storm that did all the damage. It was about 15mph shy of being the highest rating.
Its winds are well below hurricane strength now. It’s a post tropical cyclone for its spinning nature and it’s prodigious rain.
This was also a lot more powerful than the Appalachian mountain and westward communities are used to getting. They aren’t set up for it in the same way that communities East of them and on the coast are.
It doesn’t help when idiots keep building in flood plains.
Oh fuck off. “Then she shouldn’t have dressed like that” ass take.
Nature doesn’t ask for consent. It is an uncontrollable force. Flood plains will eventually flood just as certainly as a volcano will eventually erupt or the sun will rise. If you build a house in a flood plains it WILL be flooded. Maybe not this year, maybe not this decade, but it will happen eventually with absolute certainty.
If we make it ILLEGAL to Mention Helene Storm then we will SOLVE the Problem!
If we don’t test for hurricanes, the problem will go away. Don’t look up.
Not climate change sure sucks, don’t it, Republicans. Anyway I live up north so I’m fine, at least as far as hurricanes are concerned.
People have lost their homes. Please keep your political bickering out of this.
Events like this will become more common and widespread due to those politics. But thoughts and prayers right?
People have lost their homes. Please keep your political bickering out of this.
Wooooshh
People have lost their lives and homes, and will continue to do so at increasing rates, precisely because of this “now is not the time for politics” sentiment when it comes to climate change. The longer we kick the can down the road, the more people are going to be killed or displaced because of it.
I think feeling frustrated that we’re not doing enough to prevent the next set of people from having to go through this and suffer this bad is a perfectly reasonable reaction to have, actually.
I dunno why but those highway exit designs look really elegant
They seem to hold a lot of water!
Getting some Chocolate Factory vibes, but it is the scary boat ride part.
thoughts and prayers
Is Tennessee usually hit this hard by hurricanes? I can’t recall ever seeing anything this catastrophic from a hurricane that hit Tennessee before.
No. Another problem is that we had a week of rain BEFORE the hurricane came through.
build in a flood plain and that will eventually happen.
All you dumb flatlanders had to do was build on the hills. They’re right fuckin there and none of you ever think to do it.
So the mountains are filled with vacation rentals, skiing etc. all the roads shut down, Banner Elk NC they have to bring food and supplies by air right now.
“Gee that big floodplain at the foot of those hills sure looks nice. Better rebuild my formerly flooded home on this precise exact spot again instead of moving 500 feet to the left and building on that nice hill. That would just be stupid.”
