#Hurricane Deaths

[kawaiijohn]

After the hurricane recovery is starting in the states and the damage is so bad in some places, they're either gone or don't have a single road left into town.

The power outage map for the states affected is honestly astounding. I actually know friends in southwestern Ohio that had a tornado/cyclonic thunderstorm from this system knock their power out.

Some places might not get power back for 2+ weeks.

The western half of North Carolina, where the Appalachian mountains are, is so badly damaged that some news stations are warning from any travel, and to consider every road closed until further notice.

Asherville is so damaged there seem to be almost no major roads left in or out of town.

The flooding from this storm is devastating and has destroyed entire towns and wiped some off the map. Damns and other infrastructure are failing all over the affected areas.

Until the flood waters recede sometime in the next few days, we won't have a full scope of just how badly people have been affected, nor will we have a final death toll.

Oh also, apparently the governor of Tennessee has not declared a state of emergency despite several places being catastrophically inundated. Instead he's done this, which is pissing a lot of people off.

[numbuh424]

The unstoppable, mighty hurricane and the immovable, cold, hard truth.

[reasonsforhope]

Since the 1960s, the world has seen a spike in the number of natural disasters, largely due to rising sea levels and an ever gradually increasing global surface temperature.

The good news? We’re getting better at helping each other when disasters strike.

According to a recent study from Our World In Data, the global toll from natural disasters has dramatically dropped in the last century.

“Low-frequency, high-impact events such as earthquakes and tsunamis are not preventable, but such high losses of human life are,” wrote lead authors Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Rosado.

To conduct their research, Ritchie and Rosado gathered data from all geophysical, meteorological, and climate-related disasters since 1900. That includes earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, drought, wildfires, severe storms, and mass floods. 

In the early-to-mid 20th century, the average annual death toll from disasters was very high, often climbing to over a million. 

For example, the study cites that in 1931, 2.7 million people died from the Yangtze–Huai River floods. In 1943, 1.9 million died from the Bangladeshi famine of 1943. Even low-frequency events had extreme death tolls. 

“In recent decades we have seen a substantial decline in deaths,” Ritchie and Rosado observed. “Even in peak years with high-impact events, the death toll has not exceeded 500,000 since the mid-1960s.”

Why has the global death toll from disasters dropped? 

There are a number of factors at play in the improvement of disaster aid, but the leading component is that human beings are getting better at predicting and preparing for natural disasters. 

“We know from historical data that the world has seen a significant reduction in disaster deaths through earlier prediction, more resilient infrastructure, emergency preparedness, and response systems,” Ritchie and Rosado explained in their study. 

On April 6, [2024],a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the city of Hualien in Taiwan. Days later, as search and rescue continues, the death toll currently rests at 16. 

Experts have praised Taiwan for their speedy response and recovery, and attributed the low death toll to the measures that Taiwan implemented after an earthquake of similar strength hit the city 25 years earlier. Sadly, on that day in 1999, 2,400 people died and 11,000 were injured. 

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Wang Yu — assistant professor at National Taiwan University — said that event, known as the Chi-Chi earthquake, revolutionized the way Taiwan approached natural disasters. 

“There were lots of lessons we learned, including the improvement of building codes, understanding earthquake warning signs, the development and implementation of earthquake early warning (EEW) systems and earthquake education,” said Wang. 

Those same sensors and monitoring systems allowed authorities to create “shakemaps” during Hualien’s latest earthquake, which helped them direct rescue teams to the regions that were hit the hardest. 

This, in conjunction with stronger building codes, regular earthquake drills, and public education campaigns, played a huge role in reducing the number of deaths from the event. 

And Taiwan’s safeguards on April 6 are just one example of recent measures against disasters. Similar models in strengthening prediction, preparedness, and recovery time have been employed around the world when it comes to rescuing victims of floods, wildfires, tornados, and so on. 

What else can we learn from this study?

When concluding the findings from their study, Ritchie and Rosado emphasized the importance of increasing safety measures for everyone.

Currently, there is still a divide between populations with high gross national income and populations living in extreme poverty.

Even low-income countries that infrequently have natural disasters have a much higher death rate  because they are vulnerable to collapse, displacement, and disrepair. 

“Those at low incomes are often the most vulnerable to disaster events; improving living standards, infrastructure, and response systems in these regions will be key to preventing deaths from natural disasters in the coming decades,” surmised Ritchie and Rosado.

“Overall development, poverty alleviation, and knowledge-sharing of how to increase resilience to natural disasters will therefore be key to reducing the toll of disasters in the decades to come."

-via GoodGoodGood, April 11, 2024

[nellasbookplanet]

The fandom god discussion is interesting, but I feel it’s sometimes hindered by an unwillingness to separate gods from mortal society, or even a sort of over-eagerness to project our own reality onto them, which simply doesn’t work. I've seen the gods referred to as rulers or tyrants demanding worship (which I kinda understand because it’s something Ludinus says in-game, though it’s funny to see fandom corners confidently repeat the inaccurate talking points of the antagonist) but more interestingly I've also seen them referred to as a higher/the highest social class, as colonizers imposing themselves on mortals, the raven queen specifically as new money. Overall these comparisons tend to talk about the gods and their actions regarding Aeor in the past and predathos/the Vanguard in the present less as if they're about saving their own lives and more as if they want to preserve their powerful position.

The gods, by their very nature, are above mortals. They cannot be compared to any mortal ruling class because they didn’t choose or strive for that power and cannot feasibly get rid of it/step down/redistribute it (nor do they actually in any sense rule; killing the raven queen, unlike killing an actual queen, will not end the 'tyranny' of death), they simply have it by virtue of being gods. Saying that’s unfair or unequal and that the gods should be killed because of it is akin to saying it’s unfair a mountain is bigger than you and demanding it be levelled, except the gods, unlike mountains, are living, feeling beings who shouldn’t have to die because some people can’t stand the idea of not always being top dog. Thing is, the gods themselves ultimately understood this power imballance and that they can't help but hurt Exandria the way humans can't help but step on bugs, and thus removed themselves from the equation by creating the divine gate. Saying this isn’t enough and that they're clinging to power is just demanding they line themselves up to be killed.

[carter-art-creations]

From my sketchbook. Drew this today in honor of the lives lost, missing, destroyed and rescued in America’s Appalachian mountains.

America has never seen anything quite like this. Reverence Life.

~ ~ Christy

[sofiiif]

Everybody with their spectres: **Having deadly abilities and fight face to face**

Annabel lee ,with the withered peonies: HERE COMES THE HURRICANE,BITCH!

[sculien]

god. i know i just asked for financial help with hurricane helene, but as you can see... we have another bitch ass hurricane thats about to fully flood out florida, and come right over top of where i live as a category 3 (thats winds up to 111-130 mph. how dramatic)

i dont have the means to evacuate, and i don't have any money to stock up on dog/cat food and maybe a little bit of food/water for myself.

with this hurricane coming directly over top of us, we're going to get flooded out and we're definitely going to lose power for a few days, if not a few weeks. (this is me being hopeful, i know we all saw what helene just did - hurricane irma almost killed me and my family a few years ago and left us without power/phone service for almost 3 weeks)

anyway. i need at least $100 to be able to get a big bag of dog/cat food and some cases of water and some food for myself for the next couple of weeks (and maybe a cheap ass tarp so i dont get completely flooded out of the damn shack im staying in and gas for my car, just in case i actually have to try to escape this).

anyway. if you cant donate, i completely understand, trust me, but please reblog this in hopes that maybe someone out there can help me 🫶 v/nmo: itserij c/shapp: $itserij paypal: @/airikah my real name and online name are the same but just spelled differently for ~*reasons~* (airikah/erica and airi/eri are all me)

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[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Gloria Rodríguez better known as Hurricane G died November 6, 2022 R.I.P.

[crippled-peeper]

I’m praying for the over 22 souls who perished last night in the storms

[norbagam]

touching grass isn’t enough i need to be the god of a brave new world much better than the last

[zahanh]

Iterator ship naming

I saw pansear's one with slugcats and didn't see any other with iterators soooooo

I stayed up to 5m for this hehehheheheh

Now have these that may be edited as more are found

Five pebbles ships

Five pebbles x seven red suns - sunstone / seven pebbles / fpxsrs

Five pebbles x no significant harrasment - ragequit / noclip / fpxnsh

Five pebbles x unparalleled innocence - milkshake / trinkets / fpxui

Five pebbles x sliver of straw - gravel / faulty affirmative / fpxsos

Five pebbles x chasing/grey wind - hailstorm / fpxgw / fpxcw

Looks to the moon ships

Looks to the moon x no significant harrasment - lilypad / lifeline / lttmxnsh

Looks to the moon x sliver of straw - waning crescent / slivermoon / faded memories / lttmxsos

Looks to the moon x seven red suns - eclipse / lttmxsrs

Looks to the moon x unparalleled innocence - unparalleled moon / innocent meteor / Moonflower / lttmxui

Looks to the moon x chasing/grey wind - cyclone / atmosphere / lttmxcw / lttmxgw

No significant harrasment ships

No significant harrasment x looks to the moon - lilypad / lifeline / nshxlttm

No significant harrasment x five pebbles - ragequit / noclip / nshxfp

No significant harrasment x unparalleled innocence - team rocket / nshxui

No significant harrasment x seven red suns - traffic lights / nshxsrs

No significant harrasment x sliver of straw - taboo dissonance / nshxsos

No significant harrasment x chasing/grey wind - olive / nshxgw / nshxcw

Seven red suns ships

Seven red suns x five pebbles - sunstone / seven pebbles / srsxfp

Seven red suns x no signficant harrasment - traffic lights / srsxnsh

Seven red suns x looks to the moon - eclipse / srsxlttm

Seven red suns x unparalleled innocence - golden survey / unfortunate news / srsxui

Seven red suns x sliver of straw - unfortunate alternative / srsxsos

Seven red suns x chasing/grey wind - warm weather / solar flare / firebird / red wind / terapy / srsxgw / srsxcw

Sliver of straw ships

Sliver of straw x looks to the moon - waning crescent / slivermoon / faded memories / sosxlttm

Sliver of straw x five pebbles - gravel / faulty affirmative / sosxfp

Sliver of straw x no significant harrasment - taboo dissonance / sosxnsh

Sliver of straw x seven red suns - unfortunate alternative / sosxsrs

Sliver of straw x unparalleled innocence - peaceful contemplation / strawman / sosxui

Sliver of straw x chasing/grey wind - death zephyr / windy fields / sosxgw / sosxcw

Unparalleled innocence ships

Unparalleled innocence x five pebbles - milkshake / trinkets / uixfp

Unparalleled innocence x looks to the moon - unparalleled moon / innocent meteor / Moonflower / uixlttm

Unparalleled innocence x no significant harrasment - team rocket / uixnsh

Unparalleled innocence x seven red suns - golden survey / unfortunate news / uixsrs

Unparalleled innocence x sliver of straw - peaceful contemplation / strawman / uixsos

Unparalleled innocence x chasing/grey wind - grimace shake / content warning user interface / grinnocence / winnocence / uixgw / uixcw

Chasing/grey wind ships

Chasing/grey wind x five pebbles - hailstorm / gwxfp / cwxfp

Chasing/grey wind x looks to the moon - cyclone / atmosphere / gwxlttm / cwxlttm

Chasing/grey wind x no significant harrasment - olive / gwxnsh / cwxnsh

Chasing/grey wind x seven red suns - warm weather / solar flare / firebird / terapy / red wind / gwxsrs / cwxsrs

Chasing/grey wind x sliver of straw - death zephyr / windy fields / gwxsos / cwxsos

Chasing/grey wind x unparalleled innocence - grimace shake / content warning user interface / fleeting innocence / grinnocence / winnocence / gwxui / cwxui

Polyamorous ships

Five pebbles x no significant harrasment x seven red suns - triple divorce / roadrage / cold ones / fpxnshxsrs

no significant harrasment x looks to the moon x sliver of straw - green tea / life support / nshxlttmxsos

Five pebbles x unparalleled innocence x no significant harrasment - double bullying / fpxuixnsh

Looks to the moon x no significant harrasment x seven red suns - solar system / lttmxnshxsrs

Five pebbles x seven red suns x unparalleled innocence - ice cream sundae / fpxsrsxui

Extra ships (these are more fandom related + some are jokes)

Absolent of sins x distant frontier - exempt bounds / distant sins / aosxdf (@distant-frontier-simp)

Giz x sliver of straw - gaming straws / ggxsos (@Gizgamer123 on twitter)

Chasing/grey wind x upright carnage - hurricane / gwxuc / cwxuc (@rw-repurposed but uc is from vic)

Unbroken promise x sliver of straw - ascended rhapsody / upxsos (iterator logs)

Three cold nights x seven red suns - plum / tcnxsrs (@airxpunged)

Five pebbles x sans (undertale) - rw charcoal / fpxsans

THIS TOOK TOO LONG AGHHHH

[poindexters-labratory]

Henry 🌧️

"how does it feel?"

[deathlygristly]

I wonder if Israelis and Palestinians feel something like this. Or anyone else whose home and people and life become discourse tokens.

On Facebook I read a post by a woman who owns a store in Asheville. She attempted to drive to her store and check on her employees and get supplies. You can say she shouldn't have done that and she probably shouldn't have, but I'm not gonna judge her too hard.

She said it was extremely scary, that there were plenty of times she was worried her car would slip down the side of a half-destroyed road. She said she saw whole sides of mountains that had collapsed in landslides. And also she said that she saw so many dead bodies of all species, including human. She said she was listening to the radio and another woman called in from Swannanoa, where I went to 4-H camp, talking about seeing human bodies floating down the river and piling up.

She said when she got into Asheville and she had cell service again she called authorities to let them know about the bodies. She said they said they were overwhelmed with similar calls and they honestly didn't know if/when they'd be able to get to the bodies.

The death count will eventually go up. Or at least eventually those people will be missing, presumed dead, if their bodies are never gathered and identified.

I've been staying to local news and posts from fellow North Carolinians specifically about the realities of the situation. Read a heartbreaking thread on the Asheville Reddit of people talking about how they're feeling and about the trauma and their survivor's guilt if they managed to evacuate and their anger at people not taking it seriously.

And then I come on here and I see it starting to be used for discourse, and I understand that anger.

We are real people. We are real people with real families and friends and real beloved mountains and precious memories of our mountains and real trauma. We are not tools for your ego. We are not internet clout points for you. We are not vague abstractions to be used in meaningless arguments that only feed your biases and prejudices and your need to feel morally superior.

We are real people and we are in real pain. Either help or get off the mountain.

[stuffedsand]

People in the milgram tag tell me what non deco songs you associate with what characters gogogo