#MegaHurricanes

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

An article from 2007 which gives an overview of the devastation and horror we’ll face if we don’t stop using fossil fuels.  

Where no refuge is available, civil war and a collapse into racial or communal conflict seems the likely outcome. Isolated survivalism, however, may be as impracticable as dialling for room service. How many of us could really trap or kill enough game to feed a family? Even if large numbers of people did successfully manage to fan out into the countryside, wildlife populations would quickly dwindle under the pressure. Supporting a hunter-gatherer lifestyle takes 10 to 100 times the land per person that a settled agricultural community needs. A large-scale resort to survivalism would turn into a further disaster for biodiversity as hungry humans killed and ate anything that moved. Including, perhaps, each other. Invaders do not take kindly to residents denying them food. History suggests that if a stockpile is discovered, the householder and his family may be tortured and killed. Look for comparison to the experience of present-day Somalia, Sudan or Burundi, where conflicts over scarce land and food are at the root of lingering tribal wars and state collapse.

The Statue of Liberty in New York will be gone and so will the city.  

Cities and towns around the world will be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels and mega-storms.  Saltwater will penetrate deeply into continents destroying the few fresh water supplies remaining.  Heat domes will linger for months with countless thousands killed by the intense heat, torrential rivers of precipitation will create flooding so severe it will erase the places and the people who live there, and billions will die from starvation.  

Greed, selfishness and the reckless pursuit of profits over people is killing planet Earth and all of us along with it.  

[littlescaryinternetguy]

"People, the world is on fire. Megahurricane Ted is aimed straight for NYC. The slothoids have broken out of containment. Soon, half the world will be murderous zombies on rollerskates, and the other half will have the hiccups. And I'm out of gum." President Jen's face was a grim mask. "They were out of gum at the White House 7-11. Can you believe that? Out of gum. Fucking unbelievable." She shook her head and slumped low in her Presidential La-Z-Boy. "There's only one thing to do. Call 'em." "Call who?" asked Vice President Bobo. "Call... Snookums." "Snookums the little tiny borrower?" "You heard me." "But what... what can Snookums do?" Five minutes later, Snookums hopped up and down on the phone screen trying to get it to hang up. "Fucking JESUS!" yelled Snookums. "Snookums isn't picking up and I don't think they've set up their voice mail," said VP Bobo, putting down the phone. "Ah crap," said President Jen. "Rat's ass."

[blasphemous-bastard]

I did NOT live through the experience that was Matthew and Naomi combining into a megahurricane, the shitshow that was hurricane Irma in FL, and formative experience hurricane Sandy when I was a child on the NE coast only for the universe to up the ante and hit us w a Helene-Milton double super special

Just found out abt Milton either last night or this morning. Alr there are gas shortages across town. I’ve seen a lot of cat 5s but this one’s starting to worry me ngl.

[elbiotipo]

Maybe 20 years from now this whole internet thing will be just a passing fad and I will tell my kids "lol yeah that internet shit was crazy I wrote stuff and they called me El Biotipo. You could call someone a pelotudo no matter where in the planet they were. It was kinda cool. Now, go gather food and water, we need to have enough supplies before the next megahurricane hits"