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girderednerve · 1 year ago

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moving to NY has not yet defused my complete rage response to any & all hurricane coverage which engages in the polite fiction that local emergency response is in any way sufficient, or even competent. the local government for my county was understood to be pretty good at disaster planning, but they had an insufficent number of shelters for the county population, an awareness that those shelters were not all structurally appropriate (vital parts of a shelter building connected with external staircases; poorly maintained roofs; facilities located in flood zones), and a persistent inability to mobilize needed staff in an orderly way. it was a disaster during irma, then during ian, and now, according to my friends still there, during idalia. as far as i can tell, the plan everywhere is to look busy & hope you don't get hit. genuine efforts at climate resiliency or protection for the most vulnerable members of our society are just like, apparently not on the table, but we all have to just lie about it because it's unpleasant to think about

#hurricane cw #shrieking once more about 5G interference with weather prediction #but it is much worse to watch local governments squander the precious advance notice that they do get #with hoping that people elsewhere will suffer instead #it is incredibly obvious that we ought to overprepare. overplan. take steps to address the origins of these issues.#we were told that we wouldn't have a bad year this year because we had a bad one last year #meanwhile the water temperatures in the bay this summer were over 90°F #this problem was not only incredibly foreseeable but in fact actively foreseen!#& yet my friends are still getting jerked around by assholes who weren't expecting storms until next year #either way it'll be a kodak moment for ron. let's all hope no one dies for it

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