My question when reading about communities directly impacted is always, "Do they know that climate change caused this? Do they care?"
More than half of them do? You could probably split that by D-R voter percentages. Keep in mind all the blue cities in the southern states are the majority of the population.
It's a complicated issue, with a lot of denial based on high stakes. Even if people believe in climate change it's hard to contemplate losing their home, having their house become uninsurable and lose all value or having to move from somewhere they've always lived and have a good job / support system. There's also other factors to blame. You can think the storms are caused by climate change, but that the flooding is more frequent because of major development downstream or because the city didn't finish their mitigation project fast enough, and it will get better when that is done.
I think it's similar to other political issues, where people deny or oppose it until it happens to them. Like people in Houston who flooded 2-5 times in 3 years when they previously only flooded once a decade, and once a decade wasn't enough to convince people to leave the area. They are somewhat used to it, adapt and keep on. Gov't keeps raising the floodplain and in some areas new houses are half a story above the existing houses, they put car lifts in garage, electrical up high, raise old houses, etc. I think a lot of people won't consider moving to states anymore due to climate change.
I think the bold is the meat of it. People can believe in climate change, but still not clue in that the ocean rising is the source of the flooding. That it doesn't matter if the storms aren't extreme, they're still going to flood and it's going to continue to get worse.
Or the people who are buying the houses in the new development in one of the articles. Even the people who believe in climate change probably aren't expecting a rising ocean to impact them so far inland.
We're moving offices tomorrow to the suite across the hall. It's a smaller space, and will cost the company less money. It's a move that's needed to happen for a while since there's only 4 of us that are here with any regularity. Only 2 of us are in the office all day. So the 12 current offices are empty most of the time.
Anyway, I just checked with the building manager that we'll have keys for tomorrow and I think she forgot all about us moving. She responded that she needs to get the locksmith out to the office today. For a short distance/same building move, the entire thing has been exceedingly weird.
Does anyone else do office work that involves a lot of paper? I hate wearing long sleeves because, I swear, every time I move my arms, I'm swatting papers everywhere. It always seems to catch. Am I the only one with this weird issue??
This has never happened to me, and I work with a LOT of paper.
The banker that opened the account that was used to pay Daniels is testifying today. So far he's saying that the bank was told it the money was for a real estate transaction. Had they known the true purpose the account probably would have been delayed or not approved.
We were hit by an EF2 last year and are still recovering. The path went through our neighborhood. It is forever changed. We’re forever changed and still dealing with the fear, repairs, and “making things right”. My heart goes out to the many, many people and communities experiencing this.
One of the scarier aspects of this, beyond loss of life and loss of property, is how long until we’re uninsurable on the plains?
I'm wondering what part of the country isn't going to be uninsurable at this point. For us it's hail. Any time there's a storm there's a chance of softball sized hail.
Y'know, as we sit and argue over whether paying money for a parking spot to avoid the car line is worth it, the fruits of our labor is being borne as extreme weather.
Genuine question: are the follow up sentences why it annoys you or is there something else? To me the interest of this question is not so much people's reasoned answers so much as their gut reactions. Does it bother you that women are answering bear?
It kind or rubs me funny too, and I think it's because it feels like fear mongering. Men are definitely the biggest predator for women - I would not argue that it's unreasonable to feel unsafe when encountering a random man in an isolated place. But the vast majority of men are not going to attack a random woman. It definitely happens, but implying that any man who comes across a woman is going to harm her is just creating even more fear than we already have in this world. I don't think it serves anyone to have to go through life feeling like your life is at risk at every turn.
If statistics supported this, then I would agree with you, but they don't. I keep thinking back to the news article that talked about how there were 26k reported pregnancies from rape in TX in 16 months. Maybe #notallmen, but certainly more than enough of them.
I'm feeling pedantic this morning - USDA says no more than 2 hours outside of the fridge. We over sanitize everything here, so all the bloom is washed off the egg making it vulnerable to spoiling faster. Comparing store bought eggs to different countries or farm fresh eggs is comparing apples and oranges.
The building is doing a "refresh" and updating the hallways. They put up wallpaper that reminds those of us in our office (we're all 40ish) of doctor's offices in the mid-90s. How much you want to bet that this is the brainchild of some young designer in their 20s?
I had a panic attack last night so I didn't sleep well, all over a work party. No one told me spouses were invited even though I'm the one planning the event, but everyone else assumed I knew spouses were invited. I found out as I was leaving work yesterday. The party is today. My guest count doubled. Talk about scrambling.
QFT. Today's latest with my dad is that apparently he *won't* look into the hearing aids he thought sounded like a great option a few days ago. He had significant enough hearing loss several years ago that he was given NHS-issued hearing aids, and he doesn't like them because they just amplify all sounds. But instead of paying for better ones - which aren't cheap, but he can 100% afford them - he just insists that he can hear most things and then pouts when he thinks he's being ignored because he can't hear the group conversation. I notice his hearing is worse even since Christmas, but apparently it's just our fault we talk too softly.
My dad is the same way! He has pretty bad hearing loss in one ear and didn't like the aids he tried so he gave up. Thankfully his other ear is ok, but if you happen to be sitting on his bad side and try to speak to him, he won't even know. I don't know why he won't just try some others, I think it would make his life a lot easier!
Whenever my mom mentions being frustrated with a family member or friend being stubborn about aging or health stuff, I tell her to remember that when it's her turn. I know we all think we won't be like that.
Hearing loss is linked with dementia. When I realized that I had an actual physical loss, I marched myself right into an audiologists office and haven't looked back. There's no way I want to fight monsters every day like my gpa did for a year before he died.