Can wait till they secede from the union so we don't have to pay for this shit. Lazy broke none state tax paying bastards need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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Let's gender reveal like it's 2019!
Maybe the federal government will just sit this one out...
Looks like somebody didn’t rake their forests.
Is it not winter there? Are there often wildfires at this time of year?
This past winter was the warmest winter ever recorded in human history.
Until next year.
...past? It's still winter until March, regardless of the weather.
Bro it's so warm out it may as well be late spring
Up in Canada in northern Ontario here ..... we've had zero degree temperatures here for the past week ... and a week period like this a month ago. It's supposed to be -20, -30 traditionally here right now. And we also don't have that much snow.
Warner temps, no snow will mean no spring water run off, no run off will mean the forest will get dry earlier, early dry forests will mean more forest fires.
The upcoming summer doesn't look good up here.
It's winter, but we only had low Temps for a few days in January. It hit 94 (34.444 C) at the DFW Airport on Feb 26, over 80 (26.66 C) in Austin for the last 3 days, and a high temperature between 75-82 (23.88-28.33 C) for the last 3 days in Amarillo.
Usually this is the colder part of the year hovering around 50-60 degrees (10-15.5 C), but this year has been warmer. In the last decade, we've had Temps like this up to Christmas time and then it usually doesn't get this warm until aprilish. Climate change has really been messing with our temperatures though.
94°F in fucking February? Fuck that. I thought it was ridiculous that we had some 60°F days here in Washington.
I know and that's after having the second hottest summer in TX history.
We've only had a handful of days under 50 it seems like. I just hope this doesn't mean an even worse summer.
Climate change is a hoax, it's trans kids and perverted books that are lighting the fires!
(Very /s here. But it's ironic that Texas gets double fisted by climate change and incompetent politicians)
At least The Gays haven't summoned another hurricane!
Yeah, we really need people to get out and vote in November. We were the first state to have an in-person early voting period (since 1980), but it's still not widely utilized and the news largely ignores that 2 extra weeks we have.
So, it's important to remember that Texas has a pretty similar latitude as Algeria. Cold snaps happen, but is usually very hot (100F temps for 6 months of the year) with very mild winters. The Western parts of Texas are also very arid with loads of flammable shrubs, so wild fires aren't very uncommon.
I’m next door in Colorado up in the mountains and we’ve been very very warm this year (60s F, 17-ish C). We’ve also had fires recently and there’s very little snow on the ground.
Winds of death seem to be kicking up already to in the Denver. Not surprised some of the elevated areas are starting to burn. Seems snow pack is okay this year based on my reading
Ah thank you for the data! Good to know the snowpack overall is ok. It’s just been a really warm brown winter locally and naturally we’re all dreading summer fire season.
The front range in Boulder was on fire January 2009. Also the Marshall fire of course. Pretty sure we are trending towards over 300 days a year of fire season. :\
Yes. No.
Climate change at work.
It was 88 in deep south Texas yesterday..... Not sure we are getting any spring this year. Skipping strait to summer.
I assume that they'll start the secession talk again as they get their funds from the Federal government.
Well they sure won't start the climate change talk.
Oh just wait until insurance rug pulls all the policies this is what is going to kill Florida and Texas.
That sounds great, but it just means rising costs for the rest of us to cover the revenue loss from those states. An interesting consequence could be states removing insurance requirements, though...
FEMA should respond by putting razor wire around all the affected areas. You know , to keep out undesirables like the Governor. They won't, though, because they are not assholes and take their mission seriously.
Lmao imagine saying FEMA aren't assholes
Name one time that FEMA was an asshole? I would love to know. FEMA distribution gets fucked up by district politics, but I assume you are saying that FEMA activily told a group of people to go fuck themselves.
Here's a fantastic article to get you started:
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1004347023/why-fema-aid-is-unavailable-to-many-who-need-it-the-most
Ten years and thousands of comments later for forest fire management assistance after one of the historically worst ever forest fires in the region
Articles about multiple failures of FEMAs part in response to Katrina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4331330.stm
FEMAs ridiculously slow response to Katrina:
FEMA sent hundreds of volunteer firefighters to Atlanta for sexual harassment training instead of to help with Katrina
How difficult it was to work with FEMA and other federal resources instead of local assets