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Erwin TN after Helene Storm (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dunno why but those highway exit designs look really elegant

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

They seem to hold a lot of water!

[–] [email protected] 152 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Climate change be like

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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[+] [email protected] 126 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Tennessee and Kentucky are far more purple than conventional thought gives them credit for.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I live here and I am not voting that way. I am hoping this wakes some of my ignorant neighbors up.

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[+] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Northerners just assume everyone in the South are ignorant conservatives. There’s no such thing as a red or blue state, it’s all shades of purple.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (2 children)

NO. I watched rural Republicans laughing that my state was on fire. I saw them saying we deserve it because of "something something heathens". Nobody deserves it. This is a national spotlight and I'm going to be as clear as day. We have one party who flat out denies climate change, which is directly causing all of this. We have another party who is not doing nearly enough, but at least have some plans. This is absolutely a political problem, because voting for the party who actively denied this is happening is slapping you in the face. You should absolutely be angry at them. People's houses floated away and that party is shrugging and sending thoughts and prayers. Being active now is the empathetic approach.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

if you're just complaining on Lemmy, that's not political activism

[+] [email protected] -28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Man, you're a real insufferable cunt. Lambasting the "high road" while parking your ass firmly in the middle of it. Unreal.

[Edit] Isn't it funny when people act like asshokes on the internet, get rebuked for it and then delete their comments?

If you weren't willing to stand behind your comments why did you post them in the first place? This is some weak ass revisionist behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Great, I'm 2000 miles away so I'm going to do what I can, advocate against climate change so we can stop having once in a generation storms every year. Seriously why does that piss you off so much?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

In that case, heres some thoughts and prayers

[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry for the losses but shit like this is caused by ignorance for and/or denial of climate change and its causes.

Don't use the victims to silence the solution which indeed is better policies to avoid or at least dampen the impacts of climate change. And it is a political problem that can only be solved by voting for those who take care of the problem and don't deny it.

I wish you and all the people there all the best. And as soon as you're all safe please make sure you all go and fucking vote.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unicoi county went for Bernie in the 2016 primaries. It's a very small town that has gone through a lot of shit trying to claw it's way out of horrendously bad politics in the 80s and prior. Bumpass cove, where I'm sure some of worst damage was, was the site of nuclear waste dumping, and has been the nucleus of a major swing to the left for a lot of people in the area. Right down the road is Johnson City, a very progressive college town. Dumping on the victims of a disaster because their neighbors, or even they, have shitty politics is a shitty thing to do. Maybe those school kids deserve to get shot because their grandpappy is a Republican? Yes, moments like this should be catalysts for change, but victim blaming isn't the route to take to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bumpass cove is not a nuclear waste dump site. However, there is a chemical dump site there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the most familiar with the story, so many I'm remembering wrong. But I googled it to make sure before I posted that.

PDF the screen shot is from

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not just what the teenagers call it? Bumpass Cove is it's actual, legal name?

Wow, that's certainly a... choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well, it was changed to "Bumpus Cove". Which is more in line with how the locals pronounced it.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Helene was only a category 4 and did this amount of damage. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

This was also a lot more powerful than the Appalachian mountain and westward communities are used to getting. They aren't set up for it in the same way that communities East of them and on the coast are.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

“Only” a cat 4? It was one step away from the highest rating of 5..

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

I think because we've seen cat 5s do less damage across the nation. The category is for wind strength and doesn't necessarily corelate with flooding /rain fall

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Last I read this morning it was still a category 4 and never made 5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Its winds are well below hurricane strength now. It's a post tropical cyclone for its spinning nature and it's prodigious rain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Yes correct. But I’m more pointing that that saying “only a cat 4” comes across like if it was a weak storm that did all the damage. It was about 15mph shy of being the highest rating.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah man-made climate change ain't real, we get hurricanes in Tennessee all the time

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And durechos in Iowa, and smoke covering the sky for months, and "cold snaps", and hottest summers on record, yeah these are all normal things that I totally remember having as a child. Keep your heads in the sand people, it's all just one crazy storm, they couldn't possibly be all related

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Don't look up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

thoughts and prayers

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