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Next motherfucker who says a WORD to the effect that New Orleans should no longer exist is gonna see how my ancestors used to do shit in Bengal. And I'm not talking about flood management— though it is gonna look like a very sudden, very sharp monsoon went through their midsection.

Never mind the fact it's 2019 FFS, and at worst we're gonna be the first among many. They should be looking to us for ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO when the waters come for them, especially if they live on the coast... And if I have to take much more of this callous bullshit, my answer's gonna be "tuck your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye."

These people will cluck their tongues over the "naturalness" and even "hubris" of NOLA, without sparing a moment to think about how the typical American city is one good disaster away from starvation at any time. We're ALL hanging by a thread of human ingenuity.

I put these cretins in the same category as people who wail about how gene therapy is "against nature" but have no problem with, say, getting a heart valve or a bottle of pills when they're the ones in trouble—neither of which, to the best of my knowledge, was foraged in some verdant meadow.

In summary, the mountain cats are coming to drag away your bones. I might be a little nicer to each other if I were you, humans.

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@zebratron2084

my work is little more than a foot above sea level, as is a lot of my area, shit started getting bad about 10 years ago, and it's only gonna get worse during our lifetime.

we kind of need to bludgeon the money out of the monopoly pinatas and do some major mater management public works now. (well really we needed to do it 20+ years ago but you know)

Anyone who thinks they're safe is fucking delusional.

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@zebratron2084

Feels on this. I had to stop watching some threads on the local NextDoor because things went from "Those poor people in NOLA but really they should know better than to live in such a place" to "OMG 4.6 EARTHQUAKE SOMETHING FELL OFF A SHELF CALL FEMA" in a single night and no one saw the irony.

Nature happens everywhere.

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@coyohti Thank you for sharing that extremely vindicating and comforting anecdote. 💖

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@zebratron2084 I think about what New Orleans has weathered just in my mortal lifetime, and then I think about everyone up here in Seattle flipping their goddamn lids like Chicken Little the -second- an earthquake or windstorm comes along because none of the electric companies will invest in underground cabling, and I just sigh, close whatever tab I'm reading, and thank christ my mom was smart enough to teach me about having a disaster prep kit.

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