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Philthy posted:How does the economics of tearing down and rebuilding tens of thousands of homes every 2 years work? FEMA will only rebuild your house 3 times. Then you're just hosed if you still want to live there
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Serious post: in the near future, why don't we build water pipelines instead of oil pipelines? Seems like with climate change, some places will get way more water than they want, while others will struggle with drought. Is this even possible? Has anybody thought about this?
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 22:52 |
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Hurricane Jerry was fixin to hit us in PR, but it appears to be taking a boring and life-saving turn northwards
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:03 |
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Charles posted:Serious post: in the near future, why don't we build water pipelines instead of oil pipelines? Seems like with climate change, some places will get way more water than they want, while others will struggle with drought. Is this even possible? Has anybody thought about this? Did you look? https://www.google.com/search?sourc...i30.05kC2hP6nbQ
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# ? Sep 19, 2019 23:13 |
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Yes, Libya has done it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River Most people complain it's too much money. But sooner or later we won't be able to afford not to!
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 00:15 |
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Charles posted:Yes, Libya has done it! incidentally LA has a man-made river which was designed to prevent exactly what's happening in texas right now. can't do something like that without the federal government (army corps) and imminent domain though, so welp. a major selling point of texas is being free of such oppression
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 00:20 |
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owns how it took 3 hours for a regular tropical depression to turn into the 7th wettest storm to ever hit texas
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 01:39 |
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poverty goat posted:incidentally LA has a man-made river which was designed to prevent exactly what's happening in texas right now. can't do something like that without the federal government (army corps) and imminent domain though, so welp. a major selling point of texas is being free of such oppression Right, aqueducts aren't a new idea, they're just usually uncovered rather than in a pipe since because of the quantities required and lack of toxicity.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 01:47 |
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Thesaurus posted:Hurricane Jerry was fixin to hit us in PR, but it appears to be taking a boring and life-saving turn northwards Hurricane Jerry. Weak rear end name.
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Honestly it's probably all the politics of money and the tremendous sums you would have to start spending. We should take on major geologic studies of formations that we could pump fresh water into. Times like these you could be putting a tremendous amount into new reservoirs of fresh water for later use.
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 02:50 |
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papersack posted:Hurricane Jerry. Weak rear end name. I know. extremely nonthreatening
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 03:23 |
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Reporting from Houston
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 19:34 |
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Texas is experimenting with direct flood water infusion into its aquifers/reservoirs. we will see how that goes. a lot of states already utilize aquifer storage and recovery to keep long storage of water that does not lose water to evaporation
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TropicalCoke posted:Texas is experimenting with direct flood water infusion into its aquifers/reservoirs. we will see how that goes. a lot of states already utilize aquifer storage and recovery to keep long storage of water that does not lose water to evaporation so they'll need to treat water from aquifers real hard? flood water is disgusting
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# ? Sep 20, 2019 23:44 |
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redleader posted:so they'll need to treat water from aquifers real hard? flood water is disgusting Not sure how prevalent its become but some of the water jurisdictions in California were treating sewer water to be near as drinkable as you can get, but its otherwise discouraged to circulate that straight back into the drinking water loop. So they would pump it into a a low residence time aquifer and pump out "fresh water" out the other end and really the aquifer did the last bit of polishing needed to turn the poop water fully clean and the drinking treatment was easier than dealing with dregs of the Colorado the farmers leave the cities.
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 00:31 |
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George H.W. oval office posted:Reporting from Houston Is that a port-a-shitter in the middle of that bridge?
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 03:17 |
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zedprime posted:If you pick the right geologic features, simply putting it into the aquifer is doing 90% of the treating. Physical filtration does most of what you need and you can get a lot of that from porous rock and/or aggregate strata. So all that remains after pumping it out is something like an activated charcoal filter and a microorganism treatment. Thank you for making me aware that I have zero knowledge of how water is cleaned or manages to come out of the faucet in my house
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 04:00 |
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zedprime posted:If you pick the right geologic features, simply putting it into the aquifer is doing 90% of the treating. Physical filtration does most of what you need and you can get a lot of that from porous rock and/or aggregate strata. So all that remains after pumping it out is something like an activated charcoal filter and a microorganism treatment. I don't know where you are in the world/US. But from what I understand charcoal filters are even too expensive. Municipalities just want to get the chunks and dirt out and add a bit of bleach to kill bacteria and call it a day. Highly variable though depending on where you are in the USA. Many places do different things and you may be completely correct for Colorado. I know flint, Newark and Colorado all have way different issues going on.
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 04:55 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is that a port-a-shitter in the middle of that bridge? Yea the bayou was at bridge level and with it brought lots of poo poo
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Artonos posted:I don't know where you are in the world/US. But from what I understand charcoal filters are even too expensive. Municipalities just want to get the chunks and dirt out and add a bit of bleach to kill bacteria and call it a day. Highly variable though depending on where you are in the USA. Many places do different things and you may be completely correct for Colorado. Just in case anyone is reading this, going and resolving to only drink bottled water from now on... US drinking-water standards for tap water are actually higher than the standards for bottled water. (Both can be considered perfectly safe, though, unless you're in Flint.)
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Thesaurus posted:Thank you for making me aware that I have zero knowledge of how water is cleaned or manages to come out of the faucet in my house
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Powered Descent posted:Just in case anyone is reading this, going and resolving to only drink bottled water from now on... US drinking-water standards for tap water are actually higher than the standards for bottled water. (Both can be considered perfectly safe, though, unless you're in Flint.) Wonder how strictly enforced those standards are though.. America is a big place. I still chug my tap water even though it tastes like moldy pipes. Its free basically and I'm poor
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 06:43 |
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Thesaurus posted:Hurricane Jerry was fixin to hit us in PR, but it appears to be taking a boring and life-saving turn northwards
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 06:54 |
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Artonos posted:I don't know where you are in the world/US. But from what I understand charcoal filters are even too expensive. Municipalities just want to get the chunks and dirt out and add a bit of bleach to kill bacteria and call it a day. Highly variable though depending on where you are in the USA. Many places do different things and you may be completely correct for Colorado.
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 13:00 |
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poverty goat posted:FEMA will only rebuild your house 3 times. Then you're just hosed if you still want to live there My grandparent's house sat a narrow island right on the ocean near West Palm Beach. It was wrecked by the hurricanes in 2004 but they passed away around that time so we just sold the house and let someone else deal with it. About 2 or 3 years later FEMA got tired of the paying for the damaged houses in the area and paid for everyone in the neighborhood to jack up their homes one story. Like just lifting them up and building supports underneath. They even have a elevator now.
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 14:01 |
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Tropical Storm a coming... 100 miles east of me
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 12:02 |
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Man that's some gorgeous foliage
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 12:07 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Man that's some gorgeous foliage Coming soon to a location near fins!
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 12:11 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Is that a port-a-shitter in the middle of that bridge?
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 13:40 |
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Lol E. This one's the best but my phone won't post it correctly https://i.imgur.com/AsdIeaO.gifv King of Bees fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Sep 22, 2019 |
# ? Sep 22, 2019 14:12 |
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fins posted:
Where you at? Tropical storm Karen just suddenly appeared in the Caribbean and is set to hit us in Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 17:09 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA5_fOC_bx4 Still on track for Puerto Rico tomorrow morning. My rum supplies are fair to moderate, both aņejo and white, so we should be ok.
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 21:29 |
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Godspeed drunk goon and stay lit
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 22:39 |
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i heard there was a tropical storm of some kind (maybe it'll be a hurricane?) named Karen and I thought that was funny. what's it going to do, complain to our managers until we die? that is all
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 23:41 |
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Imagine the smell!
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 23:46 |
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aww yeah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8jO5vO6jA
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# ? Sep 23, 2019 23:57 |
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Sjs00 posted:Godspeed drunk goon and stay lit Thank you. It's been downgraded to a tropical depression, so my day drinking will be pathetic rather than heroic. otoh I think Imelda was just a depression when it hosed up Texas with floods last week, so who knows??
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 02:37 |
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I've also made the #1 mistake of hurricane preparedness, which is opening up my rum cache while the storm is still 12 hours away
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# ? Sep 24, 2019 02:38 |
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Thesaurus posted:I've also made the #1 mistake of hurricane preparedness, which is opening up my rum cache while the storm is still 12 hours away Hopefully the rum will hold out
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Thesaurus posted:Thank you. It's been downgraded to a tropical depression, so my day drinking will be pathetic rather than heroic. Better to be safe than sober
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