Not only was Kansai airport closed due to flooding, a cargo ship went out of control and rammed into the bridge, isolating it from the rest of Japan. Typhoon 21 really has been incredibly destructive, there have been massive amounts of property damage throughout Kansai - and it hit Osaka directly, which isn't really used to typhoons that much.
Not only was Kansai airport closed due to flooding, a cargo ship went out of control and rammed into the bridge, isolating it from the rest of Japan. Typhoon 21 really has been incredibly destructive, there have been massive amounts of property damage throughout Kansai - and it hit Osaka directly, which isn't really used to typhoons that much.
So Japan has been hit by the worst typhoon in recent memory while Europe was hit by a monstrous heatwave and drought. *sigh* What's next. Mother nature seems to be on the warpath this year.
So Japan has been hit by the worst typhoon in recent memory while Europe was hit by a monstrous heatwave and drought. *sigh* What's next. Mother nature seems to be on the warpath this year.
Well since where i'm from we're still recovering from a category 5 hurricane due to a corrupt state government and a federal government that gives no fucks. I have no fucks to give to a populace that looked the other way and now expects us to feel bad for them.
Well since where i'm from we're still recovering from a category 5 hurricane due to a corrupt state government and a federal government that gives no fucks. I have no fucks to give to a populace that looked the other way and now expects us to feel bad for them.
Not sure which you're talking about but if it's New Orleans that's all your own god damn fault. Pro tip: don't build you're fucking city below sea level in a god damn flood plain and then expect the rest of us to hop too and pay to rebuild the god damn thing when the inevitable happens.
Not sure which you're talking about but if it's New Orleans that's all your own god damn fault. Pro tip: don't build you're fucking city below sea level in a god damn flood plain and then expect the rest of us to hop too and pay to rebuild the god damn thing when the inevitable happens.
Not sure which you're talking about but if it's New Orleans that's all your own god damn fault. Pro tip: don't build you're fucking city below sea level in a god damn flood plain and then expect the rest of us to hop too and pay to rebuild the god damn thing when the inevitable happens.
In addition to the above, the problem with New Orleans wasn't that it was built below sea level, it's that the wetlands that protected the city were eroded away after digging too many canals, and floodwaters were channeled into the city via canals in a way that was known to be a problem, along with vastly under-maintained levies. If the city's flood defenses weren't constantly undermined, it would have survived. It's straight-up the corruption of the Army Corps of Engineer's fault what happened during Katrina.
So Japan has been hit by the worst typhoon in recent memory while Europe was hit by a monstrous heatwave and drought. *sigh* What's next. Mother nature seems to be on the warpath this year.
So Japan has been hit by the worst typhoon in recent memory while Europe was hit by a monstrous heatwave and drought. *sigh* What's next. Mother nature seems to be on the warpath this year.
don't forget about the forest fire that have been blanketing the western US the last few months!
That's partly the government's fault, still allot the locals fault. First off Caribbean islands are inherently exposed to hurricanes, if you're going to live on one you're going to get hit by them. Many of the people that live on them like people in other gulf coastal areas seem unable to accept this and constantly build in at risk areas, you can argue that's because of small land mass forcing the use of all available space. I'd counter that overpopulating a small space to the point major damage to huge numbers of structures and infrastructure is extremely likely in the event of a major storm is just an extension of the sort of self-centered lack of foresight that pisses me off.
This is a problem that's growing worse because of factors you can't really fix yourself (climate change), but you have as a group utterly failed to utilize what resources you have to intelligently mitigate the risks as best you can.
Another problem is it's an island, that complicates EVERYTHING about recovery efforts to a huge degree. Even under the absolute optimal scenario it was impossible a recovery could be as fast as a mainland city and recovery in some mainland cites has taken well over a year as well after major storms. Frankly allot of rage might have as much to do with the usual completely irrational modern notion that gigantic problems should be fixable quickly with a few changes and no pain involved.
Really Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Houston whatever I just don't care at this point. I'm tired of paying for the stupidity of all of you down in the gulf. Expecting us to fork over billions and billions of dollars every decade to rebuild one your fucking cites so you guys can continue being stupid in perpetuity is getting pretty god damn old, and will become unsustainable as global warming worsens and raises sea levels. We stopped paying the stupid farmers and towns that insisted on building in flood plains in the Midwest and hey look the towns evaporated and the problem fixed itself.
It's time to stop paying idiots for completely predictable and avoidable hurricane damage too.
NWSiaCB said:
In addition to the above, the problem with New Orleans wasn't that it was built below sea level, it's that the wetlands that protected the city were eroded away after digging too many canals, and floodwaters were channeled into the city via canals in a way that was known to be a problem, along with vastly under-maintained levies. If the city's flood defenses weren't constantly undermined, it would have survived. It's straight-up the corruption of the Army Corps of Engineer's fault what happened during Katrina.
No, the problem IS that it's below sea level in a flood zone, why do you think it needed all those defenses in the first place? Because it was built in a stupid place and then needed a vast and expensive series of flood defenses to try and protect itself from even modest weather events, which the locals then moronically refused to maintain or oversee properly. If not Katrina it would just be the next one, or even a much smaller storm as sea level rise takes effect. What occurred was predictable and inevitable at some point, just like Houston, just like Puerto Rico because of the cites location and how it was incompetently built and overseen by it's residents.
Also there wans't any "corruption", just certain design elements that weren't entirely understood to represent a risk of failure by a fairly unknown mechanic. The ACoE didn't knowingly build slip shod structures to save money or embezzle funds or something, they built something they thought was adequate to the task, but turned out to have engineering problems. That's not corruption, that's a technical failure, that's not the same thing. It wouldn't have stopped the flooding anyway, some levies failed due to design errors, but many others were simply over-topped.
Regardless the fact the locals were so disinterested in all this that couldn't be bothered to maintain what they had or examine such important infrastructure to assure it was up to spec is just a further part of the problem. Nothing has changed either, morons in the city are still refusing pitiful tax increase ballots to upkeep the rebuilt systems. Certainly in a few decades when this bites them in the ass and some part of the system fails, the dumbasses will again be blaming everyone BUT themselves and screaming at the rest of us that we're not doing enough to save them from their own stupidity.
In addition to the above, the problem with New Orleans wasn't that it was built below sea level, it's that the wetlands that protected the city were eroded away after digging too many canals, and floodwaters were channeled into the city via canals in a way that was known to be a problem, along with vastly under-maintained levies. If the city's flood defenses weren't constantly undermined, it would have survived. It's straight-up the corruption of the Army Corps of Engineer's fault what happened during Katrina.
*snorts* Someone sucked down that big easy kool aid real hard.
Seriously who the fuck do you think decided to cut all those fucking canals into the city? Who the fuck refused to adequately fund or maintain what defenses that existed for decades? Who the fuck failed to act on experts opinion that even if they had been properly funded (they weren't) that they existing defenses where inadequate to the largest storms which climate change was causing to occur with much greater frequency? Yeah sure it was "corruption" in the Army Engineers, it had nothing to do with them being constantly ordered to do 'do more with less', being underfunded, and stymied by incompetent governance some of it federal allot of it local.
Fuck off.
No what happened was incompetent local government when confronted by the consequences of their stupidity played the victim card HARD blaming everyone but themselves, and a media and wider nation too cowardly to call them on their bullshit for fear of being 'insensitive' basically gave them a pass. The leadership in New Orleans especially and Louisiana as a whole is thieving, backwards, and incompetent. One need only look at their catastrophic failure in pretty much every metric of governance to see that. It's little surprise they fucked up this too.
The Feds made some errors too, but acting like these problems all came from outside is nonsense.
Mileavis said:
Because fuck the people for not having the resources to move their homes amirite
Yes, fuck the people for knowingly living in areas that require billions of dollars a year in elaborate flood defenses and then flood anyway because the morons in question can't be bothered to plan adequately or properly fund the projects, and then expect us to subsidize their stupidity with billions more after each entirely predicate disaster. Large chunks of these morons also continuously elect climate change denying conservatives which just makes it even more infuriating to deal with their idiocy. If you can't move your home, move yourself, or stay where you are, but don't then expect me to subsidize your stupidity with billion dollar bail outs when it gets washed away.
All the fuck heads insisting on living on wooded wind swept hillsides in California can join them too.
These people are 'victims' in the same way someone that pounds half a bottle of whiskey and then wraps his car around a tree is. I won't show sympathy to people that bring ruin upon themselves, even less so when they then proceed to scream and blame everyone else for their failings and deny any form of personal responsibility.
Let loose the storm!!Arashi literally means 'storm'Typhoon 21 assaults the Japanese Islands
a.k.a. Typhoon JebiYou want a Lipovitan D...?Ah... ah! One, two, one, two...!Ah... this isn't your fault, Arashi...KIX FloodedI've got snacks - want some...?Rooftop in flightIt's the day of the Lawson Collab!!
