• KaRunChiy
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    127 hours ago

    Reminds me of youtuber LGR’s latest video, he didn’t prepare much because the storms don’t normally reach that far inland, and unfortunately he had a lot of his collection damaged because 2 massive trees sliced his house clean in half. Makes me think that the midwest will soon get more populated due to its position away from coastlines

    • @bassomitron
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      177 hours ago

      Makes me think that the midwest will soon get more populated due to its position away from coastlines

      We have our own shit show of extreme weather. For example, derechos (an oceanless, inland hurricane essentially) used to be rare. We’ve had 2 massive ones in the last 4 years. This summer alone there were hundreds of tornados hitting places that rarely ever see them. Hell, it’s god damn October and we’re still having ~90°F days, which hardly ever used to happen.

      • @IMongoose
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        21 hour ago

        We don’t have winter in Chicagoland anymore. We have Spring, Summer, Fall, and Polar Vortex. Stays around 30-40 until mid January or early February and then get -20 for two weeks.

      • @[email protected]
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        63 hours ago

        Texas had a derecho go from Central Texas to the coast, which is the opposite of how weather is supposed to work here.

      • KaRunChiy
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        147 hours ago

        In nebraska here under a Red Flag warning and a high of 91 today

        EDIT : Correction, forecast updated with a high of 102… in fucking october. Holy shit

        • @bassomitron
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          56 hours ago

          Hell, I think northern Nebraska had widespread, massive flooding a few years ago due to extreme weather causing one of the dams to fail. Wiped out several communities.

      • @[email protected]
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        86 hours ago

        We got one of those out of place tornadoes this year! My town had one set down basically in the middle. We lost so many huge old (50-150+ year old) trees because that just doesn’t happen here. And because it doesn’t happen here, and some of the trees were planted well before the roads were built (meaning a lot of the trees that came down were basically in the road, curbs built around them sort of thing), it really did a number on the infrastructure (to say nothing of the damage to homes and stuff).

        But in addition to a random tornado, we’ve just had a ton more super strong wind/rain events that cause damage in the last few years. I honestly don’t blame my neighbors for taking down their big old trees rather than deal with the weather damage. (I disagree with it, but I understand it)

      • @QuincyPeck
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        67 hours ago

        Are you in Tennessee? Because that sounds like the last four years here.

        • @bassomitron
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          Not super far from there (~6 hours), WNW Illinois.

    • @mysoulishome
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      97 hours ago

      If you are ever fortunate enough to pay off your house DO NOT go without insurance because you can

      • @[email protected]
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        137 hours ago

        Pretty much all home insurance doesn’t cover hurricane related damages if you’re on the east side of the US.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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        127 hours ago

        In some parts of Australia you cannot insure your home any longer due to climate change.

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          Florida and California are getting like that in the US. The lawyers and public adjusters are contributing to the problem by suing and shaking down every insurance company that stays in the state. In California they are begging them to stay…

          • @[email protected]
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            25 hours ago

            Parts of Massachusetts are like that as well. As far as I know, flood insurance basically no longer exists on Cape Cod.

            • @MutilationWave
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              Same in the Outer Banks, the island chain to the east of North Carolina. The first time I went I was like wow how cool you can see the bay and the ocean at the same time in Rodanthe! That strip of land keeps getting narrower.

    • Nougat
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      57 hours ago

      I wonder how deep inland hurricanes will affect the production of tornadoes up here (for good or ill).