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.
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!
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.
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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!!