U.S. Politics

[wazzap24]

He's actually excited by it isn't he? What a word removed. 

[il_serpente]

His hurricanes, like his crowd sizes, are always the biggest.   It's quite a personal accomplishment that further demonstrates how great he is.

[sne]

1 hour ago, wazzap24 said:

He's actually excited by it isn't he? What a word removed. 

No doubt he's already having his lawyers looking into buying up property in Florida and the Caribbeans that will be available on the cheap after the hurricane, that he can later on exploit and build hotels on.

Edited September 6, 2017 by sne

[NurembergVillan]

55 minutes ago, sne said:

No doubt he's already having his lawyers looking into buying up property in Florida and the Caribbeans that will be available on the cheap after the hurricane, that he can later on exploit and build hotels on.

He actually owns a place in St Martin that is apparently bang in line to take a hit from Irma.

It's a place that has been on the market for several months and has recently been dramatically reduced in price as he can't shift it.

I can imagine he's got it insured for the original listing price.

[villakram]

Latest recon flights have measured falling pressure, so it could well push towards 200mph in the next 10 hours. Scary times for folks in it's path.

[magnkarl]

Natural disasters like this have a way of subtracting from how bad a president actually is. People are now focused on helping Texas and Florida/West Indies instead of focusing on Donald's horrendous team and term.

Only Bush managed to screw up during a hurricane.

[sne]

5 minutes ago, villakram said:

Latest recon flights have measured falling pressure, so it could well push towards 200mph in the next 10 hours. Scary times for folks in it's path.

Sick to death of people blaming Xia for everything.

Recon has nothing to do with this hurricane!

 

 

 

[peterms]

4 hours ago, wazzap24 said:

He's actually excited by it isn't he? What a word removed. 

Well, thanks for that image of an excited Herr Drumpf.

I expect to have a troubled night's sleep tonight,  and it will be your fault.

[bickster]

2 hours ago, NurembergVillan said:

He actually owns a place in St Martin that is apparently bang in line to take a hit from Irma.

It's a place that has been on the market for several months and has recently been dramatically reduced in price as he can't shift it.

I can imagine he's got it insured for the original listing price.

This is Trump we're talking about, a man who is such a successful businessman, he'd have made more money by sticking his initial inheritance in an interest bearing bank account than he has actually made since his dad died.

[LondonLax]

Are we allowed to mention Climate Change yet?

[PieFacE]

6 hours ago, LondonLax said:

Are we allowed to mention Climate Change yet?

Fake news.

[wazzap24]

7 hours ago, LondonLax said:

Are we allowed to mention Climate Change yet?

 

[maqroll]

21 hours ago, NurembergVillan said:

He actually owns a place in St Martin that is apparently bang in line to take a hit from Irma.

As is the "Winter White House" in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.

[TheAuthority]

Rolling Stone article from 2013 talks about general sea rise in Miami and the NUCLEAR POWER PLANT BUILT 24 MILES SOUTH OF MIAMI.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620

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Beyond all these fears that keep south Florida's environmentalists and urban planners up at night, rising sea levels present an even more chilling threat to life in greater Miami. Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, which sits on the edge of the Biscayne Bay just south of Miami, is completely exposed to hurricanes and rising seas. "It is impossible to imagine a stupider place to build a nuclear plant than Turkey Point," says Philip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami and an outspoken critic of the plant.

The Turkey Point nukes began operation in the early Seventies, long before sea-level rise was an issue. But precautions were taken to protect the plant from hurricanes; most importantly, the reactor vessels are elevated 20 feet above sea level, several feet above the maximum storm surge the region has seen. According to Florida Power and Light, the electric utility that operates the plants, there is virtually no chance of a storm surge causing problems with the reactors. As evidence of this, Michael Waldron, a spokesman for the company, points to the fact that Hurricane Andrew, a Category Five hurricane, passed directly over the plant in 1992, with very little damage. "It goes without saying that safety is our number-one priority," Waldron said in an e-mail.

But Stoddard and other critics of the plant are not reassured. For one thing, although the plant did weather the hurricane, the peak storm surge, which was 17 feet high, passed 10 miles north of the plant. According to Peter W. Harlem, a research geologist at Florida International University, the plant itself only weathered a surge of about three feet – hardly a testament to the storm-readiness of the plant. How would Turkey Point fare if it were hit with a Hurricane Katrina-size storm surge of 28 feet?

Stoddard also points out that, although the reactors themselves are elevated, some of the other equipment is not. "I was given a tour of the plant in 2011," says Stoddard. "It was impressively lashed down against wind, but even I could see vulnerabilities to water." Stoddard noticed that some of the ancillary­ equipment was not raised high enough. He was particularly struck by the location of one of the emergency diesel generators, which are crucial for keeping cooling waters circulating­ in the event of a power failure (it was the failure of four layers of power supply that caused the meltdown of reactors in Fukushima, Japan, after the plant was hit by a tsunami in 2011). Stoddard­ says the generator was located about 15 feet above sea level, and it was housed in a container with open louvers. "How easy would it be for water to flow into that? How well does that generator work when it is under water?"

Another problem: Turkey Point uses a system of cooling canals to dissipate heat. Those canals are cut into coastal marsh surrounding the plant, which is only about three feet above sea level.

But the biggest problem of all is that inundation maps show that with three feet of sea-level rise, Turkey Point is cut off from the mainland and accessible only by boat or aircraft. And the higher the seas go, the deeper it's submerged.

 

[maqroll]

The PM of Barbuda says the island's structures are 95% destroyed.

[ml1dch]

1 hour ago, maqroll said:

The PM of Barbuda says the island's structures are 95% destroyed.

Really? As recently as half an hour ago he is quoted as saying that "about 95% of the buildings had suffered some damage"

So that's escalated pretty quickly.

[maqroll]

7 hours ago, ml1dch said:

Really? As recently as half an hour ago he is quoted as saying that "about 95% of the buildings had suffered some damage"

So that's escalated pretty quickly.

D'oh, I misheard that then.

[peterms]

3 hours ago, maqroll said:

D'oh, I misheard that then.

Guardian is quoting him as saying 90% of buildings destroyed,  50% of people homeless.  I suppose that means some buildings pretty much wrecked but people still able to shelter in at least part of the building, and the rest completely gone.  Probably be a couple of days before it's possible to make accurate assessments, but the brief footage from flyovers looks pretty bad.

[Keyblade]

So apparently Tomi Lahren's great grandfather was an illegal immigrant, and went to court for immigration fraud 

I don't know why conservatives act like they have some god-given right to the country like they were placed there by God himself, when they're all descendants of immigrants...many of which didn't have the seemingly all-important 'paperwork'.

Clicky

[HanoiVillan]

Speaking of hypocrites, check this guy out:

Limbaugh evacuates South Florida after claiming Hurricane Irma was a liberal hoax

“So there is a desire to advance this climate change agenda, and hurricanes are one of the fastest and best ways to do it. You can accomplish a lot just by creating fear and panic. You don’t need a hurricane to hit anywhere,” Limbaugh said on his show Tuesday. “All you need is to create the fear and panic accompanied by talk that climate change is causing hurricanes to become more frequent and bigger and more dangerous, and you create the panic, and it’s mission accomplished, agenda advanced.”

But on the show Thursday, Limbaugh said he would be off the air for the next few days.

[. . .]

Limbaugh did not recant his earlier statements about Irma, and he did not encourage his listeners in the area to evacuate. In fact, Limbaugh seemed to even double down on his earlier views.

“The views expressed by the host of this program [are] documented to be almost always right 99.8 percent of the time,” Limbaugh said right before announcing he would be leaving South Florida for parts unknown. “There is a reason for that because we engage in a relentless and unstoppable pursuit of the truth and we find and proclaim it and that happens to drive people crazy.”

https://thinkprogress.org/limbaugh-to-evacuate-south-florida-after-claiming-irma-was-a-hoax-cb3fb5fb35b8/

Exactly how many of his listeners now plan on placing themselves in mortal physical peril after being persuaded by him trolling the librulz isn't clear, but my god what a chump.