[WolfCoder]

Arizona was on fire and now Texas? I know I kept talking about logging in and setting everything on fire but I swear it wasn't me!

[ishkabible]

i have a theory that you really pissed off some hills and that they erupted as a result thus setting fire the surrounding area.

edit:
in case this sounds odd, i was referring to Wolf's member title "isn't a volcano just an angry hill?"

This post has been edited by ishkabible: 08 September 2011 - 05:14 PM

[NickDMax]

...did someone forget to return a stabler?

[fromTheSprawl]

I hope all of the people affected are safe and the fires/storms pass quickly.
I remember when the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan a girl said they had it coming because they were evil and didn't believe in the Catholic/Christian God. Plus all their AV/Hentai thing.
My country gets hit by no less than 20 storms a year and we just learn to adapt to it, but we can't discount the fact that in recent years these disasters are getting stronger and longer, others weirder. I hope the earth stabilizes again so we could adapt for good for a long while.

[tlhIn`toq]

fromTheSprawl, on 08 September 2011 - 06:10 PM, said:

but we can't discount the fact that in recent years these disasters are getting stronger and longer, others weirder. I hope the earth stabilizes again so we could adapt for good for a long while.

Who said the Earth was ever stable to begin with? The Earth goes through constant and continual changes. Always has. Always will. The entire myth than man was causing global warming climate change ("An Inconvenient Truth") has pretty much been de-bunked by the scientific community.

The Sahara Desert was once lush tropical garden.
Arizona used to be an inland sea. Today you can collect fish fossils throughout its hills.
and so on.

Discovery Channel has done numerous shows on what to expect over the next 50-250 years. People just don't want to believe it. Continued drying... longer and hotter summers... More fires joining into SuperFires for the American South West. Interviews with the commanders and people who track this sort of thing confirming the escalation of fire patterns and so on.

Its not god's wrath, biblical vengeance, or revenge by the Great Pumpkin. Thor, Zeus, God, Alah, Shiva and all that is well... lets not go there. People spouting this sort of nonsense are only one step removed from the Mayans sacrificing people to their gods to bring rain and good harvests.

Weather is just a manifestation of a dynamic planet. It shifts, it changes... it gets colder and warmer... even the magnetic polarity of the poles slowly shifts over millennia...

A couple dry decades, a few more fires one year than the previous, isn't even a blimp in the Earth's history which is measured in epochs not tiny little human years.

As fromTheSprawl said, people need to learn to adapt. Learn a few basic skills like fishing, farming and how to desalinate water. Put away a few long-shelf-life provisions every year. Recognize that cities like Phoenix might be beautiful now but too hot to support a population 20 years from now.

I chose to semi-retire while I was still young enough to enjoy the RV life style. While things are good I can see the country in comfort. As things get worse I can just pick up and move to an area that isn't so devastated. The fifth wheel is a condo on wheels, but it is efficient, self-contained, can be made to run on solar, has its own generator, or can go all propane, built-in water filtration and can be parked wherever I need it to be for fishing/hunting/surviving. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

[WolfCoder]

All you need is a shotgun.

[tlhIn`toq]

I prefer my AR-15 and Beretta 92fs.

[sithius92]

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Its not god's wrath, biblical vengeance, or revenge by the Great Pumpkin. Thor, Zeus, God, Alah, Shiva and all that is well... lets not go there. People spouting this sort of nonsense are only one step removed from the Mayans sacrificing people to their gods to bring rain and good harvests.

Agreed. I hate it when people use religion as a reason for natural disasters. If you live below sea level and are flooded when a hurricane hits, it's not the wrath of [insert deity here]. Don't live below sea level.

[tlhIn`toq]

Agreed. I can't fathom why the government rebuilt New Orleans. It is a cesspool of a city anyway. It's sinking every year. It is a money pit. Like any condemned house it should just be leveled and/or abandoned.

[supersloth]

it's also kind of amazing.

[trevster344]

supersloth, on 09 September 2011 - 12:35 PM, said:

it's also kind of amazing.

Unfortunately it's history is why it's still around.

[supersloth]

unfortunately history is why you're still around.

[Curtis Rutland]

Just got a new report of more fires burning near San Antonio.

[ishkabible]

I talked to my uncle last night(lives in Tyler, Texas), there are apparently smaller "flash" fires all around Texas(including Tyler). If one of these "flash" fires is allowed to get too big, which is likely due to already thin resources, it has ample potential to turn into another significant fire.

This post has been edited by ishkabible: 09 September 2011 - 02:06 PM

[Curtis Rutland]

That's pretty much the way it is Ish.