Oh look, there's already a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Kai]

[Jenne]

Damn you, Alex! Damn you to Hell! 

The outer bands have already been kicking the shit out of Austin. Flash flooding and such.

And I can't find my umbrella.

What did my firstborn do now?  Told him to blow his nose into his NAPKIN or failing that, his SLEEVE, but NOT all over the east side of Texas!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am so glad I live in Portland! The worst we have to contend with is occasional gales and once in a while a volcano or earthquake.

[East Coast Hustle]

yeah, the fact that I live less than a mile from Mount Tabor would concern me if I bothered to be concerned with things. I figure if it happens I'll just run across the street to DV8 and die in a pile of strippers.

[Suu]

I thought Mt. Tabor was a dead cinder cone? I know however, that if Mt. Hood goes, ya'll are fucked. 

[Reginald Ret]

We had a flood here once.
We immediately started a 47 year project to keep that from happening again.

These are the risks of dyke failure we have now:

* North and South Holland (excluding Wieringermeer): 1 per 10,000 years
    * Other areas at risk from sea flooding: 1 per 4,000 years
    * Transition areas between high land and low land: 1 per 2,000 years

River flooding causes less damage than salt water flooding so areas at risk from river flooding have a higher acceptable risk. River flooding also has a longer warning time, making for a lower estimated death toll.

    * South Holland at risk from river flooding: 1 per 1,250 years
    * Other areas at risk from river flooding: 1 per 250 years.

How are your risks?


sidenote: As an anarchist i should be against this, but this is one of the rare occasions i can accept paying for stuff with extorted money. (hypocritical? yes)

[Juana]

We have nicely boring weather. Forest fires (mostly in the form of smoke drifting down from the mountains/hills), tornadoes (for like a week in spring), and that's pretty much it. We *might* get a little tiny tremor from Mammoth Springs or elsewhere once in a great while, but we're pretty well insulated between two mountain ranges.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I thought Mt. Tabor was a dead cinder cone? I know however, that if Mt. Hood goes, ya'll are fucked. 

It's an extinct volcano, yes. Its tubes are all clogged solid. Portland is riddled with extinct volcanoes since it's right on the Boring lava field.

The volcanoes close enough to be a threat are Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, the Three Sisters, and Mt. Jefferson, as well as Mt. St. Helens. Of course, there's also the possibility that a new volcano could emerge. I think Portland is really only under imminent threat by Mt. Hood though, and also earthquake and tsunami, which would cause the rivers to back up and that would pretty thoroughly fuck everyone.

Knock on wood!

[Suu]

We had a flood here once.
We immediately started a 47 year project to keep that from happening again.

These are the risks of dyke failure we have now:

* North and South Holland (excluding Wieringermeer): 1 per 10,000 years
    * Other areas at risk from sea flooding: 1 per 4,000 years
    * Transition areas between high land and low land: 1 per 2,000 years

River flooding causes less damage than salt water flooding so areas at risk from river flooding have a higher acceptable risk. River flooding also has a longer warning time, making for a lower estimated death toll.

    * South Holland at risk from river flooding: 1 per 1,250 years
    * Other areas at risk from river flooding: 1 per 250 years.

How are your risks?


sidenote: As an anarchist i should be against this, but this is one of the rare occasions i can accept paying for stuff with extorted money. (hypocritical? yes)

As we all learned back in March, a good chunk of Rhode Island is a flood plain at sea level (downtown Providence is below, like New Orleans), and most of Florida is at or below. It doesn't take much for us to have a bad flood.

[Suu]

I thought Mt. Tabor was a dead cinder cone? I know however, that if Mt. Hood goes, ya'll are fucked. 

It's an extinct volcano, yes. Its tubes are all clogged solid. Portland is riddled with extinct volcanoes since it's right on the Boring lava field.

The volcanoes close enough to be a threat are Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, the Three Sisters, and Mt. Jefferson, as well as Mt. St. Helens. Of course, there's also the possibility that a new volcano could emerge. I think Portland is really only under imminent threat by Mt. Hood though, and also earthquake and tsunami, which would cause the rivers to back up and that would pretty thoroughly fuck everyone.

Knock on wood!

I only remember this from doing a report on the Cascades back in high school geography, but yeah, I figure it's only a matter of time before they all go.

[Reginald Ret]

We had a flood here once.
We immediately started a 47 year project to keep that from happening again.
image:   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Deltawerken_na.png/635px-Deltawerken_na.png
These are the risks of dyke failure we have now:

* North and South Holland (excluding Wieringermeer): 1 per 10,000 years
    * Other areas at risk from sea flooding: 1 per 4,000 years
    * Transition areas between high land and low land: 1 per 2,000 years

River flooding causes less damage than salt water flooding so areas at risk from river flooding have a higher acceptable risk. River flooding also has a longer warning time, making for a lower estimated death toll.

    * South Holland at risk from river flooding: 1 per 1,250 years
    * Other areas at risk from river flooding: 1 per 250 years.

How are your risks?


sidenote: As an anarchist i should be against this, but this is one of the rare occasions i can accept paying for stuff with extorted money. (hypocritical? yes)

As we all learned back in March, a good chunk of Rhode Island is a flood plain at sea level (downtown Providence is below, like New Orleans), and most of Florida is at or below. It doesn't take much for us to have a bad flood.

Oh right. I'm sorry but you are fucked.
Well, your neighbours are, you OTOH are well prepared.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

you're saying downtown providence is lower(sea level wise) than new orleans?

[Suu]

you're saying downtown providence is lower(sea level wise) than new orleans?

Not lower THAN NOLA, but definitely below sea level LIKE NOLA. Sorry for the confuzzlement.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Ah ok.
Cause the ninth ward was pretty much made into a huge lake/river......


oh now i'm sad. 

[Suu]

There are watermarks in downtown Providence where hurricanes put the city 9ft and 12ft under. We have a hurricane barrier, but it's never really been tested.