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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds | Common Dreams
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"As I'm sitting here stuck on a Brightline train because of flooding in my district, all those stormwater projects he cut look pretty stupid right now," a Florida lawmaker said.
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    Well maybe all the police and gun owners of florida can shoot the water away with guns since they nixed building pipes and ponds to deal with it.

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      The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a climate is a good guy with a gun.

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      Maybe they can nuke the floods away.

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        Ok, maybe I’m stupid for it, and I wouldn’t deploy one to do it for damn sure, but I can see why someone would think nuking a hurricane might work.

        I don’t think we have ever made one that powerful, maybe tsar bomba, but I will admit I wondered if it would work when I first heard about it.

        Besides, everyone knows that a hurricane’s natural predator is a black magic marker

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          Random dude on the Internet thinking “hey, maybe…” That’s fine. But the president should not be getting his ideas from Sharknado movies.

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          Even the Tsar Bomba is a little candle in the wind in comparison with a Hurricane.

          All you would get would be a radioactive Hurricane.

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            So, you’re saying we need to build a much, much bigger bomb.

            /s because its’ 2024 and sarcasm is dead

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              I will admit there is a morbidly curious part of me that wonders what could happen if we add energy to a hurricane.

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                There was a documentary.

                “Sharknado”

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                It’s called global warming. lol 😭

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          It wouldn’t work (I should have added /s); it would introduce new problems, not to mention the issue of radiation poisoning.

          Sharpies, though, solve all problems.

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            Do we have a buttsharpies here yet?

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          https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energy-hurricane-volcano-earthquake1.htm

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            So we need at least 10,001?

            Somebody bring me some duct tape and hold my beer.

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            How much could penguins know about volcanos?

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              You might be surprised

              Mount Erebus and the entire Andean Volcanic Belt is in spitting distance of a penguin or two. Plus any under water volcanoes.

              Also should we trust some who refuses to identify themselves

              /s

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        With the amount of heat released during a nuclear explosion, this might work. I think we need to do a test. It look like Miami is flooding right now.

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