Comprehensive disaster thread

Fires in Chile up to over 1 million acres.

 

Ethan Hunt has done it again. Next.

 

What has his brother Mike been up to?

 

dripping and stinking.

 

We've got to win the NBA championship by 2045.

 

@KingCheetah : DOOMED.

 

Sad thing about that is I was actually trying to quote the asteroid story, but quoted the Rockets quote instead. Life is tragic sometimes.

 

Seaweed blob twice the size of US headed towards Florida and Gulf:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ssive-blob-of-seaweed-heading-toward-florida/

"Sargassum". Not to be confused with "sarcasm", which is actually the size of the entire earth when you think about it, but not dangerous to sea life since most have no feelings to hurt.

 

Potential monetary streams from Sagassum.

 

Big tornado in Rolling Fork, MS

 

I love this. You gotta know what the pH (for what you're growing) and 17 other different factors (inputs) are before (again, for what you're growing) you put in on ag land, though. Shouldn't be a problem, and if you do it right you don't need that much water.

Another potential sustainable business use is as a biofertiliser in the agricultural industry. Mexico’s farming industry is mainly concentrated in northern and central Mexico, in part because it relies on fertiliser imported from the United States, which is expensive to transport to the far south, says Canto. Producing fertiliser locally could help boost agricultural production in the Caribbean region.

Luna’s team found that sargassum can create three agricultural products from one process. By heating and then filtering the seaweed, a concentrated liquid can be extracted to use as a biostimulant for crops. The waste from this can then be used as a substrate for growing mushrooms, with the debris turned into compost and spread on fields to enrich the soil.

 

Good overview article that explains a few weather/climate things.

 

I've been watching a few of the videos from the Little Rock tornado the past couple of days. Crazy. Kind of getting nervous now that we're under a tornado watch here in the DFW area for the next couple of hours.



I really don't think this woman knew what she was filming or enough about tornadoes despite being in Arkansas - either that or she's just nuts :


Audio NSFW, but this poor lawn guy :


Audio NSFW :

 

Uh, reverse?

 

My guess is that all of this won't melt nice and slowly. Among many places, the San Juaquin Valley and the national crops grown there are in the flooding crosshairs. Also, Pacific Crest Trail through-hikers are screwed this year. (Look at that variability over just the last 20 years--that should be an enormous red flag to everyone.)