If you are in south Florida get the f@ck out now.

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
Well we dodged a bullet. Lots of rain and wind and Netflix . Some of my neighbors weren't so lucky.
Jose is coming and there's always next year...

Not bashing at all, I'm happy to hear that your experience wasn't unpleasant and you're safe.

But I left Florida because I didn't want to be stuck in the position of rolling the dice with my safety and my life savings. Climate change is tilting the odds in the wrong direction.

Since you're there, you've made a different choice. I'm interested in your perspective on this?
 

Grandpapy

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Why weren't trains used to evacuate people from Irma?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/09/irma-s09.html

Because America is losing its edge in the healing rush to enrich its oligarch class.

If we really want to be the greatest country in the world, maybe we should spend less on military drones and more on low hanging fruit like this?
We better hurry, China uses taller ladders.
20 yrs from now the Chinese wont seem as bad for providing transportation as they divert oil.

"Because if you cannot match the offer, I will accept the goodwill of China. My job is to see to it that the people are comfortable.”

https://www.rappler.com/nation/137177-duterte-china-build-manila-clark-railway
https://www.rappler.com/nation/137177-duterte-china-build-manila-clark-railway
Trains and free flowing traffic are bad for oil sales and self driving cars.
 

ttystikk

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We better hurry, China uses taller ladders.
20 yrs from now the Chinese wont seem as bad for providing transportation as they divert oil.

"Because if you cannot match the offer, I will accept the goodwill of China. My job is to see to it that the people are comfortable.”

https://www.rappler.com/nation/137177-duterte-china-build-manila-clark-railway
Trains and free flowing traffic are bad for oil sales and self driving cars.
Buying the American rail system from the private companies that own it would allow us to use public funding to dramatically improve the system now in place.

As it is, Amtrak is a bad joke. The last time I rode it the cars were grubby, the dining service was expensive and they kept stopping the train so more important loads of coal could pass!
 
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Grandpapy

Well-Known Member
Buying the American rail system from the private companies that own it would allow us to use public find to dramatically improve the system now in place.

As it is, Amtrak is a bad joke. The last time I rode it the cars were grubby, the dining service was expensive and they kept stopping the train so more important loads of coal could pass!
There's a reason the oil industry lobby's all level of govt.
But if you are rich you can use "Fastpass" to get around all those commoners.
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
There's a reason the oil industry lobby's all level of govt.
But if you are rich you can use "Fastpass" to get around all those commoners.
If you're rich you fly.

The oil industry lobby will fuck this country up just as much as the coal industry lobby is doing now.
 

dagwood45431

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Oh look, latest warsock's English just got better



I've been resisting the urge to adopt a cat (both of my very old cats took their final catnip toke and said, "peace out bitches", last year). That kitty pic probably just put me over the edge. May a squirmy but mostly benign organism enter your pee hole and cause you slight urination discomfort (but just for today).
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I've been resisting the urge to adopt a cat (both of my very old cats took their final catnip toke and said, "peace out bitches", last year). That kitty pic probably just put me over the edge. May a squirmy but mostly benign organism enter your pee hole and cause you slight urination discomfort (but just for today).
I a"pee"logize. @Blue Wizard has a cat he can mail you.
 

gg2

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I have been chased by a few hurricanes being a native from the south. Leaving from them n being followed, trying to get bk. hm. what wild rides now.. as long as the longitude is NOT 22 and the latitude is NOT 17.. I GOTHERDUN...such a awesome :arrow: to see over and gone:hump::leaf:water,candles,cannedfoods.tolitpaper.. and my420giterdun:peace:bongsmilie
 
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