INSANE Florida Hurricane Damage Shows Climate Change Is IMPOSSIBLE To Ignore

[@onrch]

The problem with this hurricane wasn't its intensity (it actually made landfall in a similar spot to Idalia the year before, which is a pretty underpopulated area), it was the absolute size of the hurricane and how it raced inland remaining a C4 into Georgia, which makes it 10x worse than Idalia at least. Also it kinda annoys me with the lack of hurricane knowledge you have, but its understandable. Still agree with the message.

[@Victorseafog]

a category 4 is not a major intensity for a hurricane you say? Well yeah a catagory 4 hurricane is considered a major hurricane.

[@onrch]

@@Victorseafog when did I ever say it wasn't a major hurricane????

[@matthewvandeventer3632]

I live all the way up on the border of Georgia and South Carolina. The storm storm was a cat 1 hundreds of miles inland. It destroyed my city.

[@kated3165]

There's already another possible hurricane brewing at the exact spot that birthed Helene!! The Gulf of Mexico is warming so much, its going to become a MAJOR storm spawner...

[@jeffreyfiegen1538]

Commenting as someone affected by the hurricane, my entire area has been without power since around 6 on Friday. Having to wait until midnight to get even the slightest but of internet access for updates about how progress for getting power provided to the area again is annoying. Just for reference, I'm not in Florida, but rather South Carolina, and we got either tornadoes or microbursts of wind that uprooted trees and took out power lines.

[@AsobiMedio]

The soundest financial and health decision I'll ever make is when I finally have the resources to get the hell out of Florida and never look back. 20 years and the only thing that happens is a consistently worsening situation on every level, economic, social, political, etc.

[@boogit9979]

I started over with $4k from Texas to Virginia. You can do it!

[@FieldBlaser]

As someone who’s spent life on the coast. I used to feel less anxious by Oct. Not anymore.

[@vannpritchard2171]

It's really bad the sheer size of it. The hurricane reached into Georgia and no one here knows how to deal with it. On the Eaat side at least 44 died. We were not prepared

[@MawdyDev]

I've been without power since it hit. It uprooted a large tree, that fell and ripped the power lines out of our house. Thankfully I had a backup battery for my PC and the router, so the moment we lost power was caught in my Twitch vod. I published the vod when we visited a friend yesterday to recharge our backup batteries.

[@Groovingforwardatx]

When I went to the gulf side of Florida a few years ago the water felt so hot it was like a hot tub.

[@JoelRiter]

I am now a climate refugee. Trying to come up with the money to get out

[@Fish-vs6jf]

I can't wait to escape Florida. Almost done with college, then I'm out of here.

[@daveferger9947]

Florida's gone. Just a matter of when. If we drastically change course we may alter the rate of change, but in a hundred years, probably sooner, half of Florida is going to be an archipelago.

[@matthewwagner7140]

I’m a regional manager for a traffic control company that works directly with duke energy in upstate SC. The damage is insane, and we are at risk for historic flooding TOMORROW due to runoff from the storm in the mountains. Please prepare anyone in upstate SC, have an evacuation plan ready, and leave immediately if you live next to a river or lake. I have a really bad feeling about this.

[@TV_FilthyFrankREBORN]

The most that happened to me is that the power bliped off for a second I was playing BO2

[@watcherwatching5051]

And yet some people are saying its a hoax.

[@waldoc2829]

Damn, the Sonic Adventure 1 remake looks sick

[@brycedyck8450]

And everything that was damaged needs to be replaced, thus increasing the Carbon Footprint for everyone living there. Does anyone else see that this is unsustainable?

[@fl00fydragon]

NGL, there should be a "you break it, you pay it" approach in taxation and fines proportional to damages caused from all of the catastrophic conservative stances. There's a lot of ruined lives that have to be fixed and they should be footed the bill.

[@Caribbeanaemond]

I'm gonna say it. Signs have been showing up all over the world for years. But it has to happen in the USA for a certain group of people to care enough.

[@combatwombat2134]

The climate being pulled into the culture war is, I think, the most tragic victim of it all. Everything else we can muddle through, but if - if - climate change is going to be as bad as some have suggested, it's not going to be nearly as easy to not suffer drastically because of it.

[@CircutDog]

boosting the video with a comment because xan's climate change videos get less interaction that normal 😁

[@sunnythemartian]

200th like! :3

[@billcolgate2851]

You can't point to any individual weather disaster, even something like Helene, and say, "this wouldn't have happened if not for global warming." That said, it was weird to go to bed when Helene was C1 and wake up to it being C4

[@kated3165]

Yes we can! We had as many cat 4 hurricanes in the past 25 years than had occurred in the 50 years previous to those! We are not even half close to seeing those increases to their full extent. Heck, cat 6 hurricanes are predicted to become a thing in a near future. The warmer the ocean gets, the more hurricanes and the bigger/stronger they will get! I'm in Quebec, where we have never had hurricanes because the closest body of water is the Atlantic. Well, that is predicted to also change with global warming! Hurricanes will happen in areas that never saw them before, as well as becoming MUCH more frequent in areas that did.

[@onrch]

Sure, a singular impactful hurricane cannot decide whether climate change would have caused it. But there has been an overall trend of more active atlantic hurricane seasons, which can be seen as a result of climate change

[@jochenkraus7016]

@@kated3165 It's like someone not getting cancer despite chain smoking or getting despite not smoking. It's not a 1:1 direct connection but changing probabilities and the severity to expect. And that only shows over a long time.

[@kated3165]

@@jochenkraus7016 True! Though, unfortunately, hurricane increases aren't the only consequences of Climate Change. We will not be questioning ourselves "is it CC?" for many more years. Those glaciers, many areas depend on for water, aren't going to grow back. Coral reefs neither. Out-of-whack weather extremes will make growing food a lot more complicated and expensive...

[@mcnuggets2011]

Florida about to become blue no matter what they think

[@Aerobolt91]

Oof okay so... while I agree with your message, you saying when hurricane season is sent me into nerd emoji mode. Hurricane season is June 1 to November 30, not "just started" and will not wind down until "next year, summer" what?? But to be fair... if we don't get our shit together, hurricane season will be May 1 to December 31 before we know it :/

[@wildrose7648]

Comment for the algorithm

[@frocco7125]

Me too

[@thestupidinator8436]

Comment for talk with critikal no.157

[@JoseSerrato0420]

2:03 As a gay son, I hurt at this statement. Because I check weather for my family's safety because I've been the one to remind family of rain and wind so much and bought them protective gear like umbrellas and boots, because somehow gay sons lookout when dad's bad. But straight sons looking out for family have been rare.