So, tell me, what is on your mind at the moment?

Ok, I’m going to add in experience here because the house survived without damage while others in the neighborhood did not. Here.

Water projections are for a very specific range of flooding that doesn’t really spread wide like we think. The barometric pressure and wind is what is causing a bowing in the water that rises higher in a centralized area, so when you call for 20 ft storm surges, you’re talking about Central-East or Central-South of the eye, while the North/West is pulling water out via wind, despite the bubble from pressure. And that height only stays that high for a certain distance inland. This is why my area which is 6ft higher than sea level NEVER gets flooded from just a storm surge. (One day it may, not knocking it, but we are the high end and have a lot of land between us and the storm. The rest of the area is going to flood really bad, to take us out with surge.)

So, when I leave for a storm, I specifically leave for wind damage, not flooding.

Wind damage has a habit of finding a piece of the roof and peeling it back like taking a sticker tag off a product at a store. So it peels back in clumps and stops when it hits an area that is holding. Unfortunately, under the shingles is long sheets of tar paper, and once that’s exposed, most all your rain protection is coming off.

So, if you only get the wind peeling, not the storm surge, nor the trees falling on houses, it’s feasible that this would actually work.

My thing is that if the water table rises (that was more the case with Helene, inland), the bulk of a tree’s anchoring roots are close to the surface, so when the rain floods to the level of the grass, it takes very little wind to tip them over. Likewise, my concern is those straps aren’t any further down than the tree’s roots–if the whole tree is coming up, those straps won’t work. If the tree snaps from winds alone and lands on that roof, it wouldn’t affect the straps, but the house is damaged enough to now catch on the wind a bit more…so I see it as possibly useless to try, even if it worked enough this time…that’s if it really worked. The debate can stay skeptical on that, with good reason.

Most the prep is for wind damage and minor flooding. Catastrophic is impossible to fully prepare for. They are why you carry an axe into your attic, so you don’t die if you gambled wrong.

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Earlier today, I was searching up an article on my phone that I’ve previously read on occasion, but it wasn’t there. I couldn’t definitively remember the name of the site, either (tbh, I didn’t really pay attention to it). I’m rather disappointed by this turn of events.

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My KDP author proofs that I ordered last month are supposed to arrive in 2 days. They’re yet to be shipped and it takes at least a week for anything to be delivered down here. This has never been an issue before. Getting very annoyed. I will also be very impressed if it arrives on time :joy:

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Can you remember any of the sentences or significant keywords from the article? I’ve found lost pages by googling for those things. Worth a try! ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯

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I remembered a few, but I still didn’t find the article.

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Love getting racially profiled at the pretzel shop. Like the guy took one look and handed me a pretzel loaded with chilli flakes. Unprovoked!

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Why is coffee shop music either absolutely lit or trash with no inbetween?

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Coffe is an extreme drink. Tea is more mild.

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Well, I’d put Mideastern tea over midwestern coffee, in a heartbeat.

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I listened to “Blood on White Satin” from Naomi Scott’s tie-in EP for Smile 2 (it’s an alright track; I really like the music, but I’m not super gaga for her voice, though I might like it more on later listens), and I wonder if the title was at least somewhat inspired by the '60s song “Nights in White Satin” by The Moody Blues.

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you ever consume a piece of media that makes you go fuck it’s gonna be so much work to get that good?

yeah. anyways, started watching Trigun Stampede today.

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Ehehehehe

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even the names are 2 cool 4 me :pensive: how am i supposed to compete with “vash the stampede” and “millions knives”??

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The animated film Redline was all hand-drawn by one artist.

Similar story with the fan films Helsreach and Astartes.

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Sounds like you lack imagination to me.

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handdrawn is wildly impressive for animation. i remember when flipnote studio was a thing and even those simple 2d 2 colour 1 minute animations took so much work. Whole full-colour videos is crazy.

Damn, Narb :sob:

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The animated film Redline is 107 minutes long, and it took seven years to animate…over 100,000 hand-drawn frames…

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