#Flooding Prevention

[jbfly46]

I just posted this in a live chat prayer group on Facebook for the victims of the floods in Texas, a group full of old white people who pretend to be Christian, and think that doing nothing but praying for the victims of the flood will absolve them of all of the responsibilities to their communities to ensure that innocent lives are never lost again in a similar natural disaster. I received multiple responses from several different people, all of which were nothing more than, “Now is the time for prayer, not pointing fingers”. This is after the governor of Texas spent the money that the county that was flooded had asked for to build infrastructure to prevent damage from flooding, was instead spent on wrapping barbed wire on buoy barrels and throwing them into the Rio Grande to kill Mexicans trying to cross the river that doesn’t even completely belong to the United States, much less Texas. Ownership of the Rio Grande is shared by the United States federal government, and the Mexican federal government, since one side of the river is Mexico, and the other side is America.

“Read reality, and stop hiding from the real world in your “room”, believing you absolve yourself of personal responsibility and responsibility to your communities by just going to church one or a few times a week, if you even go that often. I’m speaking the Truth that God has been trying to communicate to you all for a long time now, but “Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil”, am I right? If you pretend evil doesn’t exist, then you never have to confront it, am I right? I’m preaching what y’all’s preachers would be preaching if they truly had an actual connection to God like they claim. Instead, when the Truth is spoken, y’all have been taught to gaslight, deny, point fingers, hand wave it away, or do whatever else you have to do to sweep it under the rug, and forget about it until the next disaster happens. Disasters that keep happening more and more often in your communities, because I speak the Truth, and God has now lost patience for people like you, who use religion to absolve yourself of sin, instead of living like Jesus, so you never sin in the first place. Heaven will open back up and manifest on Earth, and Hell will be closed for good, according to the prophecies, but only once the people like you, and the communities like yours, learn how to truly open your hearts to God’s love, discard your false ego, and let God/Jesus take the wheel and show you all what you have to do in order to make it into Heaven. God is very patient, and has been even more patient with your peoples than most other peoples, but his patience runs thin when you repeatedly ignore His word, and continue to waste your creative ability on coming up with excuses and new ways to continue living life as if the Old Testament is still in effect, as if Jesus never died on the cross for the sins of our ancestors (I am ancestrally linked to people like you), never nullified the rules of The Old Testament, and never gave you New Testament rules to live by, rules that people like you seem to still have difficulty understanding. I wouldn’t be able to invoke His Name, God, like I have done here, if I had bad intentions and wasn’t speaking the Truth as it exists according to our Lord and Savior. If I was invoking God with bad intentions, the least I would suffer from would be something like a mini heart attack, or I would be suddenly stricken with dread and anxiety, as if I had just been cursed. But that has not happened, as proved by me continuing to be able to invoke God when I speak His Truth.”

[devotedlydeliciouscollection]

Strategies to Prevent Flooding in Your Home

Take these expert-recommended precautions both inside and outside your home to be ready for flooding. They'll all aid in your preparation, some of which you may do yourself and some of which call for a pro.

Discuss about grading. Make sure the area is properly graded away from the house to prevent surplus water from regularly entering your property. Utilize garden drainage options as well to manage runoff and safeguard vegetation.

Pay attention to runoff. To guarantee appropriate water drainage, keep leaves, debris, and animal nests away from gutters and downspouts. In severe weather, a little routine maintenance pays big benefits.

Consider surfaces outside. Think about front yard and backyard landscaping that reduces the amount of impermeable surfaces. Flooding can be lessened by planting native plants and erecting swales or other natural barriers to absorb excess water.

Elevate the equipment. It is advised to elevate outdoor equipment, such as heat pumps and air conditioner compressors. He continues, noting that you must confirm that the work complies with any applicable local building codes in your area.

Pay attention to the gas tanks. Install cheap ground anchors that are attached across the top of the tank with metal straps, or secure outside fuel tanks to a sizable concrete slab heavy enough to withstand the force of flooding.

Employ barriers and flood vents. Dry floodproofing prevents floodwater from entering a building by erecting a barrier, typically across doors or windows. It's critical to evaluate your property, the degree of flood danger, and your local rules prior to selecting a particular application.

Set up the sump pump. Water that builds up in crawl spaces and basements can be removed with the installation of a sump pump. Make sure the pump is installed correctly, serviced on a regular basis, and equipped with a battery backup in case of an electrical outage.

Sewer lines should be observed. In order to stop floodwater from backing up into your drains, install check valves in your sewer lines. In the event of a flood, this can lessen the chance of sewage backup. To complete the installation, use a qualified plumber.

Seal the walls. Watch out for potential entry points for water and take action to prevent it. To stop water seepage, apply waterproof sealants to the floors and walls of your basement.

Protect indoor equipment. Certain objects, including water heaters, cove security detectors and HVAC units, can be suspended from ceiling joists or placed on walls if the appliance is made for mounting and the ceiling or walls are sturdy enough to hold its weight.

Obtain an insurance. It is usually necessary to obtain a separate policy for flood damage since standard homeowners' insurance usually does not cover it. It's a means of safeguarding your house and possessions.

Not only may flooding cause damage to your house, but it can also result in injuries and even fatalities, therefore protecting it against it is crucial.

[reasonsforhope]

Legit though, we should start turning ecosystem restoration and work to make our world more tolerant to the effects of climate change into annual holidays and festivals

Like how just about every culture used to have festivals to celebrate the beginning of the harvest or its end, or the beginning of planting, or how whole communities used to host barn raisings and quilting bees - everyone coming together at once to turn the work of months or years into the work of a few days

Humble suggestions for festival types:

Goat festival

Besides controlled burns (which you can't do if there's too much dead brush), the fastest, most effective, and most cost-efficient way to clear brush before fire season - esp really heavy dead brush - is to just. Put a bunch of goats on your land for a few days!

Remember that Shark Tank competitor who wanted to start a goat rental company, and everyone was like wtf? There was even a whole John Oliver bit making fun of the idea? Well THAT JUST PROVES THEY'RE FROM NICE WET PLACES, because goat rental companies are totally a thing, and they're great.

So like. Why don't we have a weekend where everyone with goats just takes those goats to the nearest land that needs a ton of clearing? Public officials could put up maps of where on public lands grazing is needed, and where it definitely shouldn't happen. Farmers and people/groups with a lot of acres that need clearing can post Goat Requests.

Little kids can make goat-themed crafts and give the goats lots of pets or treats at the end of the day for doing such a good job. Volunteers can help wrangle things so goats don't get where they're not supposed to (and everyone fences off land nowadays anyway, mostly). And the goats, of course, would be in fucking banquet paradise.

Planting Festival and Harvest Festival

Why mess with success??? Bring these back where they've disappeared!!! Time to swarm the community gardens and help everyone near you with a farm make sure that all of their seeds are sown and none of the food goes to waste in the fields, decaying and unpicked.

And then set up distribution parts of the festival so all the extra food gets where it needs to be! Boxes of free lemons in front of your house because you have 80 goddamned lemons are great, but you know what else would be great? An organized effort to take that shit to food pantries (which SUPER rarely get fresh produce, because they can't hold anything perishable for long at all) and community/farmer's markets

Rain Capture Festival

The "water year" - how we track annual rainfall and precipitation - is offset from the regular calendar year because, like, that's just when water cycles through the ecosystems (e.g. meltwater). At least in the US, the water year is October 1st through September 30th of the next year, because October 1st is around when all the snowmelt from last year is gone, and a new cycle is starting as rain begins to fall again in earnest.

So why don't we all have a big barn raising equivalent every September to build rain capture infrastructure?

Team up with some neighbors to turn one of those little grass strips on the sidewalk into a rain-garden with fall-planting plants. Go down to your local church and help them install some gutters and rain barrels. Help deculvert rivers so they run through the dirt again, and make sure all the storm drains in your neighborhood are nice and clear.

Even better, all of this - ESPECIALLY the rain gardens - will also help a ton with flood control!

I'm so serious about how cool this could be, yall.

And people who can't or don't want to do physical stuff for any of these festivals could volunteer to watch children or cook food for the festival or whatever else might need to be done!

Parties afterward to celebrate all the good work done! Community building and direct local improvements to help protect ourselves from climate change!

The possibilities are literally endless, so not to sound like an influencer or some shit, but please DO comment or reply or put it in the notes if you have thoughts, esp on other things we could hold festivals like this for.

Canning festivals. "Dig your elderly neighbors out of the snow" festivals. Endangered species nesting count festival. Plant fruit trees on public land and parks festival. All of the things that I don't know anywhere near enough to think of. Especially in more niche or extreme ecosystems, there are so many possibilities that could do a lot of good

[dumpsterfirepropaganda]

Got my hands on a scanner this weekend and so I can finally start posting my doodles from the MMZXA Infection AU we concocted in @tyrantchimera's MMZX-centric Discord server - props to @delightful-69 for coming up with the original idea and bringing it to life in awesome and terrifying ways!

The gist: In this universe, Model W behaves like a mechanical parasite, physically infecting and mutating Reploids (and Humanoids, to a much more limited degree) until they physically become Model Ws themselves. Grey is exposed to a Model W shortly after he and Ashe receive Model A, and it's a race against the clock to find a cure before he's totally assimilated. Megamerging seems to slow the process down a bit...

...but Ashe and Grey are desperate for a more permanent solution, because they've seen first-hand what happens when the infection is allowed to progress unchecked...

Next

[adriles]

tried to oppose the godlike powers of a turbulent river and got myself concussed. got dragged down stream & kept getting my ass obliterated by the current and the small stones along the river bed

[mxanigel]

Fact-checking the deadly central Texas floods

July 2025 Central Texas floods [Wikipedia]

tl;dr:

Heavy rain events like this one are damned difficult to forecast more than a few hours out

The National Weather Service did EVERYTHING they could despite arbitrary staffing cuts and shitty morale

Way too many single-points-of-failure for getting the word out (need many options to get warnings! phones, weather radios, locally-installed emergency alert systems, etc.)

Disinformation is running fucking rampant right now: cloud seeding WAS NOT INVOLVED and weather radar instruments DO NOT MODIFY THE WEATHER

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FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge [The Handbasket]

Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point, according to figures shared with staff Monday evening. That includes a national incident management team, plus regional and headquarter staff. In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process. “We are doing a lot less than normal,” the FEMA staffer said.

Photos: Texas grapples with devastation from deadly flooding [NPR]

July 7: A crew of firefighters from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, gather for a briefing as they aid in search and rescue efforts near the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area. (first responders from Mexico are crossing into the U.S. to help us DESPITE EVERYTHING)

Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year [Texas Tribune]

A GOP state lawmaker who represents Kerr County says he likely would vote differently now on House Bill 13, which would have established a grant program for counties to build new emergency communication infrastructure.

Local officials facing questions over their actions in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods [CNN]

A review of typically off-the-record communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the National Weather Service showed that no emergency manager from Kerr County was sending messages or interacting with NWS staff on the platform, even as emergency officials from other counties were doing so. CNN was granted permission to report some of the information from this platform.

[gremlin-pattie]

Let me make it real simple for y’all, since we’ve got some fence-sitters on here:

You vote for Trump -> Trump wins

You don’t vote at all -> Trump still wins

You vote Harris -> we have a chance to prevent another Trump presidency

Choosing not to vote isn’t a neutral position. You don’t have to, and in fact shouldn’t, love Harris. She will have some terrible policies, and we will fight them when we get to that point.

But we have to air on the side of harm reduction. Whatever damage Harris would do in office, Trump would do unfathomably worse.

A vote is not an endorsement; it’s a strategic move to mitigate something worse from happening. This isn’t about wanting Harris to be president; it’s about preventing Trump from becoming president again.

Trump and Harris are unfortunately pretty evenly matched atm, so we need as many people as possible to vote Harris in order to keep him out of office. I don’t think any of us can truly imagine how catastrophic another Trump administration would be, especially for LGBTQ+ folk, people of color, immigrants, and any other oppressed group.

Please, if you haven’t already, and if there is still time to do so in your state, register to vote using this link.

If you’re already registered but just want to make sure, you can check your registration here.

[yanderethorne]

goodnight only to those with a spine and proper morals willing to fully boycott <33

[queer-crusader]

sorry i was stalking your blog (with love) and you mentioned a black sails server, i recently watched the show and im interesting in joining a server for the first time but never found one...could you share the invite link please?

But of course!! Also I am always a fan of loving blog stalkers 💖 here's the link, we're all a very lovely bunch so you'll be in good hands 😊

[kamil-a]

🌊💬 an ocean of the infinite broke free of your . Ahem. D slur.

[onebizarrekai]

there's an entire temple dedicated to the maintenance of the seasons in holodrum and protecting the rod of seasons and its four spirits. meanwhile nayru is just keeping the harp of ages in her basement

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

the definitions in my english book are the Best

[barley-st-band]

i get a lot of severe weather videos on tiktok because of who i am as a person and the number of people i’ve seen lately going “so much flooding!! so many storms!! it’s weather manipulation, there’s no way it’s natural!!” like babygirl i don’t know how to break this to you but it’s climate change. you know that thing that scientists have been warning you about for decades at this point? yeah, that’s the one.

like. i know we love to turn to conspiracies to make sense of things that scare us but babe. it’s not a fucking conspiracy theory your government just doesn’t give a shit about you.

[pomodoriyum]

like there are multiple factors and reasons why so many people died in the floods here but. most importantly. why did a childrens camp get built in a KNOWN fucking flash flood zone

[knifeslidez]

what if i finally cave and indulge myself (drawing house md)