#flash flooding hurricanes

[hers-underwraps]

It’s world meteorological day!! 🌦️

Shout out to our favourite meteorologist!! An absolute pro at tracking weather and navigating it!

[cinnamini-mon]

｡*ﾟ✲*☆ ~ s p r i n g i s s p r i n g i n g ~ *ﾟ✲*☆

[colfy-wolfy]

mso tired.... sorgy might be slow to requests gu ys. ...,..,, imsomia

having very tuff time trying to sleep every night due to mini panic attacks and AXIETY ! and also the fact I am deathly addicted to my phone which does not help at all ! srry if I'm getting to art requests super late cuz of all this imb just generally tired and constantly unmotivated

[motorclit]

I highly suggest whoever is reading this to get into shortwave radio listening. There are plenty of reasons for this, such as if your radio is portable (is rechargeable or takes batteries), then when the power/internet goes out, you won't be completely in the dark regarding news or the weather (I'll get to weather radios in a minute).

Make sure you get one with an adjustable antenna, too.

There are PLENTY of tutorials on YouTube and several books that can help you get started. As far as books are concerned, I *highly* recommend Shortwave: Radio Listening for Beginners by Anita Louise McCormick. I finished it not too long ago from the library, and it covers a very brief crash course in the history of radio including who invented it, how radio waves work, etc.

I will say that if you look for YouTube tutorials, you will run into a LOT of videos talking about "HAM radio," and that's basically for people who really want to set up their own little radio station and transmit instead of listen. You *will* need to apply for an FCC license for that, so if you wanna get into that, there is no shortage of resources of people on YouTube talking about everything you wanna know about that.

I strongly urge (actually, I'm begging whoever is reading this) to get yourself a weather radio. Weather radios are, as the weather YouTuber Ryan Hall puts it, "Like a smoke detector but for tornadoes." These radios are designed only for the weather, but if you have an emergency, from tornadoes to flash flooding, even wildfires, there is an alert system that will go off. The one I have is a simple Midland brand one that so far worked like a charm. While I havent had any nights of it waking me up due to dangerous weather, it did alert us to a tornado warning when the derecho hit the other week. That was while we had no power or internet, and because my muž and I live on my parents' farm, we have almost no cellphone signal. My mom and I got the cats to the basement before the worst of it hit us.

The weather radio I got is the $40.00 one from Ryan Hall's shop site. If you want to get that or the other model, his site keeps getting sold out on them and can sometimes be hard to keep in stock. You can program them to go off for only certain alert systems, or if you want, you can keep them on in case you think shit is so whacky that you wouldn't rule out the possibility of a hurricane or an iceberg in Nevada or something (yes, they have alerts for EVERYTHING on this little radio, they are not fucking around).

The instructions that come with your weather radio will help you figure out which regional radio station you should pick for your state and county by directing you to a website that helps you figure that out. The weather radio also comes with a wall plug, but be sure to have batteries in it (and plenty of spare batteries reserved if you're without power for many days) for when you lose power. I periodically unplug mine so I can plug in some lights, but that's for a few hours each evening. My radio lasted for 3 days on batteries alone during the power outage, and the only thing I had to reset on the radio when I gave it fresh batteries was the clock. All of my settings were saved.

Because of the current regime here in America, radio might be a lifeline regarding news, as radiowaves don't give a shit about international boundaries. Canada understands most Americans don't want the bullshit going on right now, so it wouldn't surprise me if there will be a radio station or two that might broadcast American news for any American who has a radio because the internet is a hot steaming pile of rotting garbage right now. Basically be ready for a potential Radio Free America helping us out from Canada long before the regime decides to make buying radios complicated or impossible.

You don't *need* a super-fancy radio, and be careful of dropshippers when you go to make a purchase for a regular shortwave radio. I'm getting mine in the mail today, which is a C. Crane Skywave model. I had to get it slightly used because brand new they can be pricy. (I got mine used from eBay.) The Skywave 2 (the newer model) is advertised as being able to also listen to Air Traffic Controllers, which could be important for many people's safety these days since planes are dropping from the fucking sky. The reason I had to buy a new radio is because the only non-vehicle-based radio we have is a shitty modern boombox that is already malfunctioning to some degree and doesn't have an external antenna at all. We used the sketchy radio signal listening to a station airing 80s and 90s music to fall asleep to since there was no power to power the large fan and we need background noise or else we can't sleep. (And now I've reawakened the heavenly feeling of falling asleep to the radio faintly playing in the middle of the night.)

I am begging younger generations to learn some analog tech, as you don't need internet for it, you don't need a subscription, you don't have to worry about it spying on you, etc. And fellow Millennials, re-learn what you can. Re-embrace the old tech. Teach younger gens and don't be dicks about it.

Let's make radios cool again!

[thatone-churro]

chat i am NOT appreciating the stares i got from walking across campus to cvs in my hoodie and sweatpants as if we didn’t just sit through ANOTHER hurricane like chill man i didn’t sleep well let me get my monster to finish my logic homework in peace 😭

[sculien]

sometimes you just gotta make a pot of coffee and watch hill house until a hurricane barrels over your ass

[moodycarcass]

goddamn almost every surrounding town got hit like a motherfucker by the hurricane i thought we had it bad w getting the power knocked for a whole day

[tornadoquest]

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[macmanx]

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[stephsageek]

Wish me luck, friends! Got a category 4 hurricane on the way! I'm furiously trying to finish my next chapter now that I've gotten our sandbags

[bubblesnbees]

people not in hurricane hilary's path joking bout the severity of the storm/making "this is just a storm in florida" comments are very weird flexes, but that's just my opinion.

[anumetservice]

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[garthnadermemestash]

The environment stupid

[othertypeofprinter]

Wasn't very likely, but we got flyers at the start of every school year about what the Evac plan was for if the nearby nuclear power plant blew. The "joke" was that in the unlikely event, whether or not you'd be okay literally depends on which way the wind was blowing.

I'm really curious about this!! in aotearoa, every classroom I was in growing up had posters up on how to respond to an earthquake. "drop, cover, hold" was drilled into me from a very young age. I experienced a few growing up, but they were mild because I don't live in areas where they are more extreme. One of our major cities, christchurch/ōtautahi, gets hit by earthquakes very frequently. if you look at a global seismic hazard map, aotearoa is fully lit up in the colour indicating high hazard chance. wild!!!

for reference, in the UK (similar size country) there are around 20-30 noticeable earthquakes per year. in aotearoa, that number is around 100-250!

[tornadoquest]

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[firelord-frowny]

the plane crash scene in the movie Alive is so amazing bc like.

it's probably soooo accurate as far as what physically happened and what it looked/felt like to the passengers,

BUT IT'S ALSO OBJECTIVELY HILARIOUS?????

like oh my god the way the people fling out of the back when the tail breaks off???

And when both the wings get sheared off and then the plane is just a torpedo nyooming through the air????

like oh my god you can't tell me that's not how it would have looked on family guy if family guy did a parody of it.

it's so fucking funny and i hate it because it's also like my number 5 Worst Fear lmao