#flood and drain

[thumphorticulture]

Ebb and Flow Tables in a Greenhouse

This system works by periodically flooding the grow tray with nutrient-rich water, which then drains back into a reservoir, allowing the roots of the plants to absorb the nutrients and oxygen they need.

[hyolks]

the collar of his shirt pissed me off so! shirtless

[artuurle]

Do u think drainfolk put their babies in cut up socks like we do with small animals. Like sweaters? Rubs them?

They can and most likely do yeah. at least until they aren't 90% fluff and can wear normal clothes without it being a disaster in waiting (and EVEN then younger drainfolk almost all agree most clothes are itchy while the rest of their baby coat sheds out.)

[waywardstation]

Happy WIP Wednesday Friday! Here is a WIP from my Valentine’s/Palentine’s Day themed fic, Rain Check.

Enjoy! Wording is subject to change.

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“Whhhish!”

“Whiskers, please cooperate here!”

Rain hurried down to hide and collect within the fabric of Ingo’s clothes, sending a shiver through him as he stood at the pond’s edge, pressing against the blue, slippery forehead of an angry whiscash. With his shoes sinking deeper into the accumulating layers of mud, Akari could only watch helplessly from the pasture’s fencepost as he did what he could to keep the overgrown alpha away from the water.

“Whhish!” She heaved forward again regardless of Ingo’s insistence, eager to push past him and reclaim her territory that Maria was currently cleaning up. While Whiskers’ mobility was practically laughable on land, she was still formidable enough to probably push right past Ingo if it wasn’t for the slippery mud.

“You sure I can’t help?” Akari squinted through the rain, leaning forward on the fence post with a certain wishfulness — the scene was certainly amusing enough to just watch, but she still wanted to help.

“I am sURE!” Another thrash pushed Ingo back a step, spattering him with mud in the process.

“You don’t sound sure,”

“I assure you, I am!”

“Whhish!”

“Almost done, Ingo!” Maria called over from the other side of the pond — the trench she had been digging with one of Akari’s gastrodon had almost reached over to the stream downhill. Once they connected, they wouldn’t have to worry about the pond overflowing into the streets.

Ingo made an odd sound, and Akari looked back to see Whiskers had somehow maneuvered one of Ingo’s arms into her mouth. Now gumming on it, she was gaining some leeway by yanking him to the side with her massive head, her thin yellow whiskers already latching onto his closest leg.

“Alright! Done!”

Maria called out just in time; Ingo let himself fall to the side and Whiskers barreled forward unobstructed, throwing herself back into the pond with an unabashed splash.

[isfjmel-phleg]

Crisis! of infinite washing machine filling

[grimvestige]

My Dishonored OC, Maximillian Xavier DeMarco! He’s a natural philosopher but more the type that got kicked out of the academy and makes traps and weapons for the Empire’s various gangs and such.

[izar-tarazed]

So she's a... darkwraith sealer now? It's complicated.

[actual-corpse]

Sooo... we've been getting Flood Warning updates every 2 hours, extending the warnings into tomorrow.

This is the Eastern US, which still hasn't fully recovered from Hurricane Helene.

The Eastern US still has not recovered from Helene, and we are FLOODING... AGAIN

[tj-crochets]

Do you have a particular organization you work with for providing disaster relief?

At the moment, no. My dad and several of my neighbors have been helping out with various local groups, but so far my donations have been things like clothes I had on hand that happened to be the size my neighbor's coworker, who lost their house in a flood, needed, or stuff like that The baby blankets are going to a different neighbor's kid's school, who is arranging donations for...I think it's a particular city but I am not sure how to reveal what city without giving away where I live more precisely than I really want to? I live close enough to the flooding that I don't really need to work with an organization, because everyone in my neighborhood is at max two degrees of separation from someone who lost everything in the floods. I can give things, including baby blankets, directly to the families affected. I mean, that said, I am giving them to my neighbors to distribute, but that's because I can't drive and a lot of the places donations are going you can't drive to at the moment anyway. One of my neighbors is organizing people with ATVs to go take food, water, fuel, and other necessities up to some of the communities that currently have no road access I got very, very lucky with where I live and the infrastructure that happened to be in place*. There was severe flooding less than ten minutes away from where I live in more than one direction, but where I live made it and enough of the roads are intact to be able to get out. Some routes are more circuitous than they used to be, but it's still possible

*by happened to be in place I mean in my particular neighborhood and the work my dad has had done in our yard, not the rest, I know a lot of people over a lot of years made the infrastructure of the larger area

[jempai]

in two weeks, two hurricanes.

helene hit the two cities where the majority of my friends and family currently live extremely hard. this week, milton is set to hit me dead on. my city is already destroyed, getting 9 feet of storm surge and continual flooding from a brush with helene. our infrastructure is fucked. i have students who lost their homes in the tropical storm and have been living in shelters. multiple schools and shelters are unusable due to the flooding and storm damage. our sand dunes are gone. our drainage is gone. we've always said a direct hit on tampa bay (something that hasn't happened in over a century) would be catastrophic. i guess we'll see.

[starsurgeserver]

I'll be complainining a lot these days and sorry about that, it's just that I'm newly formed and I'll have to go through a lot of the same grueling character development things the person I split from already went through bc we're built very similarly

[follow-up-news]

A new federal rule aims to keep people from being pulled into storm drains during heavy rains. It comes after ProPublica’s 2021 reporting on how dangerous and uncovered storm drains were responsible for at least three dozen deaths across the country in a six-year span. The rule, which went into effect in May and applies to new projects funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, builds on guidance the federal agency released in 2022 in direct response to ProPublica’s investigation. It requires that local officials overseeing projects in areas prone to flooding consider safety measures for drain openings, such as grates to cover them. Deaths caused by storm drains continue to occur across the country. In early May, a 10-year-old boy in Christiana, Tennessee, was pulled into a drain while playing with other children in water after severe storms hit the community. The child died 10 days later after his family pulled him off life support. Officials running HUD-funded projects must now, among other measures intended to minimize harm to the environment and people, consider whether they need “protective gates or angled safety grates for culverts and stormwater drains.” Project leaders have to then explain to federal officials which safety features will be adopted and which were considered but not used. A spokesperson for the federal agency told ProPublica in an email that officials believe the new rule and language “will help encourage the use of safety measures for stormwater infrastructure to prevent injury or drownings during flood events.”

[caramello-styles]

I spent approx. 2.5 hours cleaning the house nonstop

[sheepcreature]

they were supposed to cut the energy for the whole city an hour ago, I'm assuming most of the people I know still having energy is a good thing

[lovebugmovedelsewhere]

The fucking. Bathroom flooded.

[comixandco]

botw: help link! there’s an endless source of water in the east reservoir!

totk: thanks for your help link, plus now we’ve got an endless source of water in the east reservoir!