Mexico City looks like it was bombed end-to-end. Nothing but an endless urban sprawl of buildings that mostly never met code when they were built in the first place.
I do remember once in Mexico having to leap while descending a staircase so I wouldn't end up in traction.
So what y'all are saying is, trump doesn't need to build a wall, he just need to put a bunch of OSHA inspectors at the border?
San Juan is expecting 4-6 months without power. Things will get dicey there to say the least. If I were the US Coast Guard, I'd step up patrols between there and the keys, rescue all those people trying to flee the island on makeshift boats.
The hurricane broke two of the NWS's radar towers. I've read that the gusts were close to 200mph when it initially made landfall....if it's breaking weather radar I can only imagine what the winds alone are doing to the other structures on the island.
Some of the pictures... jesus, it looks like a fucking tornado came through there. There's a slideshow at the bottom of this article that's insane. Similar to what's happening in Mexico right now, you have buildings that either weren't built to code, or built to a code that wasn't designed to withstand an impact such as this. Though really, I can't imagine any code being designed to withstand an impact such as this.
Puerto Rican emergency officials are reporting that 100 percent of the island is without power. Yikes. Hector Pesquera, public safety commissioner on Puerto Rico, urged residents to flee the island.
Ash has been falling on my house/car for a couple weeks, until this past Sunday. I'm terrified of fire. It's started raining again - Sunday - and the relief I feel is physical. Driving through to WA from CO I drove around and through some of the fire ravaged areas and it damn near broke my heart. Top it with the earthquakes and hurricanes and Gaia seems to be telling us she's tired of our shit.
Forest fires suck. In 1967 the Sundance Fire went through my area. 30 years later the areas hit by it were still decimated....there was some scrub brush and the occasional tree that withstood it, but that was it. It was terribly depressing to come across the burn path, which would go for miles. EDIT: Here's a video from the area in 2012. It still looks bad.
It's amazing just how refreshing and cleansing a good rain can be after you have a fire near you. This is a pic I took about 4 blocks from my house in Kelowna a couple of years ago... it was like an eerie fog that was just all kinds of fucked up. As soon as the fire(s) stopped, things were better, but it wasn't until the rain came and the winds shifted that things started to be "clean" again.
I was out west last week and was amazed at the amount of area you could see affected by the fires in Washington & Oregon as well as northern California. Smoke from somewhere over Oregon: