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never seen it rain so hard in my life.

#11 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

You will again. Probably.

As the atmosphere gets warmer it can hold more water. The rains and resulting floods will get bigger and bigger. As they have the last couple of years.

For each 1C increase in temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more water vapor, and for every 1F increase, it can hold approximately 4% more.

Look what Japan is doing to compensate for increased flooding coming in the Future.

www.japan.travel
AI overview

Incredible underground flood protection facility in Japan is one ...
Japan's most famous underground reservoir is the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC), also known as the G-Cans Project, located near Tokyo in Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture. This massive, $1 billion flood control system protects the Tokyo metropolitan area from flooding by diverting and storing excess rainwater in a cavernous underground tank supported by 59 giant pillars. It can hold 670,000 cubic meters of water, the equivalent of 268 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

And then there's this:

Alt National Park Service

We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump ...
Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafs, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags. A city defined by banking towers and craft breweries, where weekends were measured by Panthers touchdowns, farmers' markets, and late-night debates about who served the best barbecue in town.
By this weekend, that rhythm collapsed.
Before sunrise, unmarked SUVs slid through quiet neighborhoods, and ICE agents moved in like a storm front. Residents described officers sprinting through parking lots, jumping fences behind small bakeries and mercados. Some said they watched people shoved to the ground, grocery bags splitting apart, oranges rolling into traffic, voices shaking as shouts ricocheted between brick storefronts.
A caf known for empanadas and music stayed shuttered, its metal grate pulled tight. A handwritten note hung on the door: Closed for the safety of our community. Just down the street, a weekend lunch spot told customers online: Too dangerous today. Please stay home.
Parents kept children inside. Workers who normally clocked in before dawn called their bosses in fear. City bus drivers said they saw makeshift checkpoints near major intersections, where people waited in silence, shoulders tense, eyes fixed on the ground.
The city that once celebrated diversity through food trucks, cultural parades, and church festivals found itself breathing differently doors locked, windows dark, conversations hushed. Neighbors said it didn't feel like protection; it felt like punishment. Not order, but intimidation.
Operations were no longer about safety, but about fear, fear that reached families, workers, business owners, and even those with the legal right to be here. And in the quiet between sirens, the city wondered what it was becoming.

Hit texas for the eclipse. never seen it rain so hard in my life.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-16 12:43 PM

Yes, our oldest son lives about 25-miles West of Houston. On one of our visits there, the night before we were to head home, it rained seven inches. Now the parking lot of the hotel was flooded, but not so that you couldn't drive out, and on our way home, many of the rivers which were virtually dry when we drove in, were full to their banks, but hadn't flowed over the highway so we weren't really inconvenienced.

And about 50-years ago, when I was on my first field assignment as an engineer, I was helping to start-up a bread line at a large commercial bakery in Fort Worth. Anyway, my boss called and they said that they needed someone to run over to Alexandria, Louisiana to mark-up a set of architectural blueprints for an older building that was going to be converted into production bakery. Anyway, on my way back, I had just crossed over into Texas from Shreveport, when it started to rain. It was the heaviest rainfall that I think that I have ever experienced. I had to pull off the side of the road and just wait it out, and I have to say, not a single car or truck passed me while I waited out the 30-minutes or so that it took for that storm to pass till where it had slowed enough that you could safely drive. If I never see rain like that again, I won't miss it. And I was in a Typhoon once that hit Tokyo where they shut the trains down. but that was mostly wind.

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Pink Floyd - Embryo
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This song gives me ASMR feeling / possible flashback

Where are those great health plans?

Obamacare's Five Broken Promises That Made Health Care Even Worse

Broken Promise #1 " You Can Keep Your Plan

Up to 9.3 million people lost their coverage during the first open enrollment period.
President Obama personally apologized for Americans losing health coverage.
Politifact named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013.

Broken Promise #2 " You Can Keep Your Doctor

As many as 214,000 doctors opted out of participating in Obamacare exchange plans.
CNN declared President Obama's claim that "You can keep your own doctor" false.
Obamacare's website revised and then dropped the section entitled, "Can I keep my own doctor?"

Broken Promise #3 " Your Premiums Will Go Down by $2,500

Premiums increased by about 60% in the first four years.
Insurance premium amounts varied in increase from $2,524 for an individual between the ages of 31 and 40 to $12,040 for a family headed by someone over age 60.

Broken Promise #4 " You'll Have More Access to Care

Hundreds of thousands of health care providers opted-out of Obamacare exchange plans.
Studies show that instead of going to a doctor's office for care, people continued to use emergency rooms for non-emergencies.
Over half of the of the uninsured in 2018 were eligible for financial assistance through Medicaid or marketplace subsidies but chose not to be covered.
Access to insurance does not equate to having access to care.

Broken Promise #5 " Those With Pre-Existing Conditions Will Be Protected

Obamacare did not protect patients from bankruptcy. Research from a left-leaning organization found no evidence Obamacare reduced the proportion of bankruptcies driven by medical debt.
Obamacare did not protect patients from dying. A 2019 study found there was no reduction in mortality for those that participated in Obamacare, meaning that enrollment in Obamacare had the same impact as having other forms of coverage or no coverage at all.

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