“Mother Nature Hates You”

New video of the earth's crust breaking in Hatay Province, Turkey after the earthquakes. pic.twitter.com/YkMGseAlgz

— Trollstoy (@Trollstoy88) February 19, 2023

h/t Mauser

At around eleven in the morning on February 28, 2001, I was standing in front of a mirror in my home in suburban Seattle, adjusting what remained of my hair prior to driving downtown to meet a friend for lunch, when the ground began to shake beneath my feet. The movement lasted about twenty seconds and wasn’t entirely unpleasant, with just the slightest hint of the old days when I was a devotee of Bacchus. After a bit, I checked that the house was all right, looked in on my infant son peacefully asleep in his crib, said goodbye to my wife, started the car and went on my way into the city.

To walk on to the Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere which faces the astounding prospect of disappearing just five years from now, is to trudge across expanses of sand and mud, streaked with ice and desiccated aquatic life, where just a short time ago you would be wading in waist-deep water.

But the mounting sense of local dread over the lake’s rapid retreat doesn’t just come from its throttled water supply and record low levels, as bad as this is. The terror comes from toxins laced in the vast exposed lake bed, such as arsenic, mercury and lead, being picked up by the wind to form poisonous clouds of dust that would swamp the lungs of people in nearby Salt Lake City, where air pollution is often already worse than that of Los Angeles, potentially provoking a myriad of respiratory and cancer-related problems.

This would never have happened if Donny & Marie stayed together.

Arrest warrants issued for dozens of cost-cutting construction bosses

The slick advertisement describes the luxury apartment complex as a “piece of heaven”, taking viewers on a virtual-reality tour of manicured gardens, generous amenities and people sunbathing beside a swimming pool.

The Ronesans Residence, completed in 2013, was touted as the most desirable abode in Antakya, a city in southern Turkey. According to its promotional video, the development was a place of “flawless comfort” built to exacting safety standards.

That Allah fella, he has mysterious ways I’m told.

The sight of newly constructed apartments collapsing in the earthquakes that hit Turkey has sparked anger. The BBC examined three new buildings, turned to rubble, to find out what they reveal about building safety.

Two major earthquakes – measuring 7.8 and 7.5 on the magnitude scale – flattened buildings of all kinds and killed thousands of people across southern Turkey and northern Syria.

But the fact that even some of the newest apartment blocks crumbled to dust has led to urgent questions about building safety standards.

The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria at 4am on Monday is already among the deadliest of our young century. The death toll hit 7,700 on Wednesday morning and is expected to rise dramatically, as the time window for finding survivors in the rubble gets narrower by the minute. In southern Turkey alone, some 6,000 buildings have been levelled, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. All in all, some 23million people across Turkey and Syria are said to have been impacted by the earthquake and its aftershocks. The humanitarian crisis that is unfolding is bleak beyond words. The obvious question it invites is, could things have been different?

Birds flew erratically above snow-capped buildings. Dogs howled loudly. Then, a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria leveled buildings and killed more than 5,000 people.

Social media users claimed that animals were behaving strangely just before the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake and significant aftershocks. While The Washington Post could not immediately verify the footage, the idea that animals can detect powerful earthquakes before humans has been a theory around since at least ancient times.

Developing

Let me introduce you to something truly horrifying – the fungus that turns its victims into zombies.

Its spores enter the body. The fungus then grows and begins to hijack the mind of its host until it loses control and is compelled to climb to higher ground.

The parasitic fungus devours its victim from the inside, extracting every last nutrient, as it prepares for its big finale.

Taken at about 4 PM. Six Points. OK it’s looking like a storm now.

Taken at about 4 PM. Six Points in TO #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/zM0hKXoeRb

— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 25, 2023

Taken at about 2 PM. Six Points. CP24 now claims up to 25 cm of snow on the way. It’s heavier now, roads are sticky but I remain doubtful about final accumulation.

Taken at about Noon. Six Points. They claim up 10 to 20 cm is on its way. My bet is they will be way off as usual. TO has it’s own climate now. 5 cm is more like it.

It is crazy to blame every bad weather event on mankind.

There’s always been an irony in the haughtiness of America’s coastal elites. These people look down on Middle Americans and their cranky beliefs – they ‘cling’ to religion, as Obama infamously said – and yet they themselves hold far wackier views. They think there’s a hundred genders. That racism is the original sin of the United States that will never be washed away. That whites must engage in the self-mortification of checking their privilege. And that climate change is Mother Nature’s punishment of mankind for his hubristic industrial antics. That last one is positively pre-modern. It makes the other religions in the US look perfectly sane.

Buffalo officials had more grim news to report Tuesday morning: The city’s blizzard-related death toll had reached 28, Mayor Byron Brown said during a press conference. And that number, which had risen by eight since yesterday, was expected to rise as more buried vehicles were uncovered.

“Buffalo has been ground-zero for this storm,” Brown said. “The impact for this winter storm was the most harsh in Buffalo of Erie County and of Western New York. These are not normal snowfall conditions.”

As the city remained under a driving ban, emergency crews shifted from rescue efforts to snow removal, with 268 pieces of equipment active to clear main and residential streets. Like the storm a month ago that dumped several feet in a short period, the removal leaned away from plows and more toward front loaders picking up snow and dropping it into dump trucks, which were then bound for four dumping sites spread throughout the city.

🚨#BREAKING: Wild scene from Buffalo as homes are fully covered in ice

📌#Buffalo | #NY

Jaw dropping video shows houses covered in ice homes near the water were encased in ice and dripping with icicles from Powerful winds and strong waves from Lake Erie pic.twitter.com/q9GFeEhE6u

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 25, 2022