The snow should definitely help, but severe drought conditions generally make flooding worse while having little effect on a region’s moisture, due to the fact that dry soil is less absorbent than already-damp soil, so it just tends to run right off like it would on a sidewalk.

Fort Myers or Sannibel? I'm in Fort Myers, just south of downtown, and we had storm surge coming down our street, but luckily no water in the house.

Ian was the worst storm I've seen in my 40 years in FL.

I'm really sorry for you loss.

Ian was the worst storm I've seen in my 40 years.. I've never evacuated for any of them, but I definitely turned to my wife as the storm surge was rolling down my street and said "we probably should've gone to my sisters..."

Dodged.. Ian didn't feel like a dodge from Fort Myers, FL!

Yes, my evil twin sister. I vanquished her, y’all are welcome!

Weather would have to become pretty apocalyptic on a pretty frequent scale to really decimate trade.. I'm not saying we wouldn't see a slow down, or enhanced costs, but a complete collapse of global trade? That feels like a stretch.

Trade routes connecting much of the world have existed for thousands of years, during times when the means to traverse such distances was fraught with peril.

I think our technology is gonna be a pretty enormous mitigating factor too, especially as we continue to creep towards more and more automation.

We were fortunate to be able to keep the first house we bought when we moved on up a couple years ago. We rent our old house well below market to the guy who was our tenant while we lived there and a guy I grew up with and his growing family. Original guy has no interest in being a homeowner and the family is not and may never be in a position to buy a home. I refuse to accept that I am a bad person simply because I rent out a home I own to people who want to live in it.

Some paint cans on string?

Yeah might be time to strategically leave a matchbox car on the stairs

So.. I'm guessing you are like late 30's based on your comment.

“Welcome to El Matador, which is Spanish for.. The Matador.”

I've always said they should move the gulf states

Innocent until proven guilty. If he's guilty, then throw his ass in jail. Death penalty. What ever. But if he's not, then lock him up at a secret location in a dictatorship country I guess. No trial. No representation. No rights.

I love the US, but this reflects poorly on you I am afraid. This is beneath you. Be better. Do better. Lead by example. Or be less surprised when people hate America.

But it seems so often that Americans are just dead-set on not helping their fellow humans. Think that's why they specified America

Californian (former) here. Yeah, it's a yearly thing

That is an absolutely idiotic way to phrase that

You're welcome. It appears the Canadian carbon tax is helping after all!!

Yeah I agree with you that it's classist. Also homeowners love to say renting costs more but then you're free of any real estate market ups and downs, can leave whenever you feel like it, and homeowners spend the first 10 years giving most of their mortgage money to a bank via interest that doesn't go towards their loan amount. Also did everyone suddenly forget 2008-2014 where tons of the country were underwater in their homevalue vs mortgage and were literally trapped in their house or having to sell at a HUGE loss? A renter can just pack up and go when the economy or opportunity moves in a different direction. As a homeowner you also have to cover insurance and still pay for major expenses. Sure maybe a fridge might cost 1500, but a roof is like 15k on the low end, windows are like 750 each to replace .. did your AC unit go out? THOUSANDS. And it all adds up. Property taxes on top --etc. I say this as a homeowner that LOVES their home and is willing to have the cost -- but its delusional to think that someone paying $1500 in rent is somehow way worse off than someone with a $1200 mortgage. That's some horse blinders for real estate right there.

I get more jaded with each passing year, but this legitimately made me cry. As horrible as the world can be and as horrible as people can be to each other, we forget that there are still many wonderful people out there. We’re force fed misery on a constant basis and more news stories like this are badly needed.

Ahh. A Russian stooge in the wild. Hello there!

I’m loving it (az)

The uplifting part is that the landlord was willing to do it. Everything else is awful

This belongs in /r/latestagecapitalism for sure. A landlord has pity on an old lady with no one so people cheer? And what about in the case when the lordland didn't give a fuck and this lady died on the streets instead? It's a travesty this lady had to rely on charity instead of having a social program to support her.

And hopefully the rampant wildfires…

Yeah, I doubt he knows anything he didn't tell. He's basically there to entertain the guards. Even the Nazi war criminals who killed countless got a trial or were released.

This is just dipshit culture wars/racism. Put them on trial and punish them in accordance to the law. Why waste hundreds of millions on a zoo nobody visits?