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Hurricaine Helene Aftermath - Appalachian State University, North Carolina (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, that's a great way to get a really bad infection.

Flood waters contain everything from sewage to dead animals to parasites.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago

Man, he’s a college student, he probably eats worse.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rafts of fire ants are also a sure way to liven things up

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fire ants rafting is a sure sign there is no god. At least not a benevolent, personal one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Edit: The downvotes are making me wonder how many people didn't get past the first sentence before skipping the rest.

God is God to all living things, fire ants included. And did He not say, 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.' (Genesis 9:3). And lo, the fire ants rejoiced, and partook of his great bounty (college students sitting in flood waters), and were fruitful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what the fire ant commandments are, and how many burning bushes were involved

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kill, consume, multiply, conquer. As they follow the goddess of cancer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At first I read that as dead animals and peasants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bring out your dead!

[–] [email protected] 137 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jesus, that’s the basest of bacterial soups he’s basting in. That’s sewage and corpse water.

Necrotizing fasciitis isn’t a single bacteria. It’s a bacteria gone wild such that the tissue dies under the stress of it. This guy’s feet and junk are in that mess.

Horrifying outcomes may happen.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

It's ok. He has his beer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Psh, you wouldn't be saying that if you saw the 2-day-old, cold, left out pizza he ate just before the pic was taken!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And it was only slight wet, nothing a few paper towel couldnt dry up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

The box was floating still and keeping it on top of the water so it’s totally fine

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Holy shit this dude needs to get out of that water

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

"It's just dirt!"

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Microbiology is optional at North Carolina State University.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What is he watching

[+] [email protected] -81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Going to school in a hurricane-prone state? That sounds like a great idea!

Seriously I refuse to live anywhere that wouldn't remain well above sea level even if you melted every ice crystal on earth. If the universe wants to natural disaster me to death it's gonna have to go the extra million miles and drop an asteroid on me.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As the name of the school implies, it’s in the Appalachian mountains…so hundreds of miles from the sea?

Not exactly hurricane territory.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Helene ended up around the southern tip of Illinois and Indiana so uh, yeah, everything from the Gulf to one state south of the Great lakes is hurricane territory now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well I guess we can't go to universities in the eastern half of the US. And not in the middle either (tornadoes), and not in the west either (wildfires). Should we all move to Wyoming? This Lemming seems to know what's best for us 340 million Americans. Surely we can all fit in Wyoming. It'll be a glorious utopia!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe not before but it is now

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Places thousands of feet above sea level found themselves under deep water after this storm.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

Boone is 3300 feet above sea level, in fact.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not going to lie, struggling with the "how" on this one. Stationary water anyway.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If a 400 sq mi area gets 2 ft of rain and there's a low valley area surrounded mostly by mountains, the water will drain down the mountainsides to the valley. It's like a big bowl. The water that settles in the valley will be more than 2 ft because of the rest of the runoff from even higher elevations

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, but that valley usually has an outflow at its low point in the form of a river. I can understand it getting that deep, but not it staying there.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

What happens if you turn your kitchen sink on? Your drain shouldn't have a problem draining the amount of water.

Now take a large 5 gallon bucket of water. Dump the whole thing in your sink.

Not only is the amount of water too much for the drain but the volume of water makes it hard for the drain to even function properly.

How long is there going to be water filling in the sink? Eventually, it will all find its way out, but that takes time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's right: usually. Sometimes no. Or sometimes the volume of water only slowly drains away (like some rivers move extremely slowly and it's almost as if it's not moving at all). If it takes 3 days for the water in the normally filled river to move 1 mile, even if it takes 2 days with the flooded valley to drain instead of 3, that's still 2 days of floods.

Imagine you drop a bunched up shirt onto the floor. If you look, you'll see that there are lower spots surrounded on all sides of high spots. Terrain irl is not so different from that in spots. Hope this helps explain :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And don't forget that quite a lot of the rivers are likely clogged with downed trees, landslides, and other debris, further showing the draining process.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

You should learn a little geography. NC is a very wide state. Most of it hasn't been prone to hurricanes. The coast gets hit every few years with a decent one, but it's been over 30 years since one came anywhere close to that far inland with more than the power of a heavy storm.