• ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I’ll be honest I could’ve told you that just from living in Florida this summer.

    It’s bad. Pretty much every day for the last two months if you walk outside you’ll immediately be drenched in sweat and it doesnt evaporate. There is no cooling, you’re just wet and get more and more out of breath until you get back into the air conditioning.

    I’ve lived here most of my life and it’s always hot in the summer but this year feels noticeably worse and everyone I’ve talked to agrees.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I was camping out in Okeechobee last week. Two days in a row the "real feel" temp was 108. I was drenched in sweat just from sitting in the shade reading.

      I've been saying for years that we need to evacuate the state. Thankfully, between RoevWade and DeSantis it looks like my family is finally coming around. Now if I can just reach my close friends.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I’ve been saying the same, originally just about sea level rise but now I’m worried about wet bulb temps too. It’s fucking baffling to me that there’s still new construction happening in Miami. Like, y’all do know it’ll be underwater in like 15 years right? What the fuck are you doing?

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          RIGHT?! It's already flooding down there, on the regular!🤯 Remember that building that collapsed? It's not gonna be the last. I'm reasonably sure that all the big money down there will get bailed out, but what I'm thinking is that the property getting yoinked up by the big corps are gonna get milked dry for long as possible and then offloaded at fire sale prices to people who find themselves out of luck like a decade later. Insurance companies are already seeing thewriting on the wall and jacking up rates and refusing to renew policies without costly upgrades. It's a whole thing going on, apparently. I think that's partly insurance companies bailing, but also trying to get people out of their homes for the corps to snatch them up.

    • NotALeatherMuppet [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      that's so sad. it's possible to escape. i grew up in arizona (lol) and made it to north of the 45th parallel now. we had our first heat wave of the year (above 90f) last week. it rained every day in april.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I live MUCH farther north, and I feel the same, though it was only for a couple weeks that it got as bad as you described