'Imminent' collapse of Florida reservoir wall will flood Tampa Bay with 20ft wall of polluted water, officials warn: Gov. DeSantis tells residents to evacuate

_metamythical [he/him] · 4 years ago

'Imminent' collapse of Florida reservoir wall will flood Tampa Bay with 20ft wall of polluted water, officials warn: Gov. DeSantis tells residents to evacuate

crime [she/her, any] · edit-2 4 years ago

I've got a lot of good comrades down there I've been checking on :sadness:

It seems like things are looking a little less dire at the moment in terms of potential catastrophic collapse and I'm hoping it doesn't get to that point, but letting things get so bad to the point where you need to pump hundreds of millions of gallons of fertilizer-laden wastewater into the bay (and then the gulf) where it will certainly cause big algae blooms just in time for red tide season is still absolutely fucking inexcusable.

Capitalism is a fuck, neoliberalism is a fuck, deregulation is a fuck, unmaintained infrastructure is a fuck :amerikkka:

'Imminent' collapse of Florida reservoir wall will flood Tampa Bay with 20ft wall of polluted water, officials warn: Gov. DeSantis tells residents to evacuate

'Imminent' collapse of Florida reservoir wall will flood Tampa Bay with 20ft wall of polluted water, officials warn: Gov. DeSantis tells residents to evacuate

Florida officials warn of 'catastrophic flooding' if storage reservoi…