There won't be much we can do about soil absorption since keeping your yard watered will also cause runoff if the soil is saturated.

We just need to follow the common sense guidance to avoid driving into flooded underpasses and do not drive past barriers. Remember that at night it will be difficult to spot flooded sections of highway due to reflections so you will be dependent on center lines and painted markings and if they disappear it could indicate water depth sufficient to obscure them. Hydroplaning is a serious concern so drive more slowly and remember that if you begin to hydroplane you need to keep your wheels pointed in the direction that you need to travel and let off of the accelerator. The pooled water and sudden decrease in speed will put your tires back on the road surface so your vehicle will zip off in the direction that it is pointing. Check your tread depth before autumn and replace your tires if they are worn.

Carry a rain slicker or poncho with you in case traffic conditions force you to stop due to accidents or water across the roadway. You'll be a lot more comfortable dry than wet.

I intentionally bought property with a house that is on a hill with drainage away from the house so flooding isn't something that I worry about. I know that most other people will have to deal with flooding, especially around here where there are so many new construction issues - new concrete driveways, asphalt streets, and channelized creeks. Places that have never flooded in the past could flood now due to loss of open ground to home construction.

I am a couple decades into restoring my place to native prairie grasses, wildflowers, and trees so my place manages rainfall as it always has. I don't have much soil to absorb the rainfall though since I live on a limestone outcrop with poorly developed soils.

I hope people around here will follow guidance and be safe and use common sense when the rains come. I'm ready with my 4x4s to drag them out of their situations if they need a hand though.

The article mentions the potential for a super El Nino at the very end but doesn't discuss the effect it could have on content in the map should it go down as modeled. I suspect that a lot of yellows and red will disappear or shift to the north.

I know that the last super El Nino in 2015-2016 followed similar drought conditions due to La Nina such that rainfall at my property, which is normally ~36" (91.4 cm) annually (that's a 20 year average taken here on my property) was below average for the period 2010-2014 by 3-5" (7.62-12.7 cm) and up to 10" (25.4 cm) in 2014. Once La Nina faded it began to rain in August and rained out through December and we ended the year with 68" (172.7 cm) rainfall. In the decades that I have lived here and tracked rainfall that is the wettest year by more than 14" (35.6 cm).

We are currently behind the curve here but I have faith in their predictions since it also comes with a promise of ridiculously hot temperatures to make the last months of the year humid well past normal. It has been cooler than normal so far and drier than normal (La Nina hanging on by a thread). The script will flip and N Texas will again be a miserable place to be if you work outside.

People should have the right to refuse to allow data centers in their areas in the same way that they have refused other things that could be described as a public benefit like landfills, wind and solar farms, new highways or high speed rail service, etc.

They will be the ones affected by their refusal when that industry passes them by and the local economy remains stagnant or in decline. It is ultimately their right to decide their own fates and if they gather opposition to a project and vote it down locally then the state and any industry should have no recourse other than to follow the will of the people on down the highway to some place where the locals are more accepting of the risk/rewards for the new infrastructure.

We don't need shit like this everywhere. There is plenty of room and somewhere, some group of gullibles will jump on the opportunity to be bled for someone else's benefit.

There is zero treason in that. I think you don't understand that word. That is freedom in its most pure form. Local people decide their own fates without lobbyists or other serial prevaricators spinning yarns about how great it will all be if they just accept all the downsides without arguing.

Granted I may not be the local expert on this any more since I have cut way back on restaurant visits over the last 6-8 years.

>Plenty of places are using water faster than the aquifers they use regenerate.

I thought I would split this since it can be a pretty deep subject. When I was in college in the 1980's (geoscience), one of the country's largest aquifers (Ogallala) was in the news all the time. The story was that at the rate they were pumping there would only be 25-30 years of water left in the reservoir. Recharge rates were too slow and the recharge zone was too far west. Late in the 90's T Boone Pickens fired the first real shots in the water wars by negotiating water rights over a large portion of the Ogallala aquifer building a water empire. Part of his plan was to pipeline water to N Texas cities that were running short of water, a consequence of their own failure to look far enough into the future to construct reservoirs and to upgrade systems and to manage supplies so that overuse was disincentivized. The pipelines were never built. Reservoirs are still difficult to construct. N Texas has an even more onerous problem with population growth outstripping supplies. Meanwhile, the Ogallala still has about 25-30 years before it is pumped dry. It isn't that the targets were wrong, it was more that those numbers applied to the areas where pumping was the most aggressive but overall there were areas that still had significant reserves and the programs instituted that encouraged upgrading equipment and more efficient water use were successful in putting the brakes on the decline of the aquifer. I'm probably getting most of this wrong so if you know something different, I'm all ears.

>I hold no issue with banning using that limited freshwater resource for cooling.

In line with the whole water problem here in Texas I agree that there should be statewide bans on using freshwater sources for cooling data centers. I especially would like that ban to be extended to the oil and gas industry so that they are prohibited from using freshwater for frac fluid. Since the shale boom really got rolling here in Texas they have left a trail of dry water wells and surface water pollution from poorly cemented casing or from injection of recovered production and frac fluids into subsurface formations that have created environmental issues when the injected fluids migrate through old joints or along dormant faults, re-energizing those faults and pushing water to the surface, especially through the pincushion of abandoned wells that were never plugged by their operators.

This is Texas so I expect that the industry will continue to get special treatment in Austin and since data centers are the new big thing, they will also take precedence over anything that local residents need in order to live comfortably. As a state, Texas has been rotten from the top down for a long time.

The notes they could read in the movie credits about it being a colorized version simply told them that all of the colors in that movie had been added later.

I was so convincing that one of them interrupted his teacher in class to let her know she was wrong about the rainbows and where color came from. I had made it clear that everything that we saw as colored had the colors that were assigned by international agreement after people had become tired enough of the BWG palette to sit down and make it all change.

In the end, the teacher told him he was wrong and he argued about it so I got a call one day that he had been in trouble at school and that the teacher was not thrilled to hear his explanation so I needed to clear things up for him since he was not inclined to believe her at all. I'm not sure that I ever got that completely cleared up because, to me, it was just too funny that I was the most trusted source.

Thanks TED. R.I.P.

The striping can have multiple sources so they need to study why there is an obvious footprint and then make the appropriate corrections.

In the past, whenever someone posts some geopolitical data there is always someone else to come around to offer readers additional context from the other side of the coin or from a qualified observer with a different perspective.

This is how fruitful discussions are made. Get all the players to the table and have them discuss the situation as it has affected them and then, working together in good faith with all facts on the table and grievances aired, they can outline, then agree on, and then implement changes that ultimately benefit them all.

I'm a bit older than a lot of y'all and I grew up reading stories on the founding of Israel, the true stories of the holocaust written by those who witnessed and experienced the horrors first-hand, etc. All of these books that I read were written from the Israeli perspective for an American or western audience in order to inform people who had no concept of the depths of depravity that a modern industrialized society could allow themselves to be dragged into.

The information and the stories related steered my own opinions and feelings towards supporting Israel in the wars and other significant events that have happened during my own lifetime - 1967 Six Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, 1978 Camp David Accords, 1982 Israeli intervention in Lebanon, 1983 US Marine Barracks bombing and the fallout from that, and all the bullshit conflicts since.

I was able to follow these things as a kid and later a teen into adulthood because my parents maintained a book club subscription that was regularly improved by addition of new, current books on many subjects. As kids we were encouraged to select books for the collection and to read them when they were delivered.

Knowledge is power. By ignoring the historical context you are effectively censoring events that did happen and whose repercussions still resonate in the region.

You should not cherry-pick your own version of history. That is effectively propaganda, a tool used by authoritarians to indoctrinate. The original books that I read were written from the Israeli perspective in order to gain international influence. There were no novels or historical biographies of Arab leaders or of the region that were written in the context of providing historical background information that would help someone in the west understand the situation from the Arab perspective. To get that you needed to read newspapers and magazines, which I also did. Over time I began to understand just how complex everything is in the region and how constant support, especially from the United States, paid for the Israeli side of every conflict and situation.

For anyone to support Israel's current leadership in what can only be described as a genocide on the same level employed against Jews by the Nazis or the US Cavalry against Native American tribes is wrong.

Perhaps you should read a book about genocide and the origin of the term. I recommend the excellent book:

Samantha Power: A Problem from Hell - America and the Age of Genocide[0]

Sadat and Begin showed a path forward if other players had the courage to follow. Too bad that it took thousands of deaths on all sides and nearly 50 years and huge financial incentives and arms deals to bring others into agreement that living as neighbors in the same region requires some level of cooperation in order to guarantee mutual survival. Unfortunately the current players simply picked a common enemy and focused their efforts on destroying that enemy so that they could control the resources of the region.

I hope you agree that this comment has added something useful to the conversation.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368731._A_Problem_from_H...

That's all Greek to me so I had to translate.

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Very appropriate. Thanks.

Just do as /u/bigfatkitten suggests and get the service manuals when you purchase the vehicle.

I was wrong in that reply to him if you were the first to post that bullshit example that I was calling out in my reply to both of you. Please accept my apology. He was obviously the parrot and since he didn't reply he's probably the laziest parrot ever.

>This doesn't make the underlying English analysis inaccurate: the prefatory clause does not somehow restrict the rest of the sentence.

I'm pretty sure that you think I argued that the "A well regulated militia, ..." had been interpreted wrong or that I disagreed with it. That was you misinterpreting my reply in which I merely pointed out that two posters, one of them you, had used the same bullshit example in their reply to a different poster at nearly the same time. I thought that interesting since we all know HN threads get overrun by people on other topics when those topics are (geo)political.

>I'll continue manufacturing firearms, and you'll continue being able to do nothing about it.

I'm not sure why you think I give a flying fuck at a bird's ass what you do with your time, resources, and energy. We both know that there is a long tradition of gunsmithing in this country dating back well before the Revolution. You are continuing a tradition that predates our republic, one that was vital to our ancestor's success on the frontier. Is it necessary for citizens to be able to work with local gunsmiths today? Of course it is just as it was back in the day.

I was just pointing out that the self-portrait that you painted with that bullshit example wasn't as flattering as you might be thinking. I noted that you had done a better job in a different post though your bias still shined brightly. Hopefully you can understand that your arguments will be stronger when you argue in good faith using comparisons that make sense to the audience instead of bullshit examples that sound like a team of drunk assholes picked the one that made them think the longest until the first guy chuckled, someone farted, and the rest of them ROFL.

I appreciate you sticking with this. I feel like you have a bright future. I'm no expert though so don't read too much into any of this.

This is you.

'A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed.'

Whose rights shall not be infringed here, the breakfast's or those of the people?

This is the other guy.

"A well-balanced breakfast, being necessary to the health of a free State, the right of the people to keep and use Toasters, shall not be infringed."

Who has the right to keep and use toasters? The people, or the well-balanced breakfast?

Looks like a bullshit example that makes an apples to steam engines comparison employed by two posters shilling for the same reason - support of a conclusion they both believe in.

You don't know me. You will never know me.

You totally misunderstood that I was pointing out that your bullshit example looks a lot like a poorly formed drunk asshole's talking point that some illiterati group has contrived to be used on uninformed, semi-literate readers every time they find someone challenging something about the second amendment.

You did a better job with your other post laying out all those quotes from contemporaries who were actively involved in deriving the final language of the amendment. I do think that you could have improved that by adding context, like the other side of the conversation, for example. It isn't unusual though for people to cherry-pick anything that fits their desired conclusion so I am not surprised.