Premium 217: FEMA Ice Cream Truck

Late on this, but Neil Young helped bail out Lionel trains back in the 90s. He may still own his shares.

So yeah, Dave Dierks holds a phd in climatology from Auburn. He's shy about it.

Bob Hutton

Might be this one: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2017/11/30/ohio-river-valley-climate-change-report/831135001/

..If I wasn't me - and had bothered to accrue commercially viable skills - I might be the kind of person who fired up Pro Logic X, and spent 15 minutes of my overqualified time trying to figure out what "FEMA as an ice-cream-van-jingle" would sound like.

Jesper Ohlsson

I have a coworker with a pretty robust Maine accent and she’s informed me that she’s “working on saying ‘horse’ correctly” cause currently when she says it it rhymes with “loss”. She’s like 64 though, I feel like at this point it’s futile

sydney

I'm thankfully not the kind of worrier who developed hypochondria (I just push that worry to the back of my mind, never test myself for anything, and secretly hope for sweet release of a disease I very probably don't have). ...I am the kind of person, however, who takes a photo of my stove, with my own thumbs-up in the frame, when I leave my apartment for more than a week, in case I get a panic attack about having left the stove on for days on end, and by the time I'm panicking about it, my apartment has already throroughly burnt to the ground two days ago. Whether one is better than the other I don't know, but hypochondria seems like a constant source of worry, that can't be resolved by "checking up on it". ...in my case, I can always embarassingly scroll through the photos on my phone, and relax by reminding myself that, no, I didn't - for some insane reason - leave the stove on full blast and strew flammable material directly on top of it, minutes before locking the door and leaving my home for more than a week. //take care; I enjoy the updates about the flood-goings on, and it seems very sweet that you guys are earnestly trying to help. "The US" insists on being a country not fit for human beings, and it's a real bummer to learn the precise details about it. Cheers.

Jesper Ohlsson

Anybody got the link to the ACOE/Duke article that Tom referenced I think in the first flood episode and then again on the Chapo episode? I can’t find the article

SF

The comment about making parts of WV look like the moon reminded me of a time I looked up some small Kentucky town on Google maps. Looking at the sat view I noticed a nearby mine so zoomed out a bit to check it out.... then I noticed more... and more as I continued to zoom out. Just unfathomable natural destruction visible from space.

Bill

I've worked a handful of federal jobs, including the Bureau of Land Management, and can confirm that the gov is chock full of fake email jobs

BigBoi

WELCOME BROTHER

Trillbilly Worker's Party

Listening to both of your dumb hypochondriac nonsense-worries made me think - for about a minute - that I had gotten tetanus today, after digging deep into the ground of my parent's farm to install a DIY-sub-irrigation-system, and cutting my finger while pulling out dirt by hand (but with the wound being clean enough for it to probably being due to some shard of glass that got scattered 20 years ago, and worked itself into the dirt, bit by bit). ...I think the lesson is to be less online, and to get into some kind of farming (traditional or hydroponic; I sorta do both). It really is tremendously grounding, in a way that "being smart on the internet" can't ever satisfy. //Bless, love.

Jesper Ohlsson

Then again, if I were the butt of a joke like that for decades, I’d also probably be an asshole. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Seth Jarrell

To be fair, he is kind of an asshole. I once saw him berating a hostess at Unos before it became Blacksheep.

Seth Jarrell

Looting has become endemic. Ambient looting all around us

Evan

Tony Cavalier is not only the victim of a homophobic nickname but also rumored to be a butt-gerbil enjoyer as well... amazing how the tri-state area can come together and bully a weatherman for decades

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