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CDC site showing current variants, their lineages, and percentages. Also possibly a NowCast for your state or region.

Wastewater scan for covid and other infectious diseases. Filter by state or selected individual sewage processing plants that are part of the wastewater scan project (note that not all plants test for all diseases). Tells you how prevalent those diseases are in that area, potentially before diseases start to surge. May also have variant information.

PMC data dashboard. Lots of potentially useful stuff.

Which is also part of the problem. If they're cautious and issue "too many" alerts or are "too alarmist", people ignore them.

The point is that the people of Kerr County made a deliberate decision that they didn't need a local system to reach out to people living there. They decided they whatever information and warnings they were getting from the state and the feds was sufficient. It's easy to point to the NWS/NOAA firings as "the culprit", but where's the local responsibility?

They've said repeatedly that there was a list and a bunch of documents, and they're going through everything very carefully to "protect" the hundreds of victims (yeah, right), etc. And now suddenly none of that exists?

Also, I don't understand why Biden didn't release the list.

Also, given Musk's repeated obsession with pedophiles ....

There's all this focus on the NWS/NOAA not sending warnings early enough. Not from what I can tell, they were sending out warnings. And Kerr County, where many of the deaths have been, doesn't have a local flood warning system because they didn't want to pay for it.

Cmdr. Lillian Carranza said it was irresponsible for people to describe the arrests as “kidnappings” and encourage people to call 911, saying that there is misinformation circulating online about how and when federal authorities can arrest someone. Authorities don’t need to present a warrant when encountering someone on the street, she said; all they need is probable cause. “If people have concerns about the conduct of federal agents, they need to seek justice in court,” she said. “That is the place to litigate the case. Not the streets.”

A) ICE is moving people beyond their local jurisdiction as quickly as they can, and are deliberately not updating records as to where people have been taken, specifically to avoid being held up by the courts.

B) How do you seek justice in the courts when the officers won't show their faces, won't identify themselves or the agency they work for, and reports they file don't name the officers or departments involved? How do you seek justice in the courts when they're deliberately and repeatedly moving people around specifically to keep them beyond the reach of the courts?

Separate questions have emerged about the preparedness of local communities, including Kerr County’s apparent lack of a local flood warning system. The county, roughly 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, is where many of the deaths occurred. In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said.

Sounds like they should be blaming themselves, then.

what makes flash floods so hazardous is their ability to strike quickly, with limited warning. Around midnight on Thursday, the [weather offices for the areas that flooded] put out their first flash flood warnings, urging people to “move immediately to higher ground.” The office sent out additional flash flood warnings through the night, expanding the area of danger. It is not clear what steps local officials took to act on those warnings. [...] the local Weather Service offices appeared to have sent out the correct warnings. He said the challenge was getting people to receive those warnings, and then take action.

Again, that sounds like a local issue. What happened to your pride in local government and not needing the feds?

He said that climate change was making extreme rainfall events more frequent and severe, and that more research was needed so that the Weather Service could better forecast those events.

No comment.

Given the way Tesla and Xitter have imploded, the loss of his public mask, and his orange feud threatening his government subsidies, his family's evil history, and his own addictions, I would not be at all surprised if he started running drugs.

Don't get an in-door ice maker. If you have to have an ice maker, have it internal to the unit.

Check out what maintenance you need to do before you buy it, and how easy the maintenance will be given the space you're putting the unit into. Like, if it's a tight fit and surrounded on three sides, cleaning the coils might be problematic, etc.

I ate cat food when I was about 8. I was sitting with some friends in their backyard and put my hand down and it landed inside a bag. I thought it was a bag of some kind of snack food, so I ate it. It did not taste very good.

It's NOT done. It needs one million valid EU signatures. There'll be people who signed it out of the EU, there'll be signatures that can't be verified. Every "extra" vote gives us an additional buffer to offset any votes find to be invalid.

You can, but then you never know what the junk is hiding: patches of bare dirt, certainly, but also oil, transmission fluid or other toxic seeping into the ground, small bits of metal parts (you know they're not going to find everything) that become missiles when bit with a lawnmower, etc.