Maybe because life has been rather hard lately in some respects, I’m just full of escapist compulsions. Being a creative type, these tend toward the creative – write this, write that. Sometimes I even have an urge to draw and I am sooo out of practice on that shit. What I need to be doing is keep that new year resolution to sort out our shit and empty the storage unit. If Florida is going to start having bouts of underwaterness within fifteen years, my condo is as well. If I get that shit squared away, it will be much easier to move. Just to live in general.
Let me interrupt the explanation of my bad ideas to talk about a good idea that isn’t getting discussion. Any place that could salvage real estate with a system of dikes needs to get on that shit right fuckin’ now. If Washington state does that with this river valley I live in, some pretty useful land can be kept. And maybe we won’t have to throw all the work we did here in the trash. All the suffering we went through just to get this far in life. Ho hum. File that next to Marcus Ranum’s big proposal for humanity to unfuck itself.
Anyway, thinkin’ about ttrpg fun times I’ve had in the past got me yearning to fuck around with that in the present. Run a Vampire: The Masquerade game with myself just to see where the random rolls lead me. But if I’m going to waste time writing, it should be writing something at least quasi-original. One approach people like to take, to get the creative juice of a rpg while still having a possibility of selling it as their own writing, is filing the serial numbers off – like the Fifty Shades lady done with her fanfic. I’m not in that state of creative desperation.
Then again, why focus on original content? The notion I should make any of my writing legal to sell? That’s laughable. But then, making art that uses other people’s content just seems kind of pathetic. I’ve made no secret of my disdain for fanfic. Writing a story in somebody else’s world is a close cousin to that. Why think of the content of a game as writing? It’s really hard for me to not do that, for reasons.
Other random wild hares – Read all the books you’re supposed to read, to be an intellectual. Finish Josefina y Blasfemia. Serialize a completely unrelated novel on here, like I did with Centennial Hills. Get back into drawing by way of doing a comic strip. Get back into drawing by way of doing all of the exercises in the How to Draw Manga book series. Start a book club. Start practicing singing. Make music. Make concept albums.
I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years…
Those dudes from U2 ripped this song off pretty hard for “Goldeneye,” I think. Whatever.
Anything is anything.
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Your dike idea is interesting: of course everyone knows they did this in Holland, but Tokyo also reclaimed land.
i don’t know the geological conditions in your state, but Florida sits on porous limestone. Water is going to bubble up from the ground sometime soon and there will be nothing that can be done about it, because the bedrock itself is permeable.
i’m in a river valley that heads out to puget sound. i don’t know enough about geoengineering to say if this is a good candidate for dikes or some other kind of system for land preservation; might not be at all possible here. i’m wondering if i spent money on flood insurance if they’d ever pay out or just weasel.
I can search.
https://www.eopugetsound.org/magazine/studies-target-increasing-flood-risks/HSIL
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https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/2/346
(only two there)
I had a minor flood confined to just the basement a couple of years ago, and insurance fought me every step of the way. Your mileage may vary. Long story short: 3″ of rain in an hour killed the sump pump and it wasn’t humanly possible to bail that much water before it ruined the walls. We had 3 people working on it until about 4 am when we gave up and let the water do what it would. Moral: never own a house with a basement.
On a similar note; a family member had just bought a first home–a ranch-type house in New Orleans, a month before Katrina hit. The water went over his roof. Mandatory homeowner insurance first insisted it was an “act of god” and therefore they didn’t have to pay.
global warming is an “act of capitalism” but i expect it will be treated the same.
Good grief that takes me back.
“Act of capitalism” is perfect, and I am sure equally immune to compensation, after all it is their god.
I’ve checked one of the ‘what sea level rise will look like for you’ maps there are, where you can check for different heights of sea level. We’ll be ok unless things get into the tens of metres rises. As for excess rain flooding it could happen, but is pretty unlikely, we’re sited on a ridge, but if too many of the gulleys on the road flooded the understorey of the extension could be flooded. I did think about this when looking for a house fifteen plus years ago, though the handy on-line maps weren’t available then, but this side of Manchester is heading up into the south Pennines, so I was pretty sure we’d be ok. In Sheffield we were about 200 m above sea level, here there’s so much going on on the maps it’s difficult to work out where the contour lines go.
i’m pretty sure we’re fucked but i can’t tell my husband. just atheistpraying for a fucking break of some kind.
I’m not sure how old you are, apart from younger than me (unless you have an incredible skin care regime!) I’m 65, but even in the worst scenario it will take time for sea level to rise. I know that unless I am extraordinarily long lived sea level rise will be affecting only a little more than just the lowest areas in my life time. I mean that’s part of the whole problem of getting people to act, so to be cheerful the odds are you”ll both be dead before it becomes a serious problem.
If you do want to know NOAA still has it’s sea rise map you can play with https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/0/-13612545.866705123/6106656.788315605/9.912/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/noAccretion/NOS_Minor
that’s not what i’m hearing most recently. i’m hearing 15 years -ish, when i’ll be 65.
had another fun bad idea – rewrite & redraw the old v:tm clan descriptions to be more gay.
You’re probably right, I’ve been concentrating on the shit show of trans issues in the UK so not paying as much attention to climate change as I used to. That said sea level rise won’t be the same everywhere, maybe you’ll hit lucky on that.
More gay in the world is always a good thing!
i like the noaa projection there only goes to ten feet, when more is certain to happen well before the century is over
mmmm maybe maybe not. the flooding in my town this year was a warning shot and i don’t love it, but the weight of sources online seems to put problem status over 25 years from now, which is quite different as far as mortgage progress goes. i would never be able to resell the property, but might be able to get some kind of government bailout. hell who knows anything?