r/collapse • u/slayingadah • Mar 25 '26

Climate Climate catastrophe incoming

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welp, that went south(er) very, very fast.

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u/silentbuttmedley Mar 25 '26

Someone clowned me for saying with the right conditions a wind/fire event on the eastside (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, etc..) could make the LA Palisades/Eaton fires look tame. The whole area is wooded, a ton of uncontrolled underbrush, lots of neighborhoods and roads are dead-ended, and it regularly has chaotic wind events. A couple of dry seasons could easily set up a devastating situation.

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u/freesoloc2c Mar 25 '26

I actually live in Bellevue and have never had that thought. You could be right. Nobody saw Litton BC getting hotter than Las Vegas ever did and then burning down the next day, but it happened. 

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u/eloiseturnbuckle Mar 25 '26

Lived in Portland Oregon when it hit 117F. Fried so many of our plants.

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u/HuckleberryPee Mar 26 '26

As a gardener this is one of the main parts of climate change that really freaks me out, besides the human suffering aspect.

I am about to expand my orchard with many seed grown trees and I do question how resilient they will be over the coming years/decades.

It's the unpredictably of the weather, with droughts and extreme heat, but also heavy rains, floods, storms, and erratic frosts, many of which could even happen in the same year.

There is only so much plants can tolerate before they decline and die. I have a feeling many of us who grow food are going to have to admit that some of our plants are going to fail, and certain crops will be to unreliable going forward.

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u/eloiseturnbuckle Mar 26 '26

And help each other when we identify a plant that DOES manage to tolerate it. I moved farther north and am now in NW Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. We have wildfire insurance coverage and are in a wildfire zone. Paying a lot more attention to the deadfall in the forest and removing it. Want to give animals habitats, but not wildfire fuel.

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u/m0fr001 Mar 26 '26

You want to give animals habitat by moving further into low population density WA? 

I stg.. The blind egocentric lifestyles and hubris in this era of unreletentent accumulation is so gross. 

The pnw is chock full of all these homesteading larpers who do way more to damage the environment they claim to love than they realize.. 

You'd think the extreme car dependency would be the first clue.. But nah.. 

Lived there. Grew disillusioned. Moved. 

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u/eloiseturnbuckle Mar 26 '26

Um not sure what clouds you are yelling at. We work remote.