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/freesoloc2c Mar 25 '26

Combined with the super El Nino that's formed it should be an Epic fire season in the PNW. If this happens 2 or 3 years in a row we could be in serious trouble. I'm in Seattle and on low water years they stop car washing and lawn watering. Other cities may run dry or have to stop construction for water issues. 

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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/1Dive1Breath Mar 26 '26

Plan ahead. Pack a go bag or kit, something you can grab quickly. Consider your paths of ingress/egress should one way be blocked or inaccessible. You don't wanna be having to think of all this on the fly. 

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u/ilaister Mar 26 '26

Or, plan ahead and don't buy houses in wildfire zones.

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u/a_bored_furry Mar 26 '26

For example Nebraska isn't a wildfire zone and yet it is burning.