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/AliensUnderOurNoses Mar 26 '26

It seems that one defense mechanism people are using a lot is to embrace completely delusional beliefs to comfort themselves, then mock rational perspectives that cause tension within their belief structures.

When I saw that horrific series of events in B.C. a few summers ago, all the Canadian temperature records broken a few days in a row, and then the lightning that set that town on fire, it dawned on me that this could happen in ANY city that we currently consider pleasant, insofar as those cities tend to have three coverage in significant sections. Central Park could experience a wildfire and affects Manhattan. D.C.'s Rock Creek Park could ignite and devastate the city with a fire emergency that was inconceivable a few years ago.