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A Bundy-Linked Group Is Rallying Farmers in Drought-Stricken Oregon. Things Are Getting Weird.
June 19, 2021
People’s Rights hosted a “motivational speaker” who writes for a white-nationalist paper.
Far-right agitators and militia groups have been gravitating to southern Oregon over the past few weeks, threatening an armed staredown with the federal government over water supplies that are seriously depleted because of a massive drought. In what could amount to the first modern climate-driven standoff in the US, some farmers in the Klamath basin are angry that the Bureau of Reclamation has shut off water to an irrigation canal that feeds 200,000 acres of farmland in southern Oregon to preserve the spawning grounds of endangered suckerfish sacred to local Native tribes.
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Organizers affiliated with People’s Rights, a network created by the far-right activist Ammon Bundy, have purchased land next to the irrigation project and created a “water crisis info center” in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where they’ve been threatening to bust open the canal gates to let water flow, setting the stage for a fight over endangered species and Native America rights. The center—essentially a big tent—is supposed to be educating locals about water rights and and raising support for the cause among the locals. But at a meeting on Thursday night, People’s Rights Oregon hosted “motivational speaker” Maggie Rose McGrath, whose expertise on water rights seemed a little thin.
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Portland records hottest day ever amid Northwest scorcher

Utility workers and wildlife managers across the Pacific Northwest were trying to keep people and animals safe as a historic heat wave scorched the region and sent residents searching for relief.
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The extreme and dangerous heat was expected to break all-time records in cities and towns from eastern Washington state to Portland to southern Oregon as concerns mounted about wildfire risk in a region that is already experiencing a crippling and extended drought.
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I know this thread is about the US, but we share the same weather.



Many parts of the Thompson-Okanagan broke temperature records on Saturday, including Vernon, Kelowna, Osoyoos and Kamloops.

The weather is expected to get hotter in this last week of June, with some local temperatures expected to rise to almost 46 C by Tuesday.
 
USA is destined to destroy itself. I feel nothing anymore when I read of mass shootings. Shame, because at least half of them are nice people.
 
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A mate lives on a boat in Seattle harbour- He’s pretty shocked at what is happening. Most apartments don’t really have a/c as it’s normally a temperate area.pop across to Idaho and it’s up to 10c higher
 
up the beavers!
so to speak.


" “It was insane, it was awesome,” said Lynnette Batt, the conservation director of the Placer Land Trust, which owns and maintains the Doty Ravine Preserve.

“It went from dry grassland. .. to totally revegetated, trees popping up, willows, wetland plants of all types, different meandering stream channels across about 60 acres of floodplain,” she said."
 
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California wildfire advances as heat wave blankets US West

Firefighters are struggling to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the U.S. West this weekend.
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Palm Springs in Southern California hit a record high temperature of 120 F (49 C) Saturday. It was the fourth time temperatures have reached 120 degrees so far this year, the Desert Sun reported.

In California’s agricultural Central Valley, 100-degree temperatures blanketed the region, with Fresno reaching 111 degrees F (44 C), just one degree short of the all-time high for the date,
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Las Vegas late Saturday afternoon tied the all-time record high of 117 F (47 C), the National Weather Service said. The city has recorded that record-high temperature four other times, most recently in June 2017.

NV Energy, Nevada’s largest power provider, also urged customers to conserve electricity Saturday and Sunday evenings because of the heat wave and wildfires affecting transmission lines throughout the region.
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In Southern California, a brush fire sparked by a burning big rig in eastern San Diego County forced evacuations of two Native American reservations Saturday.

In north-central Arizona, Yavapai County on Saturday lifted an evacuation warning for Black Canyon City, an unincorporated town 43 miles (66 kilometers) north of Phoenix, after a fire in nearby mountains no longer posed a threat. In Mohave County, Arizona, two firefighters died Saturday after a aircraft they were in to respond to a small wildfire crashed, local media reported.
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A wildfire in southeast Washington grew to almost 60 square miles (155 square kilometers) as it blackened grass and timber while it moved into the Umatilla National Forest.

In Idaho, Gov. Brad Little declared a wildfire emergency Friday and mobilized the state’s National Guard to help fight fires sparked after lightning storms swept across the drought-stricken region.
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Up to the last page it was about the saturation of US news in the UK media. So cyberpink 's comments were more on topic than this wild derail.
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I have no idea what the fuk is going on at all, so I'm glad anything I typed is relevant
In an ideal world 5 years from now all the trumpy tosspots will be dead from covid. Piers Morgan will hitch a ride on a Besos spaceship shaped like a penis and die upon re-entry.
 
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Wouldn't surprise me if some trumpist pastor spots the cycle lane in the picture and delacres the destruction of the town as divine retribution for going against God and trucks and stuff.
 
How many more rich California towns must burn before the US enacts decisive, radical, immediate action on the climate? Many. Too many.
 
The Floods In Tennessee Aren't Freak Accidents. They're A New Reality
NPR. August 23, 2021
The rain fell fast and hard in Middle Tennessee over the weekend, harder than it has ever fallen before. Up to 17 inches of rain inundated parts of the state in less than 24 hours on Saturday. Streets turned into rivers. Water barreled through homes. At least 21 people died, and more are still missing.

It was another deadly example of climate change after a summer of climate-driven calamities. Flash flooding — when water rises very quickly and flows with enormous speed and power — is getting more common in many places as Earth heats up.

The deadly floods over the weekend were the second major flooding event in Tennessee this year. Torrential rain flooded parts of Nashville in March and killed at least four people.
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Not looking good for New Orleans - Tropical Storm Ida is forecast to hit as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and people in some areas are being ordered to evacuate. And this is happening during a massive COVID surge in one of the states with the lowest vaccination rate.
 
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