The Glade 4.0

Indeed.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

That, like any delta for a major river or coastal area, it's inherently risky? What does the fact that the Mississippi River is critical infrastructure for the nation's transportation system, to the tune of nearly $200 billion in economic activity a year, say about the need for people to live in the area and maintain the waterway?

Well, if the rest of the country wants to continue using the Mississippi for transportation, they need to pay up.

I think if we did not have people living in areas where some major natural disaster was a real possibility, we would find ourselves with a great deal of vacant land and very few places to live.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Hmm. What would be left? To the internet!!!

So it looks like Texas has had the most emergency declarations, by far. Of their 334 declarations, 234 were related to fires.

The runner up is California, with 218 declarations, including 132 resulting from wildfires. It can take pride, however, in that it has the largest number of major disaster declarations, at 78.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Nation, the Karuk Tribe, the Navajo Nation, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe each had only one disaster declaration, so I can only assume that this was when they were being attacked by Calvary and were subsequently wiped off the map....

Washington D.C. and Delaware had 19 and 20 emergency declarations, respectively. These apparently are the "safest" areas.

There were 12 states with more declarations than Louisiana.

Come to Ohio, we don't do disasters.

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I beg to differ.. Cleveland is in Ohio....

I don't think we've ever had a disaster here.

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Holy shitsnacks!

See, I was thinking about going in the other direction. Changing their paycheck doesn't matter to the rich Senators and Representatives, but the few average Joes who got elected on merit (who may or may not exist in reality) will be hurt. That's also why I support Congressmen/women having a pretty high salary, even though most of them probably don't need it.

So that got me thinking of non-monetary incentives. At first I thought you could hit them with everyday annoyances. Remove french fries from the cafeteria menu. Replace all their seat cushions with ones that are super uncomfortable. Those are kinda retarded, but you might be able to come up with something along those lines that would provide a little more incentive.

But then I realized, if you want to get this **** done and hit them where it hurts, you need to target elections. For every month Congress is late on passing a budget, subtract 1% of their vote totals from their next election. Yeah, it would require a Constitutional amendment and would never happen, but it would work. They'd be passing budgets like no ones business.

He's got you there.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Hey our river hasn't caught on fire in like 40 years.

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Ohio does have earthquakes and tornadoes, though.

Like our hurricanes, the earthquakes are so mild as to not cause property damage, though.

And tornadoes are pretty tolerable, as far as natural disasters go, since they tend to be so localized that they never ravage an entire community. Given that everywhere in the world, *something* can happen that falls into the "act of God" category and will not be covered by insurance, I'll take the ones that don't level entire communities. Even if the grocery gets hit by a tornado, I can still shop at the next town over and be okay until they get it fixed up.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I thought he was referring to the NFL record.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Zing!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

What about our Baseball and Basketball teams?

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Ohio: 47 major disasters, 7 emergency declarations, zero raging fires.

Oh wait, we have. But they're all floods and wildfires. So really, no real disasters on even the scale of a tornado, much less a hurricane.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Floods are way worse than tornadoes.

They're not too bad here. Not like when a river floods. We get flash floods, but in recent years there has been a lot of management of them done.

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Holy shitsnacks!

What floods if it's not a river? Not sure where you are exactly.

He probably is talking about floods in arroyos, gulleys, things like that.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

How do you not know I'm in Vegas?

Desert flash floods are dangerous, but not like those rivers bursting their banks back east.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Why should I know you're in Vegas? Do you know what city I live in?

I don't know where you are, but I've never been secretive about where I live

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Holy shitsnacks!

It's still Ohio. I grew up there and I've kept myself far away as possible after finishing HS.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn