Well, that's a great way to get a really bad infection.
Flood waters contain everything from sewage to dead animals to parasites.
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Man, he’s a college student, he probably eats worse.
Rafts of fire ants are also a sure way to liven things up
Fire ants rafting is a sure sign there is no god. At least not a benevolent, personal one.
Edit: The downvotes are making me wonder how many people didn't get past the first sentence before skipping the rest.
God is God to all living things, fire ants included. And did He not say, 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.' (Genesis 9:3). And lo, the fire ants rejoiced, and partook of his great bounty (college students sitting in flood waters), and were fruitful.
I wonder what the fire ant commandments are, and how many burning bushes were involved
Kill, consume, multiply, conquer. As they follow the goddess of cancer.
At first I read that as dead animals and peasants.
Bring out your dead!
Jesus, that’s the basest of bacterial soups he’s basting in. That’s sewage and corpse water.
Necrotizing fasciitis isn’t a single bacteria. It’s a bacteria gone wild such that the tissue dies under the stress of it. This guy’s feet and junk are in that mess.
Horrifying outcomes may happen.
It's ok. He has his beer.
Psh, you wouldn't be saying that if you saw the 2-day-old, cold, left out pizza he ate just before the pic was taken!
And it was only slight wet, nothing a few paper towel couldnt dry up.
The box was floating still and keeping it on top of the water so it’s totally fine
Holy shit this dude needs to get out of that water
"It's just dirt!"
Microbiology is optional at North Carolina State University.
What is he watching
Going to school in a hurricane-prone state? That sounds like a great idea!
Seriously I refuse to live anywhere that wouldn't remain well above sea level even if you melted every ice crystal on earth. If the universe wants to natural disaster me to death it's gonna have to go the extra million miles and drop an asteroid on me.
As the name of the school implies, it’s in the Appalachian mountains…so hundreds of miles from the sea?
Not exactly hurricane territory.
Helene ended up around the southern tip of Illinois and Indiana so uh, yeah, everything from the Gulf to one state south of the Great lakes is hurricane territory now.
Well I guess we can't go to universities in the eastern half of the US. And not in the middle either (tornadoes), and not in the west either (wildfires). Should we all move to Wyoming? This Lemming seems to know what's best for us 340 million Americans. Surely we can all fit in Wyoming. It'll be a glorious utopia!
Maybe not before but it is now
Places thousands of feet above sea level found themselves under deep water after this storm.
Boone is 3300 feet above sea level, in fact.
Not going to lie, struggling with the "how" on this one. Stationary water anyway.
If a 400 sq mi area gets 2 ft of rain and there's a low valley area surrounded mostly by mountains, the water will drain down the mountainsides to the valley. It's like a big bowl. The water that settles in the valley will be more than 2 ft because of the rest of the runoff from even higher elevations
Yes, but that valley usually has an outflow at its low point in the form of a river. I can understand it getting that deep, but not it staying there.
What happens if you turn your kitchen sink on? Your drain shouldn't have a problem draining the amount of water.
Now take a large 5 gallon bucket of water. Dump the whole thing in your sink.
Not only is the amount of water too much for the drain but the volume of water makes it hard for the drain to even function properly.
How long is there going to be water filling in the sink? Eventually, it will all find its way out, but that takes time
That's right: usually. Sometimes no. Or sometimes the volume of water only slowly drains away (like some rivers move extremely slowly and it's almost as if it's not moving at all). If it takes 3 days for the water in the normally filled river to move 1 mile, even if it takes 2 days with the flooded valley to drain instead of 3, that's still 2 days of floods.
Imagine you drop a bunched up shirt onto the floor. If you look, you'll see that there are lower spots surrounded on all sides of high spots. Terrain irl is not so different from that in spots. Hope this helps explain :)
And don't forget that quite a lot of the rivers are likely clogged with downed trees, landslides, and other debris, further showing the draining process.