America will figure it out eventually
Everyone is on their own
Unless you're a billionaire ... your government has abandoned you
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I lost my house to a forest fire when I was a kid and the help we got was literally life saving. This time around I'm already stockpiling dry food and water. Also been getting a bunch of work done on my car so it's as reliable as possible just in case I need to leave in a hurry. Got my "oh shit" bag ready to go in my car too with some extra water and food in the trunk. I live in an area that's prone to forest fires and flash floods so I'm not really taking any chances for when shit hits the fan. Usually I'd call this overkill but I don't think that applies this time around knowing that no one is coming to help.
I suggest setting up a small NAS on the way to the garage and backing stuff up on it regularly, that way when you need to go, just unplug it and put it in your car, and you have a backup of your data should the shit hit the fan.
I very much like the sentiment, but I’d mostly advocate for a data backup that doesn’t require any particular effort or memory to preserve in an emergency.
Obviously everyone’s personal situation varies, but as a simple default I usually recommend that friends and family simply use whichever cloud drive service is available from the device manufacturer that stores their photos (ie, google Drive, Microsoft one drive, or Apple iCloud). Photos are almost always the most irreplaceable digital asset, storage is typically just a few bucks a month, and using the “default” provider usually requires zero skill, effort, or recurring action. Other than making sure you can afford the auto-debit each month, your backs are mostly foolproof.
Cons include a dependency on a cloud service, which has a recurring charge and a privacy impact. The charge is typically minor vs the cost of a NAS or similar, and most services have some privacy assurances that may be enough to ease your concern. Nobody will ever care as much about your backups as you, but in aggregate a team of skilled full time FAANG engineers is often a more robust administrator than a solo customer.
If you have the desire and resources, you could and should do both backups, or as many as you reasonably can manage in as many places as possible.
Cons include a dependency on a cloud service, which has a recurring charge and a privacy impact. The charge is typically minor vs the cost of a NAS or similar, and most services have some privacy assurances that may be enough to ease your concern.
With how places like the USA are degrading right now, the privacy impact is increasingly huge. Having a photo in your archive that could be flagged by an ML filter automatically as doing something now deemed "illegal" like having the wrong skin color is bad.
As for cost, you'd be surprised in that a few years of cloud or less can easily cost as much as a small NAS that can last a decade.
I'd advocate people learn how to preserve their data themselves, it is a good skill to have, and it helps strengthen data education in a time when Tech Bro companies want people as dumb and reliant on their tech as possible.
Easy enough to follow guides or ask an AI to set up a sync with another similar box at someone else's house in a different city or state to have an offsite copy.
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60% of Missouri voters support fascism, war crimes, sex offenders, and domestic terrorists loose in their country.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/missouri
33% of Missouri residents were too lazy to show up and vote. A tantamount approval of the destruction of themselves, their families, friends, and Ukraine.
https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/Nov2024OfficialVoterTurnout.pdf
St. Louis voted overwhelmingly for Kamala.
And all their electoral votes went to Trump ...
Which is a complaint about the electoral college, not STL voters. STL voted for a strong FEMA. But the city is getting trashed on both sides because conservatives hate them for being liberal, while liberals hate them for being in a conservative state.
Which is why they're not getting the requested aid... Well, actually, the local emergency manager has to make the disaster declaration to the state and have all their local and mutual aid resources exhausted. Then if the state approves a state disaster, the governor can request a presidential disaster declaration (PDD).
IF the cheeto agreed, that would free up a willing FEMA to respond to requests. However, we now have a FEMA Director that wants to eliminate the agency, so who knows. The whole thing is a shitshow.
Excuse me. We don’t do that anymore here in the United States. Grab those bootstraps and shut the fuck up peasants. If you didn’t deserve it, almighty god wouldn’t have thrown that tornado at you. Don’t be a drain on the state. Leader has deals to make. These bombs ain’t gonna just drop all on their own. Besides, they’re working on a glorious parade for you. What more do you want?
If I die I just want to die knowing my president had a sweet-ass jet.
Next up is wildfire season, floods, hurricanes, oh my.
Huh....wonder why that is. Must be a coincidence i guess
Remember when Republicans were forming posses and threatening FEMA employees with guns during Milton and Helene and then the organization was gutted during the California fires?
Pepperidge Farms remembers!
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Republicans aren't giving aid to red as shit counties so unfortunately a blue county isn't going get anything unfortunately and knowing Republicans, they'll try to charge them for just reaching out.
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No there will be no help for you. Suffer. This is what you voted for.
St Louis City and County voted for Harris.
Some absolute bullshit for people to put rural maga nonsense on the suffering people of one of the most liberal cities in the US. Shits fucked up honestly. People in St Louis are derided by the maga nutjobs that run our state, and then by outside assholes too ignorant to know anything about our city in the first place. St Louis ISNT going to get FEMA assistance because its liberal. If it was Joplin again or some shit theyd have been there on Friday
When disaster comes for you, dont look at us to help…
Thanks for the well written reply. The people who have fought these far right nutjobs the most are the black folks in north St Louis City. They deal with every form of racism there is. North City folks are now suffering hard from a second massive storm, the tornado took the roofs, the storm last night flooded the houses and apartments.
So tired of ignorant takes generalizing about supposedly red states for an internet own. It only hurts our people more.
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Goddamn there are some ignorant fucks in this thread.
I live in this shithole state (on the opposite side of St. Louis, but still), but 99% of the people I know here aren't conservative in the slightest. But that's not gonna stop people from blanket labelling the entire state as redneck hillbilly fascist fucks.
Please, do better and realize that St. Louis itself probably has most of the liberals in the state so you're attacking your own interests.
Unfortunately, the EC and Senate both mean that if 51% of voters in a state vote R, all other votes don't count. Here in California we have more redneck hillbilly fascist fucks than several of the red states combined, but they're outnumbered.
Sry, we don't use nuance here.
Have the day you voted for.
Just gonna put this out there, st Louis and much of the surrounding areas have large black communities. And between St Louis and Kansas city accounted for most of the votes for Biden and Democrats in the state. They didn't vote for this even if the empty land in the rest of the state did.
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And magats will celebrate.
How did Missouri vote again?
The cities always vote mostly blue. The rest of the state is what fucks everyone
Thank you for this, STL went 81% for Harris. They don't deserve this, places like Jefferson City does.
It just drives me up a wall when people go all red vs blue states. Even the most liberal states have a third of their votes for Trump. Massachusetts voted 36% Trump, much greater margin than people in STL, yet no one says places like MA deserve this. Heck Trump received a greater percent of votes in Boston than he did in STL.
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Yeah, most states are pretty evenly purple when you actually get rid of the winner-takes-all map. Typically, the large cities go overwhelmingly blue while all of the hicks go overwhelmingly red. So the state’s balance is mostly based on the urban/rural divide.
It’s also why republicans have systematically been making it harder to vote in cities. Rural areas usually have no wait times for voting, because there are so few people. But urban areas can have wait times measuring 6-8 hours, because republicans have closed nearly all of the urban voting locations.
Thoughts and prayers bitches.
I haven't had breakfast. I may have to go down there and check it out. Because understanding the magnitude of hurricane damage is the responsibility of just random strangers. If only there was a government agency that some but not all of our taxes were used to fund...
“Please FEMA come save us. Oh, you were defunded. How about just helping the whites? The straight ones. “ -MAGAcuck
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Worked well for Sanders...
...oh wait.
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