Okay, Iām posting this here because this blog has a much bigger following than my main. This is the first time Iāve ever begged for reblogs instead of likes.
The morning of August 10th a massive storm called a derecho plowed through the midwest, devastating Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and the entire state of Iowa, which is where I live. Iowa was hit the worst. A derecho is basically the equivalent of a hurricane. Our highest recorded wind speed was 112mph.
1/3 of the state lost power, and almost 3 days later, roughly 400,000 people still donāt have power. We have approximately 23 million acres of farmland, and approximately 10 million were destroyed by the storm. Thatās not good at all. Our crops are one of the stateās main sources of economic development, and we lost so much.
The light green area inside the circle is all of our damaged crops. We lost a lot of silos and grain bins as well
Outside of our local news stations, thereās barely any national media coverage on this. Ive only seen a couple, and the only ones I have seen werenāt even that in that depth.
The above screenshot was from today(Aug. 12th, 2020) at 9pm CST. 2 days had passed before either of them wrote anything about it.
We have some cities that are either partly out of power or entirely out of power. One of the worst hit cities was even still recovering somewhat from a F4 tornado that went through it 2 years ago.
Thereās people stranded in their homes without food, power, gas and/or cell service. Please spread the word and let people know that we need help!
THIS, All of this.
Iowa is a disaster zone. Iām missing parts of my roof, probably need a new garage, new windows, new siding. My patio door was literally blown off its hinges.
My small town has no power, because the electrical poles were snapped in half like toothpicks. My parents live in Cedar Rapids, and they are completely cut off from the modern world at this point. They canāt make any phone calls because the cell towers were destroyed.
We are running out of fuel. There are still hundreds of thousands of us without power. Everyone has rancid food sitting in their freezers. People on wells literally have no access to running water. Generators and tarps are almost impossible to find. Banks are closed, and businesses arenāt taking debit/credit cards. The only way for most of us to charge our phones is to sit in our vehicles with the engine running.
We NEED aid.
Thereās a media blackout on this.
This is the breadbasket of the United States, this could potentially lead to a winter famine.
This is still going on. Itās 8/15 and about 150,000 households are still without power, including almost 60% of Linn County which has the 2nd biggest city in the state. See those big streaks on the satellite image? Two of them pass directly through major cities.
I see a lot of people asking what you can do in the notes. Ask your senators to pressure the federal government for better disaster relief, theyāve done nothing so far. Call our governor Kim Reynolds and tell her how badly sheās botched relief efforts. I donāt know if thereās anywhere you can donate to really, maybe people could put links in the notes?
Itās been super fun here, lemme tell ya. I never lost power, but I got very lucky. A solid quarter of my county doesnāt have power, and weāve had a bunch of deaths in people who lost air conditioning and were in delicate health. (because itās also been hot as balls this whole time!!)
Out by Cedar Rapids, at least 75% of the county still doesnāt have power. Theyāve pulled in electrical line workers from as far as New York, Texas, and California, and we used up (checks notes) all of the spare electric poles in Texas to replace fallen or damaged ones. Theyāre scrambling to ship in more from California and Canada now, as well as wire and transformers.Ā
Oh and yeah, a third of the crop people depend on is destroyed.Ā
People have lost fridges and freezers full of food, and it was just after most folks stocked up because their EBT cards got refilled for the month. Some renters and home insurance is replacing it, but thatās only if folks have it.Ā
happy pride! please remember that storme delarverie was a very important header at the stonewall rebellion, and according to himself and many eye witnesses it was his arrest that incited the riot in the crowd. he was a black butch lesbian who used he/him pronouns (as accounted by his close friend of many decades, williamson l. henderson who also founded the stonewall veterans association]). do not let people misgender him and dont let his importance and legacy be forgotten!Ā
During Frida Kahlo’s lengthy recovery after her near-fatal accident in 1925 at the age of eighteen, she started to paint, often taking herself as a subject. Throughout her life, Kahlo underwent numerous operations addressing complications from both this event and a bout of childhood polio that atrophied her right leg. She wore a variety of support devices which she decorated, adorned, and incorporated into her paintings — turning them into works of art. These works demonstrate the way disability influenced Kahlo’s diverse modes of creative expression.
God remember when u were 12 and you would just Make Art on like spare copy paper with crayola markers and an old pencil and even though you didn’t know anything about anatomy or perspective or anything you were jus happy to b Making Art and u didn’t constantly belittle your own efforts or feel like ur drawings weren’t good enough
I wish I put as much effort into my life as Phil Collins did into the Tarzan soundtrack
One time my Spanish 2 teacher was like “I dont have a lesson today. We’re watching Tarzan” and put it in the VHS (This was 2010). We [sophomores - seniors, I was a junior] were super excited. The movie starts and my friend and I look at each other and say at the same time “IS PHIL COLLINS SINGING IN SPANISH?!” I went home that night and found out Phil Collins sang the songs in the English, Italian, German, Spanish, and French versions of the film. Mind blown.
He did not have to go that HORD but Phil did it for us
yall can make fun of slam poems all you want but I’ve never felt more powerful than listening to women yell about their trauma to strangers
a lot of the difference between people who like slam poetry and people who hate slam poetry is comprised of whether you’ve heard slam poetry used constructively as a platform for the voices of the oppressed and those who would otherwise not have ways to express their emotions, or, alternatively, just heard it used by boring untalented white dudes who want a license to complain about how Smartphones Are Literally The Devil
Though it may not seem like it right now, you have so much more to look forward to in life. One bad day will seem like nothing when you have your first real love, when you hold your first born child, when you score your dream job in a few years. There is so much more in life than this, you just need to hold on.
