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tobiasdrake · 6 months

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We have a lot to work with. We've figured out much of the structure of this murder but the fine details remain elusive.

Did we fucking leave!? Why? Why did we leave!? Did we at least check out the rain gutter before we left!?

Oh, we left so that Yakou could flex his capacity for performing rigorous background checks. That is a well-established character trait. He (unknowingly) uncovered a chief contradiction in Fake Yuma's identity that could have unraveled the entire impersonation.

Lots of financial debt + huge inheritance = one hell of a motive. Also, the family dog never liked him either.

But is it waterproof?

Jeryn doesn't have an alibi before 8. There's a one-hour window of time between Pops leaving dinner and Jeryn taking dinner, during which things could have been arranged.

If he left Pops unconscious in the fish room and then let the rain do the dirty work, he could then spend the next four hours with Tetra forging his alibi.

Which is why we probably should have taken a look at the fucking rain gutters. But don't mind me.

Okay, I suppose we're going for the hard bluff, then. Halara's an incredible gambler. We even saw as much in Chapter Fubuki. I trust their instincts on when to hold and when to fold. If our Ace Detective thinks they can wring Jeryn's secrets out of his neck with a bit of applied pressure, I'll back that play.

We've cracked everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. I mean, not to a Mystery Labyrinth standard but please do not look at the enby behind the curtain. I assure you that it's all uncovered. Trust me.

Halara's doing the thing. The big Whodunit thing, where the detective gathers everyone into a room to walk them through all the pieces of the case.

That's appropriate. They are the only character in this agency who would actually be the star of a detective novel.

Not looking good for you, Jeryn. If the point was to falsify an alibi then that should naturally bring suspicion down on people who have alibis.

See, that's why I wanted to check out the rain gutters. This is the exact piece of information we needed to clinch the murder weapon.

We could assume that they something something with the rain gutter, but the fact that there's a hole drilled there is extremely condemning.

Yakou confidently exclaims "What!? No!" while the floodline is so clearly visible behind him.

I. Genuinely can't tell if he's failing to follow Halara's logic, or if he's playing his part. Halara's unpacking the crime for Tetra, so Yakou may be playing the fool to give them prompts.

Hold up, that would implicate the servant, wouldn't it? The one who prepared dinner? But they left at 7. Also, they weren't the one messing around with the rain gutter.

I guess it could still have been Jeryn if he was crafty about it.

Which is how they knocked him out. Also makes sense how they were able to be confident he'd stay out for hours, if the drug was powerful enough. Okay, I'm with you on that point.

As we suspected, the duct tape was meant to waterproof. They could then leave through the unlocked veranda door.

Okay, so that's why no one heard the breaking glass. Since this was being done surgically, rather than in a fit of rage, it could have been done quietly.

We never got to check the veranda, to find the tape marks on the exterior or the hole in the gutter. Seems like we should have done that.

And that's the whole trick. It's super overcomplicated but a guy like Jeryn who does nothing but watch handyman videos all day had plenty of time to concoct it.

#master detective archives: rain code #drake plays rain code #halara nightmare

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thxnews · 7 months

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UK Flood Risks: EA's Response Unveiled

Elevated Flood Risks Loom Over the UK

As the relentless onslaught of Storm Babet unfolds, the Environment Agency sounds a clarion call, advising citizens to stay watchful against the impending flooding risks from the Rivers Trent and Idle in the days to come. Flood Alerts and Warnings Multiply As of 13:45 on Tuesday, October 24th, a total of 67 flood warnings, indicative of imminent flooding, and 83 flood alerts, signaling potential flooding, have been issued by the Environment Agency (EA). The EA's dedicated flood warning service has dispatched over 300,000 messages through email, telephone, and text, keeping citizens informed during the turbulent tempest.

Tragic Losses and Soaring Property Damage

Amidst the tempest's turmoil, the nation has grimly witnessed a number of reported deaths. Heartbreakingly, the tally of properties succumbing to flooding stands at a staggering 1,300.

EA's Vigorous Response to the Crisis

In a proactive endeavor, the Environment Agency has fortified approximately 47,000 properties against the ravages of the storm. Their response entails the strategic deployment of twenty high-volume pumps and five smaller counterparts across multiple sites. Round-the-Clock Efforts to Mitigate Risks The EA, in collaboration with its partners, has mounted a continuous effort to diminish the looming threat. Teams are in action, bolstering flood defenses, managing flood storage reservoirs, and erecting temporary barriers where needed to safeguard vulnerable communities.

Flood Risks Across Key Regions

The EA has intimated that significant river flooding is possible, though not anticipated, during the day on Tuesday and into Wednesday, encompassing portions of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire. Meanwhile, the South of England may witness minor river flooding as heavy rain continues to inundate these areas. A fresh bout of rain on Thursday may result in minor river flooding impacts in parts of the East Midlands and East of England as precipitation falls upon waterlogged catchment areas. Urgent Call for Public Vigilance As inclement weather persists and rain is expected to pour on already saturated ground, the public is strongly urged to register for flood warnings and remain updated on the latest safety guidelines. Sarah Cook, Flood Risk Manager at the Environment Agency, expressed heartfelt condolences, saying, "Our sympathies go out to those who have lost loved ones in Storm Babet, as well as those grappling with the devastating aftermath of flooded homes and businesses." Cook further emphasized, "The public should stay vigilant, especially in parts of the Midlands over the next couple of days, which will witness a reduction in risk later this week." She added, "We have succeeded in safeguarding more than 47,000 properties throughout the affected areas, and Environment Agency teams are working diligently on the ground, managing flood barriers and storage facilities." Concluding her statement, Cook advised the public, saying, "Please exercise caution around swollen rivers and, under no circumstances, attempt to drive through floodwaters, as even a mere 30cm of flowing water is potent enough to move your vehicle." "We encourage everyone to check their flood risk, subscribe to free flood alerts, and stay abreast of the latest developments at the official government website, or contact Floodline at 0345 988 1188, or follow @EnvAgency on Twitter for real-time flood updates." Sources: THX News & Environment Agency. Read the full article

#EA'sfloodresponse #EnvironmentAgencyfloodalerts #Protectingpropertiesfromfloods #Publicsafetyadvice #RiverfloodinginUK #RiversTrentandIdle #SarahCook'sfloodmanagement #Severeweatherwarnings #StormBabetimpactupdates #UKfloodrisks

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ear-worthy · 1 year

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EarBuds Podcast Collective Recommendations: Where Documentaries Meet Drama

Every week, Arielle Nissenblatt distributes the EarBuds Podcast Collective recommendations by topic. Five podcasts are recommended according to a theme, and they are curated by a different person.

This week, the recommendation curator is Amy Martin, the founder and executive producer of the Threshold podcast.

Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that tells captivating stories about people and the planet. Each season, they do a deep dive into one pressing environmental story, exploring it through the intersections of science, politics, culture, and environmental justice.

Threshold aims to make space for thoughtful, honest, and intersectional conversations about human relationships with the natural world, including the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, climate change in the Arctic through the eyes of people who live there, and asking if we can ever have wild, free-roaming bison again.

Martin’s recommendations are documentary podcasts. They include

Floodlines, is one of the best narrative audio shows ever made, in EarBuds curator Amy Martin’s opinion. The evocative writing and sensitive listening drew her in. The people that are centered in this story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath kept her hooked. A must-listen, Martin insists.

The Experiment is a three-part miniseries from The Atlantic and WNYC where you can learn about history, cuisine, and labor relations through the lens of canned meats. Really, Amy? But trust me. The show is not spam!

In The Sum Of Us from Spotify, host Heather McGhee excavates American histories and inspires us to imagine new American futures in this audio follow-up to her best-selling book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Martin says: “Shining a light on the brutal effects of racism while also creating space for hope and renewal is no easy task, but somehow she pulls it off.”

Bundyville: The Remnant explores the world beyond the Bundy family and the armed uprisings they inspired. This series investigates extremist violence that results from the conspiracy theories of the anti-government movement, who is inspiring that violence and who stands to benefit. Martin says, “This second season of this podcast’s exploration of western anti-government movements was fabulous when it came out in 2019. Listening to it now, post-January 6, it sounds even fabulous-er. But in a seriously disturbing (and important) way.”

Martin is effusive in her praise of Making and all its seasons (Oprah! Beyoncé!), but right now, Making Obama feels like much-needed balm for the gaping wounds in our democracy, she asserts.

Arielle Nisssenblatt adds, “hearing from and about the man himself is fascinating, but what sticks with EarBuds curator Amy the most are the voices of all the people around him who both championed and challenged him. It’s an inside look at how leadership is learned through and with community. It’s also just a really fun (and emotional) listen.”

For more recommendations, check out EarBuds Podcast Collective.

#podcast #documentary

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ingydars · 1 year

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Floodlines was an eight-part podcast miniseries about Hurricane Katrina that was hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II and produced by The Atlantic.

#really liked this #podcasts

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betterbooksandthings · 3 years

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A Shortlist of Documentary Podcasts

Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia

Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen

Heavy Medals

Articles of Interest

Nice White Parents

Wind of Change

Floodlines

UnErased

Serial

/Reply-All/: The Case of the Missing Hit

#A Shortlist of Documentary Podcasts #podcasts #Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia #Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen #Heavy Medals #Articles of Interest #ice White Parents #Wind of Change #Floodlines #UnErased #Serial #/Reply-All/: The Case of the Missing Hit #reply all #podcast list #to listen #documantary #good luck

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absurdsoutherner · 4 years

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If you’re looking for a podcast during your social distancing, I recommend Floodlines.

#podcasts #floodlines #hurricane katrina

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lockdownsuggestion · 4 years

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The story of an unnatural disaster.

Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II.

From The Atlantic

listen online

listen on spotify

further reading

#floodlines #hurricane katrina #new orleans #podcast

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dotartdude · 5 years

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“Driveway Floodline”

#driveway #floodline

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lesovyart · 2 years

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floodline

#art #procreate #landscape #climate change is screwing up our weather here in aus :(#we had horrible floods lately all up the east coastline #luckily my area missed serious damage 👍#went for a walk the other week though #and there's a rust coloured tide mark around a lot of the trees and rocks down by the river and lake :(

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mylordshesacactus · 4 years

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A Writer’s Guide To Hurricanes, I Guess

I realized with a bit of chagrin that, while I’ve spent years bitching about how it drives me up the wall that nobody (in fandom or, in fact, mainstream media) has a goddamn clue how hurricanes work and yet insists on portraying them anyway...I’ve never actually tried to help by explaining what they’re actually like.

So, here’s a genuine, non-sarcastic, good-faith attempt by a Floridian to help you guys who might want to write this stuff at some point understand it, just a little.

So here we go, chronologically in terms of the storm’s progress.

The storm itself is the least of it.

This is the thing non-hurricane places don’t....get.

You can see a hurricane coming. You can watch it. You have, in fact, no choice. I need to reiterate this.

You have no choice but to sit there and watch a hurricane coming.

I’ve actually talked a lot in another post about what that feels like, and why hurricane parties are a thing. But try to imagine what that feels. Just...try. You have to sit there, for about a week, watching the wrath of God bear down on you.

You watch it come and you hope the path changes. You hope it veers off back into the Atlantic, of course, but you also--you hope it hits somewhere else. You know wherever it goes people will die and you hope it goes somewhere else. And you feel kinda bad about it; but you also don't because these are just facts, this is a fact of hurricanes, they will go somewhere and people will die in that place and all of us hope it goes Somewhere Else and if it does, we know that the people Somewhere Else are praying frantically that it gets back on course and hits us instead and we understand.

(And when it does change course, when it doesn’t hit you, you almost feel....cheated? Because you spent so much time and energy preparing and fearing and coming to terms and accepting and bracing and then it--doesn’t happen.

And the guilt of praying it would go Somewhere Else is nothing compared to being disgusted with yourself for actually feeling disappointed that you were spared the apocalypse this time.)

The wind is different.

If you listen to weather reports on hurricanes you’ve absolutely heard the phrasing “sustained winds of X miles per hour with gusts up to Y” without really thinking about what that means.

Now, of course everyone’s been in windy conditions. It’s hard to put a finger on exactly how the hurricane is....different, so I’m just going to describe what it’s like.

The wind always comes from one direction. There’s no being “knocked this way and that” or whatever; the wind comes from the direction the wind is coming from. Always.

(If you’re near where the center of the storm passes, this direction will slowly change as your position relative to the eye changes. But it changes over a matter of hours--like the angle of the sun.)

The wind is a constant, unrelenting force. There’s no....there’s no dips in the wind. It never lessens, it only spikes and then returns to baseline. In a normal windstorm, no, it’s not that the wind ever stops blowing, but...there’s an ebb and a flow. A hurricane is a wind tunnel in which every so often someone revs the engine and there’s a few seconds of higher wind, but it never drops below where it’s set.

(The wind will snake under plywood and storm shutters; it will rip them clean off, if you haven’t screwed them in properly. Screws, not nails. The wind makes deadly projectiles of anything not fastened down. Plywood and storm shutters can be broken, by anything travelling fast enough. It is standard procedure, if you have lawn furniture or anything else not secured that doesn’t float, to carefully lower that furniture into a pool--if you have one. It will stay untouched, and won’t be flung through your neighbors’ plywood.)

This is why hurricanes take down so many trees, why they do so much structural damage. Buildings in hurricane zones are built to withstand high wind, and most trees in these areas can survive high wind too or they wouldn’t have survived so long. But there’s only so much that nature and engineering can do about sustained high winds, without a moment’s rest, for hours, unending, no respite...

In landfall footage--ie, the stuff you see on the news--you likely see this effect in the palm trees-watch how instead of tossing, they’re just bent. It never lets up. In the instances where a bent tree violent bounces back before bending again, trust me--that’s not a letup in the wind speed. That’s the tree having been bent too far, and springing back from the sheer pressure on its internal structure. That’s the tree being stronger than the wind--for now

It’s mostly not like the TV reports.

There’s a reason I referred to “landfall footage” above. News broadcasts, for a lot of reasons, focus on the storm at its worst. The highest storm surge, the highest winds, the most brutal damage, occurs where the eye wall first crosses from being over water to being over land.

(Remember--by the time a storm “makes landfall,” everything for miles around has been experiencing the storm for hours already. “Landfall” is when the EYE of the storm first hits land, not when the storm “arrives”.)

But hurricanes are...vast. Look up satellite footage of hurricanes. Really look at it. Look at how much sheer area they cover.

Most places do not experience landfall-level disaster. That’s why, when people evacuate--well, when residents evacuate, the tourists and recent transplants tend to panic harder--you’re basically always evacuating to someplace that will still have vanished under that mass of swirling clouds. Evacuation sites are still inside the hurricane, but wind speed, storm surge, etc--everything drops dramatically even a few miles from the eye.

On a related note, the eye itself rapidly starts shedding power the moment it’s no longer over open water. Generally, the simple act of making landfall instantly drops a hurricane at least one category in severity. Hurricanes are eldritch gods; they rise from the sea and from the sea they take their power. Cut off from it, they starve.

Do not think for a moment that just because you’re “only” experiencing Cat 1 winds that this storm can’t kill your ass dead. Do not underestimate what the death throes of a dying god can do.

Storm surge isn’t high waves, and it isn’t rain.

Storm surge is the actual sea level rising. The entire ocean being dragged onto land by the power of the storm.

Particularly wet and slow hurricanes might--rarely--drop enough rain to cause flooding. However, that’s unusual; most places here can handle heavy rain. The rain isn’t the problem.

(Slow hurricanes are killers on another level. It’s everything I’ve already said about the unrelenting brutality of the wind, coupled with the fact that--as, again, the vast majority of the storm has been raging for hours by the time it “makes landfall”, and hurricanes draw power from the Eye being over the water--it now has hours upon hours of fully-fuelled destruction before it begins to weaken by being cut off from warm water. It doesn’t weaken, it just....keeps going. And the storm surge is present that entire time.)

I’m just gonna direct you to this NOAA diagram on how storm surge works.

The northeast quadrant is the strongest.

This isn’t a proper subheading it’s just something I rarely see people not from Florida acknowledge.

No matter where the storm is coming from or what angle it hits at--the northeast quadrant is the killer. You do everything in your power to avoid being caught northeast of the storm.

In hurricane-prone areas, the threat is felt year-round.

All the major intersections? Our stoplights aren’t hung on wires from wooden poles--those blow down too easily. They’re bolted to thick metal pipes, “hurricane-proof”. Major roadways that are above floodlines are labelled as evacuation routes.

Things like that.

Hurricanes make their presence known long before the disaster begins.

You start to get “hurricane weather” days--days--before it hits. The sun is out, the weather is fine except for a...

Well, a constant, low-level breeze, with much less variation in angle and direction than usual, fewer gusts, but still primarily a natural breeze. And then you go outside and you look up at that cheerful blue sky and it’s already there.

They’re called cloud bands. You look up and the entire sky is just fluffy white clouds, racing at speed in one direction...

(The breeze, in those early few days, is light. Present, but light. The clouds are always, always racing as if before a gale. There’s a pervasive, eerie wrongness about this, looking up--the clouds moving much, much faster than the wind that should be driving them.)

A hurricane is not a thunderstorm.

This is the cardinal sin and the clearest, most common misconception. Hurricanes are not thunderstorms. In fact it’s actually very rare to have lightning or hear any thunder at all during a hurricane, compared to an average summer storm in hurricane-prone areas.

People often portray hurricanes as basically....the worst storm they can remember, but bigger, and badder, and worse. Hurricanes aren’t just big and intense, they’re....different. They’re something different.

Hurricanes are...quiet.

Except that they’re not.

You know when people talk about the wind howling? Think of the most intense storm you’ve ever sat through. Think about the sound of the wind.The way it whistles through leaves. Hold that experience in your head.

Now forget it. This is different.

Hurricanes don’t sound like that. Hurricanes are....

The sound a hurricane makes is a howl, yes. It makes palm fronds and grass steps and leaves whistle like a rapier scraped against a sheathe, yes. But you barely notice those shallow details, because the sound a hurricane makes is below that, stronger, more powerful.

Hurricanes moan.

Hurricanes are the entire world around you slowly and steadily fraying at the seams, and it moans, low and deep, agonized and hungry, and it never stops. Never. Not until it’s over.

Hurricanes are a world ending.

The storm passes, and the hurricane has only begun.

Do you think people stock up as heavily as they do, with generators and nonperishables and such, for--what, for a few hours of wind and rain, however alive?

No.

Because once the tempest is past, now you have to...exist.

You will not have power. If you were in a very, very lightly-affected area, you might have cell service. Most of your neighbors have evacuated. Many roads can’t be used because they’re washed out, or there are trees or power lines down across them.

It’s very common to lose water pressure. Common practice in hurricane-prone areas is to fill your bathtub with water before the storm--so that, when you lose water pressure, you can use a bucket to flush your toilet. Because those conditions, assuming you’re in an area that can be repaired and not rebuilt, can take weeks.

Weeks without running water, a flushable toilet. That gets grim fast. You brace for the storm. You prepare for what follows.

A hurricane is an eldritch abomination.

Hurricanes are alive.

Hurricanes are Old Gods.

Sitting through a hurricane is not like sitting through a bad storm or like sitting through a tornado, which is fast and unstoppable but then it’s over like it never existed save for the destruction left behind.

In order to get a clearer understanding of just how much the universe is vast, how much it does not, cannot, even notice you enough to want you dead because you are so small it would not comprehend you as possessing an existence if it tried--you would have to go to space.

And while the world moans around you and something out there, alive, growls at a frequency you can’t hear but you feel--you don’t cuddle for warmth during a hurricane. You just don’t.

You keep the generator running outside in the lee of the house where it won’t kill you all with gas fumes, connected via wires that snake around through a cracked door somewhere it won’t get blown open. You make sure it doesn’t run out of fuel, that it doesn’t get water blown into anything important. You use it to power a TV first--to keep the weather report on. You power lights second, if it’s a decent one. You can’t afford one powerful enough to run your refrigerator; you ate the ice cream before this started.

You play games. We’re human; it’s what we do. We play games in the face of our own helplessness. But while you play, you listen. You can’t not.

It’s always there. The world creaks on its hinges. You feel the edges threatening to dissolve. If you sit for a moment and are quiet, that ever-present moan is there, something ancient and powerful on a scale outside your comprehension. There is no cozy comfort of being bunkered down safe against the storm, not here.

There is no “safe” against this. You sit still and quiet and bear witness.

And when the sun rises in the aftermath, you’re surprised to find the world--even a wrecked and altered world--still exists. It shouldn’t. You were there when it ended.

And--and I cannot emphasize this enough--there’s no fucking thunder.

#hurricanes #uh #writing reference #I GUESS

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