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Posted May 09, 2018
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tremere110: Australia is dominated by eucalyptus which are designed to catch on fire. The oils are highly flammable and they prevent decomposition leaving a lot of dry tinder in the form of leaves and bark on the ground. It facilitates the easy spread of fire if one tree catches fire. Eucalyptus does this because that is usually how they reproduce, having seeds that only pop open in extreme heat.

Tl;dr - Fires spread easily when your forests are made up of living matchsticks.
We have a pine tree here in North America that is the same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_contorta
Posted May 09, 2018
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MajicMan: ...and we have one of the 3 largest volcanos in the world located in Wyoming.
If that super volcano beneath Yellowstone ever decides to blow that'll be a seriously bad day for everybody in the entire region.
Post edited May 09, 2018 by Mr.Mumbles
Posted May 09, 2018
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MajicMan: ...and we have one of the 3 largest volcanos in the world located in Wyoming.
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Mr.Mumbles: If that super volcano beneath Yellowstone ever decides to blow that'll be a seriously bad day for everybody in the entire region.
Linkie: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/5/6108169/yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption
Posted May 09, 2018
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Mr.Mumbles: If that super volcano beneath Yellowstone ever decides to blow that'll be a seriously bad day for everybody in the entire region.
The entire world you mean.
Posted May 10, 2018
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tinyE: ...until I became a Yooper.

I literally can't think of one natural disaster I am in danger of being hit by up here.
Don't forget our suicidal deer, trying to exterminate the Upper Midwest human population one high-speed collision at a time.
Posted May 10, 2018
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tinyE: ...until I became a Yooper.

I literally can't think of one natural disaster I am in danger of being hit by up here.
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HereForTheBeer: Don't forget our suicidal deer, trying to exterminate the Upper Midwest human population one high-speed collision at a time.
I wouldn't call them suicidal because more times than not when a car hits a deer, the driver is killed and the deer lives.
Posted May 10, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: Don't forget our suicidal deer, trying to exterminate the Upper Midwest human population one high-speed collision at a time.
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tinyE: I wouldn't call them suicidal because more times than not when a car hits a deer, the driver is killed and the deer lives.
There's that.

Was watching news last night and they were showing in the background a video clip taken by someone with a phone. The guy is probably 50 feet away from the slowly advancing blob rolling down the street and you hear an official voice in the background saying, "Sir, you need to move back from there." Because the blob is going to suddenly leap forward and attack the guy. Frankly, I'm hoping for someone else standing another 50 feet back, filming the first guy getting run over at 1 inch per minute. "It just came from NOwhere, man!"
Posted May 10, 2018
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tinyE: I wouldn't call them suicidal because more times than not when a car hits a deer, the driver is killed and the deer lives.
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HereForTheBeer: There's that.

Was watching news last night and they were showing in the background a video clip taken by someone with a phone. The guy is probably 50 feet away from the slowly advancing blob rolling down the street and you hear an official voice in the background saying, "Sir, you need to move back from there." Because the blob is going to suddenly leap forward and attack the guy. Frankly, I'm hoping for someone else standing another 50 feet back, filming the first guy getting run over at 1 inch per minute. "It just came from NOwhere, man!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UFQWKjy_I


And then there's this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
Post edited May 10, 2018 by TARFU
Posted May 10, 2018
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tinyE: In LOTR the trees walked. I guess if they can do that, they can panic.
And if they can do those things, then beer, too, can roam freely.
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Breja: Wait, do you even have trees in Australia? I thought all you have there are giant spiders, snakes, beer and platypuses..es platypi.... the weird beaver ducks.
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tinyE: You just described the Keweenaw Peninsula, where I live, minus the platypus.
Plus the sea eagles, seals, whales, musk oxen and polar bears. And donkeys and jousting genitals, let's not forget those.
Posted May 10, 2018
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tinyE: You just described the Keweenaw Peninsula, where I live, minus the platypus.
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Lemon_Curry: Plus the sea eagles, seals, whales, musk oxen and polar bears. And donkeys and jousting genitals, let's not forget those.
And the majestic moose!
Posted May 10, 2018
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tinyE: And the majestic moose!
Leaping from Ent to Ent as they float down the mighty rivers of Middle-earth!
Post edited May 10, 2018 by Lemon_Curry
Posted May 18, 2018
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Posted May 18, 2018
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tinyE: FORE!!!!!
Saw that yesterday on the news site I read. It's an awesome picture.
Posted May 18, 2018
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tinyE: FORE!!!!!
I love that picture! It so perfectly captures the USA!

20 years after a hurricane and the Hondurans whine that Temporary Protection has ended and that Honduras is still a Sh*thole that they shouldn't be sent back to, but a volacno erupting in America is "Golfing weather."

I love this country.
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Posted May 18, 2018
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tinyE: ...until I became a Yooper.

I literally can't think of one natural disaster I am in danger of being hit by up here.
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HereForTheBeer: Don't forget our suicidal deer, trying to exterminate the Upper Midwest human population one high-speed collision at a time.
In Maine, we tell stories of full sized moose who square off with school buses.

Only story I had was we were coming around a corner and there was a moose on the side of the road. The driver stopped and shut off the engine because we couldn't get around it. The moose just slowly walked down the side of the bus, all the kids stuck our hands out and petted it as it walked by and it walked off afterwards.
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