This drought is killing me. I am deep in the red. My normal water hole has completely dried up. Have had to drill 3 new wells for my cows, I don’t think I will be able to make hay this year. Fire every day it seems like.

Brother you don't vote for a drought. Being ignorant about something doesn't mean you deserve to suffer. Yeah, people voted for who they voted for, but I think we're all aware the system is fucked. We're aware of how much, and where, a majority of the voter fraud is located in this country (looking at you, big old white house), but most of us weren't born yesterday and know what the climate change rhetoric of this country has been for decades. Close to zero fucks given, by those voted into power. There's a whole system at fault here, and our voting records are only partially to blame. Don't go rubbing salt in a wound simply because it feels good to say "I told you so." If someone needs help, you help them, and let them learn their "lesson" later. If all your fingers can do is point, put them in your pocket and hush.

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make_n_bake@reddit

Don't go rubbing salt in a wound simply because it feels good to say "I told you so." If someone needs help, you help them, and let them learn their "lesson" later.

They won't learn shit. They only notice when it affects them. Then they blame someone else for it.

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ReasonablePossum_@reddit

My dude, you have a whole class attacking you for good. But youstill fallen too low the divided and conquered hole.

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Fatboyneverchange@reddit

This.

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MephistoHamProducts@reddit

Brother you don't vote for a drought.

No, but they do constantly vote for politicians who deny climate change and boost big oil. They purchase huge trucks and mock sustainable energy to "own the libs". The scream about illegals and vote for people that will empower ICE to murder citizens in the street then cry about not having cheap illegal labor to harvest their crops. Then they beg for bailouts while mocking "welfare queens" in the cities.

So, yeah, fuck 'em. They got exactly what they voted for.

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Soggy_Bid_3634@reddit

Vote for a drought? No. But they certainly voted against their safety. It’s weaponized stupidity at this point and maybe this’ll be their wake up call as they take the rest of the country down with them.

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kingofhearts778@reddit

This ⬆️

No fire service right before fires start crushing the southeast. 🤔

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Biotic101@reddit

Hey, somehow that 40B bailout for Argentina (and some US billionaire investments in trouble there) had to be financed!

And the not-a-war with Iran.

And all those DOGE and Tariff checks for the American citizens. Oh, wait, seems only the Lutnick family can cash in big because they bought tariff refund claims for pennies for the dollar, sorry!

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mover999@reddit

But donald doesn’t take a salary

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Friendlyfire2996@reddit

Maybe fema will help /s

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tchock23@reddit

But at least we saved women’s sports…

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FlyingBike@reddit

Except we didn't even do that, bc now there's also less funding for everything at universities and local sports organizations. Plus there were maybe 5 trans women nationwide who were in these situations

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Proper_Look_7507@reddit

Universities are just terrorist training camps for the radical left.

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Th13027@reddit

I bet you never attended one with a stupid comment like that

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Proper_Look_7507@reddit

Lmao. Graduated from 3 actually. I see you missed my sarcasm

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TerpyTank@reddit

Don’t forget this is Reddit, gotta explicitly state /s or you’ll be downvoted to oblivion before the gates ever had a chance to be shut!

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lullckkillers@reddit

We saved the dogs of springfield

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Spidermonkey-435@reddit

Have you considered getting a cistern to capture and store rainwater? Lots of farmers use them in my area to store water after storms to irrigate with later and we are very drought prone in our area.

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lordaddament@reddit

Yeah there usually isn’t much rain during a drought 😂

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gonyere@reddit

The point is to store water during the rainy season, so you have it for the dry ones.

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LuxTheSarcastic@reddit

This IS the rainy season. :(

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Gotta be careful with that though. Iirc, some areas have laws against capturing rain water as it prevents recharge of aquifers or rivers, or some such reasoning.

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Unique-Sock3366@reddit

You’re absolutely correct. As opposed to common sense as it seems, rainwater collection is illegal in many places.

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gonyere@reddit

We put two in last year. We aren't in drought, yet, but if the pattern from the last couple of years repeats, it'll stop raining in the next month or two.

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Master-Pangolin-353@reddit

For fun, search for 'does the concentration of data centers correspond to areas of increased drought'.

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Biotic101@reddit

Just to understand the magnitude of the investments, the US GDP would be flat without them.

Electricity and water are a major concern.

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i_have_covid_19_shit@reddit

We sacrifice our living conditions for the profit of a few.

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intense_about_it_all@reddit

Those poor children... not much of a sacrifice to ghizzzzzzlane she gets a puppy and first class treatment in a minimum security retirement facility.

"I plead the 5th"

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krissithegirl@reddit

They are currently deciding on whether or not to pardon her........

I really want off this ride.

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intense_about_it_all@reddit

That doesnt surprise me. Drywall, Xmas ornaments and Jeffry. None of these things hang themselves. Jeffy might have pulled an Amado Fuentes. A Nicholas Cage/John Travolta type sitch.

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Biotic101@reddit

And it doesn't even make sense for investors. Fees would have to be in the hundreds per user for decent ROI.

It looks like a mix of personal enrichment via hype and financing the race to AGI by burning investor funds.

In the gold rush, the ones that profited the most were usually the ones selling shovels and whiskey, not the gold diggers.

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KoreyYrvaI@reddit

The problem with things like the gold rush and the oil boom is everything becomes dependent on it. Yeah, the shovel and whiskey people made bank, but at the expense of every other industry becoming non-competitive.

Land Resources have a way of hijacking economies. Look at any country where their whole nation depends on the price of oil.

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Biotic101@reddit

There's another worrying factor. Because there's a reason why in such countries usually a small group of people hold all the power.

Look up "Rules for Rulers / You would be a terrible leader" on YT.

Now, with all the potential job losses by increased automation and AI there will no longer be a need for a large well educated workforce. A few oligarchs aim to own it all.

This breaks the social contract. Naturally people would demand fair taxation, but that's exactly why all the chaos is happening. They try to implement an authoritarian government before shit hits the fan to be able to violently suppress any future protests.

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It-s_Not_Important@reddit

Nothing changes

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Techn028@reddit

We sacrifice our whole lives

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rudbeckiahirtas@reddit

And the industry isn't even remotely profitable

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iridescent-shimmer@reddit

Spoiler alert: No, it doesn't. Data center alley has been in northern VA for like 20 years.

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_BKom_@reddit

Fucking yikes.

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Impossible_Range6953@reddit

Also look at the tax exemptions/incentives they receive.

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_bibliofille@reddit

I'm on a spring fed well thank goodness, but my ponds have all but dried up. It's incredibly sad. Shitasses here keep trying to burn brush, have bonfires, etc because bans are infringing on their rights according to them, but so far the fire departments have been able keep up on going out to stop them.

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Aromatic_Bullfrog485@reddit

Climate warming + data centers = disaster

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LankyGuitar6528@reddit

Climate warming = Disaster

Cars, trucks, jets, megacities... And yes, data centers are part of it. So are cement factories and oil refineries and monoculture and factory farms. The problem is humans being humans.

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livestrong2109@reddit

The fact that these data centers aren't being built with heat pumps and renewable energy is the fundamental problem. They're the gold rush equivalent of a shanty town. AGI push and bust. We're going to have all these gutted abandoned mega structures in ten years time. Maybe the AGI will repurpose them as homes for its human zoos.

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ComfortableEffort360@reddit

Huge areas of the southeast are clear cutting natural 2nd growth forests and replacing them with tight rows of pine. They cut everything in the understory and burn it as well in preparation to plant crop forests resulting in thousands of acres of dirt/mud. So there’s no shade, no biodiversity, and the only plan is to make as much money off each acre as possible. This mentality will be the end of us

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Prior-Win-4729@reddit

I’m also in this SE drought. It’s terrible and since it’s just spring, if it persists, summer will be an absolute calamity. Today we are being inundated with smoke blowing up the east coast.

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AirborneGeek@reddit

Agreed; it has /got/ to rain, or we're in big trouble (source: Mid-TN gardener)

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1984isnoww@reddit

It truly feels like the perfect conditions for food crisis at the end of this year.

Surely none of this is orchestrated .... /s?

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Redit_Suxlol420609@reddit

Keep voting republican

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kingofhearts778@reddit

This. The root of all evil.

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TerpyTank@reddit

Root of all stupidity

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Th13027@reddit

Investigate what your candidates stance on climate change is before you vote.

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LankyGuitar6528@reddit

Almost like Al Gore might have been onto something... CO2 > Increasing Temp > Drought > Fire... Naaa that's crazy talk.

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RedHippoFartBag@reddit

Totally crazy talk! You know how if you run your car in a closed garage for long enough, the fumes will kill you? Well apparently if you multiply that by ~6 billion people, run constantly over the course of 50 years, and make the garage the size of the planet, that doesn’t do jack shit!! No negative impact whatsoever. Who knew?!

/s because sadly, for some knucklehead out there, it’s probably needed.

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Proper-Muscle734@reddit

We turned science into religion. Provable theory and actual facts turned into “well I don’t believe in that.”

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LDawnBurges@reddit

Awww… I’m so sorry. I’m up in SC and listed in ‘Moderate’, but noticed that the Intracoastal Waterway had been continuously low (for the first time ever), since we had a major forest fire last year. Now I’m seeing retention ponds also getting low and starting to dry up. And, we’re already 7”-9” behind in rainfall for the year. It’s going to be rough.

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bokehtoast@reddit

Wow this is really awful. I have the worst climate anxiety because I am a gardener with strong pattern recognition (autism), these weather events activate a ton of sensory issues so it's impossible to notice everything. My city got destroyed by Helene and we sugfer losing 40% of our trees because of the dry conditions that year, which arent even as bad as now. Because went harder in the opposite direction. I haven't even looked to see how the rest of the non mountain south is doing and holy fuck.

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AfterImpression7508@reddit

Hi friend, I don’t have much to say beyond support. Pattern recognition can honestly be debilitating for neurodivergent people. I’ve always described it as being on a hill side and watching a train speeding towards a broken track. You can see that it’s going to topple over, but you can’t do anything to stop it.

To mitigate day to day climate anxiety, I’ve kept my focus on the Midwest and the Blue Ridge Mountains where I’ve got family. Helping friends plant trees, garden, and discussing disaster preparedness, has helped me take tangible steps to lessen the anxiety.

I had family move out of Asheville after Helene :( My cousin was too traumatized after to stay.

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bokehtoast@reddit

That is exactly what it's like but when you try to tell people, they call you a pessimist and then do it anyway and you still have to deal with the fallout.

The Helene trauma is real here. There's not a single part of town you can go and not be reminded of the storm. But the real frustrating part is that no one cares to prevent this from happening again and/or are in complete denial.

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AccomplishedMoney205@reddit

Don’t worry it’s all a democrat hoax. /s

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legosgrrl@reddit

Aren't ga and fl already on fire? I hate this shit.

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Wytch78@reddit

They used the ponds near my cow farming neighbor to put out some of the local fires. Now he has barely any water left for 100 head.

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SolasYT@reddit

Dont worry, I'm sure deporting or bombing a few more brown children will solve this crisis

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Positive_Survey_2916@reddit

Sure pal. You considered joining civilisation and using the water mains like the rest of us do? Maybe it’s time to stop living out your apocalypse fantasies.

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RhinoPillMan@reddit

OOP posted in a farming sub. You think all farmers should move to cities and suburbs? Tf you gonna eat?

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GWS2004@reddit

I live in civilization and have a well.

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Impossible_Range6953@reddit

civilization is a myth...nobody stays civil during war, riots or if you cant feed your kids.

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StarWars_and_SNL@reddit

I don’t know about you but I could really go for a parking lot-range city-sourced steak right now.

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ohyeahwell@reddit

Haha silly op, why didn’t he just consider using the water mains? You sure showed him. Whew. Country folk amirite? I bet next he’ll say he’s still on septic instead of city sewer lines!

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karny90@reddit

lol people never fail to disappoint me. I’m assuming dude doesn’t realize if you don’t live in the city, you probably aren’t on a water line. You have well water or something like that.

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RichieLT@reddit

They may need to use a new colour in the future:

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dodekahedron@reddit

If only we could figure out how to divert Michigan's flood.

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Danddandgames@reddit

However some of our farmers wells are drying up still

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dodekahedron@reddit

That's data centers for ya

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Blueporch@reddit

Or Ohio. OP should consider moving to the Great Lakes region.

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theRealFatTony@reddit

Irony of drill-baby-drill is that you have to drill-baby-drill for water

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MightyMTB@reddit

To add fuel to the fire you guys are also on fire over there. Wishing things change soon for everyone. I’m in the midlands and low country of SC, it’s not fun over here but yall are certainly taking the brunt of it all.

Are yall expected to the get rain coming this weekend and next week?

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Biotic101@reddit

Man I really keep my fingers crossed for you. Later this year a very strong El Nino is expected that might have an influence on your local rainfall as well.

Unfortunately so far it seems rainfall will potentially increase in October and onward and not way earlier. Less likelihood of Hurricane landfall.

Maybe you can organize helping each other somehow in your community.

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