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   Amadi Lovelace (amaditalks@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 21:55:09 JST Amadi Lovelace

   Nothing like that piercing scream from the phone when there’s a flash flood warning. I’m apparently sheltering in place until midnight. My heart rate might slow to normal by then.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 21:55:05 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @amaditalks In the big 1997 flood in Fort Collins, a dumpster floated down the street like that and — bang! bang! bang! bang! — smashed into the sides of all the cars parked on the street. I always imagined those folks filing insurance claims: “car hit by dumpster while parked.” Wonder how that went for them.

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     Amadi Lovelace (amaditalks@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 21:55:08 JST Amadi Lovelace

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     So it did indeed flood here last night. And the intersection at the end of my street was hit again. But this time the thrift store dumpster didn’t float away — it was the entire (chained together) rack of bicycles they put outside every spring. I’m still waiting for video. Somehow it won’t be as iconic as this.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 21:56:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @amaditalks
     (Some of the stories of that flood are far more grim, and I am glad you’re OK.)

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     Amadi Lovelace (amaditalks@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 01:23:43 JST Amadi Lovelace

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     @inthehands thank you. We have largely designed the city proper so that flood zones are not residential zones. This has unfortunately led to roadway flash floods that have been deadly in recent years, to the point that some roads have automatic closure gates activated by rain gauges.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 01:23:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @amaditalks That’s awful about the roadways. Good that you have that kind of residential zoning at least. Not something to be taken for granted! Fort Collins had a mobile home park built in a flood zone at the time of the flood, with predictable and tragic results. Such a clear example of how discrimination becomes systematized.

     The flood also derailed a train, which was…something.