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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That landslide was right on target… I’ll see myself out

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Bullseye 🎯

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

No no, stay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Landslide? It looks more like tectonic upheaval.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Before pic, October 2015. @[email protected] shared an article which mentions there was a lawsuit over landslides there back in 2001.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I looked up the thing.

BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (WOWK) — The Target in the Merritt Creek Shopping Center in Barboursville, West Virginia is falling apart after the road behind it collapsed.

Edit: known issue, Target just thought they could beat nature unlike the last tenant.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I knew it was West Virginia.

This is not climate change, y'all. The Appalachians are an eroding mountain range. The town where my sister lives is in a constant battle to keep the roads from falling into the adjacent creek beds. It's just an absurdly difficult geography to build on.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: The Appalachians are older than Saturn's rings

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Yep! Over a billion years old and a major feature on Pangaea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Appalachians

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Climate change can accelerate erosion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

As a civil engineer, one of the first realisations you have is that You can only temporarily keep nature back. In the long run, i.e., greater than 50 years in 90% of cases, nature always wins.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Or Rather Capitalism finally getting a return on its investment of ruining the environment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I hope no living creatures were harmed. Other than that I see this as a positive thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nature:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Climate is Nature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I literally would have shit myself if I were in that part of the store when that happened.