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You're trying to manipulate language. "Is drying up" is way different than "levels are low". Drying up is as permanent as something can get.
by edmcnulty101 4y ago
You're trying to manipulate language.
"Is drying up" is way different than "levels are low". Drying up is as permanent as something can get.
- klyrs 4y ago> Drying up is as permanent as something can get. Until it gets wet again, right? Both droughts and floods can have disastrous consequences. They're always news. If you're upset because you're seeing increasingly frequent reports of increasingly drastic weather extremes, it might be because the frequency and extremity of weather events are increasing. And even if we knew this was going to be happening for several decades, the fact that it's happening today, and the impacts of those events, are news.
- edmcnulty101 4y agoCome on. No one uses the term 'dry up' for a temporary condition. The money dried up the aquifer dried up the relationship dried up the oil dried up.... People use 'levels are low' or something similar for temporary conditions. I'm not really going to debate this anymore.
- klyrs 4y agoCurious that you put all of those examples in the past tense.
- torstenvl 4y agoDry up - v. - to become completely or excessively dry; to decrease and stop; to cut off the supply of
- edmcnulty101 4y agoThe only thing that's increasing in frequency is sensationalist news coverage and people who are easily influenced by it. https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history