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Have you been to burning man, because it sounds like you have not. Food and water is everywhere. They will not run out unless this thing lasts another week.

Have you been to burning man, because it sounds like you have not. Food and water is everywhere. They will not run out unless this thing lasts another week. If some people run out, others will have extra. Of this I am 100% sure.

giantrobot 3y ago
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- chmod600 3y ago
  We are talking about something on the order of a week here. Are you suggesting that survival-level us-vs-them greed will take hold in that timeframe?
  - giantrobot 3y ago
    Having met people before, yes.
pcdoodle 3y ago
We're going to run out of water! How? Because of all the rain!
- eastbound 3y ago
  In France, media told us underground water reserves were overflowing after hyping drought for 6 months (tip: if you don’t cherry-pick the stats, there is no more drought than every year). So they argued that drought causes the overflowing of phreatic reserves. Later during the summer we had heavy rains. Now everyone jokes that we have heavy rains due to drought. Seriously I hope the media will stop preaching in one direction. Today they try to demonstrate GW, but miserably fail at it, since they’re commenting weather and not climate. They’re doing more damage than they solve.
  - lancesells 3y ago
    I believe drought causes flooding or overflow because the land dries up and doesn't absorb the water.
somewhereoutth 3y ago
Food and water are everywhere until they are not. 70k ppl consume a vast quantity of food and water every hour. Once stuff runs out things get dicey very fast. Yes another week would almost surely lead to that eventuality - but when is the tipping point exactly? Hard to know. Food ppl can manage without for a couple of days, but water is a different matter. Many camps may be relying on regular top ups of their water cube, and camp mates may not bring reserves because of the camp provided water. If water cannot get into BRC then you have a simple maths problem - water on playa / ppl on playa = time.

giantrobot 3y ago

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chmod600 3y ago
We are talking about something on the order of a week here. Are you suggesting that survival-level us-vs-them greed will take hold in that timeframe?
- giantrobot 3y ago
  Having met people before, yes.

pcdoodle 3y ago

We're going to run out of water! How? Because of all the rain!

eastbound 3y ago
In France, media told us underground water reserves were overflowing after hyping drought for 6 months (tip: if you don’t cherry-pick the stats, there is no more drought than every year). So they argued that drought causes the overflowing of phreatic reserves. Later during the summer we had heavy rains. Now everyone jokes that we have heavy rains due to drought. Seriously I hope the media will stop preaching in one direction. Today they try to demonstrate GW, but miserably fail at it, since they’re commenting weather and not climate. They’re doing more damage than they solve.
- lancesells 3y ago
  I believe drought causes flooding or overflow because the land dries up and doesn't absorb the water.

somewhereoutth 3y ago

Food and water are everywhere until they are not. 70k ppl consume a vast quantity of food and water every hour. Once stuff runs out things get dicey very fast. Yes another week would almost surely lead to that eventuality - but when is the tipping point exactly? Hard to know. Food ppl can manage without for a couple of days, but water is a different matter. Many camps may be relying on regular top ups of their water cube, and camp mates may not bring reserves because of the camp provided water. If water cannot get into BRC then you have a simple maths problem - water on playa / ppl on playa = time.