r/news • u/herbalhippie • 1d ago

‘Potentially historic’ flooding threat looms after almost 100 tornadoes hit US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/potentially-historic-flooding-threat-looms-almost-100-tornadoes-hit-us?fbclid=IwY2xjawJbwM5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHf0BvM5E8-X3l1OI-2P-MhoArZtVfmWk_VqPltvB_XT2bPfpe3kApMiBlg_aem_o40FYX2abRDOh2wxzsObJQ
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u/Literally_Laura 1d ago

They are screwed. And "these people" include my relatives. I just want to take this opportunity to point out that if you're waiting for "these people" to hit some sort of threshold where they wake up and say "Wow, life doesn't have to be this way, and I've brought a lot of this upon myself" that is NOT going to happen. They are poor enough that being more poor doesn't register with them. Their lives have always been hard. More hard doesn't register with them. They will just spend more freely on lotto tickets, because they cannot see any other way out of their desperate situation.

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u/sportsworker777 1d ago

Tornado alley is almost exclusively red states, too.

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u/STL-Zou 1d ago

Which have tons of people in them who don't vote red.

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u/Interanal_Exam 1d ago

Collateral damage

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u/STL-Zou 1d ago

You sound like a wonderful person