After all, how far inland could a hurricane go?

Mudslides are a thing that many people not living in mountainous terrain simply don't realize exists.

The word "mudslide" also kinda hides the nuance that those contain stones.

Is a landslide different to a mudslide?
- Landslides have bigger "chunks" in them and each individual point in a landslide moves a smaller distance than mudslides which are much finer and "flow" almost like an extremely oversized river, just made of mud.
  
  And very fast.

Cleaning it is a bitc.

Edit: wth, we have profanity filters here?

Profanity filters barely begins to scratch the surface of the heavy restrictions on lemmy.ml. The admins there are also well-known for banning people from not just communities but the entire instance if you criticize China, Russia, North Korea, etc., or certain leaders of such, or communist, etc. Imagine a Truth Social instance, except claiming to be leftist instead of right-wing - their way is the correct way and that's final, dissent not allowed.
As it result, it has developed into quite the echo chamber. Not that that matters much to you bc you can access most communities across the entire Fediverse from there, or vice versa.
What may matter to you though is that many people, myself included, have user blocks in place (and lemmy.cafe has even defederated from it entirely) that prevents us from getting notifications from people on that instance. Blocking the big three instances (hexbear.net, Lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml) cuts out >99% of the toxic crap coming our way, at the expense of conversations with innocent people who merely were not aware of the history of that instance and its relation to the Fediverse at large. I also lose out on a few larger communities that way but for me at least I consider it well worth the cost. So if you ever feel isolated, like people from other instances are ignoring what you say... it may be due to this effect, i.e. we may literally not even be aware that you replied to us at all.
So now you know.
- Fuck Russia.
  
  And... now you're banned from lemmy.ml. Btw, this is just a joke, but...
  
  Tough would mean I actually gave a fuck about lemmy.ml.
  
  I am going to go out on a limb here and think that perhaps you may truly not like Russia! (Hehehe:-P)
- Profanity filter is enough for me to block the instance. Thanks for letting me know.
- Thanks. Maybe i'll move this weekend.
  
  Do as you want, but I wanted you to know your options!
  Speaking of, nothing needs to be permanent - just make an alt somewhere and check it out, and you can always keep your old account (you will ofc find yourself using it less, if you enjoy the new one better:-).
  Also, look at the Import/Export Settings section in your Settings menu for easier setup of your subscriptions and such.
  A lot of people are recommending lemm.ee these days, but there are so many cool options to explore, just don't let that thought hold you back from doing anything at all.
Lemmy.ml does. Lemmy.world does not. Come over to the dark side.
- Eh, as long as you're not spreading western propaganda you can pretty much say what you want. Fuck Russia!
  
  Apparently you can't what with the profanity filter.
  
  You can't use racial slurs or derogatory words, but you don't actually need to resort to such profanity to communicate a point.... and I feel that if you do, then you probably are worth filtering out.
  
  Filtering out "bitch" is some weak sauce, man.
  
  Ah I see, you're baiting me. Have a good day, sir!
  
  No... I'm giving you my opinion on this whole discussion, which started with someone complaining that "bitch" is censored on lemmy.ml.
  Telling that you are bowing out now though.
  
  Yeah on .World you can use the any insult as long as it's followed by "Jill Stein" or "Donald Trump". No criticism of Kamala Harris allowed though.
  Imagine censoring a Genocide and then bragging about "free speech".
  
  Weird how you just did it then.
  
  Oh sorry, I thought you were trolling me by literally writing "removed". I just now followed your fediverse link and can see that you wrote "removed".
  Yes that word is replaced on the server. I would say it's a bit overkill too, but hey it's a derogatory word towards women, so I think there are more general words like "fuck", "shit", "dick" and "cunt" that can be swapped in to convey the same point.
  
  Your ignorance is astounding.
  
  fuck Russia? that's western propaganda already! Russia is an innocent nation being forced to invade its surroundings because NATO exists, it all makes complete sense as long as you ascribe to the literal geopolitical framework of the Nazis (geo-political realpolitik, yes a large part of said ideology was literally authored by a few prominent Nazis, no wonder everyone who uses it just ends up doing evil shit)
  
  Right, and everything Russia does is amazing. Come on, whilst I agree that NATO is definitely more of an aggressor in this conflict than western media portrays, that doesn't excuse the atrocities committed within it, no more than I can accept the atrocities committed within my own western country.
  All governments do bad things, and objection to one of those things does not equate unbridled support for their enemies. To see the world so black and white is hollywood fiction.
Find a new instance. lammy.ml is full of damaged personalities who think its their purpose is to control others thoughts. I finally just blocked them. Since what is seen there is invariably seen elsewhere they bring nothing new and definitely nothing positive to any discussion.
- lammy.ml is full of damaged personalities who think its their purpose is to control others thoughts
  "My mom won't let me say swears because she's a stupid cunt bitch."
- Tbf, !fediverse@lemmy.ml is there but nowhere else, if you needed updates on Federation software (remember that link will show no posts for you bc you blocked it, but you can click through to see it from another instance including its original one).
  And some other communities there are quite large such as Firefox.
  Though I still blocked the instance regardless - the trade-off of having to deal with those users just wasn't worth being able to keep those few communities.
  Edit: and occasionally I do see good comments from people on that instance, such as the person you responded to - those users aren't universally bad, nor are they the only source of such (lemmy.world is now probably my biggest one these days, surely only bc it's so large and kind-of a default instance). Still, I am enjoying my experience on the Fediverse now that the vast majority of trolling is cut out:-).
  
  I by no means meant to suggest everyone who uses that instance is trash. The mods however are the worst. Also you have to admit most of the broke humans love hanging there. They rampage around feeding their love of hate and pain.

And if you are very, very lucky, it'll happen in that order.

The picture of an Appalachian main street buried in mud half up the doors really struck home for me. That's not just going to recede on its own. If you want the area back it all needs to be dug out, just the same as any earth moving project.

That is true. Flood creep in inch by inch and you get to run, landslide you need future sight.

The rivers in and around Asheville were rising a foot a minute in some places. Those waters also had cars, trucks, trailers and roofs in them.
Mud/landslides are awful, but so is flooding and it can happen a lot quicker then most people think. I'm very lucky to have escaped in time.