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AcanthisittaNo6653 20 hr ago +217

Mother nature reminds us why FEMA is there, or rather was there.

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Recent-Result2852 19 hr ago +121

And NOAA and NASA to predict and prevent, but why study Earth when we're already here?

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jeffismybaby 19 hr ago +42

Dont need NOAA just need a fat pedo conman with a map and a black sharpie

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freebirth 18 hr ago +10

(this post must be read with the accent and contempt of a southern baptist) dont need to spend on the future when we are gunna start the war of Armageddon. its the end times boy PRAISE JESUS!!! why else woudl we be helping them j words out in israel?

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IrishRage42 18 hr ago +6

I just assumed that's read just like Foghorn Leghorn.

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cheekytikiroom 7 hr ago +1

I do, I said, I DO declare!

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Sweaty_Marzipan4274 15 hr ago +3

Funny how FEMA was the cultist Right boogeyman, detention centers, camps, etc. For decades.

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AluminumFalcon81 20 hr ago +292

good thing they clarified what part of the video was recorded from the sky vs. on the "groud". no way to tell otherwise.

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philoth3rian 20 hr ago +47

If you've been to that area, you'd understand.

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skrilledcheese 18 hr ago +36

Fun fact, the toothbrush was invented down there. If it was invented anywhere else it would have been a teeth brush.

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mces97 14 hr ago +8

If one geese is a goose, And one teeth is a tooth, Should one sheep be a shoop?

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BUROCRAT77 17 hr ago +7

Brrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrr

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gonewild9676 6 hr ago +1

That was next door in Alabama.

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PixelatedSnacks 19 hr ago +5

I appreciate the text on the wing letting me know what I'm looking at.

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ToasterYetiRanch 19 hr ago +2

They probably have a template that slaps “SKY” and “GROUND” on everything now. Honestly wish they’d instead use that effort to link to evacuation info or donation pages somewhere visible.

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AluminumFalcon81 18 hr ago +2

evidently nobody proofread the template.

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Tom_Lynch_fan 19 hr ago -6

You need to get out more and meet ordinary folks.

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AluminumFalcon81 19 hr ago +2

a bold claim to make about a person of whom you know nothing!

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UBC145 20 hr ago +102

Yikes. Having never been to Georgia, I never imagined it was prone to wildfires.

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showhorrorshow 20 hr ago +123

Usually not so much. There is a fire season but nothing like out west. Record breaking drought, though, and voila.

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PersonalWasabi2413 20 hr ago +115

If only scientists could have predicted these weather phenomena decades ago and tried to repeat warnings constantly. Surely we would have listened

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skynetempire 19 hr ago +18

We needed to make changes since the 80s shit maybe since the 50s. Now its too late, just gotta survive the ride.

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Solidarieta 19 hr ago +16

Sure, it's too late to avoid it, but not too late to minimize the effects.

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DisillusionedPatriot 19 hr ago +9

And yet, we aren't even doing that

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Describing_Donkeys 8 hr ago +1

We are at least creating another reason to find an alternative to a volatile source of energy, by going out of our way to make it volatile.

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tadsagtasgde 18 hr ago -1

What exactly do you think ww3 is for?

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skynetempire 19 hr ago -8

Sure, just make sure every major government, China, India, Brazil, United States, and EU, stops polluting air and water. Then ensure an end to deforestation in the Amazon Also, halt commercial fishing practices that are damaging marine ecosystems. That’s it. Should be simple.

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code-coffee 19 hr ago +7

For a million years or so

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Particular_Main_5726 17 hr ago +3

Individuals may survive; collectively, though, our current civilization and way of life is very much on a rapidly spiraling decline. And right now, today, is as "good" as it'll ever be moving forward. In another decade, the intensity and regularity of disasters will be far greater. Around 2040ish (a mere 14 years from now), maybe 2045 if we're lucky, the AMOC will likely collapse due to the rapidly increasing global average temperature. When that happens, we'll have roughly six months before we see widespread hunger and starvation on a scale hitherto-unseen by humankind. More likely than not, we're living at the cusp of our own extinction event, at least broadly speaking.

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Seeking-Something-3 18 hr ago +1

R Buckminster Fuller wrote about climate change way back in ‘69 and I’m sure he wasn’t the first. “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” is one of the best short books I’ve read.

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syhr_ryhs 12 hr ago -2

You're totally and completely wrong! You can only ever do anything right now. Right now is the time to do everything we can.

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skynetempire 12 hr ago +3

Ok so you think every country is going to unite and work together to stop deforestation, commercial fishing, over farming, Strip mining etc to save the environment? Sorry but nothing is going to change except get worse.

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Cultural-Yam-2773 13 hr ago +2

Best we can do is cut more funding.

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2003tide 18 hr ago +6

The humidity in GA has been crazy low the last month. West coast like.

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carlosos 20 hr ago +52

It isn't just Georgia. Florida which most people think of being a swamp also burns every year and this year is one of the worst years in decades. According to a CBS article there are currently over 130 wildfires in Florida. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-wildfires-drought-worst-fire-season-decades/

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Bagafeet 19 hr ago +14

Every year gonna be the worst year in decades from now on. The frog is boiling now.

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GuelphEastEndGhetto 18 hr ago +1

‘Once in a lifetime event!’

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BanditoBoom 10 hr ago +2

This just makes me ask, more and more, why ANYONE would want to live in Florida. Gators, snakes, other things….and the. Hurricanes, AND wild fires? And can’t get home insurance…

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InformalWish 8 hr ago +2

Native here...It's beautiful (outside the cities), no snow, Florida man for entertainment, beaches... But yeah, moving would be fun. Can't yet.

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jeffismybaby 19 hr ago +3

Hope theyre all in deep maga counties

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Tgijustin 19 hr ago

Don't wish harm upon others, especially ones you don't know

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rowsoflark 8 hr ago +2

Buddy i dont think they should be allowed to vote i dont think they deserve to have their homes destroyed. Who thinks that? Whats wrong with you?

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ozamatazbuckshank11 7 hr ago +1

Please keep in mind that many of us in South GA are not MAGA and don't deserve to be lumped in with them. Yes, we're in the minority, but we're still here, and this is our home, too.

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rowsoflark 18 hr ago -2

Thank you, insane people think they deserve this. Hell think about the 20-49% of non Trump voters at the very least ffs.

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-Average_Joe- 20 hr ago +11

Central Alabama resident here, we are seven inches under average in rainfall this year and I believe are under an advisory not to burn stuff. Our situations are not the same but probably similar. It is pretty dry right now.

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BudgetMegaHeracross 16 hr ago +6

One of the FL fires is called the Railroad Fire because they believe it was sparked by a train wheel. That's the conditions we're in.

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WarProper3733 12 hr ago +1

While Fl and others are currently in a drought.This is a common cause of fires everywhere every year and not really indicative of above average conditions .

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parker2020 20 hr ago +12

It’s very cyclical the one that happened in the late 2000’s was bad but obviously climate change and what not make things like this more common/worse. I was a young but I remember you could smell the smoke from South Georgia in Atlanta. It then was followed by a storm that lasted a week and flooded literally half the state

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ozamatazbuckshank11 19 hr ago +6

I was in college in Savannah at the time. I went home to southwest GA one weekend and there was so much smoke on the highway, I was surprised they weren't detouring traffic. I had never experienced anything like it.

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Tom_Lynch_fan 19 hr ago +1

The days of cyclicalness are coming to a close. Things are changing. If there continue to be cycles, each end of the spectrum will be more extreme.

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BudgetMegaHeracross 16 hr ago +4

It's the latter. Climate change won't end the ENSO, only amplify its effects. La Niñas will make the American Southeast hotter and drier than ever (hence this). El Niños will be make the American Southeast wetter and way, way, way hotter than ever (a "Super Niño" is projected for this summer and fall). We had a brief period of ENSO Neutral conditions recently (maybe last year?), which was a welcome relief, relatively.

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appleparkfive 19 hr ago +6

The two greenest cities in the US are Seattle and Atlanta. Georgia has a LOT of trees. They just aren't prone to wildfire normally.

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BudgetMegaHeracross 16 hr ago +3

I have a book on the grasslands of the American Southeast called *Forgotten Grasslands of the South*. (good google searches might be "wiregrass prairie" or "pine savannah") A lot of the South is actually fire country. It's just we developed a very good (perhaps model even) fire regime in the 20th century. If that's failing, you know it's bad.

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hugelkult 12 hr ago +1

Its bad not because it failed but because it exists. Wildfires are part of the ecosystem and we insist on supressing them instead of directing them.

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ScoobyScotty 12 hr ago +1

Anyone old enough to remember when snow plows from states up north had to convoy down to Georgia because of "Once in a lifetime" blizzards some 10+ years ago?

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cadensky 11 hr ago +1

Pine trees which are common in GA are highly flammable.

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dumbass_sempervirens 20 hr ago +30

A couple of days ago I could smell and kind of see the smoke in Fayetteville Ga.

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EdwardoftheEast 20 hr ago +12

Same in Lawrenceville

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garyadams_cnla 16 hr ago +1

Grant Park, right by downtown Atlanta could smell and see smoke.

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TheAstraeus 19 hr ago +87

Good thing we're saving so much money by cutting funding to the US Forest Service and NIOSH. So much winning

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RustyNK 20 hr ago +15

I was in Atlanta a couple of days ago and was wondering if there was a fire somewhere because it smelled smokey near the airport.

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CantAffordzUsername 19 hr ago +25

Let’s take the Trump approach and blame the firefighters and tell them how shitty of a job they’re doing.

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GuelphEastEndGhetto 18 hr ago +4

Did they rake the leaves?

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Key-Double8880 19 hr ago +12

I'm in midtown, had no idea the wildfire was even this bad until I saw it on CBS evening news. Alot of people here have no idea about it all. It's about 4 1/2 hours from me. We are not accustomed to wildfires like you hear of in California, and if you've ever been to GA, there are trees everywhere all over the state, many people literally have forests in their backyards, especially in south ga area. We have a chance of rain in my area tomorrow but I'm not sure about further south. I pray for everyone's safety dealing with this.

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ozamatazbuckshank11 19 hr ago +4

I'm from South GA, and though my specific area isn't burning, there's definitely a tense vibe in the air. I remember about 20 years ago when wildfires near Waycross and the Okefenokee destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres. It was so hard to breathe outside, too. I hope this isn't going to turn into a repeat of that, but I'm not optimistic. I packed a go bag just in case.

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Key-Double8880 19 hr ago +3

I remember that, and I also remember traveling through the area later in the year and seeing the devasation of trees burned to the ground and all the emptiness that used to be forest.

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ozamatazbuckshank11 18 hr ago +3

Yeah, it was terrible. And with hurricane season right around the corner, the thought of what a storm would do to huge swaths of razed land...smh.

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Samarah238 17 hr ago +2

I live near Brunswick, which opened a shelter today, since the ones in Brantley are overflowing. The wind shifts tomorrow toward Brunswick. As an asthmatic, I'm concerned about smoke.

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ozamatazbuckshank11 17 hr ago +1

My suggestion is to stay inside as much as you can. Keep the AC on, and make sure the air filters are good to go. If you must go outside, masking up might not be a bad idea. Your inhaler is going to be your best friend. Best of luck to you!

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Lopsided_Weird_3293 20 hr ago +42

They should have raked the forests

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PharaohPir8 18 hr ago +14

As a Californian, I know that all that needs to happen is for the President to “Turn on the tap” and empty reservoirs on the other side of the state. Also, if their government would stop twiddling their thumbs and cut down all the forests, fires wouldn’t happen at all.

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Impressive-Weird-908 20 hr ago +33

Lalala I can’t hear you need to burn more oil.

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Daxx22 19 hr ago +17

> Most in History ***SO FAR***

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rowsoflark 8 hr ago +2

Theres more to life than a snarky simpsons reference, man

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JoshJoshson13 20 hr ago +30

They should have raked the forests

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Jonsnoosnooze 19 hr ago +7

They should have asked Donald to move the fires with his marker

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damnthistrafficjam 13 hr ago +3

I wonder what the excuse is going to be this time for FEMA not being able to do a goddamn thing.

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ram_fl_beach 20 hr ago +7

No hurricane last year, in my mind that helps lead to low water levels. Nature makes them and nature has adapted to needing them. They dump a lot of water.

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BudgetMegaHeracross 17 hr ago +3

Last year we had a Pacific La Niña, which is the one everyone knows about, and leads to droughts in the American Southeast *And* an Atlantic La Niña (cf the Atlantic Zonal Mode or Atlantic Equatorial Mode), which includes a cool zone in the Gulf of Africa, which results in less tropical weather on the Atlantic Coast of the US. So it was a bit of a 1-2 punch (well 1-2-3 if you count one of the 3 hottest years on record and how that affects rainfall patterns).

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Bagafeet 19 hr ago +4

Most in history. So far. See y'all next year.

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CaptainLookylou 17 hr ago +2

It rained for about 10 minutes in valdosta today.

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Your_Latex_Salesman 16 hr ago +2

I live in Charleston and went to sit on my porch before work this morning, the wind must have been moving right cause I could smell it. In Beaufort this afternoon they started to get smoke. It’s no good, hope the best for everyone involved.

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Ohigetjokes 9 hr ago +2

This story was buried way down in my feed… and aid was hard to come by in the Bush Jr years.

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DimSumFan 17 hr ago +3

Must have forgot to sweep their forest floors.

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BoilerMaker11 15 hr ago +4

Maybe those MAGAs shoulda raked the leaves or whatever they were saying when they were shitting on SoCal a year ago

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Mystery_Chaser 15 hr ago +1

Another fire caused by an electric pole? Electric pole wire meets balloon? Hawaii?

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No-Theme-9838 9 hr ago

Data center

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BadAsBroccoli 12 hr ago +1

And we're not even into summer yet...

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GladChef1206 8 hr ago +1

Hey Bibi, were gonna some of that money back. Turns out we might actually need it for Muricans.

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Septopuss7 20 hr ago +1

Oh shit I wonder if it impacts the beginning/end of the Appalachian Trail?

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pc_wat 20 hr ago +8

It's mostly south GA. It's a good ways from the trail so will likely be ok.

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Septopuss7 20 hr ago +5

Well that's good, I guess I could have looked it up myself, thanks for the help

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Winstonsphobia 18 hr ago +1

This is God vents his anger at Democrats for all those lies they tell about worsening climate.

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Shtankins01 19 hr ago +1

China is really leaning in to this whole climate change hoax

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fcatw 16 hr ago +1

Are we great again yet? Does this Red need government handouts now?

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citznfish 15 hr ago +1

But this is in no way related to global warming, right?

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tmanXX 11 hr ago +1

Current administration needs to tell them they need better forest management. Feds won’t help until state agrees it’s their fault. /s But it is how they handle disasters…

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nicetriangle 10 hr ago +1

I used to live in the US south and I later lived in the PNW and one thing I remember about being in the south when wildfires broke out on the west coast was how abstract and far away that felt. It was hard to really grasp the situation and how horrific it really was.... Until I moved to the west coast. And holy shit some years that was bad. Apocalyptic bad. It felt like you were getting a little sneak preview of the ends times when the AQI would get into the 250+ range. It scared the shit out of me. So on one hand I am absolutely not happy to see this happening in more places, but on the other hand I think there's a lot of voters in the US south that need to come face to face with the realities of this situation because they don't properly appreciate the gravity of things.

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Longjumping-Panic-48 7 hr ago +1

They do, but they don’t care about people they don’t know.

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freebirth 20 hr ago -1

okay the article specifices its the most in Georgia hsitory.. cause i was gunna say the san francisco fire in 1906 burnt down like 30,000 building and left a quarter of a million homeless...

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DisillusionedPatriot 19 hr ago +1

Sherman's march to the sea burned somewhere around five thousand structures.

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Coogcheese 17 hr ago

In history? Are they intentionally trying to forget Sherman's March?

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HeggyMe 17 hr ago -1

California’s like: Hold my craft beer bro.

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IBAZERKERI 18 hr ago -9

most in history * *laughs in californian* *

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ozamatazbuckshank11 18 hr ago +3

That's why the rest of the headline says "South Ga."

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pudding7 14 hr ago +2

It's not a competition.

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Whathewhat-oo- 18 hr ago +1

Georgia has nothing going on except the beautiful outdoors and a lower likelihood of a natural disaster taking our homes out in comparison to some places. Unlike California which has tons of cool shit from top to bottom but your house might burn, slide down a hill, etc. It’s rough all over, we all win/lose.

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‘Most in History’: Over 120 homes destroyed, nearly 1,000 threatened by South Ga. wildfires

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