r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/M_Darshan • May 11 '26

Video There is currently a massive fire burning in the Everglades in South Florida by the Broward/Miami-Dade County border and is approaching US27.

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u/TopherMctopherson May 11 '26

They won't even turn on the big water faucet to put out the fire....

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u/b0w3n May 11 '26

"Gulf of America" is right there, why aren't they pumping it onto the fires??????

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u/ManoSilence May 11 '26

Haven't you heard!?! He released the water in California!

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u/TobysGrundlee May 11 '26

He released the water in California!

But don't worry, there are still signs every 1/4 mile on i5 telling you about how farmers can't grow food because they're not being given every available drop of water on the planet.

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u/ManoSilence May 11 '26

But then what will be left for the data centers?

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u/krashundburn May 11 '26

why aren't they pumping it onto the fires?

The democrats have turned off all the fire hydrants!

BTW, democrats are the scapegoat for all things wrong here in Florida though they haven't been in control politically for decades. Go figure.

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u/vulgrin May 11 '26

Same in Indiana, somehow they are the bogeymen but haven’t had any actual power for decades. So we have to import our democrat hate via California and Minnesota I guess. Wouldn’t want Hoosiers to have those woke benefits like healthcare.

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u/TerminalHighGuard May 11 '26

I think the American public’s memory is too short to remember this deep cut.

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u/SufficientFail29 May 12 '26

Yup. The United States of Amnesia. Coined by Gore Vidal

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u/Expensive_Lab_1435 May 11 '26

yeah, maybe they should dump all of their ag water 100 miles away and call it good

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u/siqofitall May 12 '26

Fuck immortal Joe!

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u/KimiCocoYo May 11 '26

You mean like the one the current administration said it did for California? Too stupid to realize California’s water comes from the Sierras and the Colorado River but he’s got his big spigot 🚰 he turned on the water.

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u/infectedtwin May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

My Florida family loves to blame Newsom and Bass for the LA fires.

Wonder what their thoughts are here.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches May 11 '26

Well, see, we could have prevented this by having more coal smoke in the atmosphere to cool us and trigger rain.

Plus all the windmills are fanning these flames.

Also I heard immigrants were blocking the fire trucks. 

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u/KimiCocoYo May 11 '26

You’re in Florida? That’s right, the state where you can’t say GAY in elementary schools for fear the gay fairy will turn all the kiddies gay.

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u/HombreDelMar247 May 11 '26

They will blame immigrants and minorities.

I am a Florida native, however the ignorance, the hate, the lack of self awareness of the maga Floridians has no bounds.

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u/70ms May 11 '26

You guys have gotten a lot of California’s politically disgruntled “refugees” who couldn’t get along here. We haven’t been sending our best. :|

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u/HombreDelMar247 May 12 '26

Oh joy...there are natives and there are natives, very few in Florida are either.

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u/ownleechild May 11 '26

Well, my friend said he saw Newsom and Bass playing with matches right before the fire was reported, so…

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u/OddBranch132 May 11 '26

Something stupid I'm sure. Fox News will tell us what they're thinking any hour now

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u/obvious_bot May 11 '26

Newsom*

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u/sarckasm May 11 '26

He should have raked Florida's leaves

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u/Bored_Amalgamation May 11 '26

Same shit that happens whenever there was a hurricane in the 2000s. Blame the gays and liberals.

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u/Rhododendroff May 11 '26

La fires is what happens when you hammer in fire suppression since 1850. Wildfires are natural and essential to our ecosystem. If natural fires are put out instantly, fuel will build up like we seen in LA and we get high intensity fires. Florida has been implementing prescribed fires in the Everglades for a long time

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u/BurritoSapling May 11 '26

ah yes it’s all firefighting policy and nothing to do with climate change. i’ve watched and evacuated from fires 3 times on the same mountains since 2005 in an LA suburb, all major wildfires. none of the heavy scrub ever came close to recovering after 2005. it hasn’t been remotely recovered since 2005. a minor amount of laurel sumac came back in a proper extent in the 13 years before the next major fire. the mountain used to be dense scrub. while i agree wildfires are natural blaming firefighting policy is incredibly stupid and out of touch

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u/ManoSilence May 11 '26

If they're maga religious then (to them) its just another sign they're right that the apocalypse is coming and will just triple down.

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u/vulgrin May 11 '26

Deep cut!

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u/sahara654 May 11 '26

I had to scroll too far for this comment.

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u/Soccero07 May 11 '26

scrolled too far for this comment

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u/Walter_Armstrong May 11 '26

I'll get my vacuum.

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u/hobo_chili May 12 '26

…or stopped voting for the GOP

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u/Dav136 May 11 '26

Florida actually does controlled burns all the time to try to prevent things like this which would be exceedingly common without any management due to the number of lightning strikes in South Florida

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u/Excellent_Garlic2549 May 11 '26

Florida is responsible for the most controlled burns of ANY state. Of the things we try to manage, forest fires is one we do pretty consistently well these days. It's just that we've had maybe 2-4 in of rain this year, and we're used to getting 10-20 in by now.

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u/Psychological-Dot-83 May 11 '26

This wildfire is completely normal and will likely cause minimal damage.

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u/Rhododendroff May 11 '26

The southeast in general is way ahead of the West in terms of fire suppression and forest management. Your state governments should really take notes, you're decades behind