Not another Mediterranean conflict?

[luzribeiro]

If you think Israel, Iran, Libya, Syria and Lebanon are the only crises going on in the Mediterranean, guess again? The architect of Turkey's Blue Homeland (Aegean & Eastern Med.) Admiral Cem Gurdeniz said that if Greece attacks (to defend its territorial rights), Turkey will leave NATO.

In the meantime France said on Thursday that it was "temporarily reinforcing" its military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean in support of Greece. Tensions between France and Turkey were already high over their support for opposing sides in Libya’s conflict.

The EU’s 27 foreign ministers rallied behind Greece and Cyprus over its territorial dispute with Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean, and issued a warning that Turkish naval mobilizations were exacerbating an already grave situation.

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I'm safe in Mississippi:

[dancesofthelight]

Because I have the luxury and the privilege to evacuate for a minimum of a week.

According to this map, my hometown stands on the brink of a Biblical disaster, if it's right and the storm doesn't get a magic shrinking down to Category 3, parts of my hometown are on the edge of literally being swept off the map by a Noachian disaster. Other parts are 'merely' going to be getting very high water.

My house and my street are not on this map, but the furthest east that surge goes is two miles from my house. Everything red is going to drown, if it's lucky, literally be obliterated if it's not.

To call me a nervous wreck right now would be to insult nervous wrecks.

Lake Charles had the devil's luck in 2005. We may be poised to see that luck run out and things go very horribly wrong in a way that I don't think the former restaurant owner turned mayor is remotely adept to deal with.

We survived Rita with a turbine knocked off the house, a cracked pane of glass, and the loss of everything in the fridge and the freezer and that was about it. I highly, highly doubt we'll be as fortunate this time and am simply as resigned to it as I was to my ex-roommates kicking me out into the Ohio snows when my abilities to pay their bills for them ran out.

And with President Biff Tannen in the White House? We're doubly and triply fucked.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-08-26-hurricane-laura-forecast-rapid-intensification-texas-louisiana

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