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@blogdiva It's only near the Palisades right?

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Someone needs to solidly fund a #Mastodon instance for this kind of thing: hurricanes, bushfires, floods, storms, blizzards and so on.

A couple of tech millionaires/billionaires could club together and establish a rock-solid server with a decade of uptime and a petabyte of storage in a couple of days. They'd be remembered forever. Instead they're buying entire Hawaiian islands, building bunkers, and preparing to watch the rest of us die.

@blogdiva sadly a lot of the Australian services are still only Xitter. I do have an app though with local fire warnings, it’s pretty cool because I can define locations like home and brother’s home and get alerts for a defined radius around there. Probably better

@blogdiva When I lived in Cincinnati in the early 1990s, we woke up to the smell of smoke and haze everywhere. Turns out it was smoke from forest fires in MEXICO. It's crazy how far forest fire smoke can travel in the right conditions.

@blogdiva It would be good to have a standard for for geography hashtags. There are Cambridge and CambridgeUK hashtags, for example, but who knows what the first one means (is it the one in Ontario? The one in Massachusetts?) and the second one probably means the one I live in, but there are two places called Cambridge in the UK. Something like {ISO country code}.{state,county,province,department,whatever}.{city,town,village,whatever}, where the middle one is country-specific, might make sense. With a little bit of per-country code, mobile apps could check the location and say ‘Based on your location, you might be interested in subscribing to the uk, uk.Cambridgeshire, and uk.Cambridgeshire.Cambridge hashtags for local events’.

@blogdiva The Watch Duty app is super helpful, particularly here in California.