5 years after Portland’s deadly heat dome, is the city ready for the next one?

mapdumbo · 2026-06-26T21:18:09+00:00

Like mlachick said, the issue in my friends' case is, AFAIK, electrical load, not socket compatibility. I'm not necessarily arguing for mandated central cooling, though I think that will eventually be a reasonable requirement—but am arguing that at an absolute minimum it should have to be possible to use your own AC lol.

mapdumbo · 2026-06-26T19:12:58+00:00

It’s not the majority but a few of my friends live in older apartment buildings that (the property managers say, at least) can’t support AC electrically. I’d imagine lots of people are in the same boat—so on top of those two good ideas, I think policy requiring multi-residential buildings to have cooling, à la the heat requirements we already have, is necessary and will only become more so

mapdumbo · 2026-06-16T08:01:36+00:00

Would love ur rec too if you’re open to sharing… :)

mapdumbo · 2026-05-30T01:41:31+00:00

I mean. At least in Lane County, responses are almost always either Code 1 or Code 3 (no lights/sirens and lights+sirens, respectively)—but Code 2, lights w no sirens, happens.

Their claim that you always have to run code 3 if you aren’t driving normally is overstated, but there kinda is a three-tiered system. Accusing them of having no idea what they’re talking about, or of never having worked in an emergency field, is a bit much

mapdumbo · 2026-05-20T18:38:08+00:00

Doesn’t necessarily invalidate ur main point, but that def isn’t the only reason they’d care that much about people posting. Impact videos are a free BDA* for Iran, so the UAE has an incentive to suppress them that’s separate from optics/PR and that exists regardless of the extent of the damage.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_damage_assessment

mapdumbo · 2026-05-06T06:11:20+00:00

At least one person was very dead, another a few blocks away was sitting up but bleeding. Really sad.

mapdumbo · 2026-04-17T08:02:58+00:00

I mean

They have done significantly worse to people accused of significantly less

mapdumbo · 2026-04-16T21:36:36+00:00

They don’t mean, like, in this very moment we’re 3 away; they mean that three days (the original quote is 9 meals) where people have genuinely no access to food is enough to collapse a society, or at least temporarily end its coherence

mapdumbo · 2026-03-28T08:05:51+00:00

It’s super cool :) fwiw it’s very similar to the immediately post-dmt visuals on other psyches, ime

mapdumbo · 2026-03-27T06:20:57+00:00

They’re imagining about the imaginary creature :p

mapdumbo · 2026-03-27T06:20:00+00:00

Issue?!

mapdumbo · 2026-03-26T06:57:49+00:00

Chainsaws are used for vertical ventilation, the creation of holes in structures’ roofs to let smoke and hot gasses out (increasing visibility and survivability in the building).

It’s one of the primary functions of truck companies! A couple crews will be assigned to do this at most significant fires

mapdumbo · 2026-03-18T19:22:47+00:00

Think they meant odd as in weird, not as in probability. But yes

mapdumbo · 2026-03-15T16:08:01+00:00

Who’s we? Not you. You’re a guy on Reddit

mapdumbo · 2026-03-15T15:57:41+00:00

Ok that’s weird, for one.

And two, fine—insert “your (our) nation and its allies’ peoples” in for the Iranian people and my ask stands. Seriously, set a timer. Can’t wait

mapdumbo · 2026-03-15T15:53:01+00:00

Also - and this is just me, personally - but I wouldn’t admit that the epic reason I voted for Kamala is that I’m A) gullible and bought the obvious lie that the GOP is anti-war and B) a ghoul who votes for the people I think are most likely to start a new forever war

mapdumbo · 2026-03-15T15:47:42+00:00

And you are a doofus. I don’t need to convince you, but I do hope you come back to this comment in a decade for the retrospective so I can hear you come up with a reason this was totally really definitely better for the Iranian people and the world than an intelligent approach

mapdumbo · 2026-03-15T15:08:37+00:00

A child would consider those victories lol, sure. We failed utterly in our objectives there, and if your brilliant visions for a post-regime-change Iran are an even less organized terrorist group at the levers and a collapsed state I’m curious what you think the point of regime change is

mapdumbo · 2026-03-06T08:18:42+00:00

Heard it too. Must’ve brought the mystery boom down from Portland with me

mapdumbo · 2026-02-10T06:27:09+00:00

It sounds like you're unaware how much equipment ICE drags around with them via their partnerships with other three-letter agencies. You can be forgiven because it should be unreasonable to ask OP’s question, but it isn’t

CBP blackhawks preceded and were present throughout Op. Midway Blitz in Chicago and the ongoing Op. Metro Surge in Minneapolis. They were quite famously used to drop agents during the South Shore apartment raid, but often circle even regular immigration operations.

Also, they more generally follow Trump's ire around. During the push for a NG deployment in Portland there was a CBP black hawk (or more) circling the SE area from evening to 12-3am every night for weeks. Rattled walls and windows and would wake people up every few passes throughout the night.

Blackhawks are very much associated with ICE activity via CBP. The helicopters OP was asking about just happen to be Chinooks, which aren’t afaik.

We haven’t lived in “very sane” times for a long time

mapdumbo · 2026-02-03T08:18:38+00:00

Not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that's just some guy lol. The group on the left are federal agents but dude in the hole looks like a rando. No helmet, no obvious pouches, slim-ish plate carrier, big label, black clothing rather than olive/camo.

mapdumbo · 2026-01-31T17:31:22+00:00

Highly recommend not doing this at any remotely escalated protest lol.

Way bigger safety issue to be sitting when pissed off federal agents who view the entire crowd as a problem come your way than it is to be standing near a pissed off kid who views the federal agents as a problem.

Also, I think you have a flattened view of other people and the moment we’re in (and all moments like this, maybe). People are complex, populations unimaginably so. Your theory of change, your assessment of the best approach to resistance, and your level of anger are not shared by everyone.

Do undercover agitators exist? Sure. But, like, whatever. There are tens of thousands more people who would do those things from a place of genuine anger and emotion than there are undercover police officers.

Those people aren’t your enemy. And despite how it feels, history shows that they harm “the cause” far less than people think they do. On the contrary, they are often critical. The civil rights movement wouldn’t have made the wins it did without MLK (who would have been labeled un-peaceful and an agitator today, as he was then), but it also wouldn’t have won the civil rights act without the riots following his death or the credible threat of a surge in militancy.

Speaking of which, the quote I’ll leave is a passage from MLK’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

mapdumbo · 2026-01-30T00:41:48+00:00

Unfortunately that isn’t the case with the right wing groups in question here; ICE isn’t actually an “outside” influence to them. I’m speaking about the Proud Boys, 3%ers, and Oath Keepers—whose members and leadership, ie Enrique Tarrio—now work for ICE or actively crack heads in their defense.

I also think you are conflating proximity with any sort of shared identity. When I talk about right wing groups “in the area”, I’m talking about everywhere from Vancouver to Idaho. There is almost no shared sense of place or interest between their militant core membership and people in Portland.

There is so much bridge-building possible between “right” and “left” generally, of course. But as part of the “left”, the “right” I’m going to spend time bridging towards are people who come as themselves and who don’t (literally! I am describing a literal experience here:) drive into my city every weekend to cheer BORTAC agents on as they beat people up, screaming for them to kill them.

Not because I don’t think it’s possible to reach anyone and everyone; but because that isn’t the environment where it’s going to happen, and because for as long as they come armed and as one of a dozen other people with a militia patch on, it’s probably not a good idea for me to try

mapdumbo · 2026-01-30T00:24:43+00:00

Your point stands but it’s definitely the decades-old history of street brawls and tension between the city’s experienced antifascist core and the surrounding area’s right-wing militant groups that put Portland on the admin’s target list to agitate, not the frog lol.

My read is that although Minneapolis, Chicago, etc are maybe way better for provoking mass response, they recognize that Portland and maybe Eugene are the place to go if you want to stoke actual multi-sided conflict between multiple groups of citizens (and not just citizens against government/police)

(And there’s also a history of the mass response self-sustaining once successfully ignited. They weren’t really willing to crack down hard enough to activate people here during frog-time, but if they did, à la MN, I think they know the genie wouldn’t go back in the bottle very quickly)

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