I was in the hammock facing the sunny western view, when all of a sudden this rainstorm snuck up from behind me. I love a good rainstorm!

@MLClark
I'm not sure why none of the pictures feature cats, dogs, or chickens.

@MLClark
Mine is a small town. There are lottery vendors every morning just down the street on the square, food trucks are out on the highway. The Domino players every morning and evening in the gazebo on the square next to the church. There's a coffee kiosk in the square as well, but it only opens at 5:00 in the afternoon. (!?) There are panaderias every two or three blocks. Abogados, Medicos, Psicologis, y Veterinarios seem to be the most popular professions in town. Many bars and colmados.

@MrGoat
That's a goddamn winner.
I'm opening a food truck with that as the lead.

The Elvis.

@Tattoomonkey29
That is both amazing and frightening. Feeling for all those, human and animal, in its path.

@MLClark
I live in a very similar barrio in Puerto Rico. Photos; Mi calle, casas abandanado, and my Casa Amarilla.
The mercado is down 2 and over 1 block. El Centro, at the end of the street shot. Behind, el aguatate de mi vicino droops to the ground, loaded with it's bounty of swollen green testicles. #PuertoRico #barrios

@northernbassist
That's a thing of beauty!

@Bobbelieu
As a geologist this is the long view I adopted long ago and I have always told people it's not Save the Earth. It's save ourselves.

@LnzyHou
Was down here a couple of New years ago and a friend and I walked out onto the porch in the morning with our coffee and said "Huh, might have to put a shirt on, kind of chilly out here. 😄 Winter in the islands!

@Christmas_Snow
It'll be a short-term job managing that account.

How many Scaramucci's has JD Vance been the VP nominee?
#politics #humor

I second the motion.

#politics #humor

@singlemaltgirl
That is like 20:1 costs that I have understood the common cost per person here.

@singlemaltgirl
"yes, but we still know how much a homeless person costs b/c it's taxpayer covered."

And that number is a million Canadian a year per homeless person?

@Ironworker229 @LnzyHou
Generally these do excellent, although the my friend's bar I just walked into had two big units cranking and they weren't working so they probably froze up.

@singlemaltgirl
Canada. Where at least healthcare is covered for all.

@singlemaltgirl
Both your numbers are much larger than what I'm familiar with, but that doesn't negate your conclusion. Thank you.

@DrJackBrown
Although I always value your opinion, I'm delighted that all of your previous posts were filtered out by to my filters. 😉

Link to article;
https://fortune.com/2024/07/26/newsom-homeless-encampments-silicon-valley-billionaire-venture-capitalist/

If I do the math right, 180,000 homeless in CA. Newsom has 24 billion to deal with the problem.
$50k/person =$ 9B. $50k is a commonly cited # for per person homeless costs to local/state for services, medical, law enforcement, etc.

Housing 180k persons for 3yrs, I'm pretty sure cuts your problem way down.

Newsom’s office touts that it’s dedicated $24 billion to addressing the housing crisis and “helped lift more than 165,000 people out of homelessness and into interim or permanent housing.”