https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/us/midwest-floods-levees.html
Breaking news: States who voted Pro Climate Change are shocked when the effects of said climate change are fucking horrid and destroy everything they love.
I feel bad for everyone innocent who was effected by this but anyone who voted red in these states pretty much asked for this to happen to them so.
There should not be any debate of flood control for fuck sake.
"Climate change debate" is an actually real thing so this is pretty much normal and expected tbh
I would say that I agree, that it's like debating whether or not to shoot yourself in the foot, but even that one is being done by the UK.
Our basement leaked heavily for over 11 hours last year when we had over ~10 days of rain. My arms felt awful from wringing out towels because the washer couldn't spin the other towels fast enough. My uncle and I tamped a bunch of dirt down around the house after that, but god only knows the structural damage that caused.
"It's their fault for living in a flood zone lmao"
I feel you on that, here in san antonio it rained with no signs of stopping for 3 whole weeks. The flooding was insane I thought i would of been swiped off the road during that period.
Why the fuck are you people spinning this into climate change?
It's an infrastructure problem, pure and simple - a thing that as far as I can see, is not doing so good in the entire country. Same shit as Katrina - levees are not maintained, they break, the shit tier (don't get me started on American construction practices) houses get flooded, which either completely destroys them, or causes rot (destroys but later)
I'd really recommend mass infrastructure works before these simple dirt walls (I mean come on for fucks sake it's common knowledge that flood walls need to at least be covered in concrete plates for extra stability and strength) completely get eroded. And preemptively hang the construction company bosses by the balls because you already know they'll try to fuck it up again, and that way you avert that unpleasant situation
I live in Nebraska.
This has never happened on this scale before. Throughout my life this has never happened to my home-place. That flooded part is usually grassland. Next to a creek that's around 15-20 feet deep when its full of water. And most of the time, the creek is empty.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/308626/20c1e31b-598f-4c66-b1a3-ffd2ddac51c0/IMG957908.jpg
Btw. this was triggered by a CYCLONE FORMING OVER FUCKING LAND
Well, It was an extratropical cyclone undergoing explosive cyclogenesis. which isn't really unusual. I don't know if they'll get more frequent with a warmer atmosphere but they're not the same as tropical cyclones (hurricanes) which need a source of warm water to feed it's core. Extra tropical cyclones rely on different forces than tropical cyclones.
Explosive cyclogenesis means it dropped 24 millibar in 24 hours. Those are called bomb cyclones or weather bombs or whatever other thing the media can come up with.
The one that dumped on the US was particularly nasty and iirc had max wind gusts equivalent of a cat 2 hurricane.
I live in a Wisconsin city on the Mississippi, river is very high and spilling over into the park along the river. Marshland is entirely underwater. One of my coworkers lives in a cottage on the river. Dock was destroyed, basement is flooding, had to find another place to live for a while since the power company had to cut off a few transformers since houses are going underwater.
Overall my fear is that whatever Climate Change is bringing to this region. Is that shit like this will become more common.
the weird thing to me is where the hell did our tornado season go
all the usual times for our tornado outbreaks were a bit out of season compared to what i remember
i certainly dont miss it but it's bringing supercells over at times i dont think i've ever seen supercells.
Jeez settle down, nobody asked for this to happen and nobody deserves it just for voting a certain way
Regardless of whether you're an idiot thst voted Trump
I think the debate about flood control is mainly about who gets flooded. The cities have the cash to build better levies (not that protecting more people is a bad thing) and barriers on rivers cause the up stream to flood harder and faster
I'm hoping maybe that this election they actually ask the question about how many natural disasters does it take to see a trend because everywhere seems to have suffered at least two or three "once in a lifetime" storms in the last two years
Well, the latter is no longer applicable
i guess this would explain our early december tornado outbreak that just kinda happened and spread across southern illinois, then.
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