Record-breaking flooding in south Texas, very powerful winds that caused a deadly dust storm in Kansas and beyond, and unprecedented wildfires in North Carolina.
It’s hard to pin individual events on climate change, but heavier rainfall and high temps are what you would expect.
It’s hard to pin individual events on climate change, but heavier rainfall and high temps are what you would expect.
Reposted from
The New York Times
At least three people died and hundreds of others were rescued in flooding in South Texas after more than 20 inches of rain fell near the border with Mexico on Thursday and Friday.
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“As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vows to “eliminate FEMA,” the agency is in turmoil, with disaster assistance, grant money, and hiring largely stalled, threatening its ability to respond to major disasters, multiple FEMA officials tell CNN.”
Uninsurable, then unmortgageable.
Hence talk about forcing banks re LA fires
Partly the wildfires are fuelled by debris from Helene, but high temperatures and low humidity are also contributing.
And of course Helene was made possible by climate change.
Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70 in western Kansas involving dozens of cars and trucks that left eight people dead.“
“A nearly inconceivable amount of rain pummeled the Rio Grande Valley Thursday, March 27, causing widespread, catastrophic flooding.”