Climate change mitigation policies have been adopted in e.g. the EU. The US relegated much of this policy at the national level to the now-gutted EPA, leaving the burden to the states and cities (e.g. New York). North Carolina has not adopted an official statewide adaptation plan. A decade wasted in failing to build resilience.
How are the pig waste ponds holding up, anyone know?
Spirits were high, though, at the Trent Park Elementary School in New Bern, where 44-year-old Cathy Yolanda Wright took shelter after being rescued from her flooded home Saturday. Wright, who sings in the choir at Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist, led residents at the shelter in an energetic singalong.
People clapped and shouted, “Amen!” and “Thank you, Lord.”
Funny that they never stop to ask who sent the hurricane.
Recalling the great Mississippi flood of 1927:
Now that is some spine-tingling jack-booted blues destruction…
Mar-a-Lago has not been hit to the best of my knowledge…
Can’t let something silly like climate change get in the way of making money
But North Carolina compensated by passing a law that bans the state from basing coastal policies on the latest scientific predictions of how much the sea level will rise.
Now that’s some heart-deep music right there!
On a different, ah, note…anyone not yet seen this one?
I wonder if all those boot-strap North Carolina Rethugliklans will be requesting federal disaster relief dollars?
I don’t know if any of you live in a flood-prone region but 30 inches and more is completely nuts. Hurricane Floyd dropped about 10 inches of rain on my area and created major flooding everywhere. $60 million worth of damage and 13 people dead.
Yes indeed. The real estate associations lobbied very hard to have any hint of risks to property completely eliminated from any legislation. They pushed to omit all official mention - much less scientific proof - of climate change, rising sea levels, seashore erosion, or worsening storm severity addressed in any way. They figured they’d just keep on promoting and building oceanside properties as long as they get compensated. Some properties have been destroyed by storms and rebuilt with FEMA funds dozens of times.
What we don’t know can’t hurt us, right?
They’re counting on it, as they have for decades.
Where I live,we had about 55 inches of rain in 72 hours during Harvey.
Horrible. I remember seeing video of Harvey—there was a newscaster doing a standup on an overpass and saw a semi truck trapped below her. The driver was in the cab with water rising inside, and she flagged a rescue boat trailer and they launched it and got him out just in time. Watching a human life get saved with minutes to spare just by luck really brings it home how dangerous these things are.
thinking about my friends in the carolinas, haven’t heard anything but that is to be expected with the usual power and phone outages.