Heavy rain inundated several states across the northeastern U.S. this week. Storms and flash floods washed out highways and killed at least one person in New York state and one person in Vermont. New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared states of emergency in two counties. Here’s a look at this latest manifestation of a warming planet.
I’m admiring that the stone wall was well built and didn’t crumble. And of course the bridge still stands.
Irony…20 million residents of New Dehli India are facing a water shortage because a flood has damaged 3 of their 4 water treatment plants.
Clearly the fault of a godless, secular society. Biblical data places the Flood at 2304 BC ± 11 years after which we were promised “And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”
North Carolina can help fashion a legislative remedy. Until then, the GOP can simply repurpose its palliative “thoughts and prayers.”
Nowhere hear a flood zone, I’ll bet almost none of them have flood insurance. But that’s okay, the taxpayers can bail them out as we continue to hide the cost of fossil fuels, even as we hand the oil and gas companies $50B a year in corporate welfare.
As devastating as this so obviously is for the good people of Vermont, all things being relative, it’s just another day in the neighborhood. And there are more days just like this (and worse) just ahead. As a species we are not well suited to making the hard choices.
Here in sunny Mesa it’s supposed to be 112 degrees with no chance of rain in sight. Rather than floating, here we bask.
I basked cookies last night!
Nah. It just proves that God is more Trumplike than we thought. It’s just another breach of contract.
Climate Change will bankrupt insurance companies. Even the Federal Government will not be able to keep up with the disasters that will unfold.
All those warnings were ignored by governments and people in denial about basic scientific facts.
CO2 traps heat! More CO2 traps more heat!
The nuke going off in the background is a nice touch.
Reporting in from northwestern Vermont. Let me start out by saying that we were extremely fortunate. We live below the last dam on the Lamoille River before you reach Lake Champlain.
The river flooded upstream in Johnson, Jeffersonville, Cambridge and Fairfax. A lot of that floods routinely due to ice jams (in the winter), heavy rains with lots of run-off, and combinations of the two (rain and warm weather melting snowpack over frozen ground.) There are power dams at Johnson, Fairfax, and Milton (2 of them.)
We had water over the road a little north of our house on Tuesday and Wednesday. Interestingly, the oldest houses on the street had no water in the house or cellar. The newer places got wet - they were built on slightly lower spots where the river could surround them. We had water out in our meadows and woods but that is what that land is for - whenever the water comes up, it backs into side streams and low areas until the lake can absorb the extra volume, at which time those low areas drain out again. Lake Champlain is fairly low this time of year, so the water drained quickly. Our house and gardens are dry.
The bulk of the rain, flooding and damage was in the center of the state - up the ridge of the Green Mountains. Lots of devastation over there - washed out roads and bridges mostly. The majority of the flooded villages in the photos are in the central and southern parts of the state.
ETA Still haven’t heard from @paulw. I hope they and their family are OK. I think they live near Montpelier. Also @alyoshakaramazov is in Vermont, IIRC.
I wonder what happened in New Hampshire and Maine? Everything “business as usual” up there?
My sister lives in New Hampshire. She said they had heavy rains but little of the damage experienced in Vermont. The storms appear to have gone straight up the middle of Vermont.
Don’t you mean, “I basked in cookies last night”?
Maine didn’t get hit, this time.
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We had water over the road a little north of our house on Tuesday and Wednesday. Interestingly, the oldest houses on the street had no water in the house or cellar. The newer places got wet - they were built on slightly lower spots where the river could surround them. We had water out in our meadows and woods but that is what that land is for - whenever the water comes up, it backs into side streams and low areas until the lake can absorb the extra volume, at which time those low areas drain out again. Lake Champlain is fairly low this time of year, so the water drained quickly. Our house and gardens are dry.
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The part of your narrative that is familiar to me is that most of the flooding on the river trail that I go walk gets flooded not by the amount of rainfall that falls directly on the trail, but by the river backing up into the side creeks that empty into the river.
I’ve actually seen where the Meramec River flows backwards because the Mississippi River is full and pushing water into its tributaries. This happens when there more rain in MN, WI, IA, and northern IL.
And of course the worst flooding is when those 4 states plus central MO get days and days of rain.
There’s more rain on the way next week w/a Atmospheric River set to dump on the same areas. The Jetstream is stuck so the beatings will continue until further notice. Opposite situation for those located on the western side of the Jetstream. Extreme heat and drought.
All the dinosaur deniers, dabblers and dilatants will have to take up sailing……
