What I’ve been tellin’ folks for quite some time.
There’s some places that are relatively safe, but not as safe as they think.
What will be the impact as human habits, assumptions, infrastructure, and financial institutions run into changed climate reality?
It’s happening now.
“Storm expected to cause supply chain issues for months, making it harder for aid to get in”
Deaths at 182 now, and rising. Many still missing.
Jaw dropping report of a fulminating catastrophe.
Every time I see more completely new footage of the devastation, it becomes more gob smacking.
Neighbors shelter in chest deep water to keep their animals safe.
Hurricane Hunter turned PhD Meteorologist, founder of Weather Underground, Jeff Masters has posted this, I believe, very intentionally on the day Helene made landfall.
Some Communities Have Not Been Heard from.
In case you missed it..
Just last year, Acapulco, Mexico was devastated by Cat 5 Hurricane Otis. (see below)
A year later, Hurricane John dumped torrential rains, leaving the community, in the words of one resident, “destroyed”.
Maybe you were not in a flood plain when you moved in, but you might be now.
Thank Exxon, the politicians they bought, and the misinformation vendors like Fox News.
Most Americans will not know until they get the rude awakening that North Carolinians are living with now.
WRAL Raleigh report.
See ya. Wouldn’t wanna be ya.
The country’s vast population shift has left more people exposed to the risk of natural hazards and dangerous heat at a time when climate change is amplifying many weather extremes. A New York Times analysis shows the dynamic in new detail:
• Florida, which regularly gets raked by Atlantic hurricanes, gained millions of new residents between 2000 and 2023.
• Phoenix has been one of the country’s fastest-growing large cities for years. It’s also one of the hottest, registering 100 straight days with temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit this year.
• The fire-prone foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada have seen an influx of people even as wildfires in the region become more frequent and severe.
• East Texas metro areas, like Houston, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, have ballooned in recent decades despite each being at high risk for multiple hazards, a fact brought into stark relief this year when Hurricane Beryl knocked out power in Houston during a heat wave.
“The more that people are moving into areas exposed to hazards,” said Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia’s Climate School, “the more that these hazards can turn into disasters of larger and larger scale.”
