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Cassandra says: August 25, 2021 at 6:37 am Reply Tennessee floods show a pressing climate danger across America: ‘Walls of water’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/23/tennessee-floods-show-pressing-climate-danger-across-america-wall-water/ “There is no place in the United States where you shouldn’t be resetting your expectations about Mother Nature disrupting your life,” said Roy Wright, president of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety and former head of FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program. “Climate change has come barging through the front doors of America.” (8/23/21) On Saturday, a catastrophic flash flood unfolded in Tennessee. Here’s how it happened. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/08/23/tennessee-historic-flooding-explainer/
p/s says: August 25, 2021 at 5:17 pm Reply Tennessee Woman Killed by Rising Floodwaters as She Streamed Live on Facebook Historic floods in Tennessee have killed at least 22 people so far this week. https://gizmodo.com/tennessee-woman-killed-by-rising-floodwaters-as-she-str-1847550216 Europe’s July floods: So rare and extreme, they’re hard to study One river basin might have seen a 1-in-15,000-year event. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/europes-july-floods-so-rare-and-extreme-theyre-hard-to-study/ The floods killed over 200 people and caused billions of euros in damages. Figuring out how likely we are to see something similar could be essential for appropriate planning. Before and after photo of the Blessem area in Germany https://i.imgur.com/d2eDhcp.png
Tennessee floods show a pressing climate danger across America: ‘Walls of water’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/23/tennessee-floods-show-pressing-climate-danger-across-america-wall-water/
“There is no place in the United States where you shouldn’t be resetting your expectations about Mother Nature disrupting your life,” said Roy Wright, president of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety and former head of FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program. “Climate change has come barging through the front doors of America.”
(8/23/21) On Saturday, a catastrophic flash flood unfolded in Tennessee. Here’s how it happened. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/08/23/tennessee-historic-flooding-explainer/
Tennessee Woman Killed by Rising Floodwaters as She Streamed Live on Facebook
Historic floods in Tennessee have killed at least 22 people so far this week. https://gizmodo.com/tennessee-woman-killed-by-rising-floodwaters-as-she-str-1847550216
Europe’s July floods: So rare and extreme, they’re hard to study
One river basin might have seen a 1-in-15,000-year event. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/europes-july-floods-so-rare-and-extreme-theyre-hard-to-study/
The floods killed over 200 people and caused billions of euros in damages. Figuring out how likely we are to see something similar could be essential for appropriate planning.
Before and after photo of the Blessem area in Germany https://i.imgur.com/d2eDhcp.png