CitizenVectron Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Germany braces for more torrential rain as some areas hit by severe flooding WWW.THELOCAL.DE Saxony, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have all been struck by torrential downpour as the German Weather Service issued its highest possible warning. The heavy rain is expected to last until Friday. Dozens dead and even more still missing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Flooding is scary stuff. It's particularly disturbing at night when you can't easily see the water creeping up, but the rain keeps coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Huh I wonder why the atmosphere seems to be retaining more and more moisture oh well don't need to concern myself with such things #godsplan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 9 hours ago, sblfilms said: Flooding is scary stuff. It's particularly disturbing at night when you can't easily see the water creeping up, but the rain keeps coming. Get yourself a high powered flashlight. Its one of the most important items in an emergency kit. Amazon.com WWW.AMAZON.COM This is a nice "all included" kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 BBC News - Europe floods: At least 120 dead and hundreds unaccounted for Europe floods: At least 120 dead and hundreds unaccounted for WWW.BBC.CO.UK Hundreds more are unaccounted for after the worst flooding in decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 The view from someone's window in Maastricht, Netherlands: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 God damn, who built and installed your windows and do they have a US visa? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Uaarkson Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 This has been the rainiest, coolest July in Michigan I can remember in my entire life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 16, 2021 Author Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Uaarkson said: This has been the rainiest, coolest July in Michigan I can remember in my entire life. Here it has alternated between the hottest year we've ever had (and dry), and then sudden, huge rainstorms. That's bad because plants/crops can't take the prolonged heat, and the water that does come mostly washes away due to the volume. What we need are steady rainfalls/snows over the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 At this point, no more survivors are expected to be found which means the death toll could be in the thousands. Germany sets out flood relief funding, hopes of finding survivors fade WWW.REUTERS.COM A relief official dampened hopes on Wednesday of finding more survivors in the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Germany, as a poll showed many Germans felt policymakers had not done enough to protect them. Quote A relief official dampened hopes on Wednesday of finding more survivors in the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Germany, as a poll showed many Germans felt policymakers had not done enough to protect them. At least 170 people died in last week's flooding, Germany's worst natural disaster in more than half a century, and thousands went missing. "We are still looking for missing persons as we clear roads and pump water out of basements," Sabine Lackner, deputy chief of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland. Any victims that are found now are likely to be dead, she said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Good lord, that's awful. Between that and the floods in China, wildfires, and the climate change-induced famine in Madagascar, it's been a banner year for human life impacts of climate change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentWorld Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 I guess there are advantages to living somewhere where nothing ever happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 London floods are latest sign that big cities aren't ready for climate change WWW.MSN.COM The now-familiar scenes of a city indundated by floods played out in London over the weekend, in a brutal reminder that even some of the world's richest cities are dangerously unprepared for the kind of extreme weather that is becoming more common because of climate change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 The clustering of rain events due to climate change (in other words, similar rainfall over long periods, but concentrated into a lower number of individual events) is going to be disastrous for most major cities. Big cities have far less ability to absorb large amounts of rain since there is a lower density of ground soil to absorb and hold the water. Concrete covering everything is horrible for flooding. Most cities will have underground (or above ground) retention ponds for storms, but they are usually only designed for once-a-year major storms, not once-a-decade (which will now be coming multiple times per year, in some regions). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Due to flooding issues in our region, cities literally brag about the quality of their drainage systems as selling points to potential businesses and home owners 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 I have heard Houston has horrendous flooding problems already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 In Michigan, we tore up our cities with trench freeways so we already have a world-class drainage system. Floods close portions of I-94, I-96 and I-75 in Southeast Michigan WWW.MLIVE.COM Southeast Michigan is experiencing heavy rainstorms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 37 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: I have heard Houston has horrendous flooding problems already. I mean, it is concrete as far as the eye can see. There have actually been some pretty substantial moves post Harvey to try and remedy a lot of the near sighted development driven issues of the last 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 The storm water treatment in Richmond is so old that if we don't get state and federal funding, annual storm water bills could nearly triple. Alexandria and Lynchburg are in the same boat. No city is ready for the deluge coming in the years ahead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Belgium opens manslaughter investigation over flood deaths | Belgium | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM A magistrate will look at whether possible failings in the alert system led to the country’s worst floods in decades Quote A Belgian judge has opened an investigation for possible manslaughter over floods there that claimed 38 lives, the prosecutors office in the city of Liege announced. The investigating magistrate has the task of identifying who might be responsible for “involuntary homicide by lack of foresight or precaution” the prosecutors office said in a statement on Wednesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Remarkableriots Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 WorldView: Landslides and floods in India kill at least 180, towering 300-foot sandstorm in China WWW.CBSNEWS.COM More than 180 people in India are dead after heavy rains triggered landslides and floods. A man in Hong Kong faces life in prison after being the first person found guilty under the city's new national security law. CBS News foreign correspondent Ian Lee joins "CBSN AM" from London to discuss these stories and more international headlines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Death toll from China floods jumps to 302, as Covid outbreak complicates recovery WWW.CNN.COM The death toll from floods that ravaged central China last month now stands at 302, local authorities said Monday -- more than triple the last estimate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 5:57 PM, sblfilms said: I mean, it is concrete as far as the eye can see. There have actually been some pretty substantial moves post Harvey to try and remedy a lot of the near sighted development driven issues of the last 20 years. Luckily Dallas is pretty green but we'll see how it goes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Landslides kill 15 in western Venezuela after heavy rains WWW.BBC.COM Heavy rains triggered flash floods which swept through towns in the Andes causing extensive damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Germany's deadly floods were up to 9 times more likely because of climate change, study estimates WWW.CNN.COM Record rainfall that triggered deadly floods in Western Europe in July was made between 1.2 and 9 times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a new study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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