What astounds me is that even when faced with the facts as they present themselves the politics continue to be out of step with reality. Never did I expect propaganda about climate to be this toxic to human life. How ridiculous is it going to get?
I hate to say it, but, that brown water is all the topsoil washed away from the flooding now headed downriver. It not only causes a drop in production by the farms, it also causes problems downriver with sediment build-up that can add to the problems of flooding. This is a disaster of monumental dynamics.
I guess I am disillusioned by my country and the powers that be. It is a sorry state of affairs in the USA in many ways and this is only one.
October 8, 2019
By Jonathan Erdman
Floodwater recedes from around grain silos on March 23, 2019 near Nemaha, Nebraska.
I hate to say it, but, that brown water is all the topsoil washed away from the flooding now headed downriver. It not only causes a drop in production by the farms, it also causes problems downriver with sediment build-up that can add to the problems of flooding. This is a disaster of monumental dynamics.
I guess I am disillusioned by my country and the powers that be. It is a sorry state of affairs in the USA in many ways and this is only one.
October 8, 2019By Jonathan Erdman
Floodwater recedes from around grain silos on March 23, 2019 near Nemaha, Nebraska.
Ten weather disasters (click here) have caused at least $1 billion in damage in the United States so far in 2019, according to a just-released government report.
Among the billion-dollar weather disasters in the first nine months of the year were a pair of landfalling tropical cyclones, according to NOAA's findings. Severe weather, drought and river flooding also made the list.
In records going back to 1980, the U.S. has endured a total of 254 billion-dollar weather disasters inflicting a combined $1.7 trillion (USD 2019) in damage.
Out of those 254 events, 65 have occurred in the last five years. That's more than twice as many per year as the annual average since 1980. Inflation doesn't explain the increase, because the figures are inflation-adjusted....
