The United States has not recognized the climate crisis and as a result has not at all prepared for it. The people missing and dead didn’t even have the concept of strong storms in their playbook. The climate potential never gave them pause to realize there could be such tragedy.
When the storms of western North Carolina hit, those dead and missing had no idea such tragedy could devastate their lives.
There is a YouTube video of a relatively young man who was living the dream. If I can find it I will post it. But, his denial of what that raging river was about to do to him was very obvious. Minute after minute he saw the river take away everything he, himself had built. He and another man escaped death, but, only
nearly.
People have to acknowledge the dangerous climate we are all experiencing and they will begin to prepare for a different kind of survival. It is wrong to allow the American people to live in ignorance of the wrath that awaits them.
I mourn all the losses due to the climate crisis. I miss the lives they would have lead and the contribution they would have made within those lives.
