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In reply to the discussion: 11-foot wall of water: One dam breaks, three counties suffer [View all]Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)46. There was a bunch of snow, and then warmer rain hit and it all melted...
...in Eastern Nebraska. In Central Nebraska, the same storm brought blizzard conditions.
It was a top 10 record year for snow in our area.
For the lurker climate change skeptics - it's easy to scoff at "warming" when you get record snow, but the takeaway needs to be that weather is becoming more extreme. Those swings to extremes will create cycles of floods and droughts; more extreme spring and fall seasons (tornadoes and hail) and more hurricanes. In the near term, P & C rates will soar (and deductibles will rise), and building codes will need to get way stricter to deal with that. Long term, if we don't get off fossil fuel, we'll die. Maybe not in 50 years; maybe not in a century - but way sooner than we should.
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11-foot wall of water: One dam breaks, three counties suffer [View all]
Algernon Moncrieff
Mar 2019
OP
My family is good, but we are 10 minutes drive from towns that are currently underwater.
Algernon Moncrieff
Mar 2019
#4
There was a bunch of snow, and then warmer rain hit and it all melted...
Algernon Moncrieff
Mar 2019
#46
It looks like the dam was well made but all dams have a lifetime and God only knows how many ...
Botany
Mar 2019
#13
Yes it does seem like that. After the fires it felt like Mother Nature was trying to sweep us away.n
Hekate
Mar 2019
#33
Thanks for the link/add'l info. I worry that many of our existing dams and other structures will be
erronis
Mar 2019
#12
Hell, no. I love Puerto Rico,NOLA and all of New York. Why would you think that. This is about human
ancianita
Mar 2019
#41
Sorry to hear. Please don't ask the Federal Government for help that would look like socialism.
Pepsidog
Mar 2019
#25