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Ooh, look, it's a Waymo submarine!
AZFamily: Waymo suspends service across metro Phoenix due to flash flooding
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/09/26/waymo-suspends-service-across-metro-phoenix-due-flash-flooding/
Waymo than you bargained for (wonder if someone is trapped in there, LOL)
Before and after #flood
A pair of #Sentinel2 satellite images acquired on the 20th of August and 8th of September showing the lake where a glacial outburst flood aka #GLOF aka #Jökulhlaup occurred at the margin of #Langjökull glacier.
Check previous post for a short video from the field.
Before and after #flood
A pair of #Sentinel2 satellite images acquired on the 20th of August and 8th of September showing the lake where a glacial outburst flood aka #GLOF aka #Jökulhlaup occurred at the margin of #Langjökull glacier.
Check previous post for a short video from the field.
In response to our investigation that raised questions about the effectiveness of Boring’s pitch to build tunnels to ease Houston flooding, Musk said tunnels can be added if more floodwater needs to be moved. Engineers said it is not that simple.
#News#ElonMusk#Texas#Houston#Flood#Infrastructure#Engineering
For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature.
“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood
Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.
For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature.
“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood
Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
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Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation.
But his company, Boring, has never completed a major public project in Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-wesley-hunt-houston-tunnels-boring-co?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.
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ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ipaws-emergency-alerts-local-official-failures?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation.
But his company, Boring, has never completed a major public project in Texas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-wesley-hunt-houston-tunnels-boring-co?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding.
Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding.
Texas flooding is a preview of the new normal.
Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-hurricane-helene?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Texas#NorthCarolina#TexasFloods#Hurricane #TX#Disaster#Emergency#Flood
Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-evacuations-hurricane-helene?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Texas#NorthCarolina#TexasFloods#Hurricane #TX#Disaster#Emergency#Flood
The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
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Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
#News#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood#ExtremeWeather#Texas#Trump
“The rise of temperature has sent a shiver down our spines. We have never before witnessed such weather here.”
As the death toll from severe flooding continues to climb in Texas, USA — and conspiracy theories spread — Pakistan is grappling with its own climate crisis.
Accelerated glacial melt driven by record-breaking summer temperatures, combined with monsoon rains, has triggered deadly flash floods and landslides across the country.
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