Crash on the levee, momma
What’s it gonna take for governments to take climate change seriously? Weren’t we just here the other day?
CNN:
Intense rainstorms inundating the Northeast are turning streets into rivers, forcing evacuations and have prompted officials in Vermont’s capital, Montpelier, to close the downtown area.
“Make no mistake, the devastation and flooding we’re experiencing across Vermont is historic and catastrophic,” Gov. Phil Scott told reporters Tuesday.
Floodwater continues to rise in some places, the governor said, “and have surpassed levels seen during Tropical Storm Irene,” he added. Irene hit the US as a hurricane in August 2011 and left entire communities submerged, killing more than 40 people in several Eastern states.
A bit south of Montpelier on Sunday, things were dicey in the Hudson Valley:
We easily brush off deadly flooding in foreign countries, even in Appalachia, dammit. But you know how this works. Until it happens to you….