Flooding Homes

[ysabetwordsmith]

Vast numbers of homes will be flooded due to climate change.   The Paris Agreement that America isn't even supporting?  It would reduce those numbers by a measly 10%.

If you live close to coastal water with a sloping margin, it would be prudent to move away from it.  Coasts with high cliffs are less prone to flooding but still subject to worsening storms.  If you do not live near a coast, don't move there.  If you plan to build a house, carefully research locations and choose somewhere not prone to whatever your local disasters are.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

It's not every year that the road floods so deep we can't get out in any direction, but it has happened. I'm counting times when the water goes way over the road. It doesn't take a lot of rain to make huge puddles in the field, and those can easily get deep enough to drown crops. But actually closing the road happens less often than just a foot or so of water over it.

[witchka]

We've been in drought like at least 60% of my life, I'd estimate? Varying in severity but rain isn't that common in any amount that is useful nevermind flooding. It's just when it rains, it often pours. Just two years ago I think we got flooded in again, I have loads of pictures of it. In some places it was 7+ feet deep. Whole houses went under in others. And I got yelled at for showing people their children were RUNNING ACROSS THE GODDAMN LAKE WHERE THE WATER BREAKS LIKE RAPIDS WHEN THE DAM IS RELEASING WATER UPSTREAM WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE DONT LET YOUR KIDS RUN AROUND TOWN IN A FLOOD

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> We've been in drought like at least 60% of my life, I'd estimate? Varying in severity but rain isn't that common in any amount that is useful nevermind flooding. It's just when it rains, it often pours. <<

Yeah, droughts are getting worse, but it's not just that. It's weather in general getting more extreme, harder to handle. Drought alternating with torrential rain is very bad; long gentle rains are better.

>> Just two years ago I think we got flooded in again, I have loads of pictures of it. In some places it was 7+ feet deep. Whole houses went under in others. And I got yelled at for showing people their children were RUNNING ACROSS THE GODDAMN LAKE WHERE THE WATER BREAKS LIKE RAPIDS WHEN THE DAM IS RELEASING WATER UPSTREAM WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE DONT LET YOUR KIDS RUN AROUND TOWN IN A FLOOD <<

I live not far from a dam. It has a sign listing the names of people who have died around it. Every so often, someone else walks past that sign to play on the dam, and dies. Up where my parents live, there's a river that sort of freezes in winter. Sort of, meaning the ice is routinely weak in places. People still walk over the river, fall through, and drown every few years.

It's just a Darwin award, you know? Some people are too stupid to survive. Water will kill you.

I wrote a poem on this topic, but it hasn't been published yet.

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[witchka]

Yeah, droughts are getting worse, but it's not just that. It's weather in general getting more extreme, harder to handle. Drought alternating with torrential rain is very bad; long gentle rains are better.

I agree with this, but I would just say for Australia the whole Droughts and Flooding rains is pretty normal at least inland and has been for centuries if not millennia. It's worse now, for sure, but it's a thing. It's even memorialised in one of the nations favourite poems.

And yes, people are exceedingly stupid.

Relatedly, Ned Kelly's sister drowned in our lake back in the day and she was an adult.