Good effing grief - look at flood water in South Carolina

[malaise]

Please protect yourselves from mosquito borne diseases DUers.
I can't imagine the dislocation - not to mention the grief

Two more bodies found as driver went through barricade and truck was washed away.


Be careful folks

[Warpy]

1. Too many people out there think they can drive through deep water

not realizing if they can't see the road, it might not be there any more.

Around here, 6 inches of water can take a car since it drops over a mile and is moving very fast. Once I saw a garden shed being swept down one of the arroyos.

This is the time to hunker down and eat that canned stuff from the back of the cupboard instead of risking a drive to buy food. Water isn't as problematic as you might think if it's fresh water, remember this chart: http://www.i4at.org/surv/bleach.htm The resulting water won't taste very good but it will be safe. Extra points for using a coffee filter and pasteuizing it in a solar cooker. You can also use flood water to flush the toilet, just don't flush too often because treatment plants are overwhelmed with flood water.

The more you know, the easier living through a flooding disaster can get as long as the interior of your house is high and dry.

[ruffburr]

2. No climate change-

According to S Carolina Republicans , And their base, Wonder what .the thinking is now, I'm sure it is some other reason like God is punishing them or other nonsense, My heart goes out to all those affected and I hope for the best for S Carolina.

[malaise]

3. That's why the dumbest of them blame everything but climate change

The simple fact is that in many parts of the planet we are seeing 24 hour rain in short periods of time - Dominica, the French Riviera, South Carolina and that's all in a few weeks. The climate is changing big time.

[hack89]

4. While climate change is real, I don't think this rain event was caused by it

it is not often you see one tropical system interact with a hurricane like we saw. A low pressure system over Florida basically stripped moisture off of the Hurricane and created a prolonged conveyor belt of rain moving from east to west over South Carolina. It was simply a rare combination of weather events.

[deutsey]

5. Suppressed South Carolina Climate Change Report Warns of Big Impacts

From 2013:

South Carolina news outlet TheState.com reported on Sunday that an official, comprehensive assessment of dramatic climate change impacts looming large in South Carolina’s future was buried and barred from release, apparently due to political pressure.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/26/1640291/suppressed-south-carolina-climate-change-report-warns-of-big-impacts/

[malaise]

6. Truth will out

or reality will bite and taxpayers now end up with the bill for neglect by state officials.
People should sue them.
Lots of photos here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3263806/Devastating-scenes-South-Carolina-Rain-finally-relents-reveal-1-billion-damage-homes-road-stores-floods-killed-17-dive-teams-search-missing-people.html