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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:13 AM Aug 2017

Rolling Severe Storms Seem To Be The Norm Now. Every Day News Of Deluges & Extreme Weather.

Seems severe storms are rolling across the country somewhere every day almost all the time now. It is either tornadoes, huge deluges, lightning, gargantuan hail, high winds, extremely high temps, uncharacteristic floods in summers. or huge snows, ice storms, blizzards, in winter. et al. In fact we are getting it in all seasons and even off season weather like winter tornadoes. Just do not remember that it was this way in the past.

You would think that any climate change or warming denier would be rejected out of hand. Of course, it is too late for a certain level of devastation. And we would really tip because Trump is about to try to stop all progress toward renewables.

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Rolling Severe Storms Seem To Be The Norm Now. Every Day News Of Deluges & Extreme Weather. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Aug 2017 OP
Yep. Parts of the French Quarter in New Orleans flooded a few days ago. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2017 #1

fleur-de-lisa

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1. Yep. Parts of the French Quarter in New Orleans flooded a few days ago.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:32 AM
Aug 2017

The FQ NEVER floods! Even during Hurricane Katrina the Quarter didn't flood.

The FQ was one of the first areas colonized and the settlers (or European invaders, as I like to call them) knew to build on high ground.

This past Saturday, over a span of just a few short hours, we recieved more than 5 inches of rain and the pumping system couldn't handle it. This is not normal.

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