FEMA update on the tornado outbreak earlier today: "Over the weekend 127 tornado touchdowns, 149 wind reports, and 173 hail reports have been reported in Regions VI and VII. The severe weather threat has diminished greatly." #FEMA#tornado#disasters
"A new study from the University of Kansas found residents of one Seoul, South Korea, neighborhood have grown so accustomed to living through extreme climate events they have developed a "disaster subculture" ... Residents regularly expressed a sort of indifference to extreme heat and climate change, stating they had no options or even that "every day is a disaster."
"Experts told me that the skyrocketing rates are caused by a combination of high inflation, especially in the prices of building supplies, and Texas’s recent series of natural disasters. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, between 1980 and 2023 Texas experienced an average of four natural disasters per year with damages in excess of $1 billion—droughts, floods, storms, tornadoes, wildfires, and winter storms. In recent years, such disasters have become much more frequent. Between 2019 and 2023 Texas suffered an average of eleven billion-dollar events each year, with sixteen in 2023 alone. " #climate#disasters#texas#insurance#TXwx
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” by Abrahm Lustgarten April 11
The complex, contradictory & heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
"...People have always moved as their environment has changed. But today, the climate is warming faster, and the population is larger, than at any point in history.
As the U.S. gets hotter, its coastal waters rise higher, its wildfires burn larger & its droughts last longer, the notion that humankind can triumph over nature is fading and with it...goes the belief that self-determination & personal preference can be the driving factors in choosing where to live.
...a sweeping change is coming in the shape & location of communities across America, a change that promises to transform the country’s politics, culture & economy.
It has already begun. More Americans are displaced by catastrophic climate-change-driven [disasters] every year..."