Texas Tragedy: A Glimpse of What’s to Come
Last week, torrential rainfall ripped through Kerr County, Texas, causing catastrophic flooding. More than a summer’s worth of rain fell on the region in a few hours, raising the water level of the Guadalupe River from 3 feet to 30 feet in just 45 minutes during the middle of the night. People were not adequately […]
Voices From the Frontlines – Notes of An Airport Worker in Torrential Rain
The last several months have been wet. Really wet for what is normal for this particular part of the region of California that I work in. Recently, there was an “atmospheric river,” that has dumped close to double the amount of rainfall than that of the average winter. Although conditions are certainly nowhere near as […]
Climate Change Causes Major Floods in California
In the past few week’s, storms that hit California led to torrential rains and major flooding. The storms shut down power for hundreds of thousands of people and resulted in over 20 deaths. Images of people’s cars floating down inundated streets or residents using surf boards to get from one house to another filled the […]