Sorry for the confusion. Indeed I did quote the wrong blurb. My bad.
This is hilarious, on par with The Onion’s “reporting.”
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#floodplainSpeaking of water, and my earlier post of feast or famine, did everyone see the news/images of the flooding in Western Europe?
At least 44 dead, dozens missing as floods sweep through western Europe
At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, houses destroyed and people stranded on rooftops.
By looking at some of the aerial photos of the floods, sure, one can tell a lot of these towns are in flood plains. Still it’s a 700 year flood so not something that’s seen frequently. What is sort of astonishing, at least to me, is the scale of the flooding…it’s not just one town in one country, but multiple towns, which MAJOR widespread flooding, in a large-ish region. Not sure how they go about retrofitting flood mitigation infrastructure in areas with such old buildings.
What’s kind of interesting is that, back when the Romans were living in the UK the climate was a lot wetter. Ships were able to access regions that no boat can now. I’d assume that a similar climate existed in the Saxony region as well. However most towns were built in medieval times so not sure if the climate had changed a lot by then. I’m just not willing to believe that these towns were placed entirely in flood plains that are subject to even 100 year floods. Remember, this was categorized as a 700 year flood. It doesn’t mean that floods like this occur only every 700 years, but the probability of them happening is about every 700 years. It all lines up to tell me it’s an unprecedented event.
Interesting article and segment. We really do waste a lot of water here in the west.
www.cnn.com
Meanwhile, green lawns abound. There is a new high-end community being put in where they just filled 3 water ski/water recreation lakes here locally, too. Talk about bad optics. What really frosts me is that the warnings from the scientific community have been sounding for decades now. It doesn't have to be feast-or-famine, or it didn't have to be. If stricter measures had been put in place 20 years ago, I don't think we'd be in this situation now. The large planned community I live in has a new phase coming in, and they are restricting grass to 30% of total landscaping. This should have been done 15 years ago when the first homes were being built. What's going to happen to the water table across the freeway when Wasatch Peaks starts building and tapping into the Weber River? When do farmers start transitioning to water-responsible crops instead of thirsty alfalfa that gets shipped to China and Saudi Arabia?Great Salt Lake is shrinking fast. Scientists demand action before it becomes a toxic dustbin | CNN
Great Salt Lake is also known as America's Dead Sea -- owing to a likeness to its much smaller Middle Eastern counterpart -- but scientists worry the moniker could soon take new meaning.
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There is an excellent near-future novel about that, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/237233/the-water-knife-by-paolo-bacigalupi/
