There is major flooding happening right now in the Midland Michigan area.
A dam has broken, another is ready to break and a bridge has now collapsed. Multiple areas have been evacuated.
A Facebook friend I know is asking for prayers for the people of her church and all that are effected. Many are elderly and will now be at evacuation centers...during our Covid- Pandemic. That is if of course they have evacuated safely. Boats are being using to rescue people.
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-05-19-severe-weather-impacts-michigan-flooding-ohio-floodi
The New South Wales and Queensland areas of Australia have been hit with massive flooding. One area has received 40 inches of rain in a week. Towns are submerged and at least one dam near Sydney has overflowed. Over 40,000 have been evacuated. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/980708784/40-000-evacuated-at-least-2-dead-in-massive-australian-floods
@lovendures. Sending healing to those affected. I think someone had a prediction about this for March.
Looks like I might have Jeanne, it was very specific though. Just posted it on the hit page thanks. I forgot about it. Some good hits about a different Australian weather issue earlier in the month by others too.
Interesting information about why the mid-2030's will see higher coastal flooding. It has to do with everything we already know about our climate crisis plus the 18.5 year lunar cycle which impacts tides.
(Who else didn't know there was an 18.5 year lunar cycle and that for half of those years the tide is amplified? Low tide is lower and high tide is higher while the other half of the time it is suppressed so there is less dramatic change between low and high tide.)
This is actually really interesting stuff.
With the recent heavy downpour from Hurricane Elsa, the NYC subway has been experiencing flooding.
@enkasongwriter Thanks for posting. I would think it would be dangerous to wade in deep water like that inside any building. You could get electrocuted. Perhaps the subways have safeguards, but I'd make sure before ever doing that.
@enkasongwriter We were up much of the night manning our sump pump as the saturated groundwater flowed into the basement. Still pumping today. This is the first time we’ve had to pump in ten years.
You posted the same link I was posting about flooding from Elsa. Synchronicity.
Who wants to switch weather patterns for a few days with the Southwest? I will send dry weather, you can send rain!
@lovendures I don’t know how they figured it out, it was well over 10 years ago that I was reading climatologists who predicted that global warming would bring fires in the west and buckets of rain in the northeastern US and Canada.
Then there are the explanations for the extreme heat domes: when the earth is already very dry, and the heat comes, there isn’t enough evaporation to temper the heat effect. The earth sweats the way people and animals sweat—when temperatures rise, it releases its moisture to cool off the air. But in areas already too dry there is no moisture to sweat, so temperatures can go extreme.
Who wants to switch weather patterns for a few days with the Southwest? I will send dry weather, you can send rain!
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How is it our advanced society can’t send water to the west?
Really interesting headline I just saw today. Basically, the regular “wobble” of the moon that affects tides combined with global warming for another decade will cause massive flooding of coastlines in the mid 2030s.
Moon wobble to bring surge in coastal flooding in 2030s, NASA study predicts
@dannyboy Indeed. And I just realized in glancing at previous posts here that @lovendures noted this same thing about the moon/tides and flooding in the 2030s on her post from July 9th (see above.) Apologies for the duplication!
With the slight changes to the site I actually appreciate a little duplication because I sometimes miss the stories in threads on days when Im' too busy to check in and not seeing all of the forum subtopics anymore it's hard to know what threads I've missed in. Either way this post deserves reading - whether once or twice!
We can add China's Henan province to the list of global flood hotspots. Extreme rainfall has been falling on the province, especially in the city of Zhengzhou. There are reports that one location in Zhengzhou received 7 inches of rain in one hour, and some chilling footage has been coming out of subway passengers trapped in train cars with water rising to their chests. Authorities had to dynamite at least one dam to relieve pressure, and say that 100,000 people have been evacuated.
I haven't included any links because this is a developing situation and all major media outlets are covering this. Something tells me the authorities in China won't be as forthcoming as Belgian or German officials when it comes to quantifying the true scope of the flooding.
The number of fatalities in the Northeast from Ida's flooding last night keeps on rising. It's becoming increasingly clear that this is a landmark event. @sistermoon @ghandigirl @lynnventura @enkasongwriter @lawrence @triciact @jeanne-mayell hoping you're all alright. @deetoo I'm including you as well since they're saying the DC area was hit by flooding.