Flooding washes away homes in southern Indiana; woman's body found downstream
Source: WLKY.
Torrential rains caused flooding in parts of Kentucky and Indiana on Saturday, and an area in southern Indiana got hit particularly hard.
According to the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency in Indiana, Brushy Fork Creek Road northeast of Madison was impacted by a devastating flash flood.
Officials report a woman's body was found 5 miles downstream that may be that of a woman whose home washed away.
It happened around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday when 9 inches of rainfall in Switzerland and Jefferson Counties in just three hours caused the flood.
Read more: https://www.wlky.com/article/ema-flooding-washes-away-homes-indiana-jefferson-county-woman-dead/41074703#
NINE INCHES of rain. In SE Indiana - Mike & Greg Pence's district. Unprecedented. East Brushy Fork Creek is 2 miles from my sister's ridgetop home.
stopdiggin
(11,296 posts)(even over flat terrain) over a short period of time - means big trouble. Extreme (with a capital 'E') weather, folks.
Tumbulu
(6,274 posts)and it has only begun.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)I don't know of anyone who adopted a net zero emissions lifestyle 30 or do years ago when the warnings of climate change first appeared.
Tumbulu
(6,274 posts)to help people calculate their footprint and how to keep within the goals.
I guess it was pretty much only us scientists who cared and adopted lifestyles that were sensible and responsible.
To be blunt I am furious at those who did not.
I was so outraged then, that I decided to turn my fury into sequestering carbon on my own. On my own farm.
I barely keep my farm from going under financially, but I have documented carbon sequestration of 3.85 million Kg of carbon on my farm as of 2018, and it has only gone up since then. This translates to 750,000 gallons worth of oil pulled out of the atmosphere and placed deep below the surface in soil.
The more pissed off I get the more carbon I sequester.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)walked or used public transportation where I needed to go, kept the thermostat down to 55 in winter (that sucked), cut up all cardboard and newsprint to put in the compost pile, shopped at a thrift store for 2nd hand clothes and household items, recycled the water from my shower to use to flush the toilet, took Navy showers, used the rinse water from my washing machine to use as wash water for the next load, tried to buy as much priced to sell food at the grocery store to save money and use the food for myself rather then it being thrown out by the store, used salved electrical wire to make clothes lines so I could hang dry my clothes instead of using a dryer.
It was interesting but rather labor demanding an sometimes uncomfortable. I had to wear a jacket in the house all day long during the winter.
Tumbulu
(6,274 posts)I wish more had.
flying_wahini
(6,589 posts)I have experienced rain bombs and it is terrifying. We got about that much in Houston the years after IKE. Scary as hell.
orleans
(34,049 posts)THIS IS THE FUCKING CLIMATE CHANGE YOU'VE SAID DOESN'T EXIST
and shoved your heads up your collective asses and jerked off your guns for the past twenty years!
too soon?
9 inches in 3 hours! omg!
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)And one way is to move out of regions expected to be hard hit by climate change.
WestMichRad
(1,320 posts)Eastern Kentucky
St Louis Missouri
Dallas-Ft Worth Texas
Jackson Mississippi
Northwest Georgia
Southern Indiana
NW Yellowstone
Pretty sure Ive missed a couple. Each of these from different storms. And hurricane season isnt to blame for any of them.
If youre still denying that climate change is already upon us, youre being willfully stupid.
NickB79
(19,233 posts)In 30 years, we'll be at 2C.
In 50 years, pushing 3C.
By the end of the 21st century, 4C.
Even with rapid decarbonization of human civilization, we're starting to see positive feedback loops activate that will turn the Arctic, Siberian and North American taiga forests, and the Brazilian rainforest into carbon sources, emitting billions of tons of carbon on their own now. And industrial carbon sequestration isn't going to cut it.
When you start adding up all the massive economic blows we'll be seeing on a regular basis in 20 years, the odds of societal degradation and/or collapse start to go up rapidly. A billion dollar flood here, a billion dollar fire there, a crop-withering drought or two taking out breadbasket regions of the planet and causing food shortages regularly, rising sea levels flooding major cities, and pretty soon you've got large numbers of angry, hungry people on the streets or moving North, demanding relief that financially strapped governments can't provide any longer. And that's also fertile ground for authoritarian and fascist regimes to take root.
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)it can get worse.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)Imagine getting a months worth of rain in one day........wow