Posted on 05/30/2018 7:11:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is hitting America as rain, and we’re making it worse.
Two years ago, Ellicott City, Maryland, was hit by a debilitating flash flood that turned the town’s historic Main Street into a raging muddy river. Scientists said the July 2016 rainstorm was a once-in-a-thousand-year event.
But on Sunday it happened again: 7 to 9 inches of rain fell in the area, 10 miles west of Baltimore, and another torrent swept cars and trees through town.
It’s a reminder that heavy rain, rather than rising seas, may be the earliest severe consequence of climate change. We’ve prepared for it in the worst way possible.
But climate change isn’t the only reason these disasters aren’t quite natural. Unchecked sprawl has built a concrete funnel around Ellicott City. “All this natural vegetation that would act as sponges is being replaced by concrete and impervious surfaces,” explains Stephen Strader, a professor at Villanova who studies environmental risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Indeed. What would Steven Strader know about this? Has he ever visited Ellicott City?
You forgot the “barf” alert.
Ye gad. Ellicott City has been flooding since the mid 1800’s. Climate change, my gluteus maximus.
Folks get paid to sit around and invent new complaints.
Then they pretend it is “proof” of a nonexistent condition.
And they just now started covering up the city in concrete in the last few years?
How about placing the blame on the local government and their zoning laws, or maybe the lack of foresight of university professors to notice such issues, or maybe just a couple of ferocious storms dumping water all over the watershed?
Anyone with a sense of history knows that this pace floods and has flooded for years.
Global warming just like in 1868, 1901, 1917, 1923, 1942, 1952, 1972, and 2016.
You’d think a town in coastal Maryland would experience the occasional tropical storm, nor’easter or even hurricane but no, it’s unprecedented and just has to be some dire harbinger of Climate Change armageddon. They don’t even see that they’ve created an alternate godless religion but that doesn’t decrease their zealotry.
“Ellicott City has flooded nearly 15 times since its inception in 1772.”
Facts are stubborn things - from the comments section of a Philly.com bleat about Ellicott City:
The town is prone to flooding from the Patapsco River and its tributary the Tiber River. These floods have had a major impact on the history of the town, often destroying important businesses and killing many. Ellicott City has had major devastating floods in 1817, 1837, 1868,[58] 1901, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1972 (Hurricane Agnes), 1975 (Hurricane Eloise), 1989, 2011, 2016, and 2018. The 1868 flood washed away 14 houses, killing 39 to 43 (accounts vary) in and around Ellicott City. It wiped out the Granite Manufacturing Cotton Mill, Charles A. Gambrill’s Patapsco Mill, John Lee Carroll’s mill buildings, and dozens of homes.[58] One mill was rebuilt by Charles Gambrill, which remained in operation until a fire in 1916.[10]:36
Historic flood stages marked on the B&O viaduct, c. 2006. Hurricane Agnes flood stage (14.5 feet (4.4 m)) is in the middle of the photograph.
A 1923 flood topped bridges, in 1952 an 8-foot (2.4 m) wall of water swept the shops of Ellicott City, and a 1956 flood inflicted heavy damage at the Bartigis Brothers plant. On June 21, 1972, the Patapsco River valley flooded 14.5 feet (4.4 m) from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, taking out a concrete bridge, destroying the Jonathan Ellicott home, and the 1910 Victor Blode water filtration plant, and flooding Main Street to the Odd Fellows hall.[10]:26 The Old Main Line of the B&O Railroad also sustained serious damage.
On September 27, 1975, the town was flooded 9.0 feet (2.7 m) from Hurricane Eloise. Floods also occurred September 22, 1989, from Hurricane Hugo, and on September 7, 2011, flooding 11.0 feet (3.4 m) from Tropical Storm Lee.
Flooding in the tidal basin of a coastal area.
You don’t say??
Ellicott City has flooded over a dozen times since founded. If you do a search on ‘history of Ellicott City floods’ you’ll find lots of information - including that the town was deliberately built where it is to take advantage of water power for its mill.
This has nothing to do with climate change; though overdevelopment plays a part:
The flooding is the result of foolish real estate peddlers selling space in a flood plain.
More foolish than the peddlers are the real estate buyers snapping up the cheap properties.
God is just flooding liberals. No Global Warming here.
Whatever happens next, and it’s exact opposite a month later somewhere else, will be an important early indicator of global warming. We must heed it’s clarion call!
It’s UNPRECEDENTED! Repent of your carbon dependent ways or die! We’re all gonna drown!
Ellicott City, Maryland has historically had floods. Until last year, the flooding came UP from the nearby Patapsco river. Last year’s flood and the recent flood came DOWN from the Tiber and Hudson Creeks. Recent development which converted lots to impermeable surfaces — building, parking lots, etc. — has impacted the water-flow. Look at a Google map. The creeks merge west of town and apparently stop. The watercourse is constrained by pipes and culverts through the downtown... so the increased waterflow from uphill overwhelms the constrained channel thru downtown.
Yes... of course... climate change causes 1) unconstrained development and 2) neglect of public infrastructures such as these culverts.
Shit Weather happens.
Tons of toxic sewage and waste is dumped daily into our biosphere, without any regulations or controls... polluting everything it touches! It often pretends to be “science”, “economic justice”, “fairness” and “equality”. In reality it destroys science, liberty, faith and spirit, replacing them with the parasite of poisoned totalitarian ideology.
This septic mixture like a pathogen causes painful symptoms… as it creates and cultivates discontent, hopelessness and frustration in the heart and mind of all those it infects. Early signs are always blaming others for any shortcomings one encounters and demanding a “safe space” free from any thoughts and/or ideas not approved by the “collective”!
Another sign of infection is the encouragement failure and punishing of success. Ending with the demand that despotic global overlords control every aspect of your soon to be miserable rationed subsistence!
Avoid, avoid, avoid!!!
The 1868 flood was definitely caused by lack of anti-pollution devices on the cars back then because it wasn't regulated.
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