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Posted on 07/09/2025 8:19:33 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Governments can’t change the weather, but they can invest in infrastructure that is better able to handle it.
A 2024 report from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Value of Water Campaign estimated that the country is billions of dollars short in investments needed to update water infrastructure for 21st-century needs, including a new normal of extreme rainfall events.
You can see strong bipartisan support for trying to prevent flooding and address flooding among local and county elected officials. South Carolina just passed funding to expand data collection related to flooding and resilience. They passed about $1 million for that effort and another $5 million to coordinate resilience planning across watersheds.
One thing that gives me the sense that we might be able to succeed in that is we have voices across the political spectrum starting to speak up more about resilience as a strategy. If you're talking about the Texas Hill Country, the human toll is the thing that we're most concerned about.
But there are voices primarily in the business of supporting the economy who also see resilience as a really good investment. In 2025, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce increased its estimate of how much pre-disaster resilience funding saves in economic losses. A common rule of thumb used to be that each dollar spent before a disaster saves you six afterward. Their research found that it actually saves $13.
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When we keep expanding to/ building in flood plains we invite disaster. Just because there hasn’t been a flood in many years does not mean it will never happen again….and then instead of looking at historic records some clown starts crying about globull warming and more floods because of it.
I still remember floods going back to 1957 Tulsa. Big Thompson flood in 1976 Colorado, and Mingo Creek flood again in 1976.
Nothing new.
Today, these floods would be blamed on Glo-Bull Warming!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mississippi_River_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Arkansas_floods
Governments can’t change the weather
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That’s not what president Eisenhower said decades ago.
If they can’t, then they should stop those that are trying to and choking Americans citizens on tons of particulates that are dumped on us regularly.
People are increasingly common, so more flooding is reported.
- Will post: flew into JFK less than a year ago. Looking shabby BUT to be fair there was extra traffic and detouring due to construction and remodeling I presume. What you tell me is encouraging! But all the more reason to be concerned about Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy and his promise to sabotage billionaires and private capital.
- Miami it’s been longer, but from what I understand it is one of the nicer, cleaner, well maintained big cities and state wise: Governor DeSantis clearly has a handle on hurricane matters and deserves high marks for Covid pandemic leadership as well.
- For our status as a superpower, we still lag overall in terms of infrastructure as well as other so called first world amenities.
Okay but with or without flooding, our infrastructure has been on a steep decline for decades now. I read somewhere that Texas flood infrastructure was better in the 1980s!
Who are “those” that are purposely trying to choke Americans?
I read somewhere that Texas flood infrastructure was better in the 1980s!
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Ummm...because not as many people built in flood prone areas 45 years ago?
Naaa...that couldn’t be it.
of course our water infrastructure is unprepared.
All over the country dams have been removed by RADICAL leftist environmentalists.
The dams were there for a REASON.
More construction, instant video/reporting, removing natural channels........ Oh, and it has rained heavily before.
How about there is more ignorance in our society? I can not imagine camping next to a river knowing a severe thunderstorm is upstream.
We also need an expulsion of all illegals who slipped in over the past 50 years.
Okay but with or without flooding, our infrastructure has been on a steep decline for decades now. I read somewhere that Texas flood infrastructure was better in the 1980s!
It is a pattern, with Leftists, to steal from the present/future, to enrich themselves.
We had leaders back then. They'll take a look around. They'll notice. "Oh, we need to build a dam over here."
No one is being proactive nowadays.
Even after a tragic event, it is difficult to build a dam because it'll require environmental studies first.
Only when that is convenient for the media narrative. Today, increasing floods fits the narrative.
Utter nonsense!
Just ask Noah...
American Society of Civil Engineers and the Value of Water Campaign
So the same old “solution” is to give pressure groups and bureaucrats more Taxpayer money. Because the solution is not to fix political corruption and incompetence but to spend more on the same corruption and incompetence.
It was before the time of anyone here but the 1889 Johnstown Pennsylvania flood took 2208 lives. Largest civilian loss of life in the US up to that point in time. Heavy rain led to an eventual dam breaking and the flood.
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