Posted on 07/10/2025 6:49:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Most of the U.S. adults who have experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause, according to polling conducted earlier this year, before the deadly Texas floods.
But while Americans largely believed the federal government should play a major role in preparing for and responding to natural disasters, an analysis of recent AP-NORC polls shows less consensus about whether the government should be involved in combating climate change to try to keep extreme weather from getting worse.
The polls from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research were conducted in February and June, before catastrophic flooding in Texas killed more than 100 people over the Fourth of July weekend and left others missing. The polls found that Americans generally had a high level of confidence in the National Weather Service and their local weather report, and most thought the federal government should play a central role in alerting Americans to weather events.
That trust could now be undermined, as officials face scrutiny over flood preparations and the timing of alerts and evacuations. Although meteorologists warn that human-caused climate change can make bad storms worse, it's unclear if overall views of climate change — and the government's role in combating it — will be altered.
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Confidence in the Federal Emergency Management Agency was lower. Before the floods, only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults said they were "extremely" or "very" confident in FEMA, while about 4 in 10 said they were "somewhat" confident."
Don’t build in flood zones. Try to keep our population from exploding. Importing 21 million foreigners to America and claiming that they are just “much needed” slave laborers and voters in four years is retarded. They’ve got to live somewhere and that makes people targets for natural disasters. We’ve got to leave some places empty where “a tree falls and nobody hears it.” America has 336 million people. Forty Seven percent rely on the government for their survival. We don’t need to be importing more.
For decades and decades, FEMA was the ‘dumping ground’ of both parties for campaign personnel who were promised ‘positions’ in the next administration. Some were competent at the job, many were not..............
When I want to check the weather conditions or forecast, I seldom use weather.gov as much as I used to. It is nice to have the option of using a website that doesn’t have a bunch of annoying ads & pop up’s though.
So this isn’t about government response, it’s about climate change. How much will it cost for climate-change-induced floods to be reduced by half? And how reliable are those estimates.
Thanks, I don’t want to spend trillions of dollars to reduce the chance by 0.0001%. Don’t build in flood planes, or, if you do build in flood planes, monitor rain conditions, have a good evacuation plan, and keep people on watch all of the time that it rains uphill of you.
I stopped after two of five steps of my 5 step program to identify BS:
1. Who is reporting it and what’s their angle? Always check the source. Is it an outlet known to lean Left, Right, or sensationalist? Look at the track record of the news source. Their editorial history can give clear signs whether they are pushing a narrative or giving you straight facts.
2. What is the evidence behind the claim? Look for specifics – quotes, data, documents, or eyewitness accounts. Research those eyewitnesses to understand whether they represent a specific narrative as well. If the outlet uses vague “sources say” statements, that should be an immediate red flag. Like the old Wendy’s commercial – ask yourself, “Where’s the beef?”
Yeah, it’s the usual global warming cr@p from AP.
Well, this part of the brainwashing is good to go.
“Most of the U.S. adults who have experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause, according to polling conducted earlier this year, before the deadly Texas floods.”
Utah is popular as well as beautiful just like the rest of the western US. What happens when Yellowstone blows? History suggests Northern Mexico will be covered with ash. It’s that big.
I bet new building is barely mentioned. Where I live former farm land and barrier woods are being transformed into housing and related areas. The transformed land retains less water, so more water for the streams and rivers. Down river areas get more floods.
My experience with flooding is primarily from living and farming for 46 years; then for another almost 16 years, still living on a farm while a truck driver. A combined 62 years in rural Mercer County, IL.
We farmed high flat to rolling ground, and creek and river flood plain as well. If we had an inkling that rain was in the forecast, no farm equipment was left overnight in the flood prone areas,.... except one time....
Spring of 74 my dad was planting a flood prone field, the lighting system on the old tractor marginal, so at dark Dad stopped for the night right where he was at, and shut down. There was a slight chance of rain forecast. A couple hours later came the slight chance. By daylight the next morning we had received around 7”. I drove to that farm, looked down the hill to view the bottom field...
It was a lake, probably 12 to 14 feet higher than the river banks. The tractor and planter were parked at the high end of that bottom field, and still all that was visible was the top few inches of the exhaust stack and about 4’ of the 11’ tall planter markers.
After that experience we always left our equipment on high ground at shutdown, rain or no rain forecasted.
Wow! That’s a lasting memory, I’m sure. I have never lived anywhere that was prone to flooding.
‘Spongy lawn’ is the worst I’ve experienced. Our farm is hilly, (Driftless Area of SW WI) and all the crop land is terraced to stop erosion, but we are way, way, like 1,000’s of feet above any flood zone.
Beau says if THIS place floods, it IS The End of the World.
I hope I’m not here if that happens, or that I can still book passage with a guy named, ‘Noah.’ ;)
ALL rivers, creeks, and streams lie in the bottom of some type of valley. A LOW point.
This is where floods occur. While picturesque and good for fishing, you take your life into YOUR OWN hands when you go to these places.
You are rolling the dice. Sure, pull the trigger once, nothing happens. Pull the trigger twice, nothing happens. Spin that cylinder again. Pull the trigger a third time, nothing happens.
So you build a cottage or girl’s summer camp there.
What about rugged individualism?
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