Posted on 09/13/2021 4:44:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Colin Moulder-McComb might seem an unlikely climate change refugee. The middle-aged video game developer is a middle-class Midwesterner, not an impoverished resident of a small island nation threatened by sea-level rise. But the resident of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., an affluent, inner-ring suburb of Detroit where he lives with his wife and two kids, says global warming is destroying his family’s quality of life.
In 2016, heavy rains caused their basement to fill with 36 inches of water. “We thought it was a one-and-done, so we refurnished the basement,” he recalled. After all, they had been living in southeast Michigan for years, and the massive rainfall that caused the flood wasn’t a regular occurrence — or, at least, not yet.
He was wrong. This June, Moulder-McComb got 42 inches of water in his basement after the sewer backed up again, under pressure from more than 6 inches of rain.
While the climate in the Midwest has always been relatively wet, the frequency and severity of downpours has gotten notably worse in recent decades, due to climate change.
The flooding is worst in the areas with the oldest and most underfunded infrastructure. And that’s what has Moulder-McComb searching for somewhere with newer public water infrastructure.
For individuals and families, there may be no perfect solutions to the crises caused by climate change. Asked why he isn’t looking to just leave southeast Michigan altogether, Moulder-McComb pointed out that anywhere he might go will contend with some form of climate change-induced extreme weather.
“Global warming is screwing up everywhere,” Moulder-McComb observed. “I come from Utah and lived in California before that, and I’m watching the aridification of those areas,” he said, referring to the droughts, heat waves and ensuing wildfires that have plagued the West in recent years.
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Colin Moulder-McComb = Useful idiot!!!
I’ve lived I MI most of my life and I’ve never had water in my basement.
I’ve never been connected to a backed up sewer though. Stay away from Detoilet and you’ll be fine.
as is Ben Adler, Senior Climate Editor
So tell californicate to manage their forests rather than burning them off creating the problems.
Call me old school, but as soon as I see a grown man with a hyphenated last name — well i really don’t pay much attention after that.
I think using the term "useful" is being by to generous.
Zero respect for these infantile buffoons who blame everything on climate change vs. the weather. We have some of the same issues (especially when the remnants of a hurricane blows through the area), but there is equipment there to handle it. Similar equipment was designed decades ago. Which just goes to show that the weather can suck and that fact has always been (and will be) with us.
Luckily for my parents their basement never flooded, or got that damp. But there were several basements in that hilly suburb that did have problems.
“Call me old school, but as soon as I see a grown man with a hyphenated last name — well i really don’t pay much attention after that.”
Call me old school, but for the sake of mispronunciation, if my first name were Colin, I would change it.
I feel the same.
“I come from Utah and lived in California before that, and I’m watching the aridification of those areas,”
Or maybe its just that massive amounts of people have moved there. And that dead trees have been allowed build up in forest areas causing much bigger fires than normal.
This idiot needs a check valve on his sewer line. But BA in politics Ben Adler wouldn’t know about that.
Short answer: let the professional forestry companies do their jobs, with minimal oversight...i.e. none.
It was just under 50 years ago, I worked two summers for the Cal. Div. of Forestry, as a firefighter at the Saratoga Summit and Big Basin stations. One thing I do remember was meeting several professional foresters: for every tree they cut, they replanted seven seedlings.
Dry here in MO, the actual Midwest.
Wow...no bias here...lol. An objective headline would read “How Midwesterners Deal Are Handling Constant Flooding”.
Oh please. There’s nothing man can do to influence the weather in the long term short of changing the albedo of the planet. Think paving, heat island cities, deforestation etc. So if you’re implying the airliner contrails could change the albedo you would be correct, if you are calling them chemtrails, you need to study some upper air physics and metrology.
So Detroit has poor storm and sewer system so it must be global warming causing the problem.
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