The weather in the USA...

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Lake Tahoe Suffocates With Smoke
NYTimes. August 27, 2021 Outline - Read & annotate without distractions

Amid the exodus, which has become a way of life in parts of the West this disaster-filled summer, there has been a creeping concern that the notion of a safe haven is gone, that there soon will be nowhere to run. Everyone from Bay Area billionaires who bought homes along the shores of the lake to workers stunned by surging real estate prices is seeing a sanctuary suffocate.

The smoke and the wildfires that produce it in the West are coming in a time of drought, heat waves, power cuts and, of course, the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is what climate change looks like,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Nature Conservancy. “It’s overlapping crises. People try to escape one crisis and stumble into another one.”

With California halfway through its peak fire season, the Caldor fire is only one of about 100 large wildfires burning in the West. The Dixie fire, the second-largest in California history, started more than six weeks ago and now has a perimeter of more than 500 miles. On Wednesday alone, four large new wildfires spread in California, drawing increasingly scarce firefighting resources.

The crisis in Tahoe extends far beyond the smoke on the water and fire in the sky of one tourist attraction. For hundreds of thousands of people living over the mountain from the lake, in the high desert of Nevada, wildfire smoke this summer has closed schools, canceled sports events and led longtime residents to ask how much longer they can hold out.

“We’re beside ourselves here,” said Amy Ginder, 47, who has lived for decades in Reno, which has been besieged for weeks by smoke from the huge Dixie fire to the northwest. “We have had smoke in the sky literally since the third week of July — we have been inhaling toxins for five weeks now. You can’t be outside. You can’t breathe. You can’t see the sun.”

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ida has made landfall with 150mph winds.

Hurricane Ida: One million people in Louisiana without power

Louisiana is assessing the damage after the storm knocked out power for nearly one million people.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[spring-peeper]

It ripped off the roof of a hospital.

 

[petee]

all of NO and almost all of SE LA without power.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's quite impressive - the amount of energy required to do that must be enormous.

 

[krtek a houby]

NYC and parts of New Jersey getting a hard rain

 

[extra dry]

torrandos and record breaking rain.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hope everyone in the area is safe and as dry as possible.

 

[extra dry]

more flooding on the way, millions effected by power cuts

 

[petee]

Hope everyone in the area is safe and as dry as possible.

we're fine. subways got hit, but you could have predicted that. some lines are built close to the surface and the rain comes in through the grates all the time.

look for reports from CT and MA tomorrow. they got it worse than we did.

 

[petee]

we got it harder than i (or anyone it seems) expected. i was watching radar which showed the heaviest rains (the red and purple colors) in CT and MA and into VT, with the southern edge of it in NYC, but the subway was closed entirely and some dozens drowned in basement apartments. phila got it just as bad. new record rain for one hour and one day, about double the previous (which for the hour was set only 10 days earlier by Henri):

The daily rainfall total at Central Park was 7.13 inches Wednesday, breaking the previous record of 3.84 inches set in 1927, according to the National Weather Service. Meanwhile, Newark logged 8.41 inches of rain, surpassing its record of 2.22 inches in 1959.

At least 42 dead after Ida batters Northeast with record rain and floods

Twenty-three of the victims died in New Jersey, New York reported 13 deaths and Pennsylvania had four deaths. Maryland and Connecticut each reported one.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[teqniq]

Wrt to basements these people were apparently lucky:

 

[petee]

'kinhell, the national hurricane center saw it coming. this is not what was reported over the radio.

Why NYC Was So Unprepared For Hurricane Ida’s Flash Flooding

Scientists predicted Ida’s heavy downpours as early as Monday, but rainfall remains a blindspot when it comes to urban preparedness and climate change resiliency.

gothamist.com

 

[teqniq]

There's a lot of vids underneath this:

 

[spring-peeper]

There has been a lot of flooding in the States.
Traditionally, FEMA covered the cost, but now things are changing.

The price of living near the shore is already high. It’s about to go through the roof

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will incorporate climate risk into the cost of flood insurance for the first time, dramatically increasing the price for some new homebuyers.

www.seattletimes.com

In Quebec. the government compensated for floods. But added a twist. If you house is flooded twice, they will give you enough to build a new house someplace else.

Most of the houses that are in jeopardy are summer cottages along the shoreline. No electricity, just somewhere to go and fun out of the city.

 

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Bomb cyclone tears through California
October 25, 2021

Drought-stricken, fire-plagued California asked for rain — and got a bomb cyclone and a Level 5 out of 5 atmospheric river expected to keep pounding the state today.

In other words: Rain, and lots of it. Enough to force evacuations in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties due to the threat of flash floods and mudslides near wildfire burn scars — and to prompt evacuation warnings, debris flow warnings and flash flood advisories throughout Northern and Central California. Enough to knock out power for about 148,000 PG&E customers. Enough to start a landslide that shut down a portion of Highway 70 and to stir powerful winds that flipped over two trucks on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. And enough to cancel hundreds of flights; call off the Ironman California race scheduled in Sacramento; and close numerous roads, ferries, bridge sidewalks and other locations.

The possibly historic storm descended on California just days after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide drought emergency and begged residents to conserve water — underscoring the whipsawing weather patterns that scientists say are evidence of climate change. Indeed, many of the communities fleeing flash floods on Sunday had fled from flames not long before.

 

[petee]

More than 80 feared dead after tornadoes hit central and southern US

Storms unleashed devastating tornadoes late Friday and early Saturday across parts of the central and southern United States, collapsing buildings into twisted debris and claiming lives, with officials fearing the death toll could exceed 80.

www.cnn.com

Storms unleashed devastating tornadoes late Friday and early Saturday across parts of the central and southern US including Kentucky, where the governor says the death toll will exceed 50 after "one of the toughest nights in Kentucky history."

More than 30 tornadoes have been reported in at least six states. A stretch of more than 200 miles from Arkansas to Kentucky might have been hit by one violent, long-track twister, CNN meteorologists say.

 

[teqniq]

Yup:

 

[Graymalkin]

This storm system was huge, stretched all the way north into Quebec. No tornadoes but high winds, I'm currently at a friend's house north of Ottawa and running a generator.

 

[hitmouse]

For what it's worth, mutual aid list document thing here:

BG, Mayfield, WKY Care - Dec 2021

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (www.kftc.org) is working to gather resources/supports for our friends and neighbors in Bowling Green and Mayfield, and the many other places around Southern and Western KY that are dealing with devastation from the 12/10/21 tornadoes. Our deepest sympathy and lov...

docs.google.com

 

[petee]

before and after

Maps: Where the Tornadoes Struck, Destroying Buildings and Homes (Published 2021)

Dozens of people were killed as tornadoes swept across at least six states Friday night and early Saturday morning.

www.nytimes.com

 

[weltweit]

Pretty devastating storms and crazy damage. My thoughts to those affected.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The storm was so powerful that a photograph from a tornado-damaged home in Kentucky was found almost 130 miles away in Indiana.

 

[hitmouse]

‘Not knowing is worse’: tornado survivor at candle factory awaits news of missing boyfriend

Autumn Kirks took shelter and glanced away from her boyfriend, who was 10ft away, and when she looked back he was gone

www.theguardian.com

There's a list of ways to help here:

Here’s how you can help tornado victims

Communities are scrambling to assess the damage after one of the worst tornado events in state history swept across western Kentucky on Dec. 11.The state…

wfpl.org

 

[farmerbarleymow]

‘Not knowing is worse’: tornado survivor at candle factory awaits news of missing boyfriend

Autumn Kirks took shelter and glanced away from her boyfriend, who was 10ft away, and when she looked back he was gone

www.theguardian.com

There's a list of ways to help here:

Here’s how you can help tornado victims

Communities are scrambling to assess the damage after one of the worst tornado events in state history swept across western Kentucky on Dec. 11.The state…

wfpl.org

Jesus, $8 an hour equates to £6.03.

 

[petee]

Jesus, $8 an hour equates to £6.03.

welcome to america.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Jesus, $8 an hour equates to £6.03.

That's also above minimum wage. Minimum wage is $7.25 (£5.47).

 

[pbsmooth]

they don't seem to have got much warning for such a huge storm or did they just ignore it/told to ignore it in the case of the workers?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

they don't seem to have got much warning for such a huge storm or did they just ignore it/told to ignore it in the case of the workers?

Workers are saying they weren't allowed to go to shelter with the first tornado warning. I've worked in warehouses and that's how it was most of the time when there was a storm. Also, the only place to shelter was the bathrooms, which were not adequate to shelter everyone.

 

[pbsmooth]

sort of peak America unfortunately isn't it