Hey, remember this?
Climate change worsens flooding devastation across the Midwest
Every Missourian remembers the powerful rain and flooding in 2019 — events that caused widespread destruction and financial loss across the state. Farmers lost their livelihood for months and families had to offload heaps of cash for flood insurance after losing their homes. Residents in Missouri received more than $93 million in federal reparations for damages.
The reality of flooding is tragic. It strikes hard and fast, leaving devastation in its wake. Missouri can expect more of this flooding as unpredictable climate change patterns continue to create threats to the environment and the species that depend on it. While it can be challenging to adequately prepare for flooding, there are ways to mitigate the effects of climate change. This may help lower the frequency and risk of severe flooding events.
The connection between climate change and flooding is disastrous. Further exacerbated by human activity, climatic instability may become more frequent leaving people wondering if the thunderstorm that is supposed to happen the next day will lead to the loss of houses and farmland. The more intense the changes in the climate, the more intense the repercussions will be.
You can find lots of stories like that. But
US engineers contributed to Missouri River flood damage and must pay landowners, court rules
The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars — or more — to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2020 ruling that the federal government must pay for the landowners’ loss of value to the land. But the appeals court went even further in its decision last Friday, saying that the government must also pay them for crops, farm equipment and buildings lost to the flooding and finding the government contributed to the devastating flood of 2011.
Courts have found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for recurrent flooding since 2007, three years after it changed how it manages the Missouri River’s flow to better protect the habitat of endangered fish and birds. It did so by notching dikes to increase water flow, keeping more water in reservoirs and reopening historic chutes, allowing the river to meander and erode banks.
So, not climate doom.
Federal officials argue that the changes the Corps made were necessary to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act and a separate requirement from Congress passed in 1986 to protect fish and wildlife.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The ruling comes as federal and state officials wrestle with the rising costs of floods made more severe by climate change, and droughts that will require tough water management choices.
You had to know that they would shift the blame, right?
And it will all be paid for with our tax dollars!
The Mississippi/Missouri watershed has flooded periodically for…well, forever, in human terms. There’s a reason it’s called a “floodplain”.
No need to bring religion into it.
Heads you’re racist, tails you’re destroying the climate…
They can sue the government; they can’t sue
global warmingclimate change.There have been floods for hundreds of thousands of years, only in the past couple of hundred has man been foolish enough to try to control them. Sometimes with varying degrees of success, but sometimes with catastrophic failures. The Corps has been charged with controlling these river basins and with protecting the protected critters, they can’t win. Not mentioning that too many folks are foolish enough to build and reside in a known floodplain, even when they are told what can happen and required to buy ‘flood insurance’. Farmers have been farming in floodplains since the time of the pharaohs.
It ain’t glow-bull warming, it’s simply the arrogance of people.
Now to think just a month ago they were upset over the Mississippi drying up. Now it is a river flooding. Can’t make up their minds as to what to worry about next. But, it can easily be fixed by a tax and world communism.