Post AZTCmso7u0L01VGIC0 by EclecticLee@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #AZRbXoMJxYsD5fKUGO by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-09-05T03:24:05Z
       
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       If you remember the house in Juneau, Alaska, that was dramatically washed into the river during a flood about a month ago, there's a shocking detail buried in the middle of this story: that house started out 50 feet from the river's edge. Another house similarly demolished was 100 feet back.  😮 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/09/04/juneau-flood-alaska-glacier-mendenhall/
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRcTBw6yM0eiiQnNw by CStamp@mastodon.social
       2023-09-05T03:34:28Z
       
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       @grammargirl "The fact that her home was not in a Federal Emergency Management Agency flood zone was one of the reasons she bought it three years ago. The home was just so far from the water, she never thought it could be at risk."Wow.  Lots of folk in a really tough position.  Take what seem like long-shot risks to be able to afford a home, the this.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRfmwALcEmzSnCHYG by pixelpusher220@universeodon.com
       2023-09-05T04:11:04Z
       
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       @grammargirl wish they'd named the insurance company in the article.100 feet in a single flood is crazy amounts of water
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRhcxOyMjlQJDPHGq by AccordionBruce@mastodon.social
       2023-09-05T04:32:10Z
       
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       @grammargirl They used to think a single flood like this dug the entire Columbia River Gorge Now they figure it was about 40 floods, each caused when a glacier melted, freeing up water behind it that was suddenly “13 x the flow of the Amazon River” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floodsNone of that millions of years stuff like the Grand CanyonThe Gorge was blown out in a fraction of that with its explosive floodingBut if we don’t stop the water rising, nobody will have any high ground#ClinateChange
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRn26anpakFp9kd3g by stoicmike@zirk.us
       2023-09-05T05:32:51Z
       
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       @grammargirl We're 55 feet above the bay, but if everything melted we would be 245 feet underwater.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZSW6iYX7cYSf3GMs4 by pixelpusher220@universeodon.com
       2023-09-05T13:57:46Z
       
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       @grammargirl in WashPost this weekend.When the entire country is prone to mega natural disasters ( which won't be long)  how exactly does *anything* get builthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/03/natural-disaster-climate-insurance/
       
 (DIR) Post #AZTCmso7u0L01VGIC0 by EclecticLee@digipres.club
       2023-09-05T21:55:48Z
       
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       @grammargirl Assuming this is the same house I'm thinking of, I found it on Google Maps when it was first in the news and was surprised how far it seemed to be from the river. I assumed then there had been gradual erosion between the incident and Google's last photo. Amazing that was all at once!