Wednesday, October 02, 2024

 

High water

 


When Hurricane Helene was building up in the Gulf of Mexico, I don't think many people thought "Boy, I'll bet that storm is really going to wallop Asheville, North Carolina." Yet, the is exactly what happened, as Asheville and its environs seem to have suffered the most serious consequences of the storm.

73 people died in North Carolina, with 57 of them from Buncombe County, where Asheville is the county seat. That number may still go up as more missing people are accounted for.

Nature is still a wild and unpredictable thing, and climate change is making that all the more true.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 1:00 AM
Comments:
And yet one of the VP candidates still side-stepped addressing climate change, while both pandered and bragged about the highest amount of oil drilling in history in the U.S….
(Des)
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:06 AM
 
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