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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It feels like this huge disaster is getting ignored. Entire communities have been destroyed. Some won't have water for a week. I see that WaPo.and NY Times are reporting on it but it's below the Middle East and the election and the focus on the deaths which present it as isolated issues. [/quote]

It doesn’t get clicks. Better to spin everyone up on anti-semitism and Gaza than actually report.

It is a huge disaster. [b]And we likely won’t understand the full scope for another week or two. [/quote][/b]

There is no electricity, cell or sewer service in the hardest-hit areas. Want to think through how the logistics of reporting from there should work?[/quote]
The above is reason number 1 why there’s not fuller reporting; it’s going to be a minute before we know the extent.

The other reasons are completely unsexy: this is the result of decades of disinvestment in infrastructure and decades of ignoring global warming. This is exactly what people have been warning about and I think many people across multiple states have felt secure from the worst ravages of global warming’s effects, but this is how it’s going to be: comparatively random events and devastating. Biden has put in the infrastructure work, but that’s just the beginning.

[i]All[/i] of the reporting on this should feature the compounding effect of global warming on the strength of this hurricane. [/quote]

Why is every disaster these days automatically attributed to "climate change". FWIW, a similar flood occured in the same areas in 1916. Was that caused by "climate change" too?[/quote]

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