Superfloods: Why Deadly Flash Floods Are on the Rise

[robosmith]

Superfloods: Why Deadly Flash Floods Are on the Rise

 

 

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Find out why deadly flash floods are on the rise and how we can protect ourselves from them. Official website: https://to.pbs.org/3Jicrae | #novapbs The deadly flash floods in Texas over the 2025 Fourth of July weekend were just the latest reminder of an alarming new reality: Once-rare "superfloods" are striking with unprecedented ferocity, devastating communities around the globe. Join investigators as they piece together a moment-by-moment account of the Asheville, North Carolina disaster in 2024, when Hurricane Helene triggered flash floods and mudslides in a city 2,000 feet above sea level and more than 250 miles inland. Discover how hidden atmospheric phenomena, combined with a warming planet, are creating a new era of risk. Can science offer a lifeline to communities facing an increasingly dangerous future?

 

[Legato]

29 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Superfloods: Why Deadly Flash Floods Are on the Rise

 

 

 

Water cannot be compressed and the video is not recommended for people of a higher intelligence.

[robosmith]

3 hours ago, Legato said:

Water cannot be compressed and the video is not recommended for people of a higher intelligence.

No REASON to believe ^this OPINION from a CLOWN.

[Shady]

Even Bill Gates has jumped off the absurd climate change alarmist hysteria.

[WestCanMan]

Robo: for your edification...

Flooding is mostly caused by replacing broad swaths of vegetation with acres upon acres of hardscape such as roads, driveways, parking lots, rooftops, sidewalks, etc. 

Trees, plants and dirt soak up an enormous amount of water, while concrete and asphalt do not.

Rain has always fallen very quickly over short periods of time, but it always had someplace to go before. Now, in the big cities, it just pours across all those waterproof surfaces and then congregates in low-lying areas after it overwhelms municipal drainage systems.

Buddy, you really need to stop reading AltLeftFknut.com, committing it to your feeble memory, and then regurgitating it. 

[Nationalist]

"Despite changes in flood exposure (more people being exposed to the flood hazard over time) and flood vulnerability (societies being less sensitive to floods over time) being so important, future projections of flooding often neglect these factors. This is in part due to the fact that it’s simply much more difficult to project changes in technological and socioeconomic factors than it is to project changes in the physical climate system. However, the neglect of these two dominant factors means that a lot of projections that focus exclusively on the physical hazard are of very limited practical use."

https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-20-spring-2024/are-floods-dramatically-increasing-due-to-climate-change-part-two

This whole issue is very much like the great climate scare...which has now been debunked. The climate religious will warp anything in order to support their state of perpetual fear and hatred. But the truth always rises to the top and gets exposed. At which point these weak-kneed greenies are exposed for the fools they are.

And that folks...is the long and the short of it.

 

Edited October 31, 2025 by Nationalist

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, Shady said:

Even Bill Gates has jumped off the absurd climate change alarmist hysteria.

Gates is NOT a climate scientist, so why do you believe his OPINION matters? LMAO

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, WestCanMan said:

Robo: for your edification...

Flooding is mostly caused by replacing broad swaths of vegetation with acres upon acres of hardscape such as roads, driveways, parking lots, rooftops, sidewalks, etc. 

Trees, plants and dirt soak up an enormous amount of water, while concrete and asphalt do not.

Rain has always fallen very quickly over short periods of time, but it always had someplace to go before. Now, in the big cities, it just pours across all those waterproof surfaces and then congregates in low-lying areas after it overwhelms municipal drainage systems.

Buddy, you really need to stop reading AltLeftFknut.com, committing it to your feeble memory, and then regurgitating it. 

^lDIOT didn't even watch the video and STILL believes he knows the latest climate science. LMAO

Got news for you: NOVA has a great reputation for science reporting. Duh

[WestCanMan]

26 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

"Despite changes in flood exposure (more people being exposed to the flood hazard over time) and flood vulnerability (societies being less sensitive to floods over time) being so important, future projections of flooding often neglect these factors. This is in part due to the fact that it’s simply much more difficult to project changes in technological and socioeconomic factors than it is to project changes in the physical climate system. However, the neglect of these two dominant factors means that a lot of projections that focus exclusively on the physical hazard are of very limited practical use."

https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-20-spring-2024/are-floods-dramatically-increasing-due-to-climate-change-part-two

This whole issue is very much like the great climate scare...which has now been debunked. The climate religious will warp anything in order to support their state of perpetual fear and hatred. But the truth always rises to the top and gets exposed. At which point these weak-kneed greenies are exposed for the fools they are.

And that folks...is the long and the short of it.

Yup.

200 years ago, ten inches of rain could fall in an area where there were just a bunch of plants and there was no major congregation of people, and no one even noticed if there was a bit of flooding because there was no one and nothing there of importance.

Excess water would just pool in temporary ponds which would soon be gone, not to reappear for another couple of centuries.

If that same rainfall occurs today, there's a city there and acres of non-porous surfaces, so the majority of the rain can't go to ground, and it quickly overwhelms the storm drains and then pools in low-lying areas where it damages homes and businesses. 

As an example, there's a "200-yr floodplain map" for the lower mainland, showing the levels that historical high-water marks have reached, which have never been matched in my lifetime. Current construction regulations are still based on the fact that at some point it will be NORMAL for water to reach those levels again. But when that day eventually comes, commie climate cultists will be there to pretend it's unprecedented, and a sign of the "klymit-pokalips", and they will shriek about the need to cancel Alberta oil so that we can buy it from the Saudis, and ship it across the Atlantic and through our pristine tidewaters, through which Alberta oil can't pass due to "environmental concerns".

*yawn* 

[robosmith]

48 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

"Despite changes in flood exposure (more people being exposed to the flood hazard over time) and flood vulnerability (societies being less sensitive to floods over time) being so important, future projections of flooding often neglect these factors. This is in part due to the fact that it’s simply much more difficult to project changes in technological and socioeconomic factors than it is to project changes in the physical climate system. However, the neglect of these two dominant factors means that a lot of projections that focus exclusively on the physical hazard are of very limited practical use."

https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-20-spring-2024/are-floods-dramatically-increasing-due-to-climate-change-part-two

This whole issue is very much like the great climate scare...which has now been debunked. The climate religious will warp anything in order to support their state of perpetual fear and hatred. But the truth always rises to the top and gets exposed. At which point these weak-kneed greenies are exposed for the fools they are.

And that folks...is the long and the short of it.

 

The BOLDED is NONSENSE, and unjustified by ANY REASONING. As is YOUR OPINION.

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[robosmith]

12 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Yup.

200 years ago, ten inches of rain could fall in an area where there were just a bunch of plants and there was no major congregation of people, and no one even noticed if there was a bit of flooding because there was no one and nothing there of importance.

Excess water would just pool in temporary ponds which would soon be gone, not to reappear for another couple of centuries.

If that same rainfall occurs today, there's a city there and acres of non-porous surfaces, so the majority of the rain can't go to ground, and it quickly overwhelms the storm drains and then pools in low-lying areas where it damages homes and businesses. 

As an example, there's a "200-yr floodplain map" for the lower mainland, showing the levels that historical high-water marks have reached, which have never been matched in my lifetime. Current construction regulations are still based on the fact that at some point it will be NORMAL for water to reach those levels again. But when that day eventually comes, commie climate cultists will be there to pretend it's unprecedented, and a sign of the "klymit-pokalips", and they will shriek about the need to cancel Alberta oil so that we can buy it from the Saudis, and ship it across the Atlantic and through our pristine tidewaters, through which Alberta oil can't pass due to "environmental concerns".

*yawn* 

You STILL have NO IDEA what the video says about WHY super floods are growing in frequency. Has to do with weather phenomena, NOT the paving of America. The cited super floods originated in the country, not paved CITIES.

[Nationalist]

10 minutes ago, robosmith said:

You STILL have NO IDEA what the video says about WHY super floods are growing in frequency. Has to do with weather phenomena, NOT the paving of America. The cited super floods originated in the country, not paved CITIES.

The whole climate argument has been discredited. 

[robosmith]

47 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

The whole climate argument has been discredited. 

ONLY in your imagination. Your amateur climate OPINION means NOTHING, dropout.