Days after being pummeled with eight inches of rainfall in only just hours — the kind of extreme downpour that supposedly occurs once every 500 years — South Florida continues to be deluged with historic storms and flooding.
The region of the state remains under a flood advisory on Friday after a series of storms dumped between eight and 20 inches of rain over large sections of Florida over the previous three days. Meteorologists expect another two to four inches of rain by Friday night, and some areas may get as much as 10 inches.
This extreme wet weather has left hundreds of people stranded in their homes. This storm system even yielded a tornado that tore through the community of Hobe Sound, north of Palm Beach, on Wednesday, uprooting or destroying at least 20 landmark ficus trees.
According to researchers, climate change both intensifies extreme weather events like tropical storms and floods and makes them more frequent. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican often described as a climate skeptic, has worked to scrub references to the problem from official state documents in his state. Activists like Stevie O’Hanlon, communications director for the Sunrise Movement, argue that kind of denialism will ultimately backfire on the politicians who support it.
You gotta wonder how many more “once in a century” climate disasters will happen before climate change is accepted by all sitting politicians.
The Republican politicians who rail against climate change are putting on an act. Some believe it and will still parrot lies for the chance to keep being elected and the others are just idiots who will never, ever learn and are just teying to impress their fellow conservatives.
We keep having those, it’s already a lie by virtue of it happing more than once in the past few years.
I guarantee they’ll blame cloud seeding though
Very funny that all of the climate denier right wing dipshits moved to one of the first states that will see major economic damage from climate change they insist isn’t real
