Summer Flooding Caused By Climate Change Is Flooding Midwestern Cities.
Flood waters are seeping into basements across the Midwest and especially in Metro Detroit causing millions in damage. (The Detroit News)
“We need to figure out why these ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ storms & floods keep happening and get a plan in place to prevent more damage,” Dingell tweeted.
Attention during the June 25-26 rainstorm focused on the Great Lakes Water Authority and reported outages at the Connor Creek Pump Station that was blamed for flooding in homes in the area. GLWA officials acknowledged the pump station “experienced a partial disruption in service,” but emphasize it was never off-line and repairs returned the station to “full operational status in under one hour.””
Climate change is real and it is affecting Americans in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Detroit would seem like a safe place to live in order to avoid rising seas or intense droughts, and that is true. However, the Detroit region is now experiencing some of the worst flooding problems in America in recent years with no signs of abating. The rain patterns are now more intense as a result of the global temperature rise and will continue to wreak havoc. American infrastructure is crumbling to begin with and when climate change is added to the mix, a true disaster is in the making.
