FEMA Blames Climate Change for Hurricane Helene’s Historic Flooding

There are fewer hurricanes now than before, and their number and severity is continuing to drop.

This is a documented fact that the global warmers themselves admit.

Here’s the Nature article, here’s a CNN article fluffing it. They say that although there are many fewer storms, it is “likely” they will become more intense.

But of course, the storms are measured by the amount of monetary damage they do, and Florida is continuing to do shitty cheap construction that continues costing more and more. So, of course the financial cost is going to go up.

The Guardian:

The head of the US disaster relief agency has called Hurricane Helene, which has killed nearly 70 people so far, a “true multi-state event” that caused “significant infrastructure damage” and had been made worse because of global heating.

The storm killed at least 69 people, according to state and local officials in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Officials feared still more bodies would be discovered.

“This is going to be a really complicated recovery in each of the five states” of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, the Fema administrator, Deanne Criswell, said.

She noted that a 15ft storm surge hit Florida’s Taylor county, where Helene came ashore as a category 4 hurricane late Thursday with winds of 140mph (225km/h), and pointed out that areas of western North Carolina, where search and rescue operations are continuing, recorded 29in (74cm) of rain when the storm stalled over the region.

This is historic flooding up in North Carolina,” Criswell told the CBS show Face the Nation on Sunday. “I don’t know that anybody could be fully prepared for the amount of flooding and landslides they are having right now.”

As many as 1,000 people remain unaccounted for in Buncombe county in the Appalachian mountains where the hurricane caused catastrophic flooding and mudslides in the Asheville region, cutting off most communication and making the roads impassable.

At least 11 people are dead in North Carolina, Cooper’s office said in an update on Sunday “Tragically we know there will be more,” Cooper said. “Even as the rain and winds have subsided, the challenge for people there increases. People are desperate for help.”

At least 23 are dead in South Carolina, including two firefighters. In Georgia, at least 17 people have died, two of them killed by a tornado in Alamo, according to a spokesperson for Kemp.

The devastation, Criswell said, was linked to the climate emergency. “This storm took a while to develop, but once it did it intensified very rapidly – and that’s because of the warm waters in the Gulf that’s creating more storms that are reaching this major category level.”

The conditions, she said, were creating greater amounts of storm surge in the coastal areas and increased rainfall as the storms moved north.

In the past, damage from hurricanes was primarily wind damage, but now we’re seeing so much more water damage and that is a result of the warm waters which is a result of climate change,” Criswell told CBS.

Bullshit.

Global warming is fake.

We have always had storms. If there’s more water, it’s because they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

It’s a pretty big list.