In Southwest Iowa, We're Now At Nine Months Of Flooding And Counting

[hatrack]

Link to tweet

Unprecedented flooding continues in the American midwest – and scientists have been increasingly certain that the rising frequency of extremes is climate related. I knew it was still ongoing just from observations locally in Michigan, where farmers who had to delay, or cancel, planting in the spring are finding it just as difficult to get into the fields to harvest, even now in December . . . But the tweet above from the Iowa Department of Transportation (dated December 13) was a serious wake-up.

See my video below on the causes of last winter-into-spring’s serial midwest flooding.

https://climatecrocks.com/2019/12/15/in-iowa-and-midwest-flooding-continues/

[AllaN01Bear]

1. good garvey.

[at140]

2. There is a good climate related reason why

writing was invented in China, the number zero was invented in India, pyramids were built in Egypt,
and mechanical steam power for industrialization was invented in Europe, but nothing of significance was invented in North America before Europeans arrived.

North America remained sparsely occupied, because of bad weather, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes etc
which are all ubiquitous here. We can survive here now because of our superior science & engineering capabilities to overcome the natural calamities.

[abqtommy]

3. When I lived in S. Dakota in 1996-1997 we experienced flooding in the spring of 1997 (in Iowa too)

and that was after a winter in which we had at least one blizzard every week. If things have gotten worse since then it hasn't changed much.