Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Ah. I've had that poster blocked for some time.

I will admit I get a chuckle out of her waving pix.

 

To this extent?
There are 10 year, 25 year, 100 year, never seen before…

 

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-time-to-ditch-the-concept-of-100-year-floods/

So, it used to be that there was a good chance you would never see a 100-year flood in your lifetime if you lived in a 100-year flood zone.

Now, there’s a good chance you will see 2-3 in your lifetime.

But, it’s Appalachia. They’re used to it.

 

When the lakes drop in the winter, anyone who was a former resident of one of the ones near me is allowed back in. There is even a cemetery there, and they decorate graves. That can’t last much longer, because like you say, it happened going on 100 years ago.

 

My granddaddy was born in house that's at the bottom of the French Broad River thanks to TVA's Douglas Dam.

 

Remembering the Flood of '57

https://www.weather.gov/media/rlx/April1977FloodsinAppalachianRegion.pdf

https://southerlymag.org/2021/09/16/appalachia-floods-worsen-disaster-prep-needed/

Kentucky hit with deadly flooding following 2nd 1,000-year rain event in 3 days

 

I’ve probably caught crappie off the structure, and I’ve way sure wake boarded over top of the site!

 

I don't think a huge dam like the dams built in the 30's could be politically possible today because of the combined pressures from the environmentalists and from the communities that would be displaced.

 

Doubt you'll see many structures at the bottom of Corps of Engineers lakes built for flood control up to the 1960s. They bulldozed everything and clear-cut the land. They left trees standing in later reservoirs such as Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Roberts in North Texas for fish habitat.

As far as 1,000-year floods, if they permit you to rebuild in that flood plain, it's on you.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/30/climate-solar-manchin-china/

 

The new climate punchline: