I went back on CNN last night to talk about the recent flash flooding all over the country and the world.

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I get it. My parents just moved to a house even closer to the water on Long Island. A lot depends on the rate of sea level rise in the years to come. I expect there will be more options for dealing with storm surge in the years to come. But a helpful thing may be looking at these maps from Climate Central:

Looks like I would be okay until a 5M rise. I am inland a bit so storm surge is not an issue but I am right above a creek that floods with heavy rain.

I get it. My parents just moved to a house even closer to the water on Long Island. A lot depends on the rate of sea level rise in the years to come. I expect there will be more options for dealing with storm surge in the years to come. But a helpful thing may be looking at these maps from Climate Central: 

https://coastal.climatecentral.org/

So if you live in a place that is more prone to serious weather events do you think it’s less likely that things like this would happen? Asking cause I am buying a house on top of a flood plain that’s survived six decades of hurricanes in North Carolina. But terrified it won’t survive the next decade.

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i’m not sure if you’ve ever heard about lake urmia in iran!! but if you know, do you think the main reason it’s drying up is global climate change, like less rainfall and hotter temperatures? or is it more because of human actions, like dam construction, over farming, or overuse of water resources, which are mostly the result of the regime’s incompetence? is there any similar case elsewhere?