South China floods kill 15, thousands evacuated
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chin ... SKBN19O07X
Typical thunderstorms are 10 - 12 km [6 - 7 miles] high, but the one that dropped up to 150 mm an hour on Kyushu Thursday was seen via radar [to be] up to 18 km [11 miles]!
U.S. President Donald Trump will revoke an Obama-era executive order on Tuesday that required strict building standards for government-funded projects to reduce exposure to increased flooding from sea level rise...
dohboi wrote:The stupid just never stops:
"The Trump administration is acting very rashly in part out of the desire to undo a climate measure under the Obama administration," he said. "This is an enormous mistake that is disastrous for taxpayers. The (Obama) rule would have saved billions of dollars over time."
Trump to revoke Obama-era flood risk building standardsU.S. President Donald Trump will revoke an Obama-era executive order on Tuesday that required strict building standards for government-funded projects to reduce exposure to increased flooding from sea level rise...
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Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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