As the death toll from Florence rose and hundreds were rescued from their flooded homes, North Carolina slid into the next stage of the disaster: catastrophic flooding.
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| Flooding - first responders check flooded cars for trapped occupants during the flood in North Carolina in the U.S. |
On Saturday Mitch Colvin, mayor of Fayetteville, told reporters: “The worst is yet to come.”
On Sunday, the death toll in North and South Carolina rose to 14; the city of Wilmington was cut off by floodwater; 15,000 people were in temporary shelters; and 760,000 North Carolinians remained without power.
“The storm has never been more dangerous than it is now,” Governor Roy Cooper said. “Many rivers are still rising, and are not expected to crest until later today or tomorrow.“
Read the story from The Guardian - “’Worst yet to come': 14 dead as North Carolina faces Florence flooding.”
(“Adaptation” will be centre-stage in understanding how we deal with the vastly different scenarios that arise from climate change, just as we are witnessing in North Carolina in the U.S. People were first forced to deal with the initial onslaught of Hurricane Florence, being the powerful winds and now it is lingering floodwaters of a magnitude never seen before, along with an ongoing loss of power.
Interestingly, Shepparton heard about this phenomenon in 2013 when the former leader of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Anna Rose, told more than 600 people at the Slap Tomorrow forum, “Climate Change: a wake-up call”, that a warming world would see such events; events where massive amounts of water were absorbed from the oceans and then dumped over land, and that is just what is in the U.S. right now - Robert McLean)
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