Floods in US state of Maryland cause havoc

ROARING flash floods struck a Maryland city on Sunday hit by similar devastation two years ago, its main street turned into a raging river that reached the first floor of some buildings and swept away parked cars, authorities and witnesses say.

Floods reaching the first floor rush down Main St in Ellicott City
after heavy rain soaked the region around Baltimore in the U.S.

News outlets showed photos and video of sudden, violent floodwaters surging down Main Street in Ellicott City, some 13 miles (20 kilometers) west of Baltimore. The community, set along the west bank of Maryland’s Patapsco River, was also stricken by deadly flash flooding in July 2016.

This time, witnesses say, the flash flooding came with a roar of onrushing water after hours of heavy rain had soaked the region around Baltimore.

Read the AP story from perthnow - “Floods in US state of Maryland cause havoc.”

It's 'Cruz and Boschert' head-to-head over climate change

Head-to-head: presidential candidate, Ted Cruz
and Texas flood survivor, Renee Boschert, at
logger-heads over climate change.

Renee Boschert, whose home was severely damaged by record floods that swept through Texas last spring, describes the night of Memorial Day 2015 as “the most horrific thing” that she’s ever experienced.

She remembers looking out the window of her home that night to see the nearby river — which, due to a prolonged drought, had been just a trickle hours before — rising by 30 or 40 feet. She remembers watching a woman be swept down the river, and hearing her cries for help. Unable to be rescued in the raging river, the woman later drowned.

Read the ClimateProgress story - “Meet The Texas Flood Survivor Who Flew To New Hampshire To Confront Ted Cruz About Climate Change.”

(Renee Boschert’s discussion with Ted Cruz illustrates the difficulty and frustration of presenting climate science facts to someone who is ideologically and religiously addicted to contrary views. Nothing Renee could have said would have led Cruz to shift his position for to agree with Boschert, although he did sympathize with her difficulties, would mean a change in all those values and beliefs around which he has built his life – such an epiphany is rare among people, particularly someone who is convinced their values and ideals are so worthy, rich and valuable that they should lead an entire nation – Robert McLean).