Flooding

Increasingly damaging weather is the new normal and New York is having plenty of it. The New York City metro area this summer alone has seen downed power lines, submerged cars, and saw the SoHo neighborhood turn into a wading pond. As the climate changes, storms are becoming stronger and more frequent.

Three years ago, a rainstorm like the one the Hudson Valley experienced this week dumped more than half a foot of rain on some Orange County communities along the Hudson River. WAMC visited two locales to see how things stand today and how that experience informed their response this time around.

A Livingston Manor man died after his pickup truck crashed into a utility pole and ended up in the fast-moving waters of North Callicoon Creek during Wednesday morning’s flooding, according to New York State Police.

Pakistan, a country with over a quarter billion people, is one that is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Pakistan, with 25% of its population living in poverty, contributes just 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, it experiences increasingly frequent heatwaves, droughts, and catastrophic floods driven by the changing climate.

The flooding in central Texas caused by extreme precipitation last week has killed more than 100 people, and more than 160 people are still missing.

Vermont was saturated by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday, leading to severe flooding in many of the same areas that experienced catastrophic flood losses exactly a year earlier.

The mayor of North Adams, Massachusetts is reflecting on the anniversary of severe flooding that did millions of dollars of damage to the city.

One year ago, intense rain began to fall in the Northeast. The unrelenting downpours overfilled rivers and streams, fields and paddocks, leading to some of the worst flooding ever in the Green Mountain State. Vermont residents, businesses and farmers are still recovering from the devastation.

Governor Phil Scott and officials from the state Emergency Operations Center provided an overview of flooding caused by heavy rains on Monday — with memories of July's floods still raw.

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