Extreme weather: Severe floods strike Las Vegas and Kentucky, searing heat in Washington state

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Las Vegas flooding: Multiple casinos, entire Strip, airport under water

Airports, parking lots, and the entire Las Vegas Strip, which houses some of the world’s most famous casinos and hotels, were flooded Thursday night.

 

Heavy rain filled countless buildings as the city put a flash flood and severe thunderstorm warning in place.

 

Video footage shared on Twitter shows the streets of Sin City consumed with floodwater. Other videos showed downtown streets turning into small rivers and water pouring into casinos.

 

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https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/las-vegas-flooding-multiple-casinos-entire-strip-airport-under-water-amid-storm/

 

 

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Kentucky floods kill at least 16 as governor warns toll will be "a lot higher"

Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky's governor said 16 people have died, a toll he expected to grow as the rain keeps falling.

 

"We've still got a lot of searching to do," said Jerry Stacy, the emergency management director in Kentucky's hard-hit Perry County. "We still have missing people."

 

Powerful floodwaters swallowed towns that hug creeks and streams in Appalachian valleys and hollows, swamping homes and businesses, leaving vehicles in useless piles and crunching runaway equipment and debris against bridges. Mudslides marooned people on steep slopes, and at least 33,000 customers were without power.

 

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-flooding-power-outages-deaths/

 

 

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Record highs roast Northwest; heat wave looms for rest of Lower 48

Record-breaking highs over 110 degrees are predicted in interior Oregon and Washington state, while a sprawling heat dome may spread over the central and eastern U.S. next week

 

Heat advisories and excessive heat warnings are blanketing the Pacific Northwest, where spiking temperatures are accompanying a stubborn heat dome. Highs are running some 10 to 15 degrees above average in spots, with readings as high as 115 degrees expected in spots.

 

Fifteen million people in the western United States and Pacific Northwest will see highs hit the century mark over the coming days. By the middle of next week, an even bigger heat wave may build in across the central and eastern Lower 48.

 

Seattle and Portland have been setting daily records, and triple-digit temperatures are bleeding south into the highly populous Willamette Valley. Concern is growing for vulnerable populations too, since only 44 percent of homes in Seattle and 78 percent of residences in Portland have air conditioning.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/28/heatwave-seattle-portland-northwest/

 

 

[baboon]

(An honest question)

Floods in Las Vegas? Isn't that like a blizzard in Dubai? IE a great cause for concern?

[Bluespunk]

And yet there are still those who would deny that human behaviour is causing climate change. 

[baboon]

19 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

And yet there are still those who would deny that human behaviour is causing climate change. 

Hopefully there is some kind of Karmic climatic justice that soon sends Rupert Murdoch exactly to where he belongs. And there won't be air conditioning when he gets there.

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Death toll rises to at least 25 in Kentucky flooding as people in stricken areas remain hard to reach, governor says

(CNN) - After days of fatal flooding washed away parts of eastern Kentucky and the death toll climbed to at least 25, first responders worked Saturday to account for missing residents, the state's governor said.

 

Gov. Andy Beshear lamented that the number of deaths "is likely to increase" following what officials have described as unprecedented flooding in the region.

 

"To everyone in Eastern Kentucky, we are going to be there for you today and in the weeks, months and years ahead. We will get through this together," Beshear said in a tweet Saturday.

 

The death toll is expected to rise in the coming days as rescuers search new areas that are currently impassable.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/weather/kentucky-appalachia-flooding-saturday/index.html

 

 

[ViajeroLA]

22 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

And yet there are still those who would deny that human behaviour is causing climate change. 

So how do you know this "climate change" was caused by humans? ????

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45 minutes ago, ViajeroLA said:

So how do you know this "climate change" was caused by humans? ????

Because climatologists say so. 

Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966

[Bluespunk]

1 hour ago, ViajeroLA said:

So how do you know this "climate change" was caused by humans? ????

Scientific research based evidence. 

Edited July 30, 2022 by Bluespunk

[Rimmer]

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