as flooding due to sea level rise has become an increasingly common occurrence.
"I don't think coastal real estate within a few feet of sea level is a smart investment or even a good idea to begin with at this point," UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain told Yahoo News about the country as a whole. Swain also consults fornationwide."There's essentially a 100 percent chance that sea levels will be significantly higher in a few decades and perhaps a lot higher; we don't really know that rate of change.
"Temperature will increase, resulting in more frequent and dangerous heatwaves and potentially leading to more severe droughts. Extreme rainfall events are generally likely to become more frequent and intense," the U.S. Climate Resilience TooklitIn every region in the country, there are better and worse places to live when it comes to climate risks. According to the New York Times and ProPublica analysis in 2020, Bristol City, Va.
In late July, Kentucky's Letcher County, which ranked as the 11th safest in the Southeast, was hammered with close to 16 inches of rain over four days. The downpours"caused rainfall rates in excess of 4"/hr across complex terrain that led to widespread devastating impacts," theIn all, 43 people were killed as a result of the flash flooding in Eastern Kentucky, 4 of them in Letcher County.
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