A nation that has repeatedly pulled out of climate conferences and agreements, has stalled progress and has consistently allowed big business to decide the direction of policy has a lot to answer for. It’s at times like this that we have to highlight the causes and the failures of government. Simply having sympathy for victims is to ignore the reality of the damage being done. I’m off now to go f**k myself. May your god/s go with you, you need them.

We have many eco-enviro-types here, but change is difficult when people don't WANT to give up the easy way they already know.

Unpopular opinion alert. I don't think this is a good time to criticise politics. How about you show some compassion for what these people are going through.....

The current argument against doing anything is that China is way worse than us so why should we bother doing anything? Sad. Very sad.

The party who denies climate change already only receives a minority of our total votes, and not just at the presidential level. I suppose it’s easier to blame the victim, nay “the whole nation,” than to acknowledge that, eh?

oh ya u also gotta keep in mind out current president is a moron and his vp is worse. ppl like me who stay out of politics stay out for a reason. also our votes dont mean anything anymore only ppl in power matter so dont get political on here. theres literally nothing we can do that would make an actual impact. the us is screwed anyways our president made sure of that

honestly it doesnt seem like u have sympathy bc ur complaining about politics. i wrote my experience in my own comment mayb u should read it and see just how bad some of us had it. im sure if someone u loved was outside during the storm for 4 hours desprately trying to save where u live ud think differently

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How about you shut the f**k up and stop blaming us? You act like we didn't even TRY to fight against trump, as if biden didn't win the election. And now you use this horrible event to continue to spread hate towards people who are already struggling? Go f**k yourself. What about the children hurt? What about people not being allowed to vote due to voter suppression? But noo, according to you EVERYTHING IS OUR FAULT. And it's totally okay to blame and ridicule americans during tragic and dangerous events because we're american. You people seem to think that changing the way the government works is easy. It's not, so get off your high horse.

It looks like you might have to redefine "normal" as climate change gets worse.

Flash floods tends to happen real suddenly, first there's a bit of water and ten, fifteen minutes later your car needs swimming lessons. For a lot of people not enough time to get home. And not experienced enough to know this and just flee (and leave family, kids, animals etc alone) ___ Edited to add: they are really bad situations. We need to find strategies how to best react to these when they become more common now. (at the recent flash flood in Germany almost 200 people died)

yes, we had 3 inches of rain an hour that happened started pouring in under 10 minutes for several hours. Caught everyone off guard.

ppl had to abandon their cars. my sister in law drove down from jersey yesterday and she said that there is still abandoned cars everywhere in the city. flash floods can happen in an instant. one minute my basement apartment was dry and perfect next minute the well infront of the 2nd bedroom window is full of water and pouring in. as for the ppl in the subway thats alot of ppls only transportion and had no choice. im not in the city im on long island in eastern long island suffolk county to b exact we got it bad had no power during the flood i had so it was hard to deal with. ppl in the city had it worse i think ppl of long island closer to the city had it worse then me probably too.

Just like after Sandy, the rats drowned out. They are cleaning thousands of dead rats from the sewers and subways (and they rat population still has not recovered since Sandy, and now take another hit.

No time for them to go to higher ground, Sian. Flash floods happen extremely quickly, and the areas experiencing the flooding aren't used to it (as opposed to, say, someone who lives close to a body of water that frequently overflows). No one, not even the rats, has time to do anything.

that's horrible it happened