{"id":45722,"date":"2019-04-29T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45722"},"modified":"2019-04-29T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:18:12","slug":"across-the-u-s-flood-survivors-are-growing-in-number-and-they-arent-just-seeking-restitution-but-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45722","title":{"rendered":"Across the U.S., Flood Survivors are Growing in Number–And They Aren’t Just Seeking Restitution, But Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ACROSS THE U.S., FLOOD SURVIVORS ARE GROWING IN NUMBER \u2014 AND THEY AREN\u2019T JUST SEEKING RESTITUTION, BUT ANSWERS<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As risk of floods increases, so does awareness and determination among flood survivors, who are no longer simply victims, but an ever-growing constituency for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo courtesy of Floodlothian Midlothian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 23, 2019 \u2014 <\/em>Susan Liley didn\u2019t set out to become an activist. \u201cA grandma, that\u2019s all I am,\u201d she says. But when her hometown of De Soto, Missouri, flooded four times in three years, Liley felt called to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the first couple of floods, Liley did what she could do to help her neighbors: She dragged waterlogged furniture from a friend\u2019s home and delivered eggs from her chickens to those without electricity. But the third time around, Liley says, \u201cI got mad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the U.S., flood survivors are growing in number and \u2014 like Liley \u2014 they\u2019re getting mad and fighting back. From city streets to subdivisions and trailer parks, they are comparing notes with neighbors and asking hard questions about the rising tide. They are messaging each other on Facebook, packing meeting halls and lawyering up. And, increasingly, they are seeking not just restitution, but answers<\/em>. Flood survivors are identifying the root causes of repeated flooding and working toward solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, their ranks were swelled by a March \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d in the Upper Midwest, which unleashed catastrophic flooding that was visible from space<\/a>. According to the 2018 National Climate Assessment<\/a>, climate change is driving more severe floods in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sea-level rise is\u00a0inundating coastal cities<\/a>, where \u201csunny-day flooding<\/a>\u201d is now a thing. Rising seas contribute to high-tide flooding, which has grown\u00a0by a factor of five to 10<\/a>\u00a0since the 1960s in many U.S. coastal communities \u2014 and that trend that is expected to accelerate in the future. Farther inland,\u00a0increased rainfall is a major culprit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ACROSS THE U.S., FLOOD SURVIVORS ARE GROWING IN NUMBER \u2014 AND THEY AREN\u2019T JUST SEEKING RESTITUTION, BUT ANSWERS As risk of floods increases, so does awareness and determination among flood survivors, who are no longer simply victims, but an ever-growing constituency for change. Photo courtesy of Floodlothian Midlothian April 23, 2019 \u2014 Susan Liley didn\u2019t set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6513,1001,19572,827],"class_list":["post-45722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ensia","tag-flooding","tag-laurie-mazur","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45723,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722\/revisions\/45723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}