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Current Extreme Weather: Storm Batters Northeastern U.S. UPDATE 12.18.23 [1]
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Date: 2023-12-18
Here are two updates.
From the Associated Press 12.18.23
Storm batters Northeastern US, knocking out power, grounding flights and flooding roads
A storm barreled up the East Coast on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees in the Northeast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closures.
More than 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain had fallen in parts of New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania by mid-morning, and parts in several other states got more than 4 inches (10 centimeters), according to the National Weather Service. Wind gusts reached nearly 70 mph (113 kph) along the southern New England shoreline.
Power was knocked out for more than 600,000 customers in an area stretching from Virginia north through New England, including over 237,000 in Massachusetts and 141,000 in Maine, according to poweroutage.us. Maine’s largest utility, Central Maine Power, reported that 17% of its customers were without power.
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From The Hill 12.18.23
Americans abandoning neighborhoods due to rising flood risk, study finds
In cities across the country, but particularly concentrated in the Midwestern states such as Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota, increasing flood risk has driven this “climate abandonment” of individual census tracts, sometimes quite rapidly.
That’s the kind of dynamic demographers fear could lead to a “doom loop” of accelerating outmigration, until only those who can’t afford to leave are left behind in areas most threatened by the changing climate.
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