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Hurricane Sally unleashes flooding along the Gulf Coast

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By JAY REEVES, ANGIE WANG and JEFF MARTIN

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Hard times getting harder for the millions of Americans living in regions long vulnerable to nature's furies. Climate change is making the furies even more furious.

Appropriate infrastructure of all sorts remains lacking in those areas and throughout the country.

The building of the Trump wall seems to have trumped general infrastructure needs. Does Trump expect Mexico to pay for infrastructure, too? Or is he too busy golfing to be fussed.

Donald Trump's promise to invest $550 billion in American infrastructure had yet to take shape more than three years into his presidency.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1348/invest-550-billion-infrastructure-and-create-infra/

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PTownsendToday  07:27 am JST

Hard times getting harder for the millions of Americans living in regions long vulnerable to nature's furies. Climate change is making the furies even more furious.

Appropriate infrastructure of all sorts remains lacking in those areas and throughout the country.

The building of the Trump wall seems to have trumped general infrastructure needs. Does Trump expect Mexico to pay for infrastructure, too? Or is he too busy golfing to be fussed.

No, he's too busy popping off his chops like a 9 year old with no maturity or discipline. Trump the Chump doesn't care about Florida or California, both states have ethnic groups he don't like anyway. As for the wall he's boasting about, it's sagging close to the river and he pouts and moans, 'Somebody's trying to make me look bad'. Wah!

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Hard times getting harder for the millions of Americans living in regions long vulnerable to nature's furies. Climate change is making the furies even more furious.

It is not just Americans, it is the whole world. Don’t sin and god will have a place in heaven for you.

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A good many of these climate events would not be a problem if so many humans were not so determined to live where they can have a view of the coast, the river, the mountains or the forest. A tidal surge from a large hurricane is no big deal for coastal wetlands. Coastal forests recover from hurricanes too. Forests in the west need regular fires to clear out the understory and germinate the seeds so new trees can grow. The problems start when humans choose to live in places subject to flooding, hurricanes and wild land fires. Now as glaciers melt and sea levels rise around the world watch the reaction in wealthier coastal areas. Instead of moving back and giving the sea room to rise many will try to build big sea walls so they can continue to live on the beach, or on a bluff over the ocean. Oh wait, if they move they will probably want to live up in the hills where it burns frequently.

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Climate change is making the furies even more furious. 

I know - there were never category 2 hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico before Sally.

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