The flood swollen Mississippi has been likened to an Anaconda which has swallowed a pig. You can see the bulge as it moves down the snake.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/...What do you do if you are downriver of the floods? You know the floods are coming, you are warned to evacuate the area. You load up your car with your most precious possessions and try to get the rest up in the attic or up to the second floor, before you head to higher ground. If you have time you load up sand bags and try to build your own dikes.
What do you do when hundred year floods come every ten years or sooner? Substantial levies that you thought would never be breasted in your lifetime are being overwhelmed.
Every year New Orleans sinks further below the Mississippi. You have to look up at the ships passing by on the other side of the levy. If this continues New Orleans will be three feet lower in a hundred years.
http://www.npg.org/forum_series/iforums/...FEMA has been overwhelmed lately with all of the disasters. They are running an $18 billion deficit. The costs of this year's floods will be over $4 billion just for the state of Mississippi alone. FEMA only collects 2/3rds of the revenue it needs and Congress is considering raising Flood Insurance rates.
http://blog.al.com/live/2011/03/congress...Record snow storms, then record numbers of tornadoes, record heat, record drought followed by record fires in Texas, and now the floods.
http://www.examiner.com/energy-in-nation...If all of that isn't really caused by human caused climate change, than God is surely punishing all of these folk for something. Recent polls indicate 58% think the recent disasters are evidence of climate change, while 40% think it is evidence of the biblical "End of Times".
http://climateprogress.org/2011/03/25/ma...So what can be done? Insurance company do not doubt Global Warming is happening. They know for a fact that people are going to have more floods, more tornadoes, more violent weather, and they are raising their rates accordingly.
http://green.blorge.com/2011/01/increase...30% of flood claims come from the same 1% of the people. Perhaps if you know that more floods will be coming, we shouldn't build in flood zones, or at least design the homes up on stilts, so they won't be damaged as much. If you live in Tornado Alley why not build underground homes or homes out of reinforced concrete? The same is true if you live in a forested area. Build your home so it is fireproof. The Insurance industry should allow lower rates for those who make their homes disaster proof.
If we know that there will be more disasters in the future, we should build up a disaster relief fund, paid for by the fossil fuel industries who are responsible for the climate change.