Wie gehen wir in einem Zeitalter des Klimawandels mit Überschwemmungen um?

The flood that devastated Kerr County earlier this month was a less-understood and much more dangerous event than the traditionally-televised storm surge. As a natural disaster, it more resembled a tornado or a wildfire, an volatile, rapidly changing hazard, with a narrow window within which to act. Historically, this kind of flooding, which often occurs in hilly and mountainous regions, has received far less attention than storm-surge flooding, and local municipalities tend to be less prepared than coastal towns to deal with it. The floods that killed 108 people in the hill country of western North Carolina, when Hurricane Helene passed over in September, 2024, were this kind of event, as were the floods in Valencia, Spain, in late October, 2024, which killed two 132 people. But closer to home, for the reporter John Seabrook, were the storms that flooded much of Vermont, where he spends part of the year.

“Vermont feels like the frontier of climate change in the Northeast,” Seabrook writes. Vermont is the second least populated state, but the fourth highest in disaster-relief funding per capita, nearly all of it flood-related. Washington County ranked first nationally in disaster declarations between 2011 and 2024. Annual rainfall in the state has increased six inches since the 1960s, and heavier-than-normal rain events in the Northeast are expected to increase 52 per cent by 2100. All of this makes Vermont a laboratory for the study of intense rainfall in steep terrain, and a proving ground for scientists, policymakers, regulators, and land-use planners who are on the front lines of a recurring catastrophe that traditional methods of prevention have only made worse. Seabrook reports on Vermont’s radical plan to counter the threat it faces—and how it might be applied on a broader scale, as climate change makes floods as climate change means that floods once categorized as hundred-year events are happening far more frequently than expected. Read more: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/in-an-age-of-climate-change-how-do-we-cope-with-floods](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/in-an-age-of-climate-change-how-do-we-cope-with-floods)

My mantra is to invest the national guard to start building the terms, in both river areas and coastlines. It’s a 20 year project so get started now.

Well in Miami we just mix it with overflowing human waste.