Asheville water infrastructure above and below ground wiped out, residents may not have water for weeks. Headlines about Helene’s massive devastation need to scream big blame on fossil fuel pollution and the industry’s (and its enabling judges, lawyers, regulators and politicians) decades of lies but most never mention it. The rich will just keep frac’ing life to death.

Michael Thomas@curious_founder:

Flooding has cost U.S. taxpayers $850 billion since 2000.

Prof. Cristi Proistosescu:

“These are not the most expensive disasters of the last 4 decades, these are the cheapest disasters of the next 4 decades.”

@MichaelFWehner Sept 30, 2024:

We estimate that the observed rainfall was made up to 20 times more likely in these areas because of global warming.

Climate change caused over 50% more rainfall during Hurricane Helene in some
parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, A provisional Hurricane Helene rainfall climate change attribution statement
by Mark Risser, Joshua North, and Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Water situation in Asheville dire by Laura Hackett, September 29, 2024, BPR News

Nearly 100,000 Asheville residents may not have access to water for weeks, according to a press release shared by the city on Sunday afternoon.

“Although providing a precise timeline is impossible, it is important to note that restoring service to the full system could potentially take weeks.”

This news comes as Asheville residents are already facing severe water shortages. On Sunday morning, hundreds lined up at a Harris Teeter in North Asheville with hopes of purchasing water and other goods that are in short supply.

Mel Salla, a resident of the River Arts District neighborhood, said she arrived at 6 a.m. to make sure she could purchase water from the grocery store, which opened around 8 a.m. on Sunday morning.

Before the grocery store even opened, the line was astoundingly long – with hundreds of people winding through the store’s parking lot and along Merrimon Avenue. The grocery store allowed 10 people in at a time.

Officials from the City of Asheville and Buncombe County have not released a plan for distributing food or water to its residents yet. At a press conference this morning, Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder said that trucks of food and water are on their way, but have been stuck in transit.

At that conference, officials also shared that Weaverville is without power and water, but many roads in the town are now clear.

Residents with access to electricity are directed to vigorously boil water for at least one minute before any consumption.

Refer also to:

2019: Rhode Island vs 21 Oil & Gas Companies: Judge William Smith characterized operations “leading to all kinds of displacement, death (extinctions, even), and destruction….Defendants understood the consequences of their activity decades ago…. But instead of sounding the alarm, Defendants went out of their way to becloud the emerging scientific consensus and further delay changes – however existentially necessary – that would in any way interfere with their multi-billion-dollar profits.”

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