![]() ![]() Lorena Quiroz, founder of the Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity, a Jackson-based group doing multiracial grassroots organizing, told me how the city’s residents have been struggling without clean running water since major rains and resulting floods overwhelmed a water treatment plant this summer. Mississippi’s capital of Jackson, with an 82 percent Black population and growing numbers of Latin American immigrants, struggles with adequate resources and has had problems with its water infrastructure for years. mainland, it is poor communities of color who have been hit the hardest by the impacts of climate change. Eventually, the electrical grid completely failed.ĭays after the storm passed, millions of people remained without power-some even lost running water-leading the White House to declare a major disaster in Puerto Rico.Įven on the U.S. “Communities were completely flooded people have been displaced,” he says. Julio López Varona, chief of campaigns at Center for Popular Democracy Action, spoke to me from Puerto Rico, saying, “the storm was extremely slow, going at like 8 or 9 miles an hour,” and as a result, “it pounded the island for more than three days” with relentless rain. He added: “The risk of flash flooding will also increase if the weather system does not move away.” In the capital, water covered train lines and disrupted services, homes were flooded and cars submerged amid heavy rainfall.Īfter England’s flooding, Professor Ralf Toumi from Imperial College London’s faculty of natural science told The Independent: “Under climate change heavier or more intense rain is expected as the atmosphere will hold more moisture. Thunderstorms caused flash flooding in London and the South East this week including multiple Underground station. Meanwhile in England, thunderstorms caused flash flooding in London and South East England. France was also hit by floods, with heavy rains submerging vegetable fields, many homes and a World War I museum in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon in the country’s northeast.Īreas near the Luxembourg-German border faced travel disruption and evacuations due to the floods, according to French broadcaster France Bleu. ![]()
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