Джерело:
The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Дата публікації:
01/10/2024 12:00
Постійна адреса новини:
http://www.vsinovyny.com/11331750
‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis
01/10/2024 12:00 // The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
The historic North Carolina city was touted as a climate ‘haven’ – a reputation deadly Hurricane Helene left in ruins
Nestled in the bucolic Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina and far from any coast, Asheville was touted as a climate “haven” from extreme weather. Now the historic city has been devastated and cut off by Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic floodwaters, in a stunning display of the climate crisis’s unlimited reach in the United States.
Helene, which crunched into the western Florida coast as a category 4 hurricane on Thursday, brought darkly familiar carnage to a stretch of that state that has experienced three such storms in the past 13 months, flattening coastal homes and tossing boats inland.
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