Hit by one catastrophe after another, Washington state residents try to pick up the pieces after a deadly heat wave, drought and wildfires.
“The way that the jet stream behaves in a warming climate is that it is more prone to stall ... just like we saw with the June heat dome, [where] the high pressure was so strong that it stuck around,” Castellan said. “And that wasn’t just two days of heat. It was six days of the record-breaking heat.”
A partially submerged car in floodwaters from the Skagit River that inundated farmland outside of Burlington, Wash., this week.“This is the second time in two years that we’ve had a flood,” Christensen said. “2020 wasn’t so bad, but this one came with a lot of magnitude and force and higher water levels.”
“That’s a lot of hurting families, especially the ones that got hit in 2020,” he said. “They’re losing all of their belongings again — this is going to be devastating to them.” Passersby surround a car whose driver went past a barricade and into the flooded Nooksack River on Tuesday in Ferndale, Wash.John Perry, the mayor of Everson, Washington, about 8 miles from Sumas, said a local contractor saved his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren from rising flood waters by carrying them to higher ground in the bucket of his front-end loader.
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