Schön, das es auch mal positive Beispiele bei #NotBuiltForThis gibt, aber Heiliger Bimbam.

Das Nest musste __27__ Jahre für einen Damm kämpfen.

#Podcast #99PercentInvisible #99PI #HamiltonCity #California #Levee #Hochwasser

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/nbft-05-the-little-levee-that-could/

Isybot révolutionne le ponçage industriel !

https://vid.freedif.org/w/397j5XJBTYZq8Fvw7BQWNG

Building Natural Seawalls To Fight Off The Rising Tide

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/building-natural-seawalls-to-fight-off-the-rising-tide/

Deadly #Floods Due to #Levee Failures Reflect Need for #Infrastructure Investment

Levees were never designed to handle extreme weather that is now more common due to climate change.

By Farshid Vahedifard, December 29, 2025

"In recent weeks, powerful #AtmosphericRiver storms have swept across #Washington, #Oregon and #California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple levees – those long, often unnoticed barriers holding #floodwaters back from homes and towns.

"Most of the time, levees don’t demand attention. They quietly do their job, year after year. But when storms intensify, levees suddenly matter in a very personal way. They can determine whether a neighborhood stays dry or ends up underwater.

"The damage in the West reflects a nationwide problem that has been building for decades. Across the U.S., levees are getting older while weather is getting more extreme. Many of these structures were never designed for the enormous responsibility they now carry.

"As a civil engineer at Tufts University, I study water infrastructure, including the vulnerability of levees and strategies for making them more resilient. My research also shows that when levees fail, the consequences don’t fall evenly on the population."

Read more:
https://truthout.org/articles/deadly-floods-due-to-levee-failures-reflect-need-for-infrastructure-investment/

#ClimateChange #AtmosphericRivers #ExtremeRain #Flooding #ExtremeFloods #WhenTheLeveeBreaks

How to help WA flood victims (with links to Relief organizations)

A week of heavy flooding has devastated communities across Western Washington, destroying homes and forcing evacuations. And it’s not over yet: The National Weather Service on Saturday forecast more rainfall and wind in the coming days, as well as risk of additional flooding and landslides this week.

Paywalled (for shame!): https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/how-to-help-washington-flood-victims/
Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/xx8Sp

#Flood #Flooding #Levee #Breach #Rain #Rainfall #Landslide #Landslides #Wind #Evacuation #Seattle #KingCounty #Washington

Ye sweet human beings, try to be good to yaselves...

Since a few days I've got the feeling, that the #levee of a decent society is broken...

The wars that not end. The hate that florishes.
I'm fuckin' tired.

"When the levee breaks, have no place to stay"

I hope, I'm wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3fodiK9rY&t=384

(No irony here, the #LedZeppelin cover of that old #blues song is just the attitude right now. And it became eternity 'coz of #JohnBonham s drumming.)