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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Except those things (and equivalents) are happening all the time, every year.
They may be new where they're happening *this* year but last year there were still people under drought (in the south east) getting flooded (the Dakotas), getting hurricaned...
(If anything, we've been lucky with hurricanes out in the Atlantic region.)
Disasters are only new when they happen to you.
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+1.
I grew up in Tulsa. Tornadoes, droughts, and floods were a given.
I spent my late teens and early twenties in Japan and the Philippines. Typhoons were guaranteed.
There is nothing new under the sun.