From California floods to Maui fires, safety systems that were sometimes designed decades ago are now getting overwhelmed by disasters on a scale that was previously hard to imagine.
These crises revealed an uncomfortable truth about the country’s ability to handle upticks in extreme weather events, said Baruch Fischhoff, a professor at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University.
strengthened by Hurricane Dora, which passed over the central Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles south of the Hawaiian Islands. Recovery efforts are ongoing, but 99 people are already confirmed dead with hundreds more still missing.on Aug. 8 to alert residents as the brush fires rapidly spread, though it may still be days or weeks before a clearer picture emerges of what happened — and where things went wrong.
Maui’s wildfire risks — particularly for communities on the drier, leeward side of the island — were known. Awarned that Lahaina and other parts of West Maui faced an “extreme” level of risk from wildfires. Individuals who belong to the communities most at risk should also have a seat at the table. In Maui, for instance, Native Hawaiians should be part of discussions of how to rebuild Lahaina and other badly damaged parts of the island, Fletcher said.
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