Hundreds Killed as Kerala, India, Hit by Worst Floods Since 1920s

This is not the new normal . The new normal will be a lot worse .

I am very glad that western media is finally starting to report this major natural disaster. For the past week, there has been very little mention of India or the insanity that is Kerala right now on any news outlet. Kerala is a coastal state in southern India where the mountains meet the beaches. It is a one of a kind place with a very unique culture. In order to preserve this, the message about what’s happening in Kerala must be spread.

I put a soaker hose in a tree well the other day and noticed as it ran there was an ant nest there and the ants were fleeing in every direction but I just kind of shrugged. It was what it was, I thought to myself. We’re lucky ants can’t read.

It's only going to get worse.

Let's think about the common denominator in all of these tragedies. Fires, Flooding, earthquakes, the sun's heat. What do they all have in common? Human beings; imperfect from the get go. Blind to the future of even the best intentions. We will not be able to turn this around. Someone will have to figure out a way to take all that plastic, all those chemicals, all that concrete and make something that can sustain life under the worst conditions. Then someone else will have to fix that.

Antrophogenic Climate Change-Denialism, so this absurd religious fanatic "Mankind" of ours grandest social political, economic and Global erring: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/02/underwater-melting-o... Condolences India. But, I would recommend to swiftly prepare for far worst and sudden climate calamities to come. All around Earth. Best, A.E. Projectheureka LLC;

How awful for the poor people of India!

Another corporate-media report on an extreme weather event and no mention of climate change. The Guardian doesn't withhold mention of climate change for fear that they'll lose corporate advertising revenue. The Guardian, BTW, pointed out that this was the worst monsoon in nearly a century. The Times, on the other hand, decided to down play the trend: "...the season this year has been particularly severe in Kerala, which has witnessed excess rainfall of some 37 percent compared with last year, officials said." And we're supposed to all stand up for our corporate-media as it's attacked by a moron president who the corporate-media's nonstop coverage of created in 2015?

The consequences of human's dangerous tinkering with the nature and global warming !! I wonder when will people wake up?

The Scenic State of Kerala usually records the highest rainfall amongst Indian States,during monsoon. This time it’s created an records of sorts of receiving a downpour 10-15 times its normal(heavy) monsoon. Added to which is the fact that neighbouring state like Tamil Nadu has not let out water from its holding Dams causing a cascading back effect on the water built up & subsequent State wide flooding. Many beautiful two storey buildings are under water. This beautiful state & it’s resilient people known as Mallus are a hardworking,Ethical people & will surely bounce back from this extraordinary calamity. From all over the universe,the Malayalee diaspora is busy collecting & distributing items & funds for the flood effected. Kerala ain’t seein nothin like it. Nor have i

Disastrous floods in the state of Kerala, would have caused more horrendous damage had it not been for the reasonable disaster management response. It was a tough situation with all 13 of the 14 districts reeling under heavy rain, landslides and flooding. Roads and infrastructure have been so badly damaged that it sent some parts of the state back to the stone age. The unprecedented crisis is raising the red flag on the state of urban flooding across India and its relation to urbanization and drainage, often most neglected. Without doubt the occurrence of urban floods in India is on the increase. This is linked to inadequate value given to wet land natural water bodies. I have been witnessing in Bangalore, an alarming state of water bodies have been built over largely because they are rarely recorded and the highly corrupt municipal planners only see land, not water. The value of water bodies for flood protection of cities is vital for sustainability of India’s urbanization. There is every reason to believe the accusation that there is near total absence of an administrative framework and government apathy about water bodies. There is very high possibility of the regular repeat of urban flooding unless the urban planner s acknowledge and take meaningful steps to the increasing risk of urban floods and take steps to revive their natural drainage systems.

Recently i was tasked to have a debate : Universal Basic Income. Is the solution to poverty. Well no doubt global warming, effects of global warming has little to do with that. But as i was researching for the debate, i realised that nothing can completely eradicate poverty (not UBI (funny how i am the proposition), not government subsidise). Different people are living in poverty because of their differing circumstances from the lack of money to sustain their life to their disability that leads to the mountain high bills. Some brought poverty upon themselves, some lack the choice to. Similarly, earth didn’t fall sick because of their actions. It was a consequence of our actions. Now, the retribution hits us. Flood. Droughts. Heat waves. Natural disasters. Casualties. We contend that we don’t deserve the harsh consequences of Global warming, but have we forgotten that together with our forefathers we are the creators of this mess? Perhaps this issue is yet another reminder for us to quickened our steps to prevent global warming from threatening human extinction.To save ourselves and Mother Earth, it is time for us to put a stop to this catastrophe upon ourselves.

I am so sorry to hear this. Kerala and Kochi and the people there are beautiful. No one deserves this punishment from countries that cannot do what it takes to resolve the climate crisis. The decision-makers are not the ones who will suffer the consequences. They fly on private jets among their handful of residences and 5-star hotels. But people who have very little are losing everything.

Our decisions to pollute and waste energy have come back to roost big time. In a few years the Pacific Ocean will be so warm that the natural defense against hurricanes petering out before San Diego will be gone, and California will not be prepared for their first major hurricane season of our lives.

We've visited many beautiful places in our travels, but Kerala stands out among the most beautiful in the world. Hundreds of butterflies in flight in the morning. Peaceful rivers. A delicious seafood cuisine served on enormous banana leaves. And in a country with a 70% literacy rate, the literacy rate in Kerala is around 94%. Kerala has better infrastructure and resources than other states in India. But they will need all the help we can give.

I read and commented on a NY Times story, maybe a month ago, about how climate change was causing terrible droughts in India and people would end up with no water to drink. My comment at the time was that friends in India told me there was if anything, too much rain.

In this part of the world these people and where they live get Destroyed by the rain a lot of people die from these storms. They lose everything that they have houses, cars, pictures, family, etc. They say that this town in Kerala is one of the worst spots to get flooded. In these storms houses come up from the ground. When the storm happens it triggers big landslides and kills a lot of people.

What we are seeing is stalled weather patterns - if it is hot in a place it remains hot for extended periods than usual and if it rains it rains in the same place for several days. Monsoon is Kerala is normal but it is supposed to move up north but it seems to have stalled. Climatologists attribute this to a jet stream that is stuck in a pattern. I wonder if we can somehow displace the jet stream? If Earth is to survive we might have to be more innovative - we cannot just depend on Paris accord which US pulled out.

Tragic, unavoidable, and doubtless an effect that will increase. Flooding won't be killing nearly as many people as heat waves will, but both effects will keep worsening. On the other hand, I saw an ad in the middle of this article from the WWF about saving tigers. I'm entirely in favor of saving tigers, and the deaths of hundreds of people is slightly helpful for that cause. It's important to look at the bright side, and the bright side of disasters like this that cause a lot of human casualties, is that the world desperately needs less humans.

I remember the power and danger of the August monsoon rains from my own childhood in the Himalayan foothills. Sheets of unrelenting rain for days on end, coming down so hard and thick that you couldn't see what was ten feet in front of you. I remember feeling like I might drown if I didn't keep my head down. I also remember this: There was a village around a bend in the road, with a small food stand, that my school bus would drive by in the morning. There was a friendly old man who would wave at me every morning from the food stand. One morning during the monsoon season – it had been pouring down rain and flooding the streets and valleys for days – I was on my bus, absorbed in a book, when suddenly the bus came to a quick halt, throwing all of us forward in our seats. I looked out the window and saw that there had been a landslide, undoubtedly caused by the rains, and that the road had disappeared in front of us. That's when I realized where we were – right around the bend in the road that we passed every day, where the old man always waved at me. But everything was gone – the village, the food stand, the old man – all buried under a mountain of mud.

Extreme weather can no longer be called extreme. It's become the norm. And climate change is fake news?

For many years we have been reading predictions that global climate change will be characterized by a higher incidence of extreme weather events. And the deniers scoffed. Now in 2018 those extreme events are upon the planet with a vengeance. The denial continues. It is bad for profits

It's hard to see God's own country, the motherland of my parents and ancestors, suffering in this way. NYTIMES, please share relief aid contacts/websites. Here is one that was circulating amongst friends/family: https://donation.cmdrf.kerala.gov.in/ After the floods stop and the rebuilding starts, there's an even greater looming concern about how this may promulgate the spread of diseases. As it is, India on a good day is a country that struggles with basic public health (soaps and toilet paper in public restrooms, for example). I am fearful for the long-reaching consequences.