IN YOUR BACKYARD: Extreme Weather is Only Getting WORSE
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What is the overall impact of extreme weather on U.S. communities this summer?
This is Brett Mycellus with the Mindest Touch Podcast, and welcome to episode two of In Your Backyard. In case this is your first time catching the show, this is the latest show on the Mindest Touch Network. And every two weeks, so every other Thursday, we're going to be unpacking how public policy and political failings are playing out in communities across the country as it relates to climate issues. And you know that these issues are near and dear to my heart. Midas Touch host Luke Radel chats with experts, candidates, elected officials, and the real people who are experiencing the very real consequences and fighting back. In episode one, which you can find on the Midas Touch podcast feed and on our substack at MidasPlus.com, we took a deep dive into data centers.
On this episode, Luke will be chatting about extreme weather. It's a scientific fact that our weather is getting more extreme. Storms are getting stronger, temperature swings are wilder. This summer set records as the hottest in the history of the United States. But behind the statistics and scientific patterns are human stories about people whose lives have already been upended by extreme weather events and the turmoil that follows. Luke talked with a resident of Gary, Indiana, who lost power for half a month this summer. Then he connected with a man who lost his home and his sister in last year's devastating wildfires in Southern California. How do we recover, rebuild, or prepare? What are people across the country and the world up against?
And most importantly, what can we do about it? Luke sought answers from a meteorologist in South Florida who's been warning us about climate-fueled extreme weather for years. We want to know what you think. How have your communities been weathering the summer of extremes? And let us know what you're seeing in your backyard that you'd like covered in upcoming episodes. Without further ado, here's episode two of In Your Backyard with Luke Radel.
Hey everybody, welcome back to episode two of In Your Backyard. I'm your host. Luke Radel and is it just me or does it feel like we're experiencing a lot more extreme weather events? From my background in local news, I felt like we'd often be talking more each and every week. Each and every year about these thousand year, five hundred year floods. Uh things are getting worse out there. The science has shown us that. And we've seen the headlines just over the past few months, the flash floods ripping through the Grand Canyon and a Dorecha storm that knocked out power in Gary, Indiana for weeks. I know we've seen a lot of comments from you about that story. And that's why we're gonna focus on it today. We're gonna focus on the extreme weather that we've been experiencing.
Across the country, we have set records for the hottest summer in the history of the United States and communities. across America are bracing for what kind of weather the El Nino could bring in the next few months. And then on top of all of that, on top of the scientific realities we have to deal with, there are also the political realities. We are living in a post doge era. Where cuts have been made to programs that were once considered a political and essential. A hurricane, a tornado, an extreme weather event doesn't care whether you voted for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the last election, and yet All of those communities, whether you voted for the president or not, are being impacted by the cuts that we've seen to the National Weather Service and to FEMA.
people who need aid after disasters aren't getting what they would have normally gotten in the aftermath. And it has many meteorologists flying blind in terms of providing warnings and delivering relief to folks in dire need. So today we're going to hear from those who've already experienced in their communities what that has meant for them, what living under this second Trump term in this post-Doge world has meant. And we're also going to hear from an expert meteorologist about why the weather seems to have been going so crazy and why it's even harder than usual thanks
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