Northeast flooding puts the spotlight on rainfall data

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

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Severe storms this week have caused historic flooding in the Northeast, especially Vermont. Data on this kind of flooding is critical, but the national data we rely on underestimates the risk. Plus, the push for new treatments against superbugs. The Biden administration takes another shot at affordable child care. And, Meta's Threads reaches a milestone. Guests: Axios’ Andrew Freedman, Adriel Bettelheim and Caitlin Owens. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, Fonda Mwangi, Lydia McMullen-Laird and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go deeper: Vermont communities evacuated from historic flooding as storm slams Northeast Biden administration takes another shot at affordable childcare Threads is big, but no one knows where it's going Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	Good morning, welcome to Exodus Today. It's Wednesday, July 12th. I'm Nyla Boo. Today on the show,
0:39.6	the push for new treatments against super bugs, plus the Biden administration takes another
0:44.8	shot at affordable childcare. But first, today's one big thing. Northeast flooding puts a spotlight
0:51.6	on rainfall data.
0:52.8	Severe storms in the Northeast this week have caused historic flooding, especially in Vermont.
1:01.9	Residents across that state had to evacuate from their homes and on Tuesday,
1:06.0	President Biden approved Vermont's date of emergency declaration in ordered federal assistance.
1:11.2	As more events like this happen, data on this is critical, but the US doesn't have an updated
1:17.2	database on extreme precipitation that could help people prepare for these types of storms,
1:22.3	and the data we do have vastly underestimates flood risk.
1:26.5	Exodus's Climate and Energy Reporter, Andrew Friedman, is here to help us dig deeper.
1:30.4	Andrew, first, how bad has the situation been in Vermont a place we don't normally associate
1:36.8	with flash flooding?
1:38.5	Yeah, so the situation in Vermont is in some cases on par with what we saw during the remnants
1:45.3	of tropical storm Irene in 2011. But there are some locations that exceeded
1:51.3	2011's floods and rivaled that of 1927. So we're talking a very rare event. We're talking a very
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