Gretchen Whitmer Blames Climate Change for Flooding After Many Detroit Pumps Lacked Power
Kyle Olson 28 Jun 2021
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) blamed climate change for flooding that occurred in Detroit last weekend, but dozens of pumping stations lacked power.
Whitmer addressed reporters from the middle of the closed interstate, which was submerged underwater nearby.
“These are hard days. Three weeks into my time as governor, we had the Polar Vortex,” a winter storm that plunged the region into a deep freeze.
“Then we had COVID, then we had a 500-year flooding event” in the Midland area after rain overwhelmed dams. “Now we have another big flooding event,” she complained.
“This is climate change,” Whitmer declared. “This is a moment and a need for us to help one another, but also to do the hard work of protecting ourselves going forward and that is doing everything we can to address climate change and building resilient infrastructure.”
The governor also said, “we’ve got to decrease our carbon footprint.”
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