A highway dust storm in Illinois turned deadly today as dozens of vehicles crashed on a major highway. Meanwhile, the Mississippi River is cresting, causing flooding in several communities due to rapid snowmelt, according to scientists. NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch has the latest updates.
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Why don't people just slow tf down or pull over when they lose visibility???!!!??!?
There are more reasons than this behind this particular dust storm, some of which were reported on by state-level news. Summarized, it's a combination of the southern area of the Great Lakes region having had a very warm, dry April, a severe lack of trees/hedgerows in much of Illinois, the super-high amount of farming per square mile in Illinois, and too many of those farms still practicing old-style tilling (which wrecks earth's natural means of keeping dust down) instead of no-till farming. You can see a day & night contrast to this by just driving a short distance over to Michigan, where dust storms are basically unheard of, largely due to MI having a massive amount of trees, less farms, and far more native plants between existing farms.
Why weren't the farm fields still in a cover crop?
BOW TO JESUS NOW AND SAVE YOUR LIFE.
Climate catastrophes are gaining strength day by day. An international team of scientists has been studying the climate for 27 years and has given an accurate mathematical model of the events of the coming years (forum "Global crisis. There is a way out", time 4:37–31:30). Also there is a solution to the problem.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
lets take a minute and look back on history
"A fair price for life on the river" – that's literally insane.
…. 80 vehicle crash, that's not a record, but it's a good try..
People I know you’re sick of hearing people say this, but…..climate change. Rest in peace to the dead of the highway accident
It’s endless…
Then: When visibility close to 10 feet, decrease speed to 5-10kph NOW: When visibility close to 10 feet, its GTA mode!
This isnt really normal like this, we have been having crazy santa anna winds in missouri and illinois for days now. Never seen this without a front or storm before here. Its been like storm winds with no storm and all sunny out
They didn't get the memo of pull aside stay alive
Well at least you can’t say you weren’t warned American! Hello climate change 👋🏾
God is talking..
We have these in California but they are caused by the government!
Just ask them that
Stupid people!!!! Even animals were trying to take cover, your life is always worth more than a few dollars!!!
How scary that would be