Flood Damage Leads South Carolina to Plant 3 Million Seeds
southeastern state to grow 3 million loblolly pines to mitigate flood damage
By Jonny Lupsha, Current Events Writer
Floods cause billions in damage each year in the United States alone. South Carolina has suffered so much costly flood damage in recent years that the state is spreading millions of loblolly seeds. Six inches of moving water can sweep you off your feet.
The dangers of flash floods and moving water are very real, taking only minutes to carry people and objects far distances due to the sheer force of the water. Photo By IrinaK / Shutterstock
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Days after police killed George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, last May, physicist Philip Phillips was in his garden in Champaign, Illinois, incensed and racking his brain over how his scientific community could respond. Scientific institutions had not done enough to acknowledge previous deaths of Black people in police encounters, and this time should be different, he thought. “The outrage should have been there a long time ago,” he says.