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The number of storms is higher than usual, but its their intensity that is extremely rare, with two category 4s and two category 5s making landfall in a month. The question facing americas coastal cities is this is the ferocity of these storms a fluke or the future . No one died on bramblewood drive, b lives were lost the lives we measure in memories. The bike that taught the kids how to fly, the perfect dining room chairs, the letter jacket they cant believe they saved all these years. 14831 bramblewood, in west houston, is the shields place. Vince shields rolled his Family History to the curb and dumpede. Shields my wifes a seamstress, and so, these are probably her patterns she had through high school and on up. We lost a lot of personal pictures, but most of this. I wont have to have a garage sale. Pelley shields, who retired from shell, has lived on bramblewood 16 years. Shields heres the waterline. So, im 62. Pelles asy t aall ias w yneou a tre,r hed never seen water in the house. The flood started to drop after two feet, but it surged to gates on two antiquated Flood Control reservoirs to stop the dams from failing. Shields weve had church crews in here. Second baptist we go to second baptist they had a crew out here. Weve had a couple of christian crews from lafayette. Pelley thats how you got all this done, all volunteers. People just walked up and knocked on the door. Shields yeah, or you sign up at church and put your name on the p. Its amazing. God works. Listow ueond pshple pelley more than 80 people were killed, and around houston, its estimated that 27,000 homes were destroyed. Almost 25 of houstonians live below the poverty level, and many of their homes were in the flood plain. Michelle seage this is joes house. Youll see him. Hes in the black shirt. If you have any questions, ask me or ask joe for exactly what he wants us to do. Pelley next door to Vince Shields, joe kilchrists place was being gutted by military vets. Kilchrist kept the plywood from the last big storm season, back in 05. The vets call themselves team rubicon. Seage your masks have to stay on. You do not want to breathe in fiberglass. Pelley Michelle Seage says theyll have 2,000 volunteers from all over the nation for two months. Seage so, yesterday, i had a whole street. All the debris piles were beautiful and neat and ready for the city. And then, i get assigned here this week. And you turn the corner, and you see its a whole new street full of people who need our help. Of fossil fuels brought low by Climate Change . We askedatherine hayhoe, a leading atmospheric scientist at texas tech university. Hayhoe its too early to tell. The postmortem will take years, so to speak, because Climate Science is all about the long term statistics. We can say, absolutely without a doubt, that this hurricane took place over altered background conditions. Our planet is very different today than it would have been 50 or 100 years ago. Pelley by altered background, she means that the oceans of 2017 are on track to be the third warmest on record. Warmer water intensifies hurricanes three ways. Hayhoe first of all, in a warmer world, more water evaporates into the atmosphere. And so, when a storm like a hurricane comes along, there is so much more water vapor sitting up there for the hurricane to um ap d undonp s. Pelley water expands when its heated. Hayhoe and that means when a hurricane comes along, the storm surges, on average, will be stronger, because there is more water behind them. And then, thee expect climate cha ffecto a hurricanes is through warmer ocean waters. More energy, more power will be available to hurricanes in the future, enabling them to intensify faster if conditions are right, as well as become more intense. Pelley and thats apparently what we had with harvey. Hayhoe were starting to see it. Pelley what have you lost . Cynthia neely three cars, most of our home and our rental property, and half of our sanity. Pelley youve been here 20 years. Did it ever flood before . Neely never. Pelley is this house in a flood plain . Neely no no. Pelley hell hath no fury like a woman submerged. The crack of every ruined memory exposed cynthia neelys rage, not at harvey, but at houston. Shes with residents against flooding, a nineyearold group suing the city. They want to toughen the law that requires developers to dig detention basins to catch runoff from buildings. Houston has grown about 25 in 20 years. Neely we hired top notch hydrologists, engineers, to look at a problem and say, hey,rong. Mety, county need to dois somethinsog. G thin and so, for all these nine years, weve been going to mayor after mayor, year after year, begging and pleading asking for detention basins, asking for drainage infrastructure improvements, and they just looked at us like, thank you for coming, have a nice day. Pelley why . Neely it costs money, and because the city is bought and paid for by developers. Pelley when you hear someone say these storms come along every 500 years or so, you say what . Neely bull bleep okay, seriously . We have had three 500year floods in the last 27 months. Now, we have harvey. Mother nature is going to do what Mother Nature is going to do. Th means its going to rain. Were going to have hurricanes and tropical storms. So, by golly, do something to protect your people from it pelley mr. Mayor, i spoke to one of your constituents, who uses words that i cant use on tv. Sylvester turner okay. Pelley Sylvester Turner has been mayor of houston nearly two years. Turner i understand why people are mad right now, because there are projects on the books and the only thing that stopped those projects from being built was the funding. Pelley there is a sense among citizens who have flooded homes that there has been a lack of urgency about starting these major mitigation projects. Turner i agree. I agree with them because you know all of these things are foreseeable. Pelley so, why have these things not been done, mr. Mayor . Turner because. Because there hasnt been urgency on all levels to get them done. And thats the sad part. Pelley the threat hasnt been ignored entirely. The federal government has spent more than 100 million in the county over the years, buying up homes in the flood plain. But reams of Flood Control proposals fill the filing cabinets at city hall. Turner sometimes it takes an event to occur that shakes people to their core. This storm has shaken people to their core. People dont want to hear the rhetoric, and i understand that. The question, then, becomes, are you as elected officials and others operating with the greatest degree of urgency . Pelley these are those two Flood Control reservoirs that were built in the 1940s. Theyre usually dry, which is why you see trees. A 1996 study by the county Flood Control district called them severely outdated. Its not hard to imagine, the study says, that a single storm event could have a catastrophic impact. A proposed fix was stopped by the cost, 600 million in todays dollars. But last months catastrophic impact will be tens of billions. The former tstd of hheho f plood that study lives in this house. He told us, from the 1940s to harvey, planning for the reservoirs went from brilliance to neglect to stupidity to cruelty. Over the decades, thousands of homes were built on the flood plain. Sam brody Hurricane Harvey was a humancontrived disaster. If we have flooding, that is a natural process. A disaster is humaninduced, because weve put so many people in these floodprone areas. Pelley sam brody studies Coastal Development for texas a m university. Brody i think that Climate Change is one driver of this problem. So, e bais rising. Weve measured that its going to continue to rise. But if you think of Climate Change as one of the drivers of flood loss, it pales in comparison to human change and the development of the landscape, and putting people more in harms way. That is a much bigger driver of the problem. Pelley well, people like pmeeeod loto plit,e o pl promote that, but doing it in a way that is smarter, which means protecting the ecological functions of our landscape wetlands, pulling away from these bayous. And over the long term, were going to have a more stable economy, better Economic Growth because were not going to be dragged down by these chronic flood events. Pelley harvey is also rewriting Emergency Response plans. During the srm, 160 helicopters and 17,000 troops rode to the rescue. Major gen. John nichols we didnt want to hold anything back. We wanted to be more prepared than surprised. Pelley Major General john nichols commands the texas guard. Did you have all the resources nichols yes, sir, we did. We also had states that helped us. 22 states brought helicopters, four states brought troops. Pelley if the storms of this size are going to be the norin the future, what are you going to have to do . Nichols i dont know that th cou be optn. Oi to ngbeorhe b were used to a threeday storm. Hurricanes come in, they move fast, and they go three days. Weve not seen a storm that came in and lingered for six days and drops 50plus inches of water in one place. Pelley general nichols says, because harvey exploded into a category 4 in just 48 hours, next time, hell have to position his troops days earlier. As the nations fourth largest city begins to dry, ideas for the future include buying more people out of their homes in the flood plains, turning two little used golf courses into reservoirs, and building a massive seagate to shield the ship channel from the gulf. Those projects would cost about 14 billion. Back on bramblewood drive, we noticed the piano in Vince Shields backyard. The green sticker guarantees the collapsed upright is waterproof for 50 years. But, in an age of warming oceans, there are no guarantees. Folks on bramblewood will have to decide whether to stay or go. Their past is no guide to the future. Name you will picture me in your head can you see my skin, my age, my beliefs . Address you imagine this place does where im from change how you see me . When you get to my experience, will you see how qualified i am . My skills . Dont imagine what i might be, see what i can do. Search for greatness. Search indeed. The worlds number 1 job site. The all new 2018 camry. 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Talk to your doctor about managing your symptoms proactively with linzess. Stahl on friday, john mccain announced that he will once again vote against repeal of the Affordable Care act, once again disappointing his fellow republicans and president trump. In a statement he said i believe we could do better working together, republsic really tried. Nor could i support it without knowing. How many people will be helped or hurt by it. And so, the senator from arizona has lived up to his reputation as a maverick and a fighter. Mccain, who survived torture and solitary confinement during his 5. 5 years as a p. O. W. In vietnam, is now, at 81, in a second fight for his life. This time against glioblastoma, a deadly and unforgiving brain cancer. He invited us to his ranch just outside of sedona, arizona, 24 acres of oldgrowth trees, a family of hawks and a rippling creek that his dog burma likes to swim in. You know, im wondering if, when youre up here, if its like medicine for you. John mccain oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It puts everything in perspective. Ife, ndy,ave isedour iltaen. Is she whl h and they have survived two grueling president ial campaigns, a battle against melanoma, and now this. Youre taking both radiation and chemotherapy . John mccain yep. Stahl you look terrific. How is this possible . John mccain i feel fine, and im eating everything that she makes me eat, all of which none of which is stahl is any good . John mccain yeah, exactly. One criteria to feeding people that are under my situation, it has to taste lousy. Stahl he has been through so much . Cindy mccain uhhuh. Stahl i mean, the torture and the. You were put in solitary confinement . Cindy mccain uhhuh. Stahl hes always been the indestructible man . Cindy mccain uhhuh. John mccain crashed two airplanes. Stahl crashing two airplanes and walked away . John mccain yeah. Stahl is he still the indestructible man to you . Cindy mccain im still in disbelief that this actually has happened. And then, i think, you know, cancer chose the wrong guy because, there. Its not going to happen here. John mccain how are you . Stahl determined to stay in the arena, senator mccain has resumed his duties in washington. Youd never know it, but he starts his days with chemo and radiation, and then heads to a full day of work, including chairing hearings of the Armed Services committee. John mccain as leaders of our navy, you must do better. I am more energetic and more engaged as a result of this, because i know that ive got to do everything i can to serve this country while i can. Stahl now, you have the same cancer that ted kennedy had. Does what he experienced go through your mind . Is it. Mccain oh, yeah. I think about ted a lot. Ted stayed at his job, kept working, kept going even when he was in a wheelchair. And he never gave up, because he loved the engagement. Stahl the senator first learned he had a problem in arizona back in july when doctors found a blood clot over his left eye after a routine checkup at the mayo clinic in phoenix. He was driving back to the ranch when he got word. John mccain i was driving up here, and i got about twothirds of the way up. And my doctor called and said, youve got to come back. And i said, hey, todays friday. Ill just come in on monday. And she said, no, you have to come now. Its very serious. Stahl you turned the car around . John mccain uhhuh. Stahl and went immediately into surgery . John mccain yes. They thought it was serious enough that they had to act immediately. Stahl and before the blood clot operation, did they mention glioblastoma to you . John mccain yes. But, as you know, doctors are interesting. Stahl they cover themselves. John mccain i kept saying to them, tell it to me straight. Well, theres always this, theres always that. You know, and. And i said, i can take it. Just tell me. And. And then they. They were more forthcoming. Stahl five days after the surgery, lab results confirmed he had glioblastoma. What did they tell. Tell you about the prognosis . John mccain they said that its very serious, that the prognosis is very, very serious. Some say 3 , some say 14 . You know, its. Its a very poor prognosis. So, i just said, i understand. Now were going to do what we can, get the best doctors we can find and do the best we can, and at the same time celebrate with gratitude a life well lived. Stahl was he that tough . Cindy mccain yes. He is that tough. Stahl just 11 days after his surgery, he returned to washington, against doctors advice, for the vote to repeal obamacare. You walk out onto the senate floor. You thought it was going to be normal, empty, mostly empty. And the entire senate is there. They stand up. They give you an