Washington Flood Crisis Exposes Government Unpreparedness and Risks to American Communities

When Eddie Wicks and his wife witnessed waters rising faster than any flood they had seen in their three decades in Washington, it was a stark reminder: our vital infrastructure and emergency responses remain woefully insufficient against natural disasters intensified by extreme weather patterns. The historic floods sweeping across western and central Washington have forced thousands to evacuate, submerged entire neighborhoods, and brought communities face-to-face with the harsh reality of bureaucratic unpreparedness. Why Are Our Communities Still Vulnerable to Disasters We Can Predict? In Burlington, near the swollen Skagit River delta, residents like Wicks had no time to spare as...