2024 10 06

Water. It is you, yet it will kill you every chance it gets. St Germain, Wisconsin. July, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

The recent flooding caused from Hurricane Helene was obviously disastrous. One depressing observation I’ve had since then is the discourse on social media. A large number of people (and/or bots, influencer accounts, foreign hostile disinformation campaigns, conspiracy theorists, etc, etc) have been commenting about how the government has been either actively involved in “controlling” the weather or delaying the response, for any number of reasons.

My current thinking is that I need to finally rid myself of the twitter app, as it seems to be actively working to increase tensions ahead of the election. The videos being fed to me are wild, terrifying, grim, and hard to turn away from. All this to say, the video below popped into my youtube feed while editing images tonight and, while also intense, was a rather authentic representation of what it was like to live through the current disaster from a first person perspective. It was definitely eye opening in a number of ways.

If you are curious about what went down but want to avoid the extreme social media spin takes, the video below is worth your time.

-Clayton