It's more to do with the fact that we've paved over every permeable surface with concrete, be it for cars, buildings, walkways.
We need to stop doing that. Focusing on cars exclusively as the problem rather than the problem being an urban design one in general side steps the actual issue.
Roads and buildings are typically the main impermeable surfaces. Sidewalks can be made of more permeable materials because they don't need to handle nearly as much weight, tram lines only really need the rails, everything else can be permeable.
Buildings can be built to either collect their rainwater for later use, or funnel their rain water directly to sewers, reservoirs, or directly into the ground. Buildings also tend to be more beneficial to society per square foot of land than roads are.
Cars being the problem and urban design being the problem is practically the same thing, we've deaigned a significantl amount of our urban spaces specifically for cars.
The effects of the disaster were compounded by those cars in several ways, from climate change to almost every single surface in sight being paved with a material that can't absorb water.
Floods used to happen before cars. The Biblical flood story was probably based on a real flood that wiped out a civilization.
Even within recorded history there have been floods not linked to modern (post-60's, extinction-level) climate change.
Cars bad, yes. But if this had been 1000 years ago, this flood could still have occurred naturally, only the results would look more like a WWII carpet bombing, with much of the city flattened. And the most hilarious thing would be that there would have been done fucker saying, "this is God's way of saying 'fuck people'".
It's so laughable that in this day and age people run around saying "we have sinned, and are being punished for it! Repent!"
Hmm I'm seeing a lot of little Peugeots, Renaults and Seats in that pic.
Don't think they did anywhere even close to as much climate damage as the selfish insecure cocksuckers in one country with their massive bloated SUVs and tiny-penis trucks
But if you can't make that point without punching down at people who have literally just lost everything (and who are categorically not personally responsible for climate change), maybe don't fucking make it.
Learn to punch up at the people actually to blame, otherwise all you are is part of the fucking problem.
I'm a scientist and I love cars! The "fuck cars" thing is lame, and obnoxiously whiny in a car-based society. The yutes cheer on Spongebob getting his boating license but fall to pieces when they have to drive. Did we raise a generation of drunks?
Yeah. It's about as childish as it gets. People need cars to get to work and that's about all there is to it in the US. If people don't want cars, then why don't they do something productive like design better public transit and lobby for better city setups which don't require vehicle transportation, or something along those lines? But because it's hard to do things that make a difference, they instead sit there and complain about "fuck cars" which does nobody any good.
New theory, internalized guilt over online shopping induced by media showing the impacts of climate change alongside the implication that delivery is to blame is manifesting as "fuck cars" instead of "I'll simply buy less or hate myself less when I do shop"