This is Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska. Home of the USAF Strategic Command. It’s under water due to flooding of the Missouri River. It is considered one of the most critical installations of the U.S. Air Force.
https://www.afrc.af.mil/News/Article/1787869/offutt-afb-battling-flood-waters
This base is critical to US defense, and this flood could even be called an emergency. “This is an example of a vital threat to our national security from a climate-related disaster, and more of this kind of thing is likely in the future.”
It houses extremely high-value reconnaissance and command and control aircraft—massively expensive platforms that are essential to national security
It is the beating heart of STRATCOM, that oversees America’s strategic nuclear forces. In fact, a brand new command bunker, buried underground at the base, was just opened in January—which sounds far less than ideal considering water is now nearly covering the end of the base’s runway.
While climate change linked flooding has long threatened U.S. Naval bases like Norfolk, Virginia, Offutt is a reminder that climate change also poses risks to bases far from sea.
Remember Fukashima? You know what happens when nuclear arsenals are flooded? Fukashima is an ongoing crisis despite the refusal of the Japanese government to disclose the extent of the radiation that continues to leak into the Pacific Ocean.
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