Experts say the new dams will block even more sediment and the many types of fish that travel great distances to spawn, damaging what the Mekong River Commission, an advisory body set up in 1995 by the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, estimates is a $2 billion fishing industry.
The twin storms spawned damage in 26 of Mexico's 31 states; 312 "municipios," or counties, were declared in a state of emergency and 250 in a state of disaster.
Most of them are leaving damaged, toxic relationships that are spawning damaged and intoxicated children.
The warm weather, with daytime high temperatures close to 40 degrees above average in some places (high temperature records are outpacing cold records by a ratio of about 19-to-1 so far this March), set the stage for severe thunderstorms that spawned rare, damaging tornadoes near Detroit.
As we drove around Galveston he pointed out some of the scenes of his previous legal battles, none more significant than the small community of Texas City, on Galveston Bay, where in 2005 an explosion at a refinery owned by BP killed 15 people, injured 170 and spawned thousands of damage claims.
However, the precursor system spawned a damaging tornado in Eustis, Florida, where 20 houses were destroyed and 30 more were damaged.
Melissa, a program spawned about a year ago, caused damage estimated at $393 million, while the toll from a bug posing as a love letter earlier this month was estimated as high as $10 billion.
But getting to this state, she said, involved a harrowing trip through post-traumatic stress disorder, an illness in which psychological and emotional damage is spawned by extremely traumatic events.
In addition, Matthew spawned one tornado, causing damage to the roof of a trailer in Golden Meadow.
These large runs continued into the 20th century despite damage to spawning beds caused by gold mining in the 1850s and large-scale commercial fishing that began shortly thereafter.
On Christmas Day in 2012, a storm system spawned several tornadoes, damaging homes from Texas to Alabama.
