Some areas in this region of climate change skeptics have received as much as 20″ of rain since Friday. Three Interstates are closed. There are detours around detours. There have been six deaths of drivers swept off roads by water. And a 2-year-old was swept out of his father’s arms in the rushing current:
Just months ago the region was suffering from a massive, two-year drought that left rivers and lakes more than a dozen feet below average… Meteorologists said the rain is caused by a slow-moving storm that’s brought both moisture and southerly winds form the Gulf of Mexico, adding to a phenomenon known as “training” in which rain-laden thunderstorms move repeatedly over the same area… It’s been called by some a 100-year storm.