Until further notice consider everywhere under a 🚨 FLASH FLOOD WARNING ⚠️
It seems like every time it rains there’s a flash flood warning. This is relatively new. At work we have a weather alert radio with almost constant alerts and we get emails alerting us to flash flood warnings.
I guess I’m asking or wondering how this is more prevalent than it used to be.
I’ve had this brought up at work by others who also think this new to them as well. As my wife and I discussed last night, it used to be if there was a really big rain we just avoided roads near creeks and any water. Railroad tracks are almost always near water. She grew up in a city, like many, on a flood plain.
Doe we have that much more rain? Have we overdeveloped (duh) and not planned drainage correctly? Is there anyway to actually effectively drain with development spreading to formerly vacant areas near water?
It just seems like any rain creates 🚨 alerts and ⚠️ warnings.
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On Monday, a series of storms put on the parking brakes over northwestern Italy, unleashing rainfall rates never before seen in all of Europe after over 29 inches (742 mm) of rain fell in just 12 hours. In Oman, a rare tropical cyclone dumped years' worth of rainfall, bringing deadly floods to the desert landscape that rarely sees much rain in an entire year.
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