Holy Cow! 6" of rain in Louisville in 1HOUR?!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Link: Video of NBC news reporting
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32290647#32288987

I think there have been many more of these violent "microburst" type of events lately than I can ever recall.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Incredible

Main library branch seems to be destroyed. That's a lot of money.

[Cincinnati Kid]

3. very rainy summer in our region

if you even want to call it a summer so far. louisville is just around 100 miles south of us but even here we have had so much rain. i have two big dogs and keeping the lawn from being urine burnt is a challenge but this year with all the rain i have had the greenest grass yet in my 6 years in my home.

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. Wow...sounds like "the bottom fell out" for sure... I hope everyone is safe there. nt

[Kievan Rus]

4. There's been more tornadoes, too

[Lorien]

5. This is your planet on Climate Change

until these kinds of storms happen on a weekly basis I don't think that most people will grasp what "Climate Change" really means, and that it is THE issue that we should be most worried about.

[napoleon_in_rags]

6. My intution tells me that such microbusts would be from global warming.

I know there is a "no shit" factor to what I just said, but I'm actually talking something a little deeper. Energy converts between thermal and kinetic: So a more violent system has much more kinetic energy. If entropy were to increase for that system, the uniform temperature would be higher. Similarly an increase in total kinetic energy could be a manifesting of rising temperatures.

[NashVegas]

7. Text Link to Story Here

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hpRdRCgreAyzdNBA3lRhw91VSlzAD99S6O9O1

We've gotten 1 inch in Nashville, and thought that was a lot.