Is the US Seeing Worse Flooding This Summer? Here's What's Happening
Jennifer Gaeng
11 hours agoTexas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. Flash flooding has completely taken over the news this past week with crazy flood events happening one right after another across the country.
Slow-moving thunderstorms in Texas dumped more than an entire summer's worth of rain on July 4, sending water rushing over river banks and killing at least 120 people.
That same weekend, Tropical Storm Chantal poured nearly a foot of rain over parts of central North Carolina, causing the Eno River to hit over 25 feet and smashing a record from Hurricane Fran back in 1996. The flooding killed at least six people.
Tuesday brought both a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event to Chicago and storms that caused insane levels of flooding in the mountain village of Ruidoso, New Mexico, sweeping away homes and leaving three people dead.