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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the flood-insurance-FTW dept.

Common Dreams reports

A Maryland city was devastated [May 27] after 6-inches of heavy rain caused a downtown flash flood. Major damage is reported and many cars have been swept away.

Ellicott City was still recovering from a flash flood two years ago that killed two and forced the historic city to rebuild much of its Main Street. Residents said Sunday's flood seemed even worse than the storm in July 2016--which was called an extremely rare "one-in-1,000 year event", and cost the city tens of millions of dollars in damages.

Additional information at:
The Baltimore Sun
The Washington Post
USAToday


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:38PM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @09:38PM (#685919) Journal

    It's statistics, khallow! Are you innumerate?

    continue to try to snow us with mathematical non sequiturs

    This is NOT about Anthropogenic Global Warming! Just because it was snowing in Maryland in May does not mean that the overall average global temperatures are not rising? And just because you have two once-in-a-thousand-year floods back to back does not mean that they were not both once-in-a-thousand-year events. Please, khallow, argue in good faith, and do not go to the dark side of Runaway.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:34AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:34AM (#686050) Journal
    Ok.