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DB is extra-strength stupid. How could you be so out of the loop you don't know what happened at the coast this week?

The Carolinas braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain - as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots. But one narrow band got a "firehose" that dumped as much as 20 inches in a so-called 1,000-year flood that shocked many with its intensity.

The storm that left homes flooded, cars submerged and schools closed Tuesday in parts of North Carolina wasn't really a surprise to scientists who have long said that such rainfalls are one marker of climate change.

"Data shows one of the strongest relationships between climate change and precipitation is that as the atmosphere warms, the capacity to hold water increases. Therefore we see more intense rainfall in a shorter period of time," said Andrew Kruczkiewicz, senior researcher at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University.

Monday's deluge centered on Carolina Beach south of Wilmington, where more than 18 inches (46 centimeters) of rain fell in 12 hours and almost 21 overall. That much rain qualifies as a 1,000-year flood expected only once in that length of time, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Wilmington said.

Jesus. You haven't seen the coast, have you?

This thread is not doing well. DB doesn't know about the storm that hit the coast. I'm a little embarrassed for him.

Meanwhile, the coast was hit with a once in a 1,000 years rain event...again.

DB's timing is always terrible.

Global warming nuclear 'Kaaa BOOOOM!'

I PITY THIS DUMB JACK A§§.....SO SAD