Maybe We Are Making Too Much of Climate Change

After all, it's not like we are seeing climate-change related disasters, like 2 feet of water falling on Ft. Lauderdale about a day. 

Wait ……… we ARE seeing more than 2 feet of water falling on Ft. Lauderdale in 24 hours:

The city’s main hospital was knocked offline for all but emergency procedures. Floodwaters shorted out the electrical equipment and generators at City Hall. And for the second straight day, one of the nation’s busiest airports was closed, stranding tens of thousands of travelers.

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More than a third of the normal annual rainfall in Fort Lauderdale poured down in torrents over 12 hours Wednesday, triggering what meteorologists called a 1-in-1,000-year flood. Several areas received 20 to 25 inches of rain, including 25.91 inches at the airport, according to the National Weather Service’s Miami office. Even Florida’s frequent brushes with tropical storms and hurricanes have never produced as much rain.

Fort Lauderdale’s previous record rainfall for a single day was 14.59 inches, set April 25, 1979; the city averages 3.02 inches of rain during the entire month of April.

“This is worse than any hurricane we have had,” said Fort Lauderdale city commissioner Warren Sturman, who represents the southern part of the city and ticked off names of past storms he’s experienced since moving to the city in 1971. “This flooding here is worse than any thing else we have seen in this area.”

They are lucky, because most of the rain occurred at low tide. If it had happened at high tide, the damage would have been far worse.