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Published: January 25 1:29 pm
Link to slate.com

100-year floods: The metric behind America’s infrastructure is out of date

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Between 1958 and 2012, according to the 2014 National Climate Assessment, the amount of rain falling in the biggest storms grew by 37 percent in the Midwest, 27 percent in the South, and 71 percent in the Northeast. Do last century’s weather records still hold water? Some researchers have concluded they don’t.

Source: Slate

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