{"id":13811,"date":"2015-10-26T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13811"},"modified":"2015-10-26T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T11:07:59","slug":"why-is-this-happening-unprecedented-flooding-has-hit-the-u-s-within-the-last-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13811","title":{"rendered":"Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/why-is-this-happening-unprecedented-flooding-has-hit-the-u-s-within-the-last-30-days\" target=\"_blank\">Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/why-is-this-happening-unprecedented-flooding-has-hit-the-u-s-within-the-last-30-days\/south-carolina-flood-2015\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9379\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9379\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/South-Carolina-Flood-2015-460x306.jpg\" alt=\"South Carolina Flood 2015\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>Over the past 30 days, major floods have hit the east coast, the west coast and now the middle part of the country.\u00a0 So why is this happening?\u00a0 Why is the U.S. being hit by so many catastrophic weather events all of a sudden?\u00a0 During the past month flooding has caused billions of dollars in damage, and in many areas the clean up is going to take well into next year.\u00a0 Some pundits are blaming El Nino, but others are pointing to other potential reasons for why this may be happening.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start by taking a look at some of the biggest flood events that have happened over the past 30 days\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Joaquin never made landfall on the east coast, but moisture from the storm had a tremendous impact \u2013 particularly in South Carolina.\u00a0 In fact, the governor of the state said that the region had not seen that type of rain\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cin a thousand years\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/thousand-year-flooding-hits-south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cin a thousand years\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t had this level of rain in the low-country\u00a0<strong>in a thousand years<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 that\u2019s how big this is,\u201d said South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Days of record rainfall and catastrophic flooding left at least seventeen people dead in South Carolina and two dead in North Carolina, Oct. 6, 2015. Thirteen dams have failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be very difficult to overstate the amount of damage that was caused by this storm.\u00a0 Some officials are estimating that the total amount of economic damage done\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cwill probably be in the billions of dollars\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/05\/us\/south-carolina-east-coast-rain-flood\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwill probably be in the billions of dollars\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rains may have stopped in South Carolina, but the danger and the work to rebuild are far from over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that things will get worse before they get better,\u201d Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin told reporters Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S. Within The Last 30 Days Over the past 30 days, major floods have hit the east coast, the west coast and now the middle part of the country.\u00a0 So why is this happening?\u00a0 Why is the U.S. being hit by so many catastrophic weather events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10218,10219,10220,5983,252,10221,1001,2175,10222,4901,6269],"class_list":["post-13811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-catastrophic-weather-events","tag-damage","tag-east-coast","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-el-nino","tag-flood","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-major-flooding","tag-michael-snyder","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13812,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions\/13812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}