Probing Question: How well do we predict floods?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
There was no Ark involved and it didnt last 40 days -- but when the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain on the already saturated Northeast, the result was the Susquehanna Rivers worst flooding in nearly 40 years. Thousands were evacuated, a number of lives were lost, and damage to homes and businesses is said to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.