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hack89

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4. While climate change is real, I don't think this rain event was caused by it

Reply to ruffburr (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:05 PM

Oct 2015

it is not often you see one tropical system interact with a hurricane like we saw. A low pressure system over Florida basically stripped moisture off of the Hurricane and created a prolonged conveyor belt of rain moving from east to west over South Carolina. It was simply a rare combination of weather events.

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Good effing grief - look at flood water in South Carolina [View all] malaise Oct 2015 OP

Too many people out there think they can drive through deep water Warpy Oct 2015 #1

No climate change- ruffburr Oct 2015 #2

That's why the dumbest of them blame everything but climate change malaise Oct 2015 #3

While climate change is real, I don't think this rain event was caused by it hack89 Oct 2015 #4

Suppressed South Carolina Climate Change Report Warns of Big Impacts deutsey Oct 2015 #5

Truth will out malaise Oct 2015 #6