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Monday, April 12, 2021

As rainstorms grow more severe and frequent, communities fail to prepare for risks

(Click on the image above for Jim Morrison's Washington Post report)

“The challenge is the rain in many of these places is getting heavier. And the amount of pavement that rain is falling on, it’s getting bigger,” Samaras said. “So it’s kind of a double whammy. You have less places for the rain to go into the ground, you have more rain, and you have the same old sewer pipes from 30 years ago.”