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Massive rainfall events aren't going away in Michigan. Experts say our infrastructure needs to adapt
Michigan's highways, storm sewers, and dams are built based on old assumptions about how much rain they would have to handle. Ingham County Drain Commissioner, Patrick Lindemann says our infrastructure now needs to adapt,
www.wxyz.com

"We used to have rain events that were kind of drizzly all day, and they would run for two or three days," Lindemann said. "And now we have micro-bursts, we have five inches of rain within one square mile that used to be over 30 square miles."

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The Midwest braces for yet another major storm
Forecasters aren’t yet sure if we can call this storm bomb cyclone 2.0, but it will bring snow, high winds, and possibly thunderstorms to the Plains and Upper Midwest starting on Wednesday.
grist.org

An April storm on the heels of a March downpour isn’t just a bad coincidence. Research shows that spring flooding is one of climate change’s many disastrous side effects. As warmer springtime temperatures arrive earlier in the year, the risk of damaging floods worsens. Case in point: Over the past 60 years, “the frequency of heavy downpours has increased by 29 percent over the past 60 years” across the Great Plains

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