That\u2019s according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin\u2019s Space Science and Engineering Center, who claim there is nothing in the historical record that rivals the devastation resulting from the flooding in southwest Texas, which has forced more than 30,000 Texans into temporary shelters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing in the historical record that rivals this, according to Shane Hubbard, the Wisconsin researcher who made and mapped this calculation. \u201cIn looking at many of these events [in the United States], I\u2019ve never seen anything of this magnitude or size,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is something that hasn\u2019t happened in our modern era of observations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, one reason for this might be that the modern urban environment is covered in concrete and asphalt, which makes it impossible for floodwater to absorb into the ground, exacerbating the disaster.<\/p>\n Hubbard\u2019s calculations, which he shared with the\u00a0Washington Post,<\/a>\u00a0only accentuate the massive scale of the flooding.<\/p>\n To that, we\u2019d like to add the nearly 52 inches of rain recorded by the National Weather Service in Cedar Bayou, Texas, which broke the continental U.S. record.<\/p>\n Making matters worse, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has just updated its forecast for what it is now referring to as a “rapidly intensifying” Category 2 hurricane in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Some models see the storm making landfall in Florida, while others see it landing somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that\u00a0another powerful storm could ravage Texas<\/a>\u00a0just two weeks after Hurricane Harvey, leaving locals little time to recover.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user245717\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/19\/2017.08.31harveyrain_0.JPG\")
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