“Over the past decade, major hurricanes and extreme storm events have wreaked havoc on many urban areas throughout the United States. While the major storms of 2017 and 2018 (Florence, Harvey, Maria, and Irma) will be remembered as hurricanes, in many cases it was the intense rainfall that brought urban areas to a standstill, overwhelming homes and transportation arteries with flood water.”
— University of Maryland and Texas A&M University