‘Thousand-year’ events like historic flooding on NC coast due to climate change, weather experts say

Communities along the Carolina coast are continuing to dry out after last week’s deadly storm that dumped upwards of 20 inches of rain in localized spots.

The storm , dubbed a “thousand-year event” by some climatologists, is the type of system experts say we may need to get used to in the years to come.

In fact, in just the last 25 years there have been nine storms along the Carolina coast that would meet the definition of a multi-hundred or thousand-year event…

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