The ghost of Florence
Today, Explained
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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:29.1 | About two weeks ago, Hurricane Florence started building up in the mid-Atlantic. |
| 0:34.3 | The hurricane dumped about 8 trillion gallons of water on North Carolina. |
| 0:38.6 | That's more than 8 months worth of rain for the area. |
| 0:41.8 | Thousands are still living in shelters as the water slowly recede. |
| 0:45.8 | Food and water are being distributed as the long recovery process begins. |
| 0:51.9 | At the moment, the ghost of Hurricane Florence is still continuing to haunt the Carolinas |
| 0:55.7 | as part of that weather system is building into another one and more rainfall is projected |
| 1:00.0 | for the region, worsening all the flooding that's already going on. |
| 1:03.9 | Meteorologists and scientists are starting to grapple with just how extreme this event |
| 1:08.2 | was, and they've determined that this was what they call a 1,000 year rainfall event. |
| 1:15.4 | Now that doesn't mean that this is a storm that happens once every 1,000 years, |
| 1:18.9 | it's something that has a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year. |
| 1:23.5 | That means we could have a similar event next year, or even another one this year, |
| 1:27.6 | but it shows just how large and how rare these events are expected to be. |
| 1:33.2 | Through the course of the storm, it dumped a record amount of rainfall on North Carolina and South |
| 1:38.7 | Carolina. Roads were shut down, millions of animals were killed, and at least 46 people died in |
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