While the news media would like to have you believe that the somewhat epic rainfall in southeast Wisconsin is somehow a new thing, along with the accompanying flooding, it turns out that it just ain’t true.

Nowhere that flooded over the weekend had flooded for the first time. In fact, the last floods in the same areas were about 15 years ago.

20+ inches of rain in 48 hours is an unusual occurrence, but not unprecedented. It isn’t record rainfall even. It happens every few years.

More people living in the areas means less fields for water to go….and more roofs and parking lots to help make faster runoff to the lower areas. and floods happen there.

(And, BTW, there were not “Flash” floods, just flooding of lowlying areas. The water didn’t rise at the rate of feet in an hour, or even inches a minute. I really wish the media would learn the difference between flooding and Flash Floods, and stop using the wrong term.

They claim it’s climate change, but we all know it is because of Donald Trump’s policies and the cuts done by DOGE at USAID.