How does 10 inches of rainfall cause extreme flooding like what we are seeing in Kentucky?
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Go find the widest pan with raised edges in your kitchen and take it to the sink. Fill it with just a little bit of water, so that the whole bottom is just barely covered. Enough that a Lego guy could stand in it and be okay.
Now, tilt the pan a bit. Just a bit. It doesn’t take a lot.
All the water across the pan will now flow down to the lower side of it and collect there. All that water that just barely filled the entire pan has now created a deep pool on one side. If you chose a pan with very short walls, water probably started pouring out the side of it.
Kentucky is like the tilted pan. All that water runs off the hills and mountains and collects in the valleys and lowlands. It may have only been 10 inches of rain at any given location, but once it runs off and pools in one place, you have a real problem.
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