I've been a bit astounded by all this because, while it did rain 2-3 inches last Thursday, and that's a perfectly respectable amount of water, it's a long way from Biblical. And this isn't the first major flooding incident this year either; lately, it seems whenever more than a couple inches fall at a time, things end up under water. But today the news posted this little table:
Rainfall through June 24
Year Rainfall total (in.) Hours with rainfall
2013 8.89 130
2014 7.98 132
2015 9.29 131
2016 8.42 135
2017 7.11 135
2018 15.50 158
Average of 5 years, not including current year 8.34 132.6
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I think the ground must just be deep-saturated from all the water that's fallen since things started in February.
Edit: The first version of this post showed
55 inches this year. The news has since posted a retraction saying that number was an error. They changed it to 13.77, and then to the current 15.50. That's still high, but not
that high, so I'm back into "why can't the ground handle this?" territory.