Flooding Continues in Louisiana in Wake of 1,000-Year Rains

Several thousand homes have been flooded in Louisiana, where rivers have reached all-time record highs, in some cases rising to the height of power lines. The rains were so heavy that one meteorologist referred to the event as a "rain bomb" on Twitter. Detailed attribution studies have not yet been conducted to determine if human-caused global warming influenced the likelihood of or the severity of this extreme weather event