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When '1-in-100-year' floods happen often, what should you call them?
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When '1-in-100-year' floods happen often, what should you call them?

The Mississippi River is rising again as torrential rain falls across much of the Midwest. It's the latest in a series of storms that have flooded major cities and small communities along the length of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers on and off for more than a month.

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Climate change is exacerbating record flooding along the Mississippi River, inundating towns and breaching levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
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