00:002025 has been a year of water fury across the U.S., and it's not letting up.
00:05On July 4th, Texas's Guadalupe River rose nearly 10 meters in just two hours.
00:11Over 100 lives were lost in one of the deadliest flash floods in U.S. history.
00:16And that's just one of many.
00:17A town in Kentucky was drenched with 340 mm of rain in three days.
00:22New York City's subway became a river.
00:25North Carolina's Haw River reached historic highs.
00:28What's behind all this chaos?
00:30This year alone, the U.S. has already seen more than 3,200 flash flood warnings—nearly
00:36a full year's worth in just seven months.
00:38The biggest culprits?
00:40Sky-high humidity, unstable weather systems, and repeated storms hitting the same areas
00:45before the ground can recover.
00:48Tropical storms like Barry and Chantal unleashed wave after wave of rain.
00:52Training thunderstorms—storms that park over one spot—only made things worse.
00:57The soil saturated—rivers are full.
01:00And even places like New Mexico saw deadly floods due to dry, non-absorbent land.
01:05Climate change is turning extreme into the new normal.
01:08And 2025 is proof that our systems are struggling to keep up.
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