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Data Suggests Iowa Really is Getting Wetter
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Gazette Online
Muddy rivers, moldy classrooms, swarming mosquitoes, blighted tomatoes and effulgent quack grass will be mere annoyances in Iowa’s new era of serial cloudbursts.
Unless Iowans adjust dramatically to more extreme precipitation and flooding, they can expect more swamped crops, failed dams, sub merged cities and monolithic public institutions turned into indoor swim ming pools, said Gov.
Chet Culver, who recently dubbed the chronically wet conditions plaguing Iowa as ‘the new normal.’ It’s an assessment shared by other public officials and Iowa climate scientists.
