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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1385690
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1385690
Back then, it was called weather:
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July 17-19 1867 Central Minnesota
Climatologists and historians believe this to be Minnesota’s most extreme flash flood of the past 200 years. In his Minnesota Weather Almanac , Mark Seeley referred to this event as “Minnesota’s Greatest Thunderstorm.” Torrential rains pounded portions of west-central Minnesota relentlessly. Unfortunately, the rains escaped direct measurement, but astute observers of the time estimated from unobstructed upright barrels and other such containers, that 30-36 inches of rain fell in 36 hours. No official observation in Minnesota has come anywhere near those magnitudes. The few surviving details of the storm back up the claims, however, as the flooding that resulted was unimagineable and catastrophic. Most of what we do know about this event comes from a paper PDF that was read before the Minnesota Academy of Sciences on March 7, 1876. Climate Historian Tom St. Martin summarized PDF the event as well.
Critical Climate Theory.
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Glad you could muddy the flood waters with your meaningless quip.
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@bonvivant has a PHd in anecdotal science.
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You can call me Dr. Dave. 
My ex girlfriend does every time I talk to her about getting vaccinated.
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30-36 inches in 36 hours was a guess. Unmeasured at the time. Could have been 12 inches in 36 hours for all we know.