How many more tragedies need to happen before people understand that climate change is real?

A characteristic of such change is quickness and suddenness of the disasters which it creates. So, this disaster had no warning, also, no one knew the possible extent and enormity of the situation. 40,000 homes damaged..
3 times amount of rain as Hurricane Katrina..3X..?? These pictures are worth a minute of our time to view what is on the way..for this earth. (or has arrived in many instances)

but because it was not a tropical storm or hurricane, few took it seriously. It moved from Florida. I started a thread for GOM folks. It just sat there and rained and rained.

Climate change means you can get days of rain in hours. This happened in Texas twice last year.

The storm was sitting off the coast..and all of a sudden there was flooding..

Same situation

a gummed up weather pattern, coupled with a huge flow of gulf moisture. A stalled frontal boundary in Nashville's case verses a stuck low pressure system for Baton Rouge. I fear we'll have more and more of this as climate fluctuates wildly to a new, hotter normal.

Mississippi River wants to re-route itself anyway. More such massive rain and flooding will re-cur often in future. Commercial, individual answers will be found -- if you have flood insurance, people may rebuild, but mostly they will re-build the same vulnerable-to-flooding structures.

A wise society would realize the futility of this and rebuild differently or elsewhere. We are not a wise society.

According to the map in the linked article.
I know that the cause of these floods was not the Mississippi; rather, it was the excess of rain.

But I think it is part of the Mississippi floodplain, water has nowhere to go.

It's a floodplain. Period. That people build there in such a manner is mind boggling. I feel bad for their loss, but they knew this would happen at some point.

It will be impossible to just dry out and go on.

Things will still be wet. Mold is the enemy now.