This is why it's called a 1000 year event

[B2G]

For all of these elements to come together at once is pretty amazing. For those interested, a great overview of what happened:

"The meteorology behind South Carolina’s catastrophic, 1,000-year rainfall event"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/10/05/the-meteorology-behind-south-carolinas-catastrophic-1000-year-rainfall-event/

[JPK]

1. So how long.......

Before the Gov begs for federal aid? Lol.

[B2G]

2. Lol indeed.

This whole event is absolutely hysterical.

At least my friends and family in Columbia think so.

[HereSince1628]

3. SC is also first state to call for cessation

of the rain ya know?

[B2G]

4. I know! It's a laugh riot!

People are dead. Forced out of their homes.

What could possible be punnier?

[gratuitous]

5. Disaster already declared, federal help there or on its way

But we all knew that was going to happen.

Meanwhile, I was thumbing through the comments on the MSN story about South Carolina yesterday. Sheesh! The governor's characterization of this story as a 1,000 year event just nudged the crazies off their happy peg. "Nobody could know what the weather was like a thousand years ago!" "South Carolina wussies - we get storms like this in Texas every other day and just shrug 'em off!" "There was no weather a thousand years ago." "Even the weather is buying into this global warming hoax!"

[BarackTheVote]

6. There was no weather a thousand years ago...?

Did the Creationist crazies bump up the timeline when I wasn't looking?

[gratuitous]

11. Okay, that one may have been an exaggeration

But not too far off the mark.

[ohheckyeah]

10. Of course he asked

for aid - the state is a disaster. You think that's funny? Good god.

[BarackTheVote]

7. I expect to see a lot more "thousand year storms"

in the coming years.

[B2G]

8. Time will tell... nt

[Binkie The Clown]

9. Climate change really begins to be noticed when...

... the cleanup after a 1000-year event isn't even done before the next 1000-year event comes along.

Once weather disasters are close enough together the repairs from one aren't done before the next one happens, it's all downhill from there, because that's when things seriously begin to fall apart at the seams.

[hobbit709]

12. We had 21 inches in a 24 hour period last spring.

I've seen 8-10 inches in an hour and half here when it does rain.