Source: Mandy Mitchell, WRAL, 9/16/19

 Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
Hurricane Florence in 2018.
All caused significant damage due to flooding, and it's a trend a recent study from UNC shows could be caused by a changing climate. "They all had one thing in common, and that is very high rainfall and extensive flooding, so we got interested in that and decided to explore the long-term dataset for North Carolina," said Hans Paerl, a professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City.

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