Mike Nichols of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel provides a little perspective on the cataclysmically-worsening climate:
In Elm Grove and Brookfield, so much rain fell in an eight-hour period in 1997 that it was labeled a “300-year-storm” – just about the worst thing to happen, we were led to believe, since the invention of the loincloth.
That’s definitely bad – though not nearly as bad as the “500-year storm” that reportedly hit the exact same area the very next year.
Not nearly as cursed, either, as what transpired in the late-1990s in New Berlin.
Here’s a real paragraph from a story about New Berlin that ran in this paper three years ago:
“Storm water management efforts were under way in New Berlin long before 100-year storms hit the city in 1997, 1998 and 2000…”
That’s right. The only year between 1996 and 2001 that there was not a so-called 100-year storm in New Berlin was 1999.
But take his perspective with a grain of salt. He’s just a newspaper columnist, not a scientist seeking funding for his particular project or trying to better the lives of lesser men through dictating policy in his field of expertise, damn its impact on everything else. That is, Nichols has an agenda of some sort.
