Hurricane Helene’s destructive path tore across several states, but the heaviest rainfall, and some of the worst damage, was hundreds of miles from where the storm made landfall. The catastrophic damage is a sign of what climate scientists have been warning about: as the Earth heats up, rainfall is becoming increasingly extreme and deadly. And torrential rain can occur anywhere, including far from coastlines. The infrastructure in most cities, including roads, bridges and buildings, isn’t set up to handle increasingly intense storms. That’s because engineers design it using old rainfall records, sometimes decades old.

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