Comment: The flooding was the result of a storm surge; and "global extremes" is another way to describe global warming.. If we are back to the "fake media" nonsense, well not much to say (like this past week was all fake news, eh?). You can accept the "scientific evidence" which has historically been financed by ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers,  and other oil majors. Meanwhile the rest of us in the world choose reality, and would like to control our future for our species to survive. Any other approach doesn't make any sense to me. Not to mention it is damn good business to follow this path.