This is the worst flood in ages around here. I’ve heard a lot of people who weren’t considered to be in flood zones and didn’t get flood insurance are watching their homes flood. The last time there was flooding on this scale was in the early 90’s, but I don’t think that even compared to what is happening now.
Somebody needs to tell Obama stop taking Selfies with his iphone for a while, and tend to this emergency long distance, in some appropriate manner. He’s in England now.
Those floods in the early 90’s were part of a series of wild weather scenarios produced by the high level ash thrown out by Pinatubo for several years after that major eruption. Here is a rather technical paper for those who like technical.
http://eaps4.mit.edu/research/papers/Pinatubo1996.pdf
And here is a more popular style article, with several interesting links. While mentioning the Yellowstone eruption around 640,000 years ago, it fails to mention the equally big or bigger Mt. Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago that almost wiped out the human line.
http://www.livescience.com/14513-pinatubo-volcano-future-climate-change-eruption.html