Hurricane Joaquin Creates Record Rains and Damaging Floods

"Heavy rains and chest-deep floodwaters inundated much of the Atlantic Seaboard yesterday, swamping coastal Georgia and parts of New Jersey and setting historic records in the Carolinas, which received the worst flooding.

By 2 a.m. today, Hurricane Joaquin, the force behind the destructive storm surge and rainfall, was about 100 miles northwest of Bermuda, moving at 13 mph. Its winds had slowed to 85 mph, down from speeds well above 100 mph."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurricane-joaquin-helps-fuel-record-rains-damaging-floods/