Since 1990, there has been a 5 percent increase in the number of storms in the United States causing at least $1 billion in damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Oftentimes, communities are still recovering from one storm when the next is on the horizon.
In October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin became a tropical depression and intensified rapidly, becoming a major hurricane. Though Joaquin never made landfall in the U.S., it interacted with a large low-pressure system that had formed over the southeastern states, leading to record-breaking rainfall that began on Oct. 1 and continued through Oct. 6. As a result, flooding followed in many parts of South Carolina.
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