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HONOLULU — Hawaii suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, officials said Friday while warning that still more rain was expected during the weekend. Muddy floodwaters smothered vast stretches of Oahu’s North Shore, a community world-renowned for its big-wave surfing. Raging waters lifted homes and…

Rain, snowmelt, and soil moisture—those three factors might push portions of the Upper Mississippi River into major flooding this spring. Meanwhile, the middle and lower reaches of the river are already well out of their banks.

Intense storms over February 22-24, 2019, caused major flooding along the Middle Mississippi River. On February 25, 2019, the Landsat 8 satellite acquired images of swollen portions of the Mississippi River. The video above shows a false-color view of flooding near Memphis, Tennessee comparing February 2019 to February 2014. Flood waters appear blue; vegetation is green; and bare ground is brown. Notice how the Ohio River and Mississippi River have swelled near Cairo, the southernmost city in Illinois.

National Weather Service forecasters noted that higher-than-average precipitation in autumn 2018 saturated soils in the region, so additional rain or snowmelt from this winter will likely result in excessive runoff and increased flooding threats.

Rapid snowmelt will also play a role in flooding this spring in the Midwest. Parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin have built up snowpack of nearly 25 inches, so melting snow alone could propel many areas into major flooding.

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Social Security recipients may get a big COLA adjustment at the end of the year, but they don’t have to wait until then to start earning more on their money. JJ Gouin/Getty Images The surge in inflation that occurred in recent months could lead to a larger-than-usual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients. That was the big takeaway after a report released last week…

According to global trend authority The Future Laboratory, we are now bang in the middle of ‘The Transformative Twenties’. AI, circularity, inclusivity and global macro-economic disruption have changed the way we live and interact for good, and retailers need to adapt and respond fast. With the pandemic – and subsequent fallout – now behind us, the industry needs to now look to the future and a…

My character Santher (triton wizard) has uncovered the secrets to activating a strange device that calls itself Sojourn Of a Distant Star, and she completed the ritual to bring it online. Sojourn is like a... navigational tool/pilot for ship like vehicles, and the vibe is very spacey, not so much nautical.

We are en route to another character' s backstory quest, and to get there, we synced Sojourn up with our folding boat, and now it's extra magical and self-driving with Sojourn at the wheel. We've made it out from the River Chionthar and are sailing North up the Sword Coast. We're a couple days out from Baldur's Gate at this point, and we got ambushed in the middle of the night.

We picked up at the start of initiative tonight and it is NOT looking good for us LMAO. We are being attacked by what I can only assume is a Sahaguin kill squad that is apparently after Santher?? They are brutal.

There are a handful of Sahaguin casters both on and off the boat, a bunch of regular fighters on the boat, and a swordmaster of sorts. There's also a big, four armed guy aboard as well. Our positioning started out tough, given 3/4 of us had been sleeping, and we basically woke up to the big guy busting into the sleeping quarters.

Santher was able to Temporally Shunt the big guy away for a couple of rounds while we worked through dealing with the others and improving our positions. But on top of all that, there was also a whirlpool getting summoned around us by the off-ship casters.

Our hexblade was downed, and the Sahaguin made sure he stayed down. RIP Dez. Without his protection, Santher tried a banishment on the big guy once he came back from his final shunting, but he saved. She promptly got grappled and then shackled with anti-magic manacles. We ended tonight with it seeming like they now have what they came for and are trying to leave with her.