It wasn’t that long ago that it seemed like we were talking about a drought-stricken United States. Now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction.

In a sudden shift, rainfall has returned to the contiguous U.S. and as the saying goes, “When it rains it pours.”

Recent headlines of flooding across portions of the U.S. comes on the tail end of a record-setting 12-month period for the lower 48. Precipitation over the last year (May 2018 to April 2019) in the…