Brief, torrential rain events can cause flooding problems in the short term. However, I have heard that rainfall occurring over a much longer period can be even more problematic. It wasn’t just the shock of Great Depression that did all the damage. The prolonged period of poverty that occurred afterwards caused a lot of damage as well. The meteor that known to have killed off the dinosaurs actually didn’t. It was the dust and ash clouds that blocked out the sun that eventually extinguished them. The point is that many times the conditions after a shocking event can cause as much if not more damage than the event itself.
