(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 28, 2022 a couple abandons their home flooded by the waters of the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky. - A series of "once-in-a-millennium" rainstorms have lashed the United States in recent weeks, flooding areas baked dry by long-term droughts, as human-caused climate change brings weather whiplash. And scientists warn that global warming means once-rare events are already much more likely, upending the models they have long used to predict possible disasters -- with worse to come. (Photo by LEANDRO LOZADA / AFP)