Debby flooded inland Georgia. With climate change supercharging storms, it likely won’t be the last

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Last week, a Georgia road crew hauled away a large pile of dirt heaped on a road that goes from Statesboro to Metter. It was a makeshift roadblock to keep people from crossing a nearby bridge that was flooded during Tropical Storm Debby.

“We done this because people have been running the barricades,” explained Dink Butler, the public works director for Bulloch County, about 50 miles northwest of Savannah.