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Over the past two weeks, flooded roads, submerged homes and displaced families have once again filled Kenya's newspapers and television screens. The images are disturbing, and loss of life deeply painful.
Yet the most troubling aspect of Nairobi's floods is not that they happened. It is that they surprise us. Heavy rainfall has always been part of the region's climate. What turns rainfall into disaster is not the weather itself, but the condition of the systems meant to absorb it.
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