How is that a takeaway? The article didn't even mention climate change (and it's impossible to definitively attribute a single event to climate change. How is

How is that a takeaway? The article didn't even mention climate change (and it's impossible to definitively attribute a single event to climate change. How is a big wet storm a "defense mechanism"? Why would the earth even have active "defense" mechanisms? What it is it defending? It doesn't seem like a very effective defense mechanism, so far reports are that there were only 20 - 30 confirmed deaths due to the floods out of 6 million in the metro area. While tragic in the real sense, more people than that must die of natural causes in the Houston area every day.