Deadly floods swept West Virginia on Thursday after the state was pelted with as much as ten inches of rain overnight. A video caught by Amanda Carper caught a particularly dramatic scene: a burning house floating down Howard Creek in White Sulphur Springs. According to the National Weather Service Office, the 24-hour rainfall there was 8.17 inches. In the video, observers watch the remains of the nearly unrecognizable flaming, drifting home. The clip ends right before the wreckage comes into contact with a road.

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On Thursday night 500,000 West Virginia homes were without power, and 44 counties had declared a state of emergency. The floods have already claimed four lives, with victims including an eight year old boy in Ohio County who slipped into a creek. Another toddler is currently missing from Ravenswood, a town that borders the Ohio River.

Recently, similar floods in Texas and France were also caused by intense bouts of rainfall. Scientists believe this is a symptom of global climate change. "One of the clearest signs of climate change, over much of the world, is the increase in the fraction of the rain that falls in the heaviest events," climate scientist Chris Fields told US News and World Report. So don't expect this sort of thing to stop any time soon.

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