In Chicago's low-income neighborhoods, flooding has become more frequent in recent years as torrential rains cause the city's aging sewers to back up and overflow into homes more often.

The Washington Post looks into the case of one homeowner on Chicago's South Side whose home flooded repeatedly over several years, but recently experienced something she likened to a scene from "The Amityville Horror."

The garage of a home on the banks of the Des Plaines River stands half-way deep in water after record flooding swamped the Des Plaines, Illinois, area in May 2004.

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It happened when she returned after letting her home dry out from the most recent heavy downpour in April, which flooded some 600 homes across the city.

Stepping inside and opening her basement door, she clutched her stomach in disgust at what she saw: hundreds of "fat, sluggish horse flies" buzzing in the air, born from eggs carried along with the raw sewage that backed up from a toilet.

Why might climate change be to blame? Because man-made greenhouse gases are supercharging the atmosphere with warmer air and heavier precipitation, resulting in a rise in the number and intensity of rainfall events in places like Chicago, whose century-old infrastructure was designed for the climate of a bygone era.

Read the full story at The Washington Post.

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