14 of the 20 rainiest days in Burlington Vermont since 1940 occurred with CO2 below 350 ppm. Irene was #5 at 3.39 inches. The USHCN data does not include 1927, which was the worst flood in Vermont’s history.
The Flood of November 3-4, 1927 stands as the greatest disaster in Vermont history. Devastation occurred throughout the state, with 1285 bridges lost as well as countless numbers of homes and buildings destroyed and hundreds of miles of roads and railroad tracks washed out. The flood waters claimed 84 lives, including that of the Vermont Lieutenant Governor

It’s obvious that global warming is so overwhelming, there’s not enough room for it in our dimension, let alone on earth. So it’s travelling back through time to create these disasters in the past.
These news reports of past disasters you are finding did not exist before you searched for them.
You will keep finding more and more of reports of past disasters as global warming in the past gets worse.
Yes, past catastrophes would be far worse if they happened now. So finding records of old catastrophes just means we will have worse catastophes in the future.
“Catastrophes” is a hard word to spell correctly 3 times in 2 sentences. Sorry about that.