August 6 was anything but a bucolic August afternoon. After as much as six inches of rain fell in three hours, a flash flood gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mobilized through networked climate systems, Hadley Cells, the Coriolis Effect, Kelvin Waves, and the Walker Circulation, the flash flood destroyed property and disrupted commerce. More and more network induced flash floods are materializing across the globe, leaving some scrambling to minimize the spontaneous assemblies of weather.