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It's a generally poorly written article, with a lot of speculation and short on facts.

I particularly dislike the way it starts "Sunday, an flood..." Which Sunday? What date?

Scientific American went straight downhill in the last few years, particularly devoting itself a great deal to social issues that have nothing to do with it.

The moment I observe an article overzealously relying on direct quotes and anecdotes of everyone the 'reporter' was able to get their hands on, it's tab close time.

Like the news articles that have done nothing but gather random tweets from people? Journalism has become a joke of itself

If you are going to use quotation marks, it should be a direct quotation, not an ungrammatical paraphrase.

It's also talking about the most recent Sunday, so perfectly sensible, though I agree it is not the best form for the statement.

Maybe. The landslide is clear but the mechanism by which the landslide may have caused the flood is unclear. A team of geologists is hiking to the area to investigate more closely.

The real buried lede is that no one is sure of the actual cause.