tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940686.post4984194407544026368..comments2024-02-11T22:49:17.311-08:00Comments on Arizona Geology: USGS wants to stop calling them "100-year floods"Lee Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11520300956249160005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940686.post-92001225623511569442012-11-01T13:52:29.977-07:002012-11-01T13:52:29.977-07:00Floods don't happen over a year (more like on ...Floods don't happen over a year (more like on any given day) so the 500 year flood would have a 1/182500 chance of occurring. I prefer the easier and more media glorious 100 year religious atonement flood where all first born males are wiped out from the flood... people watch that with more vigor and attention on the news.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940686.post-13392287759862822482010-04-22T15:25:48.347-07:002010-04-22T15:25:48.347-07:00A 500-year flood has a 1/500 chance of occurring. ...A 500-year flood has a 1/500 chance of occurring. So we call it a 0.2% AEP flood? How does that make it conceptually less difficult to understand?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940686.post-2972753704057533222010-04-22T14:24:58.697-07:002010-04-22T14:24:58.697-07:00...uh, so we just shouldn't build in flood pla......uh, so we just shouldn't build in flood plains?Marehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15128367085408432589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30940686.post-39366293643823433872010-04-21T20:53:19.918-07:002010-04-21T20:53:19.918-07:00What now no monsoon and no 100 year floods? Where ...What now no monsoon and no 100 year floods? Where will we go next, no hot temperatures?James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.com