Floods Are Bad.

May 26, 2006 01:59


 Differentiate between a 100-year, 25-year, and 1/n% flood

A 100-year flood has an average chance of happening once every one hundred years. It has a one percent chance of occurring in any given year. Because it only happens on average (over a very long period of time) every one hundred years, it only has a sixty-three percent chance ( Read more... )

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fjoshg28 May 26 2006, 15:40:03 UTC
I also tied our storm with Hurricane Katrina. I also never thought about why the houses were pick up off of their foundations until you explained why up above.

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