100/500 Year Floods : Every Few Weeks

One of the big lies of 2011 is the claim that “the new normal is 100 year floods every year”

I did some searching in news archives and found out that 100 year floods have been reported constantly, ever since someone thought the term up.

Here is a tiny sampling.

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In Flood Zone, Not as Bad as ’93 Is Bad Enough

As flooding goes, this year’s high water on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers won’t get close to being as bad as the famous floods of 1993, which left that telltale high-water smudge above the door of Dave Loveless’s farm shed.

But considering that Mr. Loveless is going to lose a lot of his wheat and long sections of newly rebuilt dikes just two years after he nearly lost everything, any time the rivers get up and walk, as his son Matthew puts it, is a time too often.

“Two years ago was supposed to be a 100-year flood, and they’re saying this is a 75-year flood,” Mr. Loveless said. “What kind of sense does that make? You’d think they could get it right.” It was the kind of weary, rote disgruntlement at Government engineers and Government forecasters and Government hydrologists that bubbles up like water under a failing levee in nearly every conversation in the flood basin.

In Flood Zone, Not as Bad as ’93 Is Bad Enough