Amazing Stat

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I was watching the Raging Planet series yesterday and heard this amazing stat on the show about floods. There was a mountain village in central America. They got two "years" worth of rain in three "days". The middle of the town was a giant bolder field. Could you image if the Ozarks got 90 inches of rain in 72 hours?

[jdmidwest]

The way things have been lately, we will be lucky to get 9" in a month.

Of course, in 08, we had 13 inches in on day here. It was major flooding.

[moguy1973]

90 inches in 72 hours would get us back up to about where we need to be. Of course there would be massive flash flooding going on with it.

[Greasy B]

I recall the 13" rain event. I was on my way to montauk that weekend, the Bourbeuse was way above flood level but Current was relatively untouched. These types of weather events are considered rare only because the short duration that records have been kept. I have no doubt many such extraordinary events will happen in the future. I find it telling that the COE and BLM have built so many structures based on such limited data. I'm afraid a rude awakening is in our future with regard to river structures and their capacity to deal with these events.

[Justin Spencer]

I recall the 13" rain event. I was on my way to montauk that weekend, the Bourbeuse was way above flood level but Current was relatively untouched. These types of weather events are considered rare only because the short duration that records have been kept. I have no doubt many such extraordinary events will happen in the future. I find it telling that the COE and BLM have built so many structures based on such limited data. I'm afraid a rude awakening is in our future with regard to river structures and their capacity to deal with these events.

I agree, how long can the fed. govt. keep bailing people out when they have a natural disaster. These will continue to happen at a more frequent rate, if people want to live in a high risk area they should have to take responsibility for it. No one pays me a dime when my campground goes underwater, it's supposed to only happen every 50 years or so, but has happened 2 out of the last 3 or 4 years. Big droughts in between floods, nobody pays us if the river dries up. I may not be well educated on FEMA going in and bailing people out after a hurricane, flood, or tornado, but it seems like a lot of tax money is spent helping victims of a natural disaster, but if a single residence gets hit by a tornado, or gets black mold, or floods no one is there to help unless you have the proper insurance. I think it is good for the feds to help some with repairing infrastructure after these disasters, but don't quite understand where the 60 billion that they want for super storm sandy is going to go.