fishdrivel
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I have been through 100 year floods in 1969, 1973, 1977, 1986, 1995? 2000?Good question that only time will tell.
In I.T. I used to tell my boss he could redundancy himself into the poorhouse as to system up-time and high availability. They had to come up with a level of loss that was acceptable. In their case, how much data could be lost for how much time VS no down time.
In the yard of the house that my father built and I spent my first 24 years in, there were ivy beds cutting across the yard, dividing it into different lawns. As kids, we knew not to run through the ivy beds because each one had a 4' wide by 1' deep swale in it (something good to know when you're playing tag with friends), and you'd trip and fall. I asked my dad why there were ditches in the ivy. He said to divert water in the even of a 100 year flood. Then he explained what a 100 year flood was.
Since that time we've had several 100 year floods. People often read a lot into that term "100 year flood". This explains it better than I could. It pretty much matches what my father told me.
That's a lot of 100 year floods.
The (approx) 2000 hundred year flood was interesting because it happened at a new construction site I worked on. The 100 year zone map in developers trailer showed this lot was originally in 100 year flood plain, It had been remapped!
The 100 year floods in 1969, 1973, and 1977 floods all happened in the same location!!!!!