Atlanta Floods Extremely Rare
2009 November 4
The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. ?Scientists have reviewed the numbers and they are stunning. “At some sites, the annual chance of a flood of this magnitude was so significantly less than 1 in 500? that, given the relatively short length of streamgaging records (well less than 100 years), the U.S.
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