Sentences with phrase «a-thousand year flooding»

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4 chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.

«We can longer commit to evaluating the impacts and risks of a single project in isolation against a retrospective, stationary understanding of risk (e.g., the 100 - year flood we've been hearing so much about.)»

Building homes in 100 - year flood zones creates vulnerability, no matter how well - engineered these structures may be.

The hundred - year flood of housing bubbles is barely a few years old, and yet, here we go again.

But that strategy periodically will experience «hundred year floods» like 2013.

Colorado's «100 - year flood,» now known as the Front Range flood, lasted eight days.

In the final reckoning, it's certain that Harvey will be classified a 500 - year flood — and maybe even a 1,000 - year flood.

2014 will be the year flooded with the tears of speculators.

«The more investors invest by asset class rather than by picking individual companies, the more the market will tend to move as one, intensifying herd behaviour and the likelihood of panics, making hundred year floods even more likely.»

New infrastructure projects also had to be flood - proofed — new roads and railways would have to be 2 feet above the 100 - year flood elevation standard and new hospitals 3 feet above.

I live in Boulder, CO where we have been experiencing a 100 - year flood the last two days.

The task force, though, recommended against alternate sites and noted that the interpretive center would be built behind the 100 - year flood line.

Previously, New York's tunnels were built to protect against a 100 - year flood, but the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy and Irene demonstrated a need to enhance protections to withstand a 500 - year flood.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday on Long Island that the state will pick up the tab to elevate homes for anyone who is in the 100 - year flood zone and wants to raise their house.

The insurance industry has called on the government to develop a 25 - year flood strategy to guard against the rising risk of flooding.

I said to the president the other day we have a 100 - year flood every two years now.

«We have a 100 - year flood every 2 years now,» New York governor Andrew Cuomo said the day after the storm.

Still, he says, the 500 - year flood record is an important part of solving that puzzle.

Using the same statistical tools that urban planners and insurance companies use to predict disasters such as earthquakes and 100 - year floods based on prior patterns, Hines forecast a 100 - year blackout that would knock out 186,000 megawatts of power.

But, despite his efforts, the ground won't soak up enough water to meet his self - appointed goal of restraining runoff from a 100 - year flood.

Indeed, of the 35 bridges analyzed, 23 were estimated to have collapsed during a water flow of lesser intensity than a 100 - year flood level.

U.S. risk assessments generally assume that bridges may collapse when a 100 - year flood — a streamflow with 1 percent probability of being exceeded in any given year, or 63 percent over the course of a century — occurs.

«Are they going to pay attention to 100 - year flood risks, 500 - year floods?

The study — which integrates new maps from the Environmental Protection Agency that more precisely estimate where people live now and where future population growth is expected — predicts that under potential population growth and development projections, more than 60 million Americans may be vulnerable to a 100 - year flood by 2050.

Next year the flood defence standards will be revised by Minister Schultz (Infrastructure and Environment), as evidenced by the Delta Programme 2014 (http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/deltaprogramma).

An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 - 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100 - year flood plain maps — the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums — failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100 - year event.

The revised maps are the first update in the coastal areas of Maryland in 25 years and confirm both increases and decreases in the 100 - year flood elevations over this period of time.

The flood ratio map for Hurricane Ike (2008) shows areas in yellow and orange that approach or exceed 10 - year flood peaks at their respective stream gauge stations.

Since 2011, the 10 - state Mississippi River corridor has seen $ 50 billion in natural disaster impacts, including a 100 - year flood, a 200 - year flood, a 500 - year flood, a 50 - year drought and two hurricanes, said Colin Wellenkamp, executive director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative.

Scientists and the engineers who monitor the flow of the Mississippi are asking similar questions, as 100 - and 500 - year floods become more frequent along the Mississippi.

But over the past 20 years a flood of discoveries has shown that mammals thrived and diversified in the heyday of the dinosaurs, and a new study suggests that our ancestors and relatives had a big evolutionary burst millions of years before dinosaurs flew the coop.

Picture this, Garner says: the prospects that the 500 - year - floods from past centuries could, with the boost from sea - level rise, become the projected five - year floods over just the next three decades.

For example a 1 in 100 year flood — what if that becomes 1 in 30 years, or even 1 every decade?

With record heat waves around the world, strange 500 - year floods, and creatures dying in hot seas, there is lots to talk about.

New construction will have to sit two feet above the 500 - year flood - plain, which is land predicted to flood during a once - every -500-years storm (17 - 19 inches of rain in 24 hours).

In England, once in a thousand year floods have repeated 3 times now, in five years.

The soon - to - expire standard was set at one foot above the 100 - year flood plain, land that is predicted to flood during a once - every -100-years (13 - 14 inches of rain in 24 hours).

In spite of this huge stroke of very bad luck in the form of a 100 - year flood, Matt continues to be upbeat and positive about his situation.

is one of my favourite video games released in 2017, and stands out even in a year flooded with other particularly strong releases.

Persona 5 is one of my favourite video games released in 2017, and stands out even in a year flooded with other particularly strong releases.

Students explore these ideas deeper by engaging in an article about floods that focuses on both the positive and negative impacts of flooding, along with characterizing a hundred - year flood.

Every year a flood of tablets hits market.

The lot can not be in a 100 - year flood hazard zone and must be of a size that can not be subdivided according to local zoning laws.

2) The home you purchase can not be located within a 100 - year flood plain.

Hundred year floods come only once every hundred years.

At issue is whether the current crisis is that «hundred year flood.»

The last two years where South Carolina suffered a great deal with Hurricane Matthew and then the thousand - year flood, there were a number of organizations outside of our state that came to our aid and were able to save animals by evacuating our animals.

Hurricane Floyd was so enormous it was called a «500 year flood» event — meaning there's just a 1 in 500 chance of flood that big or bigger happening in a given year.

Article published March 30, 2018 Hurricane Harvey damaged more than 204,000 homes and apartment buildings in Harris County, almost three - quarters of them outside the federally regulated 100 - year flood...