Meanwhile in Vermont…

[blackhawk]

So this happens in Vermont once every 96 years we’re doomed.

 

[Ringo]

Vermont's capital city is underwater today, and officials are warning of a possible dam breach that would make the situation even worse.

https://idiod.video/t14mva.mp4

 

[Couchpotato]

You're confused. The news said 1000 year flood plain and that suggests that it would have happened in 923 and shouldn't happen again until 3023.

1000 year flood doesn’t mean it happens every 1000 years it means there is a 1 in 1000 chance it happens in any year.

What is a 1,000-year flood? | U.S. Geological Survey

The term “1,000-year flood” means that, statistically speaking, a flood of that magnitude (or greater) has a 1 in 1,000 chance of occurring in any given year. In terms of probability, the 1,000-year flood has a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year. These statistical values are based on...

www.usgs.gov

You could have a thousand year flood 3 years in a row or go 10000 years without it happening once.

 

[Donald H]

1000 year flood doesn’t mean it happens every 1000 years it means there is a 1 in 1000 chance it happens in any year.

Which to normal people means the same thing.

You could have a thousand year flood 3 years in a row or go 10000 years without it happening once.

That's wight, your so smwart.

 

[1srelluc]

I think that was June 2007. I set a record of 9,5” for the event including 7” in 3 hours. ’Filled up the entire basement of one of my houses and flowed out the side door.

LOL....One of my friends had just retired from VDOT (area supervisor) and they brought him back (at 2.5X his former pay) to supervise repairs to a hollow that got washed out in Page County. I rode up there with him and it was unbelievable.

And yeah, people were still pumping their basements out because they had the old type of walk down basement steps with the drain in the bottom but so much water came off the mountain it just filled the steps up like a water tank and then it breached the doors and filled the basements......The VFD was going around pumping the basements out if they could get to them.

 

[Couchpotato]

Which to normal people means the same thing.

it only means that if you suck at math.

That's wight, your so smwart.

See above

 

[Hellbilly]

Been kidding son in law about using kayak to get to work,

 

[Auld Phart]

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not him

son in law is bald

 

[g5000]

Yet the fact I didn't have to put my AC in my window until late june instead of mid may is evidence of nothing right?

It is evidence you know fuck-all about the value of anecdotes.

 

[martybegan]

It is evidence you know fuck-all about the value of anecdotes.

It's evidence that AGW idiots cherry pick outliers only when it suits them.

 

[elektra]

New England, historically is wet. Swamps rivers lakes. Once there were massive mountains, now all eroded and washed out to the sea by thousands of years of rainstorms just like this one.

 

[The Duke]

Build in the valley they said..

Don't worry about runoff they said..

 

[The Duke]

The worst flooding since the 1927 flood.
It goes to show how powerless we are against nature. Central and southern Vermont was hit the worst. Photos are from Montpelier.
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You see that ridge behind the town there?

That's where the town should be.