There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.
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Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
You can see how an increase in the water level would wipe out hundreds of thousands of people's homes.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.