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    The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)

    The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)

    Almost everyone agrees that flooding is bad. Most years it’s the number one natural disaster in the US by dollars of damage. So being able to characterize flood risks is a crucial job of civil engineers. Engineering hydrology has equal parts statistics and understanding how society treats risks. Water is incredibly important to us, and it shapes almost every facet of our lives, but it’s almost never in the right place at the right time. Sometimes there’s not enough, like in a drought or just an arid region, but we also need to be prepared for the times when there’s too much water, a flood. Rainfall and streamflow have tremendous variability and it’s the engineer’s job to characterize that so that we can make rational and intelligent decisions about how we develop the world around us.

    Subjects:
    Hydraulic Engineering and Disaster Control and Management
    Keywords:
    Floods Hydrology Flood control -- Management
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    Video