A 100-year flood means that there is one chance in 100 of a flood occurring in each year. The devastating flooding is a timely reminder that climate change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of sever flooding. Rainfall records have been broken again and again. Series of sever floods in the last decades where there was only a 1 in 100 chance up until now. The US should take action as more and more floods are predicted to effect our communities. These floods will become more severe in the decades ahead if nothing is done to stop man-made climate change.
A 100-year flood means that there is one chance in 100 of a flood occurring in each year. The devastating flooding is a timely reminder that climate change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of sever flooding. Rainfall records have been broken again and again. Series of sever floods in the last decades where there was only a 1 in 100 chance up until now. The US should take action as more and more floods are predicted to effect our communities. These floods will become more severe in the decades ahead if nothing is done to stop man-made climate change.