2nd time in two years a once in a thousand year flooding in Maryland.

[flacaltenn]

A once in a thousand year flood does NOT mean you will only have one of them in a thousand years idiot.
It MEANS in one thousand years you will have AT LEAST ONE.
You fuckin retard.

You are the fucking idiot, asshole. No, it does not mean that you will have one or more every 1000 years. It means that the chances are that you will have one in any given 1000 years. If you have two of them in a 1000 year period, separated by about 500 years, you have just beat the averages by 50%. If you have two of them in 3 years, you have just beat the averages by a factor of 500,000. Back to back would by by 1,000,000.

Who was the moron who SAID it was a 1000 year event? Not even clear --because RDeanie Baby wrote the OP and conflagrated the tropical storm with this isolated flooding event. It's ALL a VERY false alarm. Much like EVERY RDean thread..

 

[Crick]

It wasn't RDean. I saw "1,000 year flood" in a local headline.

 

[fncceo]

We need more windmills!!!

They make excellent targets...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Subtropical Storm Alberto Strengthens Ahead of Landfall in the Florida Panhandle; Flooding, Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Possible

A once in a thousand year storm two out of three years.

Lot's of named storms, even this big one in May. When does that happen?

There'll be tornadoes. You can count on it.

Thank God for Republicans telling us it's all made up and there is no such thing as climate change.

I feel better already.

Deanie is in the Dark Ages of information. BECAUSE he's nothing but a partisan shill.. The Left enviro-nuts WORSHIP GW as some kind of demon for which sacrifices must be made. INSTEAD of actually doing any work to check and study the gossip and misinformation that the Church of Global Warming preaches...

1000 year flood my ass... It gets WORSE as you take away forests and grasslands and small streams and NORMAL drainage down that road grade.. THAT"s your problem...

Why Ellicott City is prone to flooding

Being located next to the Patapsco River and other nearby rivers, plus being in a valley, makes the city especially vulnerable to catastrophic flash floods.

The flooding this Memorial Day weekend was the 15th recorded catastrophic flood in Ellicott City. A little background: The city was first settled in 1766 by James Hood. The grist mill he built on the land was destroyed in 1768, yes, by flood waters.

Ellicott City, Maryland - Wikipedia
History
Floods
The town is prone to flooding from the Patapsco River and its tributary the Tiber River. These floods have had a major impact on the history of the town, often destroying important businesses and killing many. Ellicott City has had major devastating floods in 1817, 1837, 1868,[5] 1901, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1972 (Hurricane Agnes), 1975 (Hurricane Eloise), 1989, 2011, 2016, and 2018. The 1868 flood washed away 14 houses, killing 39 to 43 (accounts vary) in and around Ellicott City. It wiped out the Granite Manufacturing Cotton Mill, Charles A. Gambrill's Patapsco Mill, John Lee Carroll's mill buildings, and dozens of homes.[5] One mill was rebuilt by Charles Gambrill, which remained in operation until a fire in 1916.[6]:36

Ellicott City, Maryland - Wikipedia

Historic flood stages marked on the B&O viaduct, c. 2006. Hurricane Agnes flood stage (14.5 feet (4.4 m)) is in the middle of the photograph.
A 1923 flood topped bridges, in 1952 an 8-foot (2.4 m) wall of water swept the shops of Ellicott City, and a 1956 flood inflicted heavy damage at the Bartigis Brothers plant. On June 21, 1972, the Patapsco River valley flooded 14.5 feet (4.4 m) from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, taking out a concrete bridge, destroying the Jonathan Ellicott home, and the 1910 Victor Blode water filtration plant, and flooding Main Street to the Odd Fellows hall.[6]:26 The Old Main Line of the B&O Railroad also sustained serious damage.

On September 27, 1975, the town was flooded 9.0 feet (2.7 m) from Hurricane Eloise. Floods also occurred September 22, 1989, from Hurricane Hugo, and on September 7, 2011, flooding 11.0 feet (3.4 m) from Tropical Storm Lee.

Well then, this is not a 1000 year flood at all, but a 20 year flood. That does change the whole picture.

That does change the whole picture.

Deanie is an idiot. That has always been the picture.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Now Republicans are saying the climate changes all the time. From it's not changing to all the time?
Where do they get their science from?

Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll

Now Republicans are saying the climate changes all the time

Could you help me plow my driveway?
Fucking glacier keeps blocking me in.

 

[flacaltenn]

It wasn't RDean. I saw "1,000 year flood" in a local headline.

RDean ONLY reads the headlines of the Talking Points sites he visits. It's a 250 year urban design disaster. Learned last night that 100 building permits in the direct flood path have been issued there in the past 5 or 8 years. Not a 1000 year anything. And neither is Trop Storm Algoreto.. It's a snooze.. Just like the fellow it was named after.

 

[Old Rocks]

We need more windmills!!!

They make excellent targets...

Your bloodline, not mine.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Subtropical Storm Alberto Strengthens Ahead of Landfall in the Florida Panhandle; Flooding, Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Possible

A once in a thousand year storm two out of three years.

Lot's of named storms, even this big one in May. When does that happen?

There'll be tornadoes. You can count on it.

Thank God for Republicans telling us it's all made up and there is no such thing as climate change.

I feel better already.

And this is AFTER Obama lowered the seas.

 

[Crick]

The 1,000 year pronouncement regarded the rainfall. The same comment was made about the 2016 rainfall and both were made by the same fellow, a meteorologist at Accuweather. However, NOAA agrees with that assessment.

 

[skookerasbil]

I think we may have an emerging market here s0ns?

Personal submarines!!

Entrepreneurs are always keen to the hysterical whims of the mental cases in society ( feed off the depressed with late night cable ads ). Who couldn't see people like Bulldog, Old Rocks and Crick getting suckered into purchasing an electric powered one man personal sub? Crick would go for the deluxe model with on-board Doppler radar!

Lol....i have to say....for some reason I've always found it a hoot to make fun of the social oddballs I bump into my whole life. We all know some....the pompous intellectual wanna-bes that nobody wants to talk to at the party and stick out like a red thumbed geek at a greenhouse convention. In public, idk....always am lured into humiliating them in front of others. It's like a hobby for me!!!

 

[Pilot1]

You are the fucking idiot, asshole. No, it does not mean that you will have one or more every 1000 years. It means that the chances are that you will have one in any given 1000 years. If you have two of them in a 1000 year period, separated by about 500 years, you have just beat the averages by 50%. If you have two of them in 3 years, you have just beat the averages by a factor of 500,000. Back to back would by by 1,000,000.

You do know that weather doesn't equal climate, right?

 

[evenflow1969]

A once in a thousand year flood does NOT mean you will only have one of them in a thousand years idiot.
It MEANS in one thousand years you will have AT LEAST ONE.
You fuckin retard.

To be talking about athousand year high water mark is a little bit nuts and retarded in the first place. A thousand year high water mark is pure conjecture and impossible to prove Sorry moisture lines will not remain for a thousand years and there was no one taking and recording these measurements1000 years ago. It would be a pure guestimate. Our flood panels are for 100 year highs, these we can trust real people took real measurements for those maps. These panels include the highest readings over a hundred year period before the map date. It is possible that the same high water mark could have been read twice in a one hundred year period but very unlikely. One the high mark is reported to USGS and if it was hit multiple times the individual record takers or thier notes would have to be consulted to know this, USGS would not know this in most cases. These records may or may not still exist, it would take a great deal of work to prove one way or another. That all being said if I were asked to design a structure where this flood happened twice in a short period I would likely turn the opportunity down.

No one taking these records in North America 1000 years ago

 

[skookerasbil]

You are the fucking idiot, asshole. No, it does not mean that you will have one or more every 1000 years. It means that the chances are that you will have one in any given 1000 years. If you have two of them in a 1000 year period, separated by about 500 years, you have just beat the averages by 50%. If you have two of them in 3 years, you have just beat the averages by a factor of 500,000. Back to back would by by 1,000,000.

You do know that weather doesn't equal climate, right?

Lol....best post of the year in this forum!!

 

[Sunsettommy]

Subtropical Storm Alberto Strengthens Ahead of Landfall in the Florida Panhandle; Flooding, Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Possible

A once in a thousand year storm two out of three years.

Lot's of named storms, even this big one in May. When does that happen?

There'll be tornadoes. You can count on it.

Thank God for Republicans telling us it's all made up and there is no such thing as climate change.

I feel better already.

Wow, so many stupid lying statements in a single paragraph.

First of all the town has flooded MANY TIMES into the past, where it is well sited to have floods happen since it is down a narrow valley as shown HERE
and here is the photo from Google Earth:

 

[Sunsettommy]

From HERE is about PAST Ellicott Floods, one being far worse than the latest one quoting Tony:

"Even before the parking lots were built, Ellicott City had massive floods – their worst one occurring 150 years ago, with a “40 foot wall of water.”

LINK

The 1868 Flood

 

[Sunsettommy]

The misleading statements and lies from Deanrd,

"A once in a thousand year storm two out of three years.

Lot's of named storms, even this big one in May. When does that happen?

There'll be tornadoes. You can count on it.

Thank God for Republicans telling us it's all made up and there is no such thing as climate change.

I feel better already. "

There were several floods worse than the recent one just in the last 150 years.

It was just ONE Tropical storm that made landfall that rapidly feel apart.

The town has been FLOODED many times.

"Floods
The town is prone to flooding from the Patapsco River and its tributary the Tiber River. These floods have had a major impact on the history of the town, often destroying important businesses and killing many. Ellicott City has had major devastating floods in 1817, 1837, 1868,[58] 1901, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1972 (Hurricane Agnes), 1975 (Hurricane Eloise), 1989, 2011, 2016, and 2018. The 1868 flood washed away 14 houses, killing 39 to 43 (accounts vary) in and around Ellicott City. It wiped out the Granite Manufacturing Cotton Mill, Charles A. Gambrill's Patapsco Mill, John Lee Carroll's mill buildings, and dozens of homes.[58] One mill was rebuilt by Charles Gambrill, which remained in operation until a fire in 1916.

A 1923 flood topped bridges, in 1952 an 8-foot (2.4 m) wall of water swept the shops of Ellicott City, and a 1956 flood inflicted heavy damage at the Bartigis Brothers plant. On June 21, 1972, the Patapsco River valley flooded 14.5 feet (4.4 m) from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, taking out a concrete bridge, destroying the Jonathan Ellicott home, and the 1910 Victor Blode water filtration plant, and flooding Main Street to the Odd Fellows hall.[10]:26 The Old Main Line of the B&O Railroad also sustained serious damage.

On September 27, 1975, the town was flooded 9.0 feet (2.7 m) from Hurricane Eloise. Floods also occurred September 22, 1989, from Hurricane Hugo, and on September 7, 2011, flooding 11.0 feet (3.4 m) from Tropical Storm Lee."

Tornado counts near record LOW so far this year.

Skeptics have all along accepted that climate change is real, your lie is pathetic.

You will never feel better as long as you are a brain dead global warming propagandist and a server of lies.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Subtropical Storm Alberto Strengthens Ahead of Landfall in the Florida Panhandle; Flooding, Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Possible

A once in a thousand year storm two out of three years.

Lot's of named storms, even this big one in May. When does that happen?

There'll be tornadoes. You can count on it.

Thank God for Republicans telling us it's all made up and there is no such thing as climate change.

I feel better already.

Of course the climate changes you dufus.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Subtropical Storm Alberto Strengthens Ahead of Landfall in the Florida Panhandle; Flooding, Storm Surge, Damaging Winds Possible

A once in a thousand year storm two out of three years.

Lot's of named storms, even this big one in May. When does that happen?

There'll be tornadoes. You can count on it.

Thank God for Republicans telling us it's all made up and there is no such thing as climate change.

I feel better already.

Of course the climate changes you dufus.

He will come back saying that you are a denier of melting butter...……………………….

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How much must we lowered CO2 to stop these 1,000 year event from ever happening again?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

How much must we lowered CO2 to stop these 1,000 year event from ever happening again?

$70 trillion, at least.