The City of Fort Collins and the local newspaper have made all kinds of claims of record stream flow and 1,000 year floods.
The record stream flow claim was based on a faulty flood gauge. Note the equipment malfunction on September 13.
USGS Current Conditions for USGS 06752260 CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER AT FORT COLLINS, CO
Originally it looked like this, showing 14.5 feet – but it never got above 10.5 feet.
The 1,000 year flood claim was just the usual global warming bullshit from NOAA. According to USGS it was a 100 year flood, not a 1,000 year flood.
Longstanding rainfall records were swept away in what an official with the United States Geological Survey late Thursday confirmed was for Boulder a 100-year flood
100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems – Boulder Daily Camera
Will these bogus claims be retracted? Not likely, because global warming misinformation never gets retracted.
I vaguely recall that my local TV media reported that things had not been this bad for at least 30 years.
It has been inflated to 1,000 years now,
30 years, 100 years and 1,000 years are prehistory for the Chicken Little Brigade and their mouthpieces.
If one had to choose between NOAA and USGS as the most credible source, ISGS wins hands down. Did a 6 month intership with them while in grad school and at the time they were the most respected science outfit in government.
They get a 100 year flood about every 20-30 years around there. It is time they re-examined what they call a 100 year flood.
100 year flood really means that there is a 1% chance in a given year of that type of event. I think I have read (due to my experience with Katrina in N.O.) that the actual occurrence of something with a 1% chance is about once every 30 years. Can’t remember why but I have seen that figure.
How long have people lived in Boulder? Did they understand why the town is so-named?
Every claim that’s ever been made on AGW is bogus.
Aren’t you making a claim about AGW?
You forgot the 😉
Smile when you say that, podner.
Looks like a ‘Mannfunction’ to me.
The media beats things up? When the hell did they start doing that? 😉
Dr. John Christy explained the confusion surrounding the ‘100 year flood’, as a 1% probability in any given year. His post was yesterday, and he also said the city of Boulder was warned in 2008 about the effects of such heavy rainfall. It wasn’t surprising, as civil engineers had studied the situation in order to consider amelioration projects….
Some places are dangerous. The coast of California, especially San Francisco, has a ‘100%’ probability of the San Andreas fault breaking loose, as the Pacific is surrounded by fault lines along which the earth slips. Predicting when is always the problem, although seismologists have mapped the effects and damages when it happens.