Government agencies now call every single rainfall a 1,000 year event.
California mudslides and chaos offer a preview of what El Niño could bring – LA Times
In 1914, Cambridge, Ohio received almost four times that much rain in half an hour. In 1942, Smethport, PA received fifteen times that much rain in three hours.
Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book – Christopher C. Burt – Google Books
The National Weather Service claim is equivalent to calling a weekly lottery winner a ten million year event, because the odds of any individual ticket winning are ten million to one. It is complete idiocy, and gets repeated by government climate fraudsters every week now.
I do love your talent for putting things in perspective.
It rained more than that at Embarrass WI in 12 minutes not half an hour.
Embarrass-ing indeed!
Those same mountains once got over 25 inches of rain in 24 hours within the last century.
Yup. Looks like the El Nino rains could be returning to the west coast of the US. It’s even raining here in Arizona right now.
Permanent drought? Guess it’s not all that permanent.
But this pattern is well-established in California – a dry spell followed by a wet spell. And when it’s wet in California – it can just rain and rain and rain. Don’t need to wait 1000 years either.
Well they’ve had their wild fires and mud slides, time for a good tooth rattling earthquake and the state will have once again have had a typical year.
Add in at least one “civil uprising” and the cycle will indeed be complete!
… and trumpeted by innumerate klutzes who hurt themselves changing toilet paper rolls and couldn’t cut fifth grade math so they went into the media to make the world a better place.