Illinois gets a foot of rain, the U.S.'s
3rd 1,000-year rain in 1 week
Yahoo News,
by
Ben Adler
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/3/2022 6:17:52 PM
The United States saw its third 1-in-1,000-year rain in a week on Monday night and Tuesday morning, as southern Illinois was drenched by 8 to 12 inches of rain in 12 hours. An area just south of Newton, Ill., recorded 14 inches of rainfall in just 12 hours, according to the National Weather Service. Thunderstorms brought damaging winds and heavy rainfall through midafternoon on Tuesday. Heavy rain events such as this are becoming more common due to climate change. The NWS office in Lincoln, Ill., received about 20 reports of flooding on Tuesday as roads turned into rivers. Several flash
Reply 1 - Posted by:
unagator 8/3/2022 6:28:40 PM (No. 1236968)
Event frequency like "1 in 1000" come from what are called CAT Models in the insurance industry.
If you get 3 "1-in-1000" events in 1 week, you should fire your actuaries, not demolish the economy to sate the weather gods.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Aeneid1 8/3/2022 6:30:24 PM (No. 1236972)
There is still Yahoo news?
Hope we don’t hear from them again for a 1000 years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jj1319 8/3/2022 6:37:36 PM (No. 1236979)
I like the way the famous one (OP) thinks.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pros7767 8/3/2022 6:38:03 PM (No. 1236980)
God is NOT happy!
Revelation...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/3/2022 6:43:29 PM (No. 1236982)
No problem we will just redefine what rain is, and once in a lifetime and does third really mean three. And I would like to see the weather charts from a 1,000 years ago. s/o
We have never had floods or flash floods, heavy rain, thunder, lightening, snow, blizzards, hurricanes, straight line winds, droughts, excessive heat or excessive cold, humidity, dry heat, tornadoes, hail, freezing rain. It's always been sunshine and lollipops until . . . now. Simple, build nuclear plants as fast as you can and get your knees off our energy supplies at home.
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I swear! Does every single thing in the whole wide world have to be because of dam climate change? Good grief.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 8/3/2022 6:45:48 PM (No. 1236986)
"Heavy rain events such as this are becoming more common"
Yup.
"due to climate change"
Bull patties.
I don't think the combinatorics work the way O.P. used 'em, though. The once-in-a-thousand was for each locale, separately... three instances of one-in-a-thousand-years, not three-in-a-thousand-years. Separate probability domains.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 8/3/2022 6:54:56 PM (No. 1236993)
Texas style.
In 1921 the town of Thrall had 38" of rain in 18 hours to set the modern US record. Over 170 lost their lives.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/3/2022 7:05:07 PM (No. 1237000)
99.99999% of the US probably didn't see a 1 in 1000 event, do the math.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 8/3/2022 7:07:25 PM (No. 1237002)
Didn’t Houston get like 50” of rain during a hurricane a few years back? On radar it was part of the Gulf of Mexico. Pretty cool unless you lived there.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/3/2022 7:09:49 PM (No. 1237003)
I grew up in Lake County 40 miles north of Chicago and these big storms happened all the time there. Take the three zeroes off the article headline, and the story is more accurate.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/3/2022 7:18:02 PM (No. 1237008)
Who came up with that 1-in-1000 years number? Daily rain records have not been kept for 1,000 years. As far as I know, the Indian tribes in Illinois did not keep records of 12 hour rainfall amounts, certainly not in inches. Really. Where did that come from, other than from some alarmist's sun-don't-shine? I grew up in southern Illinois and we had big rainstorms every summer. 6 to 8 inches was not uncommon.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 8/3/2022 7:18:27 PM (No. 1237009)
Here in Texas, that's a sprinkle.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/3/2022 7:21:44 PM (No. 1237011)
Around these parts, we call that summer.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 8/3/2022 7:23:53 PM (No. 1237012)
Dear God, please send some of that to Texas.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/3/2022 7:31:25 PM (No. 1237018)
Yes - - it happens once every thousand years!
Why? Because the gullible warmists say so. That's why!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/3/2022 7:36:25 PM (No. 1237019)
We moved to New Hampshire in 1997. Late that summer, a few rainstorms passed through here on the coast. And then, one weekend, it started to rain, to pour, and it rained and rained, and it rained to 13 inches.
You hear "Record heat in such-and-such a place" since records have been kept... and yet, not any miles away the temperatures are average. It's two degrees warmer 15 miles north of here right now!
We are led by children.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 8/3/2022 7:41:31 PM (No. 1237022)
Look on the bright side. At least it wasn't snow.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/3/2022 7:47:39 PM (No. 1237026)
Those thousand-year floods are more frequent that once every thousand years. Another climate change gimmick?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NamVet70 8/3/2022 7:51:39 PM (No. 1237028)
"Heavy rain events such as this are becoming more common due to climate change. " If it rains it is due to climate change. If it doesn't rain it is due to climate change. If it snows it is due to climate change. If the wind blows it is due to climate change. Are we starting to see a pattern here? Anything that might cause you displeasure is due to climate change. The worst part of it is that your government uses climate change as an excuse to make rules that infringe on your freedom and make everything you need more costly!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 8/3/2022 8:01:18 PM (No. 1237038)
I can remember several years in the 80's and 90's where we had multiple "100 year rains" during the summer. One caused a flash flood that filled our basement.
I think it was 1990 when we had numerous tornadoes. The sirens were going off so often it was like London during the Blitz. Late August gave us a deadly storm the killed 8.
In the early 80's we had 3 or 4 winter's with long periods of temperatures of -23 or more below zero. Then are year or so later, Christmas was so warm I had ferns growing in the garden. These cycles have repeated over the years. I think it was -18 the night Jesse had to have a Subway sandwich.
It's just weather and God's way of letting us know who is really in control.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Axeman 8/3/2022 8:02:27 PM (No. 1237039)
Over a foot rains in our town are called 50 year floods and seem to happen about that often. But just under a foot are not uncommon. The chance that a record is going to be broken somewhere at any time is a near certainty.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/3/2022 8:04:49 PM (No. 1237040)
Climate change, right.
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Meanwhile, out in California drought is "the new normal." Jerry Brown said so, before retiring to his custom-built mountain-top villa.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
chefrandy 8/3/2022 9:07:59 PM (No. 1237074)
Made worse in some of the collar counties near St. Louis because for years, the Dems in charge have diverted infrastructure funds designed to maintain sewer systems and proper drainage so entire neighborhoods near what we refer to as creeks or drainage canals were underwater.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 8/3/2022 10:41:43 PM (No. 1237122)
It's still not enough to flush out the sewage pit that is the city of ChiCongo!!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 8/3/2022 11:09:07 PM (No. 1237130)
I try so hard to write my yahoo news article and you guys rip me apart....
It saddens and depresses me, we only have 25/20/15/12 years left....
I only write these lies when I miss my meds
I dont feel safe here....
S/ Note to Ben.....try working for a living.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 8/4/2022 12:59:05 AM (No. 1237189)
These whole "XXXX years" things are pure fraud. They mean nothing as far as when they occur. There is no reason not to have a couple of "500 year" rains in a couple of months in the same place. The VERY misleading term means how often it is expected.....but it can happen ANY TIME in that window, and is also VERY imprecise, just a sort of a guess really based on a very short bit of experience. Take 50 years of data and calculate how often a certain amount of rain will fall from that.......is mostly BS, NOT science.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MissMann 8/4/2022 3:35:21 AM (No. 1237219)
I know it's foil-hat time, but are we so sure someone (I think China, could be others) isn't manipulating the weather?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Slartibartfast 8/4/2022 8:01:18 AM (No. 1237322)
Thank God for climate change! If it weren't for climate change we would still be in an ice age.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
AltaD 8/4/2022 9:45:33 AM (No. 1237417)
Elsewhere, this is being reported as good news: Drought has diminished in Illinois
https://www.fox32chicago.com/weather/drought-has-diminished-in-illinois
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
kono 8/4/2022 1:21:09 PM (No. 1237632)
#30, technically, we still are. There is ice year-round at the poles still.
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It never occurs to climate alarmists that if an event happens 3 times in 1 week then it is Not a once-in-a-1,000 years flood.