{"id":40052,"date":"2017-09-05T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40052"},"modified":"2017-09-05T08:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T12:21:46","slug":"the-100-year-flood-is-not-what-you-think-it-is-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/05\/the-100-year-flood-is-not-what-you-think-it-is-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Year Flood Is Not What You Think It Is (Maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EACkiMRT0pc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 6 Mar 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today on Practical Engineering we&#8217;re talking about hydrology, and I took a little walk through my neighborhood to show you some infrastructure you may have never noticed before.<\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone agrees that flooding is bad. Most years it\u2019s the number one natural disaster in the US by dollars of damage. So being able to characterize flood risks is a crucial job of civil engineers. Engineering hydrology has equal parts statistics and understanding how society treats risks. Water is incredibly important to us, and it shapes almost every facet of our lives, but it\u2019s almost never in the right place at the right time. Sometimes there\u2019s not enough, like in a drought or just an arid region, but we also need to be prepared for the times when there\u2019s too much water, a flood. Rainfall and streamflow have tremendous variability and it\u2019s the engineer\u2019s job to characterize that so that we can make rational and intelligent decisions about how we develop the world around us. Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<p>FEMA Floodplain Maps: <a href=\"https:\/\/msc.fema.gov\/portal\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/msc.fema.gov\/portal<\/a><br \/>\nUSGS Stream Gages: <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.waterdata.usgs.gov\/mapper\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.waterdata.usgs.gov\/mapper<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 6 Mar 2016 Today on Practical Engineering we&#8217;re talking about hydrology, and I took a little walk through my neighborhood to show you some infrastructure you may have never noticed before. Almost everyone agrees that flooding is bad. Most years it\u2019s the number one natural disaster in the US by dollars of damage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,15],"tags":[590,946,711,290],"class_list":["post-40052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-technology","tag-engineering","tag-flooding","tag-infrastructure","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aq0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40053,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40052\/revisions\/40053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}