{"id":84621,"date":"2023-12-16T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=84621"},"modified":"2023-09-18T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:06:54","slug":"do-droughts-make-floods-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/16\/do-droughts-make-floods-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DARUvKPSUhE?si=ZjBizJxwu5KuzeGr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Practical Engineering<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 5 Sept 2023<\/p>\n<p>The answer isn&#8217;t as simple as you might think!<\/p>\n<p>One statistician famously said, &#8220;All models are wrong, but some are useful&#8221;. 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