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Originally Posted by MBAtarga
I heard this area flooded a few years ago in what was called a 100 year flood. Water levels were expected to be about 4-5' ABOVE those levels this time, so the Gov called this a 500 year flood.
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I've read somewhere that Atlanta gets some of the heaviest rainfall in the country.
Even more than Seattle...
The heavy red clay seems to reject and divert it all away from being stored in reservoirs would be my guess.
There are entire departments which specialize in this, so they would probably know better.
(Elevation mapping and strategic planning are known quantities to putting all the simple pieces together.)
And yet humanity still continues to build below sea level, pile skyscrapers on top of swamp mud islands, right under mountain mud faces, and other nonsense.