It might be down to the journos getting confused about what a 1 in 100 year event actually means.
From the Aussie BoM:
http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/why100years.shtml
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I think it’s only been in the past 2 centuries that we’ve kept weather records to be able to compare… but there are other ways of knowing what happened with weather patterns from the period between 1650-1700 - historical documents of travelers in that area, Native American history/lore, and also climate science that looks at the land itself as a historical document for understanding long term weather patterns in particular areas.
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Tree rings are an important tool. Wide in wet years, narrow in dry. They’ve gotten overlapping years samples for thousands of years of rainfall patterns. It doesn’t show 100 year storms, just yearly patterns.
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There you go, that’s the sort of thing I was talking about. Thanks!
Put everything up as high as possible. 2nd floor, if you have one, or else everything on top of tables and counters. And pull any rugs that aren’t literally nailed down and get them up too. Remember: the water won’t be drinking quality…anything that soaks in it and cannot be sterilized afterward will have to be thrown out.
Gateway to the RedNECKS 
I love the area around Willits, but you ever been to Willits on a friday night?
Don’t.
Dude, I work in Willits, okay?
Cool, lovely area, hope the downtown has improved since I lived there, is there less gunfire?. Seriously though, have you been downtown on a Friday night there lately? How was it?
It was awesome
So I’ve got good friends who are considering moving to Loma Linda. From both a natural disasters and redneck point of view, are they crazy?
How so? What did you enjoy? I’m picking on the town a bit. Not on you, and I’d really like to know what is good in Willits?
I wasn’t so much worried about the first floor getting inundated because it’s elevated, but the basement and structures at lower levels were threatened. I started to try to move things out of the basement and gave up because of the impossibility of it; I just had to hope things wouldn’t flood that far (and if it did, the problem of water in the basement was a much bigger issue than what it ruined there). Just the yard getting flooded created havoc - a bunch of terracing and landscaping was destroyed, possibly a fence (we’ll see when the water drops below it - the neighbor’s chain link fence has been utterly flattened by the force of the water and the debris in it), and had it gotten any higher, it threatened a tool shed and chicken coop (I prepared space for them in the house, should I need to relocate them), and the vegetable garden that produces all my fruits and vegetables - if the water had reached that part, it would have likely been permanently contaminated.
It’s looking now like the weekend will be drier - and the rain later - than previous indicated, so it looks like flooding (for me, anyways) may have been averted until the next deluge.
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You win. Obviously I don’t know what I am talking about or experiencing. The music I thought I was listening to was apparently gunfire. The charitable fund-raiser was some dystopian hellhole in which the other attendees were merely awaiting a gruesome death. We weren’t dancing, we were writhing to escape demons. The events we attend are probably public executions or some such rot. The band playing was doing so in much the same manner as the one on the Titanic. You are clearly the only person who has ever truly known what Willits is all about. Thank you for taking one for the team.
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Methinks that question was a bit sarcastic and rhetorical (my favorite kind). I have a weather app on my phone. After I paid to turn off the ads, what was left was weather, and annoying videos of quasi-weather phenomenon, like big rig truck crashes. Guess the app creator thought it would be more engaging to have some death and destruction mixed with the boring weather stats.
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