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Atlanta’s September Floods Were Exceptional
November 12, 2009 | USGS

“At some sites, the annual chance of a flood of this magnitude was so significantly less than 1 in 500 that, given the relatively short length of streamgaging records (well less than 100 years), the U.S. Geological Survey cannot accurately characterize the probability due to its extreme rarity,” A quote from the USGS release by Robert Holmes, USGS National Flood Program Coordinator.


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