How much of the flooding can be attributed to irresponsible development?

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What's the word in La?

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I am thinking it is part of the cause. the other is 4 trillion gallons of rain.

Is it irresponsible to build within the plain of a 500 or 1,000 year flood event?

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How much of the flooding can be attributed to irresponsible development?

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I am sure you could say this about localized flooding that may have happen in certain area in the past. Doesn't apply with this one. No amount of planning can prepare for that amount of rain in such a short period of time. This was a act of God event, no other way to describe it.

So you are doubling down on this?

Somedays I wonder how you are able to tie your own shoes and wipe your own arse without assistance.

It's a huge problem. I do a lot of stormwater work.. end result is that unchecked development puts money in builders pockets short term and takes money out of taxpayers pockets long-term.

Especially when the developer is a redneck and refuses to use 'Green infrastructure'

You are the 1st to say it's a huge problem...everyone else saying it's not. What is your evidence?

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please be tongue in cheek

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He didn't articulate it well, but his point is still solid. Baton Rouge has experienced 2 "500-year" floods in 33 years. I understand a 500-year flood just means a flood with a .2% chance of occurring in a given year, and I know they base it off a database to determine the likelihood, but it is plausible that they're wrong. They will get better with time, but it doesn't take much effort to think of other scenarios where this could occur, particularly in a state that borders the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm fully aware of how statistics work and that multiple 500-year level events could occur within a 30-40 year period, but at some point you have to consider that the database is imperfect and the probabilities are wrong.

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How can they really know if it flooded there 1000 years ago when the country is only a couple hundred years old?

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They probably can't. I saw data on TV yesterday that "said" it was a once in a hundred years event. they did not mean it happened 100 years ago.

there are marks on the cliffs overlooking the ocean in Oregon. they can tell that a few hundred years ago, a tsunami hit the Oregon coast 300 feet above current sea level.