4 Nov 09 - Here’s how the National Weather Service ranks 24-hour
rainfall events in north Georgia.
7.2 inches = 100-year
rain event.
7.7 inches = 200-year rain event.
8.2 inches = 500-year rain event
8.7 inches = 1000-year rain event.
9.7 inches = 5000-year rain event.
10 inches = 10,000-year rain event.
The odds of a 10-inch rain event are just 1 in
10,000, said Georgia’s Senior Hydrologist Kent Frantz. So the 16.7
inches just west of Douglasville had odds that went “off the
charts.”
“But I should caution that just because the
odds are astronomical, something like this could happen again,” said
Frantz. Just look at the 21 inches in 24 hours that Americus
received during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994.”
Not only could something
like this happen again, I think it is almost
inevitable. It’s part of the ice-age cycle, and it’s
driven by equinoctial
precession.
As you know if you’ve read Not by Fire
but by Ice, I warn that we should
prepared for the worst floods in 11,500 years.
I suggest that “We must map the
11,500-year flood plain. Knowing
which areas to avoid during the coming floods could
also save millions
of lives.”
I ask, “What about food? What will we
eat if northern grain fields are
covered with snow and southern crops covered with mud .
. . or completely
washed away by the worst floods in 11,500 years?”
Here are a few more excerpts:
“Consider. What happens during a flood? Erosion; then
deposition (i.e.,
sedimentation). Such a process of flood-caused
erosion and sedimentation
can be seen in the stratigraphic record…literally
millions of times through
history. And each of those millions of floods
occurred in phase with
equinoctial precession.
“Wilmot Bradley noticed the link between sedimentation and
precession in
1930 when he discovered an approximate
22,000-year cycle in the Green
River formations of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.
But he refused to believe
his own eyes. It would be easy to say the changes
are due to precession, said
Bradley, except for one thing, "the change from
one kind of rock to the other
is abrupt."
“Roger Anderson of the University of New
Mexico reported a similar cycle
in 250-million-year-old sediments of the Delaware
Basin in southeast New
Mexico.
“Triassic rock formations in northern Italy
tell the same story, said Lawrence
Hardie of Johns Hopkins University...It's a story
of repeated floods in sync
with equinoctial precession. There is "firm
evidence," said Hardie, for a
regular pulse in sea level oscillations about
every 10,000 years.
“The link between sedimentation and equinoctial precession is now
"firmly
established," said F. J. Hilgen, and is
underlain by similar climatic
oscillations. (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.,
1991)
“The sedimentation cycle appears to
have been controlled by precession for
the last 2.2 billion years, said J. P.
Grotzinger of Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory.
“Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
China, Germany, Ghana, Honduras,
India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Nepal, the
Netherlands, North Korea, Norway,
Spain, Thailand, the United States—more
than 26 countries around the
world—all have seen gigantic floods in the
past few years, gigantic floods
caused by increasingly larger storms.
"We have been firmly entrenched in the worst cycle of
meteorological
disasters in at least 500 years,
since before the days of Christopher
Columbus," says Vermont climatologist
Cliff Harris. "Since 1988, there
have been more long-standing weather
records broken worldwide than
during any other decade in recorded
history!!!" (His exclamation points,
not mine.)
See entire article by David Chandley:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21521261/detail.html
Thanks to Boxwell Hawkins for this link |