The term "100-year flood" sounds like a once-in-a-century event, doesn't it? Here's the thing though. That's not what it means at all - FEMA states that a location in a 100-year flood plain has a one ...

A “floodscape” could be seen as a contradiction in terms: Flood spreads wherever gravity leads it, covering the familiar topography with a dark, gray, and uniform blanket. In that regard, flood is ...