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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki
A 100 year storm is a civil engineering thing. Basically means there’s a 1% that a storm (1/100) that size will happen. It is possible for a 100 year storm to happen two years in a row - but the chances are low.
The goal of water management is to keep the water out of the houses, it needs to go someplace, it will go to the golf courses, the tunnels, etc.
My understanding is that very few homes had water intrusion with Irma.
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Sounds correct. Golf courses and tunnels had lots of water.
The big thing we need to be concerned about are the tornadoes. We had one on Groundhog Day that did a lot of damage in 2007.