A2: Environment

Scott Hanley ruminates on the end-of-the-world flooding scenarios floated in an Ann Arbor News article today. “Floods are random like poker hands, not like lotteries. When the planners talk about 10-year floods, 100-year floods, or 500-year floods, they’re speaking exactly the same language as the people who teach the odds on poker hands. The only question is how often will it happen?” [Source]