Harvey is a 1,000-year flood event
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From what I could find a typhoon is expected to hit this particular area every 10 years or so, so that would place this typhoon somewhere in the top 1% most severe. Over the whole U.S. typhoons happen slightly more than once a year, so an event as extraordinary as Harvey is likely to happen 1 or 2 times each century.
The clickbaiting by the media is getting to be embarrassing. Also it's not even a 1000-year flood event even if the location is fixed. It could be given the lack of record history/weather data/etc in that area. But no one knows.
> Over the whole U.S. typhoons happen slightly more than once a year, so an event as extraordinary as Harvey is likely to happen 1 or 2 times each century.
Exactly and we get a big one hitting a major population area at least once every decade. We have so many cities along the gulf of mexico which is in the trajectory of hurricanes.