Field Notes: Floods, Tornadoes, China, Tail Risk, etc.

By Paul Kedrosky · April 29, 2011 · ·
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Comments

  1. rdd says:
    April 29, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Its not accidental that only two of the top 24 flood crest elevation are pre-1937.

    There has been so much levee building that the floodwaters now have nowhere to go.

    There is a reason that floodplains are called flood plains. The massive levee construction has long-term repurcussions on the entire river system and the adjacent lands, including the quality of the farmland in the floodplains.