Georgia Floods are Epic Proportions

"Epic" is how officials are describing the floods that hit metro Atlanta earlier this week.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the floods were a "once in 500 years flood," meaning the odds of such a thing happening are less “than 0.2 percent in any given year.”

"It is epic!" said Brian McCallum, assistant director for the USGS Water Science Center in Georgia. “The USGS can reliably say just how bad these floods were.”

They are calling this a 500-year flood because of the likeliness of it occurring is so rare, said McCallum. "We could have another flood next year, or floods back-to-back and still be considered 500-year floods because of the probability."


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