If you've not paid attention to the recent hurricane damages to the US, it wasn't just coastal cities that were hammered. Lots of places "far enough away from the coast" saw lots of flooding. A hurricane doesn't just evaporate. The hurricane reverses the process back to Tropical Storm, Depression, etc while continuing to bring lots of rain minus all that wind

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devilbunny 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm assuming you're thinking about Helene. That was a very unusual situation that had a lot to do with local topography and geology on top of a very unusual weather situation (ground-saturating rains in the week prior to a hurricane).

This area hasn't been underwater in a meaningful way since the 1927 flood of the Mississippi.

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dylan604 5 days ago | parent [-]

Do you think these 100 year events are going to occur more or less frequently now?

	▲	devilbunny 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Does it matter what I think? Any situation that floods that area is going to be well beyond 100-year floods, likely beyond 1000-year, and (like the 1927 flood) predicated on catastrophic levee failures that result in the Mississippi being over 100 miles wide. Is it possible? Of course. Is it likely? No. Would there be much bigger issues than a server farm being offline? Yes. The worst-case scenario from a storm that hits locally (which, e.g., the 1927 flood was absolutely not a consequence of - it was water from upstream, which climate change will weaken because of decreased snowmelt) is like Harvey over Houston (similar terrain). But this is much farther inland and could not replenish itself from the Gulf. That said, it is in the middle of nowhere.

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twoodfin 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

But why would we think Meta hadn’t assessed that particular risk?