Odds and Ends

[atherleisure]

1. It finally stopped raining! We got about 10" of rain last night. All the schools are closed, the city and county offices and courts are closed, my husband's office is closed...We not only had a flash flood watch or warning, we got a flash flood emergency. Fortunately, our house is outside the 100-year flood plain so no problems for us (though somewhere west of us they've got water into what the news called 500-year flood plain - I'm not sure that even means anything since I don't think there's any data going back anything like that far). It still was not a nice night, storming from midnight until 8:00 AM. I doubt anyone got much sleep.

2. My husband went to the movies yesterday afternoon so I decided that meant I could goof off too. I finished my second 1916 petticoat so I am officially finished with underwear for the project! I'm going to try to get my husband to take pictures this evening so I can share.

3. I also worked on my miser's purse. The first set of shamrocks is finished. I'm thinking I should have gone with seven pattern repeats around instead of eight, but it will be fine. I originally thought the original had eight, but now I'm not sure why I thought that and have revised my opinion - I think it has only seven. I'm not ripping the whole thing out and starting over.

Comments

[sadievale.livejournal.com]

Pretty! It's coming along nicely!

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Whew, that's a lot of rain! Predictably we got the least of anyplace in the eastern half of Texas. Less than 3" officially, and I got about 3.25". I've wondered how they figured out that 500-year flood plain thing, too. It's got to be just based on probability and elevation.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

3" is still a fair bit. Things are calm here, but it was a lot of rain. I assume the 500-year flood plain is completely estimates, but it amuses me nonetheless.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

The 500 year old flood plain really just means a .02% chance of flood in any given year. However, since far to many people can't calculate percentages in their heads, insurance companies just use the 2-500 year floodplain so that it makes sense to the average consumer. For instance, a 10 year floodplain would be a 10% chance. When I did archeology, we also had to take classes in geology. Calculating the floodplain included climate, elevation, and historical data. With tree rings and geological features, we can calculate "wet" years versus "dry" years as well as previous flood levels going back quite a ways. /end geek moment

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

That makes more sense. Somehow I thought it had to do with historic data. The name might have given me that idea...