Of course folks building in flood plains, even though the houses are on stilts, or in low-lying areas with poor drainage never thought there would be a problem. A 100-year flood? A 500-year flood? No problem, still have a bunch of years before it happens. That's not the way it works, folks. Though the probability may be low, it's there and it's the same each year. No need to wait for 100 or 500 years. BTW, this state state climatologist must be a buddy of Bill Nye, the [no]science guy who blames it all on "global warming."
Building on stilts only helps for insurance purposes and for low slow rises. Stilts are tiddlywinks and match sticks during swift floods.
The gov keeps changing where those 100 year flood lines will be. All my life we were in the clear but not anymore. Of course, it’s just a coincidence that those lines changed right about the time they opted for computer monitoring 90 miles away as opposed to on the spot live human being monitors. After our last big flood and the waters had receded, some idiot decided to open the dam gates. I was on the phone telling them they were flooding houses by opening gates when they didn’t need to as the water level behind the dam was fine. I was told there was no flooding. Told them I was standing on my porch watching it. They said I was lying because that’s not what their computer said. Pin head geeks don’t understand that a computer monitor on a large wide lake isn’t going to show what’s happening when that water is being dumped into a narrow river that doesn’t have one of their fancy dancy useless monitors.