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49ers odds of winning Super Bowl better than 200-year flood
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Senate Bill 5 — Sacramento’s knee jerk reaction to the Hurricane Katrina levee disaster in New Orleans — is supposed to save us all from an epic flood event that has a 1 in 200 chance of happening in any given year.It doesn’t mean such an event will happen only every 200 years. It may not occur for another 2,000 years or a decade from now there could be two such floods over the course of four years. They are simply odds made by people who make a living in what today might aptly be called the Climate Change-Environmental Perfectionist-Politically Correct Complex.