Orem officials call Tuesday's storm greater than once-in-a-century; residents continue to cleanup

Orem city officials are calling Tuesday night's storm a 100-year-plus event. 

[StompMom]

Wow!!! We live in St george and saw only sprinkles of water. My heart goes out to all. It's hard putting that much back together 🙏

[petermilligan]

The nomenclature of '10 year storm', '100 year storm', etc. can be a little misleading. A '100 year storm' does not mean it only happens once every 100 years. Instead, it means that each year has a 1 in 100 chance of having such a storm. It is not out of the normal realm of possibility for such storms to happen in sequential years, or even more than one in a year.
It is kind of an interesting way to categorize storms, but effective in planning for water runoff.

[drwho]

1983 and 1984 I think we're pretty bad years for flooding.

[diamondlee]

just awful for everyone affected. not a good idea they were swimming in the skate park water, a lot of bacteria…..

[SongMom]

Ogden had nothing. Amazing how much different the weather can be a relatively short distance away

[herbienbrian]

Maybe if they stopped spraying the sky with stuff from planes this wouldn't have happened.

[whramijg]

"hundred year event" needs revision.

With the progress of climate change, it's a lot closer to "one year event".

These are going to happen more and more and more.