Perhaps I should have mentioned that 1 in 500 year events are occuring a bit too often these days too. I believe that the floods in Germany are being described

Perhaps I should have mentioned that 1 in 500 year events are occuring a bit too often these days too. I believe that the floods in Germany are being described as a 1 in 1000 year event. Some of the buildings we saw being washed away near the river Ahr etc were whitewashed, timber framed - that means they are at least 300 years old. The thing is that these 1 in n events are no longer static, if indeed they ever were. One thing is for certain, the 1 in n year description thing needs throwing out. A huge number of building/structural standards are complete and utter bollocks.