A region has just had a 100-year flood.That means that
A) A flood event of that size has a 1 percent probability of occurrence in the next year.
B) Another equally large flood will occur in one hundred years.
C) Another flood of that size cannot happen in the same year.
D) All of the choices are correct.
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