Hermosa, Black Hills of South Dakota

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Today I am going to write a few
words about Hermosa, Black Hills
of South Dakota.
This small town of a little more than 300 people, is located on the eastern
rim of the Black Hills, 18 miles south
of Rapid City and straddling highway
79.
This town has very little in the way
of industry or shopping and is
primarily a bedroom town for workers
in Rapid City and Custer State Park.

This summer the east side of Hermosa
experienced a horrible flood. A large
number of relatively new homes built
on the flood plain were either destroyed
or badly damaged.
A side note: Another name or designation
for a flood plain is a Secondary River Bed.
That is what a flood plain is. Why in the
world people would build on a flood plain
is beyond me. Now these same people are
in the process of restoring or rebuilding
their homes, still in the flood plain
(secondary river bed). I guess they are
assuming since it just flooded there, the
next flood won't happen for a long time.
Floods are designated by how often that
type of flood occurs. There are what are
referred to as fifty year floods, one hundred
year floods, five hundred year floods, one
thousand year floods. Many people
apparently take this to mean, on a one
hundred year flood, after one occurs, there
won't be another one for one hundred
years. Unfortunately, they are wrong.
You can have two one hundred year flood storms back to back. What a 100 year
flood storm means is, over a 100,000
year period you can expect there will be 1000 floods of that strength.
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