“Our thinking is that we’ve reached a point where we can do much better,” said Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, who studies flood risks. … Sanders led a multi-institutional study that used the approach to investigate Los Angeles and found that flood risks were vastly underestimated. “Our study showed that the number of people exposed to the 100-year flood was more than 10 times what the (Federal Emergency Management Agency) maps would suggest,” Sanders said. … Study authors also found that people of color and disadvantaged populations are at higher risk of flood impacts. Read More