Posted by tomohawk 3 hours ago
Phrases like this means nothing, I am sure with in a year we will be hearing “once in a million year storm".
Climate Change is here now, I remember predictions decades ago of storms like these occurring more and more starting in the 2020s. For some reason 2025 sticks in my head about these predictions. Seems again the science is correct.
I feel bad people had and will have to go through this over and over. But it is not as if we were not warned.
> The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
> An ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1,000) is a "megastorm" proposed scenario based on repeated historical occurrences of atmospheric rivers and other major rain events ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm
The Central Valley (of California) becomes the Central Sea. Sacramento would be washed away, as would most of the communities in the lower-lying areas.
The time to deal with this is now. (E.g. if you live in these places move away!)