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A Chilling, Quick-Escalating Short Horror Film: "Safe and Sound"

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷8/13/2022 11:42:33 pm PDT

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Thanks.

So I was right, it’s about a super atmospheric river.

But the problem is saying an event that hasn’t happened in 160 years (last one in 1862) will have double the chance of occurring, in a period 60-80 years in the future, when everyone reading the story will be dead….

… doesn’t seem to me to warrant the headline pushing that Twitter is doing on the USA article.

As the study notes, when the last flood hit, the population of the entire state was 500,000. Now it’s closer to 40,000,000. Additionally, that percentage goes up for every one degree C of warming.

Double the chance of occurring in eighty years also means it could occur next year. As the overflow from the Oroville Dam a couple years ago showed, infrastructure is not ready for such flooding rains or snows, and thought and investment needs to take place now for something which will most certainly happen in the future.

The estimated damage in the study from a Sacramento-sized flood would be $1 trillion, creating instant food shortages in the USA and damaging worldwide trade.