re: #281 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are lucky to be protected in our valley. But we are seeing a lot more highly localized supercells, and if one of those unloads itself at the head of a sheltered valley, it can send a torrent of water downstream all at once.

That happened five years ago: a tree blocked a culvert in the lower part of the village and flooded out several houses.

Flash flooding is a serious threat in the American Southwest, where the dry hard ground of the desert can get over-saturated in a real hurry, and even a relatively minor storm can cause localized flooding. In my part of the country, floods are a long-term but also life-changing event, where days or weeks of heavy rain cause rivers to overflow their banks, sweeping entire communities off the map.