Smitty Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be wrought by a major earthquake. It sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic action movie, but scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned federal and state emergency officials that California's geological history shows such "superstorms" have happened in the past, and should be added to the long list of natural disasters to worry about in the Golden State. The threat of a cataclysmic California storm has been dormant for the past 150 years. Geological Survey director Marcia K. McNutt told the New York Times that a 300-mile stretch of the Central Valley was inundated from 1861-62. The floods were so bad that the state capital had to be moved to San Francisco, and Governor Leland Stanford had to take a rowboat to his own inauguration, the report notes. Even larger storms happened in past centuries, over the dates 212, 440, 603, 1029, 1418, and 1605, according to geological evidence. The risk is gathering momentum now, scientists say, due to rising temperatures in the atmosphere, which has generally made weather patterns more volatile. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110117/us_yblog_thelookout/scientists-warn-california-could-be-struck-by-winter-superstorm Scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Smitty Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Well, time for the North Dakota Lakers and South Dakota Clippers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YugoRocketsFan Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 *Waits for the Westboro Baptist Church to say that God did this because lots of Gays live in California" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfish Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Wait but then how will OTR survive without the kingfish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitty Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Wait but then how will OTR survive without the kingfish? *waits for Slaven to answer this* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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