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Lifelong Californian. Just learned this bit.

Posted by con_carne Aug 12 '22, 17:24

The Great Flood of 1862

In that inundation 160 years ago, 30 consecutive days of rain triggered monster flooding that roared across much of the state and changed the course of the Los Angeles River, relocating its mouth from Venice to Long Beach (I live in the LB area now: used to live in Venice).

From today's headline that climate change has about doubled the likelihood of a repeat megastorm (climate going from one extreme to another, a whiplash effect).

If a similar storm were to happen today, the study says, up to 10 million people would be displaced, major interstate freeways such as Interstates 5 and 80 would be shut down for months, and population centers including Stockton, Fresno and parts of Los Angeles would be submerged — a $1-trillion disaster larger than any in world history.

Honestly, pretty interesting!

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When I bought my house I got a disclosure that I am in a flood plain. It barely even rains so I never worried about it, until now. -- nm - jnine Aug 12, 18:57 2
- doesn't it seem weird that you have to worry about floods in the worst drought in recent history -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 12, 20:02 1
  - Weird and worrying. Our house in N CA is in an area that is very susceptible to flooding. They just did a project to reinforce the levees, but a - jnine Aug 13, 20:05

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