The thing about photos like this. Often you’re seeing the worst picture they can find to send. One block over and there may be no flooding at all. Could be worse too.
It’s hard to gage what the real damage is.
I am often reminded that when there is a big earthquake out here, people back East see the press photo of the worst damage, and immediately think that damage goes on for miles and miles in all directions. It doesn’t.
The Northridge quake, possibly renamed afterwards, caused extreme damage in some areas, and yet a couple of blocks over there was minimal damage.
It’s strange how that works.
It was felt over a broad area of Southern California. The streak of damage did go on for ten to fifteen miles basically straight south. Off that line, it wasn’t terribly bad though, with some exceptions.
True. I lived through the middle of Hurricane Celia over 40 years ago but didn’t want to bring it up as a comparison to the recent disaster in Mexico. Much later, the poor building and insurance disaster of Florida exposed after Hurricane Andrew started a weird trend of oneupmanship about disasters between competing financial interests.