Scientists create model of monster 'Frankenstorm' (Adios, California!)

Associated Press ^ | Jan 24, 2010 | ALICIA CHANG

[decimon]

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The hypothetical but plausible storm would be similar to the 1861-1862 extreme floods that temporarily moved the state capital from Sacramento to San Francisco and forced the then-governor to attend his inauguration by rowboat.

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The Great Flood of 1861-1862 was believed to be the most powerful and longest series of storms in state history, lasting a month and causing severe flooding.

The Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were water-logged and spontaneous lakes popped up in the Mojave Desert and Los Angeles basin. Nearly a third of the young state's taxable land was destroyed.

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[decimon]

Man, it pours ping.

[LiberConservative]

It’s called “climate change”.

[DariusBane]

Boy that 1800’s storm is a perfect example of the horrors of anthropomorphic climate change! Now I’m convinced.

*sheds the scales of skepticism, dons glasses of sarcasm*

[neodad]

Haven’t they already done this movie?

[FormerACLUmember]

Better drainage now, especially in LA.

[ColdOne]

'Frankenstorm' (Adios, California!) Kalifornia is already gone! (sarc)

[Kozak]

So no more whining about a drought in Kaliforniastan?

[Kozak]

No, it’s called “weather”.

[Nitehawk0325]

We are getting all this rain and about 90% runs out to sea. Never mind making a monster storm, someone needs to take the reins and let us build dams and reservoirs to catch the water for the dryer times of the year.
The environmentalists are not allowing for the most common sense of resolutions for drought. They are shutting down pumps, taking away close to 95% of the water used for farming and allowing it to run out to the sea in order to save the freaking whales and small useless fish. I think we need to say the heck with bottom feeding useless fish and useless politicians and take care of the human race. God only knows what the foreign countries, that export their products to us, use to fertilize and water their crops. While the state confusion or California restricts the use of certain chemicals and fertilizers to help the environment, Mexico and other countries use worse. Keep the work here in the United States and let us grow what we need and start exporting to other countries, not the other way around.

[FormerACLUmember]

Damn those Civil War SUVs! Global Warming is so damn cruel!

1860 Hummer:

[SpaceBar]

The years in question 1861-1862 caught my attention since the largest solar storm ever observed was the 1859 Carrington event just a few years prior, which disrupted telegraph communications globally and created some of the most intense auroral displays ever observed.

[Sawdring]

How much horsepower did it take to drive that rig?

[dalereed]

“Better drainage now, especially in LA.”

My father went up to L.A. in 1916 durring that flood.

He was going to San Diego High and had to take a boat across the san Diego river to get to high school

There was so much water that it couldn't get out between the gap between Elysian Park and Mt Washington and all of Atwater, and most of Eagle Rock and south Glendale was under water.

It was up to the ties of the street car trestle at Riverside Dr. and Fletcher.

Where our office and warehouse is was under 80 feet of water.

[bannie]

If could could if if could ifififcouldcouldcoudifcouldififcould

Well, the water table would fill up...The Lake Isabella Dam would surely bust, but the water table would fill up.

Did y’all know that much of the lower San Joaquin Valley was marsh during the wet seasons? CSUB is built on riverbed.

ifcouldcouldcouldifififififif

[fatnotlazy]

I’ve been hearing for years that California is going to fall into the ocean one day. I also heard about 40 to 50 years ago that another ice age is imminent.

These scientists really don’t know jack.

Besides, if California starts sliding into the ocean, Arnold is strong; he can hold it up with his bare hands. LOL

[editor-surveyor]

That scenario would be a blessing to the state today!

We need all the water we can get, and the central valley soils need mineral replenishment to end the decline in quality of the food crops grown there. The replenishment of valley aquifers would also be a blessing.

But let the doom and gloomers keep on babbeling....

[editor-surveyor]

"How much horsepower did it take to drive that rig?"

Two Oxpower!

[labette]

[Steve Van Doorn]

May 1861 of the Dubbi volcano in Eritrea The eruption may have caused the unusually cool summer in the northern hemisphere in 1862