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Scientists create model of monster 'Frankenstorm' (Adios, California!)
Associated Press ^ | Jan 24, 2010 | ALICIA CHANG

Posted on 01/24/2010 1:05:40 PM PST by 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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: californiawater; catastrophism; drought
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1 posted on 01/24/2010 1:05:40 PM PST by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Man, it pours ping.


2 posted on 01/24/2010 1:06:22 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

It’s called “climate change”.


3 posted on 01/24/2010 1:09:33 PM PST by LiberConservative
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To: decimon

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*


4 posted on 01/24/2010 1:13:06 PM PST by DariusBane (Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
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To: decimon

Haven’t they already done this movie?


5 posted on 01/24/2010 1:13:25 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: decimon

Better drainage now, especially in LA.


6 posted on 01/24/2010 1:13:52 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: decimon
'Frankenstorm' (Adios, California!) Kalifornia is already gone! (sarc)
7 posted on 01/24/2010 1:15:07 PM PST by ColdOne (:^))
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To: decimon

So no more whining about a drought in Kaliforniastan?


8 posted on 01/24/2010 1:15:12 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: LiberConservative

No, it’s called “weather”.


9 posted on 01/24/2010 1:16:37 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: decimon
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.
10 posted on 01/24/2010 1:17:03 PM PST by Nitehawk0325 (I have the right to remain silent, but I lack the ability...........)
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To: DariusBane
Damn those Civil War SUVs! Global Warming is so damn cruel!

1860 Hummer:


11 posted on 01/24/2010 1:17:53 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: decimon
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.
12 posted on 01/24/2010 1:18:52 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: FormerACLUmember

How much horsepower did it take to drive that rig?


13 posted on 01/24/2010 1:19:24 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: FormerACLUmember
“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.

14 posted on 01/24/2010 1:23:39 PM PST by dalereed
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To: decimon

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


15 posted on 01/24/2010 1:24:02 PM PST by bannie (Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
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To: decimon

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


16 posted on 01/24/2010 1:29:58 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: decimon; Ernest_at_the_Beach; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; Grampa Dave

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....


17 posted on 01/24/2010 1:36:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: Sawdring
"How much horsepower did it take to drive that rig?"

Two Oxpower!

18 posted on 01/24/2010 1:42:13 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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19 posted on 01/24/2010 1:44:40 PM PST by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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To: decimon

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


20 posted on 01/24/2010 1:45:12 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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