"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
12/02/2019 at 13:38 • Filed to: None
3
19|
"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
12/02/2019 at 13:38 • Filed to: None | 3
| 19 |
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 13:55 |
|
My favorite wild west coast weather history of late has been Pacific Northwest shipwrecks. A lot of strange stuff, but also a lot of tragedy. Like one where a ship foundered extremely high, but weather was so bad that it was lost with all hands over a day afterward, with other ships closeby.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 14:01 |
|
When I lived in Sacramento we actually had flood insurance and an emergency evacuation plan in case of a catastrophic flood.
DipodomysDeserti
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 14:02 |
|
“By early December, the Native American tribes, who had lived in the area for 10,000 years, saw the early warning signs and left the region for higher ground.”
Imagine that.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 14:07 |
|
It always amazes me how much water can fall from the sky. There’s a state park along the Mississippi that we go to every few years and along the river they have a depth gauge on dry ground with a mark somewhere near 30 feet for the record flood height. Standing there and looking up at that and trying to imagine just how much water that is always awed me.
Azrek
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 14:09 |
|
I have degrees in Water Treatment and City Design. I am fascinated by how large a city is physically able to get due to human waste.
So some cities in the Ancient world were able to be bigger than some cities we had till plumbing and bathing were ‘rediscovered’. And some cities still have massive issues with this and some cities still struggle with basic diseases.
We used wooden pipes for a bit and later had collection points. We also created words like Miasma to describe the sickness in the air.
|
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 14:13 |
|
Related to my other comment: have you heard of the “beeswax wreck”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeswax_wreck
...and related, the
1700 cascadia earthquake
.
RallyWrench
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/02/2019 at 14:16 |
|
The Columbia River bar alone is an incredible graveyard. I can’t imagine getting into that river in a sailing ship.
|
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> RallyWrench
12/02/2019 at 14:21 |
|
“Avoid the worst of winter squalls by courting shoals and tide and the prospect of dying horribly within sight of land instead of capsized in the fog! The Inside Passage: Die Different”
|
RallyWrench
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/02/2019 at 14:27 |
|
Reminds me of the book “Astoria” by Peter Stark. Highly recommended.
|
RallyWrench
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
12/02/2019 at 14:39 |
|
There’s a similar marker in Yosemite as you approach the exit on Highway 140, of the 1997 floods. It’s something like 9 feet up (from a point about 10 feet above the average river height ), which would have covered most of the valley floor. And it all had to narrow and fall down the stone-walled Merced River canyon, which had to be absolutely insane to see. Unreal amounts of water flowing into the Valley .
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 14:41 |
|
And sometimes the flood isn’t water
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
|
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/02/2019 at 15:00 |
|
I have a fascination with Great Lakes shipwrecks. It’s always humbling thinking about how much power mother nature has.
AfromanGTO
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
12/02/2019 at 15:10 |
|
Didn’t that submarine dry docked in a remembrance park start floating again in that one flood?
|
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> AfromanGTO
12/02/2019 at 15:18 |
|
I hadn’t heard about that one but it’s an amusing story
Sounds like it had only happened once before back in the ‘ 80s
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ImmoralMinority
12/02/2019 at 15:53 |
|
History is amazing. Before North America was settled by Europeans, there was a giant natural log jam on the Red River. Even now, if it were not maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers, the river would fill with debris and become un- navigable.
https://www.invasiveswatch.org/site/GreatRaft/History.aspx
Ash78, voting early and often
> RallyWrench
12/02/2019 at 16:24 |
|
Yeah, I mean given the relatively small size of the Merced’s watershed (compared to a major river) that’s pretty incredible. I was there a few years after that and remember those markers.
TorqueToYield
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
12/02/2019 at 16:35 |
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood
wafflesnfalafel
> ImmoralMinority
12/03/2019 at 00:16 |
|
we have a similar issue up here were folks want to remove dams to “save the salmon” - what some folks don’t realize is the huge value as flood control.... Half of our state is dramatically sculpted by huge floods that we didn’t even know about until 75 years ago...
|
AfromanGTO
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
12/03/2019 at 19:31 |
|
That’s exactly the one I was talking about, and the article too!